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Decommissioning

Although it is imperative that we shut down nuclear plants, they remain dangerous, and expensive even when closed. Radioactive inventories remain present on the site and decommissioning costs have been skyrocketing, presenting the real danger that utilities will not be able to afford to properly shut down and clean up non-operating reactor sites.

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Entries from July 1, 2021 - July 31, 2021

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Jul012021

HOLTEC'S HIGH RISKS: Dangerous screw-ups and schemes

Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES)Holtec's dangerous stumbles, at decommissioning (including knocking out power to 30,000 Jersey Shore residents!) and highly radioactive waste storage, continue at Oyster Creek, New Jersey. Its suspect containers are also used at Vermont Yankee and Indian Point, New York. Perhaps sooner than later, they'll also be used for even higher risk transportation. This is a theme of the most recent interview by Margaret Harrington, of our radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on her program "Nuclear Free Future," on Channel 17/Town Meeting TV in reactor-free Vermont. Watch the 43-minute program. Holtec containers, of dubious structural integrity, could roll down railways, roadways, and waterways, beginning in a couple years, if NRC rubberstamps its consolidated interim storage facility license this autumn!

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