NEIS sent the following today to Illinois state and federal legislators, as well as to its entire media list. We share it with you now: We hope that this latest installment of our energy transformation series finds you well, and as you wind down towards the end of the Spring legislative session, that your work […]
NEIS has a number of events lined up for Earth Week 2019 — April 22-27. We close out the week with a very special activity. We’re co-hosting a workshop with noted activist/organizer/author George Lakey who is in town to promote his new book, “HOW WE WIN: A Guide to Non-Violent Direct Action Campaigning. This will […]
NEIS sponsors a week of activities against premature, hazardous radioactive waste transport through Illinois NEIS hosted a week of events and activities in response to recent House Congressional legislation that would prematurely place hazardous high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) on our roads, build expensive and unnecessary HLRW storage facilities in Texas and New Mexico, and would […]
August 16, 2018 Dr. Norma Field, professor emeritus of Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago, and Dr. Yuki Miyamoto, ethicist and professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University are interviewed by Jerome McDonnell on his “Worldview” program, on WBEZ-FM 91.5 public radio Chicago. The Japanese Government has been engaged in a program to dismantle […]
It’s August already. They don’t call this time of year “the dog days” for nothing. After a pretty frenetic Spring, things have slowed down a bit. But that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. We at NEIS are using this relatively “slow(er)” time to re-group, plan, groom and educate those who are in need of […]
A new NEIS “Know Nukes” program made its debut this August 6th at the Chicago Hiroshima Anniversary Observance, held at the site of the Henry Moore Sculpture to Nuclear Power on the campus of the University of Chicago. The site – memorialized by the world-famous sculpture — is the exact location where the Nuclear Age […]
Congressional Briefing: “Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants: What Congress, Federal Agencies and Communities Need to Know” WHEN: Monday, July 16 2018 | 2 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Live webcast will be streamed at: www.eesi.org/livecast WHERE: Room HC-8, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. WHO: Mayor Al Hill, of Zion, Illinois, home of the decommissioned Zion Nuclear […]
Written By Kari Lydersen, Energy News Network, July 13, 2018. Members of Congress are scheduled to receive a briefing next week from nuclear energy experts and watchdogs on pending nuclear waste storage proposals and the decommissioning of nuclear plants that have closed or could soon. Among the organizers of the July 16 briefing and a […]
When he was 11, my stepson taught me one of the most valuable Life-lessons I’ve learned when he said, “You know Dave, man isn’t a “rational” animal. He’s a “rationalizing” one!” Truer words have never been spoken when examining the nonsense rationalizations being paraded around by execs of unprofitable electric utilities and their governmental […]
S.1903 – The Stranded Act Of 2017 NEIS would like to commend IL Sen. Tammy Duckworth and IL Rep. Brad Schneider for introduction of S.1903 and H.R. 3970 respectively – the “Stranded Act of 2017;” and acknowledge State Sen. Melinda Bush and Zion Mayor Al Hill for their tireless efforts to obtain much deserved community […]
France
20km (12.5 miles) from Paris
Contaminated site in France | DW | 04.01.2018
The French military is said to have used an old military site for “small-scale nuclear tests”. The area is contaminated with radiation. A firm now plans to open a gypsum mine on there. Local residents and nuclear experts are outraged.
Russian Nuclear Accident (Aug. 2019)
The two big issues with the Russian accident are the use of a small modular nuclear reactor and what the radiation readings are in the area.
Did the accident include a small modular ‘nuclear’ reactor, commonly referred to as a SMR or SMNR? Information is mixed on this. It appear that a SMNR was involved but was it attached to a Missle at the time of explosion or was it operating at the site in some other capacity at the time of the explosion. For example was it being tested on the ground?
This is important to the U.S.A. as our country is supporting the work on the further development of SMNRs in our own country. They are often promoted as ‘safer’ than the larger older reactor currently in operation. What are the implications for SMNR development here if Russia is using them and they can blow up?
Excerpt [But Vyacheslav Solovyev, an official from Sarov, a closed nuclear research city overseen by Rosatom, characterized the power source involved in the explosion as a “small nuclear reactor,” The Moscow Times reported.]
Radiation levels reported are unclear however the contamination of tending physicians and their non-disclosure agreement may be an indicator that things are worse than are being conveyed to the public.
Excerpt [A regional news site, Northern News, reported that doctors at a civilian hospital in Arkhangelsk, the largest city in the region, who first treated victims of the accident, had not been informed of radiation danger.
After treating the patients, the doctors at the Arkhangelsk Regional Clinical Hospital found that their scrubs were causing radiation meters to click, the site reported.
The patients were taken to Moscow and the rooms where they had lain were sealed. Later, said the report, the doctors were also transferred to the capital for medical evaluations. All medical personnel who treated victims of the accident, the site reported, had been made to sign nondisclosure agreements.]
Russia
Evacuation ordered. We can only speculate right now as to the reasons why this town is being evacuated but the saying, ‘the whole world is watching’ comes to mind as we wait to find out.