Six protesters were taken away in handcuffs earlier Thursday near the corporate headquarters for Duke Energy. They had locked arms and were sitting on top of a banner claiming that the energy company was harming the environment. Two dozen officers surrounded them […]
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Jellyfish Swarm Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant in St.Lucie
Jellyfish invasions of this magnitude are rare. Biologists at the plant could recall only three other similar events in the past 30 years. The plant, which is designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, was shut down for […]
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A CALL TO JOIN THE ORGANIZING OF A REGIONAL CAMPAIGN OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TO SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE Sunday, Sept 18, 2011—10 am – 4 pm Bugbee Senior Center, White River Junction 262 North Main Street, White River Jct.,VT (see directions […]
Continue readingEarthquake reignites debate over safety of nuclear power
cross-posted from The Hill by Andrew Restuccia Virginia’s largest earthquake in more than a century shook the East Coast on Tuesday and is likely to revive a long-standing debate about the safety of the country’s nuclear power plants. The 5.8 magnitude earthquake […]
Continue readingAnother Worker dies at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant
By Mandie Sami, wires A worker at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has died. It brings the total number of deaths at the complex to three since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck in March. The man, aged in his 60s, […]
Continue readingAnother Evacuation as Smoke Rises from Another Japanese Nuke Plant, Japanese Protest
Smoke was spotted at another nuclear plant in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The company said smoke was detected in the turbine building of reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant around 6 p.m. (5 […]
Continue readingJapan on “Maximum Alert” as radiation increases, New stong earthquake increases fears
Japan’s prime minister says the country is on “maximum alert” over its nuclear crisis as radiation continues to seep out of the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant and traces of plutonium have been found in the soil. Radiation has been detected in the […]
Continue readingRadiation from Japan Nuclear Meltdown detected in rainwater in the US
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said Sunday that very low concentrations of radioiodine-131 that were likely from the Japanese power plant severely damaged by the earthquake and tsunami earlier this month have been detected in a sample of rainwater. Officials did […]
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