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Last NRC call about foreign ownership of U.S. nuclear reactors: now until noon today

Call in this morning or send written comments.
Here are the

previous materials (this URL works; the one in the NRC PR is broken).
See also
NRC’s PR
and
Commission Direction.
The nuclear industry has been

pushing for changes for a year now;
see
more posts.
Rather than relaxing rules on foreign ownership of operating reactors,
how about stop accepting foreign nuke parts from the likes of

document-forging Doosan, which supplies Plant Vogtle among a dozen
or so other U.S. nukes?

Try joining the
webinar from a Linux system and you get:

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Questions?


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They support Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android, but not Linux.
Seriously?
And NRC is asking technical questions?


NRC PR 7 August 2013,

NRC Webinar Aug. 21 to Discuss Regulations On Foreign Ownership of U.S. Reactors, Continue reading →

Activists Grill NRC on San Onofre Restart


Ecological Options Network (EON)
posted

video of public comments at the latest

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) meeting
about restarting San Onofre 2,
where

documents indicate Southern California Edison knew the new steam
generators were defective years before they even installed them.

EON

noted:

In these video excerpts from the 4-3-2013 NRC webcast, informed
activists hammer the NRC staff and SoCal Edison reps with
penetrating comments and questions about apparently collusive
fast-track plans to restart one of San Onofre’s broken
reactors—in a tsunami and earthquake zone, in the middle of a
strategic U.S. military base, in a surrounding urban area with a
population of 8.5 million people—a plant that is not
cost-effective 99% of the time, operated by a utility with the worst
safety record in the country.

What could possibly go wrong?

Participants include Ace Hoffman, David Freeman, Kendra Ulrich, Dan
Hirsch, John Geesman, Ray Lutz, Gary Headrick and Myla Reson.

Activists just helped convince NRC

to deny a license for Calvert Cliffs 3 in Maryland,
and Continue reading →