Category: Issues
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5th Circuit vacates Holtec CISF license (Beyond Nuclear)
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, on March 27, 2024 issued a ruling vacating the license, approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in...
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Anti-nuclear activists file appeal over Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant’s safety operations (KCBX)
“Two nonprofit groups, Mothers for Peace and Friends of the Earth, submitted an appeal brief to the ninth circuit court system this week. It accuses the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of...
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California’s last nuclear plant gets lifeline amid search for more clean energy (Courthouse News Service)
“The decadeslong safety debate is likely to continue, though. A researcher from UC Berkeley recently concluded the plant does represent a significant risk due to deterioration, according to the Los...
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DTSC-Boeing scientists say contamination contained at toxic field lab (Ojai Valley News)
“Two scientists working in a decades-long relationship for Boeing and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, the state regulatory body overseeing a stalled effort to clean up the most...
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US Navy Acknowledges Rising Toxic Groundwater Threat at SF Superfund Site (KQED)
A recent report from the US Navy confirms what we argued in our 2019 report on the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard: leaving contamination on-site beneath a thin ‘cover,’ as the...
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Radioactive Rain (Ojai Magazine)
Click here to read this overview of the history of and current fight over the Santa Susana Field Lab by Kit Stolz in Ojai Magazine.
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A warning about radioactive air pollution from Pilgrim (CommonWealth Beacon)
“Daniel Hirsch, retired director of the program on environmental and nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said ‘there is no credible expert who believes that [disposing of...
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Potential litigation is placed on hold (Simi Valley Acorn)
“Yee said the tolling agreement extends the legal statute of limitations but doesn’t require waiting for final assessment. ‘Instead, the county now can sue at any point it chooses, and...
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Water worries linger as field lab cleanup progresses (Simi Valley Acorn)
“Simi Valley resident Julie Korenstein questioned why Boeing is able to conduct its own monitoring. ‘I only wish there was someone else verifying it. I don’t really feel comfortable. It’s...
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Boeing to extract badly tainted soil from ‘burn pit’ at Santa Susana Field (LA Daily News)
“Along with other activists, Hirsch worried that weak toxic clean-up standards set by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) for the burn pit — and for the entire...
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Supervisors extend deadline to file suit on toxic site cleanup plan (Ojai Valley News)
“Ventura County Board of Supervisors announced Jan. 12 the signing of a legal “tolling agreement” that will extend a deadline to allow the filing of potential legal challenges to an...
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Larry Yee Op-ed in Ojai Valley News: Decision time for VC supes on cleanup of toxic Santa Susana Field Lab
“The fundamental question now is whether the Ventura County Board of Supervisors will do what it has promised: sue to overturn the SSFL Environmental Impact Report (EIR).” Read Larry’s entire...
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California energy officials vote to extend Diablo Canyon nuclear plant operations (LA Times)
“‘Inside the aging Diablo Canyon reactors resides an astronomical quantity of radioactivity,’ said Daniel Hirsch, a retired director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz....
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Diablo Canyon, the last remaining nuclear power plant in California, gets a lifeline (San Diego Union-Tribune)
“’No matter what is said today, the results appear preordained,’ said one caller from PG&E’s service territory. ‘Each of you commissioners were appointed by Gov. Newsom.'” Read the full article...