Recent News
San Onofre nuclear power plant: More dangerous than imagined
There is a new report on the devastating information recently disclosed by the NRC–that approximately 3,400 steam generator tubes have gone bad at San Onofre, a number nearly equal to as many tubes installed in Unit 2 and Unit 3…
The Nation: ‘Shut Down San Onofre’: The New Front Line in the Fight Against Nuclear Power
The Nation magazine reports on the efforts to shutter the San Onofre plant. CBG has been working with the community and other nuclear policy organizations to shutter the problem-riddled plant.
CBS report on San Onofre Plant
CBS 2 ran a story regarding the San Onofre nuclear reactor, with an interview of Dan Hirsch. You may read the story here, and watch the video below. 307
EPA Inspector General Criticizes EPA Radiation Monitoring Network
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General confirms CBG Criticisms of EPA Radiation Monitoring Network Large Fraction Broken During Fukushima Crisis. In January 2009, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit report that contained recommendations for improving the management…
Nuclear Power: Ethical and Policy Implications
A lecture presented by CBG’s Dan Hirsch on the ethical and policy implications of nuclear power.
San Onofre nuclear power plant prohibited from restarting
Report from Friends of the Earth, in consultation with CBG finds that design changes in new steam generators at San Onofre forced the shut down of the plant for several months. Read the report (.pdf) Read the Friends of the…
Assemblywoman Brownley: New Data Show Radioactivity Still Lurks in “Cleaned Up” Soil at Santa Susana Field Lab
Assemblywoman Brownley’s office issued a press release which notes that the EPA’s recent release of data showed extensive radioactive contamination remaining at SSFL. Assemblywoman Brownley went on to note, in part, “This begins to answer critical questions about what’s still…
How Many Wake-Up Calls Does it Take?
Three Mile Island (TMI). Chernobyl. Fukushima. After TMI, nuclear industry advocates told us not to worry, they had brought the accident under control a half-hour before a complete meltdown and breach of the reactor vessel would have occurred. After Chernobyl…
Failure of EPA Fukushima U.S. Radiation Monitoring
With a plume of radioactivity headed to the U.S. from the three melting reactors in Japan, Environmental Protection Agency personnel scurried to send out sensitive deployable radiation monitors to fill in large gaps along the American West Coast where no…
CBG’s Dan Hirsch presents a lecture on the nuclear tragedy in Japan
click the post title to view a lecture given by CBG’s Dan Hirsch on the nuclear tragedy in Japan.