Contemplation At The Oak Ridge, Tn Nuclear Weapons Facility

(Originally published Thursday, June 18, 2015 on http://haltfermi.blogspot.com/)

on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

March and rally on August 8, 2015 10:30 AM Bissell Park, Oak Ridge, Tenn. [Seehttps://www.google.com/maps/@36.0120932,-84.2630897,18z?hl=en for location.]

About 1942, the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. produced a secret agreement and subsequently expanded it: to mine the uranium, build reactors to produce nuclear weapons material, expose humans and other life forms to ionizing radiation at whatever level necessary, produce, test, and use atomic weapons. Continue reading “Contemplation At The Oak Ridge, Tn Nuclear Weapons Facility”

Fermi 3, Round 2

(Originally published Thursday, May 21, 2015 on http://haltfermi.blogspot.com/)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given DTE Electric (DTE) the license it needs in order to build Fermi 3. They plan to build this new nuclear reactor on the shore of Lake Erie adjacent to Fermi 2.

The Sierra Club along with the Alliance to Halt Fermi 3, Beyond Nuclear and other anti-nuclear groups, was opposed to this license. We delayed its issuance by more than 3 years. There are still open objections which should have been resolved before the NRC issued the license, but that part of the process is finished for practical purposes. Continue reading “Fermi 3, Round 2”

Without Warning

(Originally published Saturday, May 9, 2015 on http://haltfermi.blogspot.com/)

Not a lot of people living near the corner of Michigan and Ohio see stopping Fermi 3 and shutting down Fermi 2 as a high priority. That’s understandable. Neither the current operation of Fermi 2 nor the prospect of building Fermi 3 poses an immediate threat comparable to the immediacy of numerous other issues. Continue reading “Without Warning”

DTE Doubles Down on Danger of Disaster

(Originally published Friday, May 1, 2015 on http://haltfermi.blogspot.com/)

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued the final operating license that DTE Electric (DTE) needs in order to build Fermi 3, a new nuclear rector. They plan to build it on the shore of Lake Erie adjacent to Fermi 2, the world’s largest example of a Fukushima-type reactor. Fermi 2 was already built next to the site of Fermi 1, DTE’s first reactor which melted down in 1966. DTE is planning to double down on the risk of another meltdown. Continue reading “DTE Doubles Down on Danger of Disaster”

Michigan in the Solutions Project

(Originally published Friday, April 24, 2015 on http://haltfermi.blogspot.com/)
Using only existing known technology, Michigan can transition to 100% wind, water and solar energy for all purposes (electricity, transportation, heating/cooling and industry) by 2050. That’s the message from Prof. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University. The obstacles are purely political.

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