Letters sent as part of the licensing process reveal the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had multiple questions for Energy Northwest about the assumptions it used to develop its response plan for potential accidents. Among the questions: Why did Energy Northwest continue to use 15-year-old studies as the basis for earthquake preparations at the Columbia Generating Station — the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear reactor — when much more up-to-date information about the region’s seismic profile were available from the USGS and Hanford itself? [...]
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August 6th, 2010 I’ve begun blogging about environmental justice and the West for High Country News My first post went up July 30 and discussed growth, economics and justice.HCN has been kind enough to allow me to cross-post, so beginning with this week’s edition I’ll also be putting my posts up here at Lascher at Large. On [...] April 1st, 2010 Yesterday afternoon President Obama shocked the country when he announced plans to open parts of the Atlantic and Alaskan coasts to oil drilling. Though the Pacific Coast was left untouched, the move could open up huge expanses of ocean elsewhere. Many environmentalists treated the news as a betrayal and yet another delay in the move [...] March 22nd, 2010 Geomicrobiologists look to harsh environments for organisms “disobeying” traditional chemistry teaching. (This story was originally written and reported in October, 2008 at the University of Southern California). Petri dishes might not be replacing AA batteries at Radio Shack any time soon, but a growing body of research shows it may soon be possible to [...] June 14th, 2009 “Wheel is going green,” blared a television announcer during a Spring broadcast of TV’s popular game show “Jeopardy.” The wheel in question? “Jeopardy”’s sister show, the equally well-known “Wheel of Fortune.” Pat Sajak and Vanna White — icons for decades of American dreams of easy money — became the latest public [...] |
     
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