New Film “Pandora’s Promise” Likely to Unleash Nuclear Energy Revivalists by Robin Klein Slick, with a budget of over $1 million, “Pandora’s Promise” is a provocative breeze to watch. Taking cues from effective leftist eye-opening documentary styles, think Michael Moore crossed with the Academy award-winning anti-nuke film “Deadly Deception,” one can see why accomplished director Robert …
A standing-room only crowd filled a hearing room next to the Columbia River in Portland on May 16 urging the Washington Department of Ecology to forbid disposal of additional radioactive wastes at the US Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear site, located some 180 miles up the river from Portland. The federal agency is proposing to …
The NRC, under pressure from the indie journalists at Portland, Oregon based Cascadia Times, have just released a heavily censored report about inadequate flood protection at dozens of US Nuke plants. The article, with a link to the NRC report, is here: http://times.org/… The NRC report admits that regulators initially improperly calculated the likely levels of …
As the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident approaches, flood waters from the giant tsunami of March 2011 have long receded, But the lessons of Fukushima continue to shake the nuclear power industry around the world, especially in the United States. One thing we learned from Fukushima was that while nuclear power plants need …
Duke Power’s Oconee Nuclear Plant is nestled in the flood plain below Duke’s deteriorating Jocassee Dam in South Carolina. If the Duke dam fails, a 16-foot-high wall of water could smash into the nuclear plant like a tsunami, overwhelming the 4-foot-high flood wall and potentially destroying critical equipment and vessels, according to disgruntled Nuclear Regulatory …
A quarter of the 104 nuclear power reactors in the United States may be at risk to a newly identified safety hazard. It’s a concern has generated eerie comparisons with the tsunami that crippled reactors at Fukushima, Japan. The issue is whether the crumbling conditions at many of the nation’s dams pose unacceptably high risks …
It’s been a slow summer here at Cascadia Times. We published a summary of our work on the Columbia River Crossing and Portland’s poor air quality in the Portland Tribune, “More concrete won’t cure congestion.” At the same time we began work on a book on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Stay tuned for more news …