Exelon and Tom Ridge's 'NUKE MELTDOWN WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE' wargame is live

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'Unusual event' declared at Illinois nuclear power plant, indicating potential degradation of safety level - @Reuters

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Exelon shuts Byron nuclear plant unit after power loss

January 30, 2012
(Reuters) — U.S. power company Exelon's 1,136-megawatt Unit 2 at the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois shut Monday morning due to the loss of offsite power, the company said in a release.


Exelon declared an unusual event following the shutdown, which indicates a potential degradation of the safety level of the plant.


A spokeswoman for the plant said smoke was seen coming from an auxiliary transformer but the fire department found no fire.


The company said the nuclear facility's diesel generators activated as designed to provide electricity when there is a loss of offsite power and the plant remains in a safe condition.


Electricity traders were interested in the shutdown but noted it had little effect on power prices in Illinois, which remained in the $20s per megawatt hour Monday afternoon as above normal temperatures kept heating demand below normal.


Prices in the Illinois hub usually average in the mid $40s during the day in January.


Exelon said station engineers were looking into the cause of the loss of offsite power.


Exelon could not say when the unit would return to service due to competitive reasons.


The shutdown did not cause any health or safety impact to workers or the public, the company said.


The company however did mention the unit released steam as designed to depressurize the reactor, releasing an expected amount of tritium into the atmosphere.


Tritium is a mildly radioactive isotope of hydrogen that occurs naturally in very small amounts in ground water. It is also a byproduct of nuclear power production.


The 1,164-MW Unit 1 continued to operate at full power. One megawatt powers about 1,000 homes.



Read more: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120130/NEWS11/120139975/exelon-shuts-byron-nuclear-plant-unit-after-power-loss#ixzz1kyOB9GPP

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1/30/2012 -- Nuclear plant vents RADIOACTIVE steam onto DOWNTOWN CHICAGO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jBEGkl_uw&feature=channel_video_title

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1/30/2012 -- Nuclear plant vents RADIOACTIVE steam onto DOWNTOWN CHICAGO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jBEGkl_uw&feature=channel_video_title

First, i would like to say much love to the people of Chicago -- this is the last thing anyone needs to hear right about now -- but since the MSM decided to BURY this story -- Im sure it will come as a shock to a lot of people up in the great 'windy city'.

If you were outside today in Downtown Chicago -- Any time after about 1030am CST -- 1/30/2012 -- chances are , you may have been exposed to NUCLEAR RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT from the steam that was vented by the Byron Illinois / Exelon Nuclear power plant.

More specifically, aerosolized particulates of Tritium were in the clouds of steam released---- those clouds then blew down wind into Chicago area proper. As to whether people inhaled these particles -- only time will tell now.

They say low levels--- but if you go to my full post on this -- you will see the health risks associated with this radioactive particle.

On top of fukushima (japan) radiation - this is the last thing anyone needs.

Here is the full story:

http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/1232012-alert-illinois-nuclear-pla...

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Officials investigating Illinois reactor shutdown

Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nuclear reactor in northern Illinois, where steam was vented to reduce pressure after it shut down.

After the shut down Monday morning at Exelon Nuclear's Byron Generating Station, operators began releasing steam to cool the reactor from the part of the plant where turbines are producing electricity, not from within the nuclear reactor itself, officials said. The steam contains low levels of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, but federal and plant officials insisted the levels were safe for workers and the public.

Mitlyng said officials can't yet calculate how much tritium was being released. They know the amounts were small because monitors around the plant didn't show increased levels of radiation, she said.

Tritium molecules are so microscopic that small amounts are able to pass from radioactive steam that originates in the reactor through tubing and into the water used to cool turbines and other equipment outside the reactor, Mitlyng said. The steam that was being released was coming from the turbine side.

Tritium is relatively short-lived and penetrates the body weakly through the air compared to other radioactive contaminants.



Candace Humphrey, Ogle County's emergency management coordinator, said county officials were notified of the incident as soon as it happened and that public safety was never in danger.

"It was standard procedure that they would notify county officials," she said. "There is always concern. But, it never crossed my mind that there was any danger to the people of Ogle County."
 
rest: http://news.yahoo.com/officials-investigating-illinois-reactor-shutdown-080635232.html

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Thank God Obama wasn't there.  Can you imagine the damage a Radioactive Superman Obama could do?

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Exelon and Tom Ridge conduct Chernyobl style Nuclear Reactor drill 3/23/2011

Dresden nuclear plant to be tested March 23
March 15, 2011, 10:43 am

Emergency response plans for the Dresden nuclear plant will be tested during a March 23 drill by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, Exelon, and Will, Grundy and Kendall counties.

The drill comes even as a third explosion hit Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant late Monday evening. The blast has spurred new fears of a partial nuclear meltdown at the plant's containment system.

State and federal nuclear agencies are taking a second look at local systems and standards in the wake of the Japan disaster. According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Fukushima nuclear plants are roughly the same age and have similar containment designs as nuclear plants at Braidwood and Dresden.

The drill at Dresden will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., said Pat Thompson, an IEMA spokesperson. The plant is located northeast of Goose Lake Prairie State Park and about 10 miles northwest of Wilmington.

An estimated 71,130 people live within the emergency planning zone surrounding the Dresden plant, according to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will evaluate the response of local government agencies during the drill, Thompson said, and will make its preliminary report on the response at 2 p.m. March 25 at the Grundy County Emergency Operations Center, 1320 Union St. in Morris.

More: http://daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=469907

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Exelon
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Exelon

Exelon Corporation
Type   Public (NYSE: EXC)
Headquarters   10 South Dearborn St., 48th Floor
Chicago, IL 60603
Area served   IL, PA
Key people   John W. Rowe, CEO
Industry   Electric Producer, Distributor, and Utility
Products   Electricity
Revenue   $18.92 billion (2007)[1]
Net income   ▲ $2.74 billion (2007)[1]
Employees   17,800
Subsidiaries   ComEd
PECO
Exelon Generation
Exelon Power
Exelon Nuclear
Exelon Power Team
Website   ExelonCorp.com


Exelon Corporation is an electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in Chicago. It was created in October 2000, by the merger of PECO Energy Company and Unicom, of Philadelphia and Chicago respectively (Unicom was the owner of Commonwealth Edison). Exelon has 5.2 million electricity customers and, in the Philadelphia suburbs, 460,000 natural gas customers.

In June, 2005 Exelon had full or majority ownership of 19 nuclear reactors in 11 nuclear power plants.

On June 30, 2005, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the merger of Exelon and Public Service Enterprise Group, a New Jersey utility. Under this merger, Exelon would have become the largest utility in the United States.[2] The two companies later broke off the agreement[3] due to pressure put on the NJ Board of Public Utilities by public interest groups, including New Jersey Citizen Action.[4]The merger sat pending in front of the NJBPU for nineteen months before Exelon concluded that they were fighting a losing battle.[5]

A shareholder resolution filed by one Exelon shareholder for the Company's 2008 annual meeting criticizes executive pay levels at the Company.

Exelon leaves Chamber of Commerce over climate policy

In September 2009, Exelon announced it was quitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the lobbying organization's opposition to climate legislation.

Explaining the company's views, CEO John W. Rowe said, "Putting a price on carbon is essential, because it will force us to do the cheapest things, like energy efficiency, first."

Exelon is the third energy company to leave the Chamber, after PG&E and PNM Resources.[6]

Power portfolio

Out of its total 26,877 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (2.52% of the U.S. total), Exelon produces 66.7% from nuclear, 14.8% from natural gas, 9.5% from oil, 4.7% from hydroelectricity, 3.3% from coal, 0.6% from wind, and 0.2% from biomass. Exelon owns power plants in Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia.[7]

Existing coal-fired power plants

Exelon owned 3 coal-fired generating stations in 2005, with 895 MW of capacity. Here is a list of Exelon's coal power plants:[7][8][9]Plant Name   State   County   Year(s) Built   Capacity   2007 CO2 Emissions   2006 SO2 Emissions
Eddystone   PA   Delaware   1960   707 MW   4,128,000 tons   6,454 tons
Cromby   PA   Chester   1954   188 MW   1,129,000 tons   5,588 tons


In 2006, Exelon's 2 coal-fired power plants emitted 5.2 million tons of CO2 and 12,000 tons of SO2.

Exelon announces plan to shut coal plants in Pennsylvania

On December 2, 2009, Exelon announced that it would retire Cromby Generating Station and two units at Eddystone Generating Station in 2011. The closures include 144 MW of coal-fired power at Cromby and another 588 MW at Eddystone. Eddystone will continue to operate 820 MW of natural gas- and oil-fired generation. Exelon senior vice president Doyle Beneby said the retirements were due to "decreased power demand, over supply of natural gas and increasing operating costs," adding that, "these aging units are no longer efficient enough to compete with newer resources."[10] The announcement comes just one day after Progress Energy said it would shut 11 aging coal-fired power units totaling almost 1,500 MW in North Carolina.[11]

Exelon Nuclear

Exelon Nuclear has its headquarters in Warrenville, Illinois and is a business unit of Exelon Coroporation. It operates the largest nuclear fleet in the nation and the third largest in the world. Exelon's ten stations -- with 17 reactors -- represent approximately 20 percent of the U.S. nuclear industry's power capacity. The stations include: Braidwood Generating Station, Byron Generation Station, Clinton Power Station, Dresden Generating Station, LaSalle County Generating Station, Limerick Generating STation, Oyster Creek Generating Station, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Quad Cities Generating Station, Three Mile Island Unit-1, Zion Generating Station.[citation needed]

Exelon supports the belief that nuclear power has an imporant role in the future energy supply and has stated that "20 to 30 new nuclear plants will be needed by 2030 in order to address climate change and enhance energy security."[citation needed]

Exelon intends to file a combined construction and operating license for a single unit in Texas by the end of 2008.[citation needed]

Exelon received approval in March for an early site permit at its Clinton Station in DeWitt County, Illinois -- the first permit of its kind granted in the industry. The permit is valid for up to 20 years.[citation needed]

Peach Bottom's sleeping guards
In 2007, whistleblower Kerry Beal told the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that guards at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station were sleeping on the job. He had previously brought his concerns to a plant supervisor, but was told to "be a team player." [12]

Initially, the NRC "told the plant's owner to investigate even though the accusation involved company managers." The NRC's Inspector General later ruled that asking the plant's owner, Exelon, and its security provider, Wackenhut, to investigate themselves was a violation of NRC policies. Not surprisingly, neither Exelon nor Wackenhut "were unable to substantiate the claim. But, months later, 10 security officers were videotaped sleeping on duty." The NRC then launched its own investigation and confirmed the charges, leading Wackenhut to fire the guards and Exelon to fire Wackenhut. [12]

Relicensing Three Mile Island
To overcome local opposition to the re-licensing of the Three Mile Island's unit 1 reactor, Exelon agreed "to pay for an expanded community radiation monitoring system, increase charitable donations to community groups and continue its policy of not storing waste from other nuclear plants," reported the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "The company also agreed not to oppose the decommissioning of the TMI Unit 2 reactor, destroyed in the 1979 accident when equipment malfunction and operator error led to a partial meltdown of the reactor core and an air release of radioactive material." [13]

Environmental record
In 2005 Exelon was required to pay $602,000 for exceeding the permitted sulfur dioxide emission limit from April through October 2004 at Cromby Generating Station in Chester County, Pennsylvania.[14]

Coal lobbying

According to lobbying disclosure forms, Exelon $1.2 million from April to June 2008, "to lobby on tax credits for renewable energy sources," as well as "on telecommunications issues, trade cases involving uranium enrichment, energy policy, the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal project, energy and water appropriations, and climate change." In addition to Congress, Exelon lobbied the Office of Management and Budget, the departments of Energy, Justice and Homeland Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Government Accountability Office, Federal Communications Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission. [15]

Dynergy is a member of the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other companies. The group argues that the so-called "beneficial-use industry" would be eliminated if a "hazardous" designation was given for coal ash waste.[16]

ACAA set up a front group called Citizens for Recycling First, which argues that using toxic coal ash as fill in other products is safe, despite evidence to the contrary.[16]

Donations to, and support from, Barack Obama

An October, 2006 issue of Harper's magazine reported that Barack Obama had accepted $70,000 in donations from Exelon, "a leading nuclear-plant operator based in Illinois," since 2004. The article said,

At a 2005 hearing at the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, of which Obama is a member, the senator —- echoing the nuclear industry's current campaign to promotes nuclear energy as “green” —- said that since Congress was debating “policies to address air quality and the deleterious effects of carbon emissions on the global ecosystem, it is reasonable—and realistic—for nuclear power to remain on the table for consideration.”[17]

Citizen activism

NAACP Clearing the Air Road Tour - April 2010
In April 2010, Jacqui Patterson of the NAACP Climate Justice Initiative interviewed community members in Bridgeport. Jacqui wrote the following account of the impacts of the Bridgeport Harbor Station:[18]
Bridgeport is the second-poorest city in Connecticut after Hartford, with a per capita income just over half of the state average. The plant is wedged between Bridgeport’s Downtown and South End neighborhoods, which are among the city’s poorest. The average income of people who live within one mile of the plant is just $11,400, and over 87% of the plant’s neighbors are people of color. Six schools are within a mile of the plant, as is the University of Bridgeport (the tenth-most racially diverse university in the country, with over 60% students of color).

The stories in Bridgeport solidified a pattern that has been consistent throughout the trip including high rates of respiratory illnesses, nuisance coal ash, and disproportionate exposure by low income communities of color.
I had the pleasure of meeting with Adrienne, who is administering a training program for green jobs, Audrey whose job in the public health department has and her lifelong residency in Bridgeport have shown the impact of the coal plant on the community, and Craig who has spent the majority of his 59 years in Bridgeport and was able to provide a tour of the neighborhood surrounding the plant.

As we started our tour at the plant, we weren’t able to begin our filming in front of the plant because we were run off by security who stated that filming in front of the plant was a felony offense by order of the department of Homeland Security! During the tour you’ll see on the footage several times where I filmed the plant from afar, including a bit where I filmed the largest mountain of coal I’ve seen yet in all my visits to coal plants. And it is completely uncovered, which is why even now I have coal dust on my car. Craig, who narrated our tour, omitted any indication of filming of the plant when I was doing it, seemingly out of fear that he might be implicated by my lawlessness so watch for the coal mountain because it won’t be mentioned!

Adrienne shared some history of the South End community, where the plant is located, and talked about concerns that have been expressed by residents bout coal soot covering their cars, not being able to open their windows, and not being able to hang out laundry because of the coal ash.

Exelon
http://www.nndb.com/company/801/000059624/

Energy company, owner of Commonwealth Edison and PECO Energy.

Official Website:
http://www.exeloncorp.com/

Industry:
Energy

Ticker:
NYSE:EXC

Corporate headquarters:
Chicago, IL

Sales:
$15.8B (2003)

Employees:
20000 (2003)


EXECUTIVES
Name   Occupation   Birth   Death   Known for
Frank M. Clark   Business   c. 1946       CEO of Commonwealth Edison
Oliver D. Kingsley, Jr.   Business   c. 1942       President and COO of Exelon, 2003-04
Corbin A. McNeill, Jr.   Business   c. 1940       Co-CEO of Exelon, 2000-02
John W. Rowe   Business   c. 1945       President and CEO of Exelon
Jack Skolds   Business   c. 1950       EVP at Exelon, 2003-07
Pamela B. Strobel   Attorney   c. 1953       Former CAO, Exelon


CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
Name   Occupation   Birth   Death   Known for
M. Walter D'Alessio   Business   c. 1933       Legg Mason Real Estate Services
Nicholas DeBenedictis   Business   15-Sep-1945       Aqua America
Bruce DeMars   Military   3-Jun-1935       Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Nelson A. Diaz   Judge   c. 1947       Of Counsel, Cozen O'Connor
Sue Ling Gin   Business   23-Sep-1941       Flying Food Group
Rosemarie B. Greco   Business   c. 1946       Pennsylvania Health Care Reform director
Paul L. Joskow   Economist   c. 1946       Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
John M. Palms   Physicist   6-Jun-1935       President, University of South Carolina, 1991-2002
William C. Richardson   Educator   c. 1940       President of Johns Hopkins, 1990-95
Tom Ridge   Politician   26-Aug-1945       US Secretary of Homeland Security, 2003-04
John W. Rogers, Jr.   Business   c. 1958       CEO of Ariel Capital Management
John W. Rowe   Business   c. 1945       President and CEO of Exelon
Stephen D. Steinour   Business   c. 1958       CEO of Citizens Financial, 2006-08
Donald Thompson   Business   1963       President, McDonalds USA


PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
Name   Occupation   Birth   Death   Known for
Edward A. Brennan   Business   16-Jan-1934   27-Dec-2007   CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1984-95
Edgar D. Jannotta   Business   c. 1931       Chairman, William Blair & Company
Corbin A. McNeill, Jr.   Business   c. 1940       Co-CEO of Exelon, 2000-02

Exelon Carbon Sequestration and Offsets
http://www.pewclimate.org/companies_leading_the_way_belc/company_profiles/exelon/carbon_sequestration.cfm

Carbon Sequestration Technology Development

Further reductions in GHG emissions intensity in the medium- to long-term will depend upon the development and availability of cost-effective technologies that allow for a stable, reliable, and affordable supply of electricity.

Working with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Exelon is one of the funders of a CO2 Capture and Storage pilot.  An integrated test center that captures actual power plant flue gas CO2 and stores it safely deep underground is a crucial step to commercializing technologies that curb CO2 emissions.  This project focuses on the first step leading to a test center. 

Initially, EPRI proposes to build and operate a CO2 capture pilot plant, treating approximately a 5-megawatt (MW) equivalent of flue gas and focusing on a variation of solvent scrubbing using chilled ammonia.  This process appears to show great promise for significantly lower energy penalties, and therefore costs, than solvent processes being investigated by others.  The pilot will be a co-funded effort with ALSTOM, an international manufacturer of rail transport and power generation equipment, which will fund approximately half of the costs.

To view carbon sequestration and offsets programs of all BELC members, visit What's Being Done in the Business Community section of this site.

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A Nuclear Whistleblower at Home
http://www.alternet.org/story/16097

AlterNet exclusive: A former company man charges that casks designed to hold buried nuclear waste don't meet federal safety standards and could leak.
June 6, 2003  |    
 
Oscar Shirani just didn't understand when his former employer, Exelon, wouldn't stop its high-level nuclear waste container manufacturer. The containers, like the ones Shirani say headed for the Dresden plant in Illinois, are being filled with radioactive spent fuel and installed at nuclear plants around the country. Shirani fears the shoddy work will result in affecting the health of millions of people.

Despite their delicate and deadly cargo, the casks "are nothing but garbage cans" if their fabrication violates government specs, said Shirani.

Instead of giving him a medal for thorough work and dedication,
Shirani says Exelon convinced him to transfer to another job and then, conveniently, laid him off.

The self-described "company man," turned freshly minted whistleblower, might be able to do what anti-nuclear activists have been unable to accomplish -- pounding nails into the nuclear casket, forcing old plants to shut down. Then again, the federal government could acknowledge the alleged sub-standard work and hope the casks don't leak anytime in the next few thousand years.

The nuclear industry has turned to on-site radioactive waste storage in what's called "dry casks" in order to keep nuclear plants humming. Commercial nukes all have spent fuel pools. When those are filled up -- and most are at, or near, capacity already -- environmentalists expected the industry would be forced to turn off the plants.

Like a clogged septic tank, you have to quit flushing when it's full. But environmentalists were out-flanked by industry when it figured out a new "sewage" storage plan.

Industry hoped that it would have a permanent waste site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, long before now. Nuclear plant owners, however, could see that a Yucca repository is a far off, if ever, possibility. They moved to simply build a new and different kind of above-ground septic tank.

What Shirani alleges is that those tanks (a company called Holtec designed them and uses U.S. Tool & Die to make them) are not being fabricated to Nuclear Regulatory Commission specs. While some believe NRC specs themselves don't provide much safety assurance, Shirani did.

"I thought the NRC was a big dog and a force," he said, but without the kind of oversight he maintains was thwarted, the safety of nuclear plants "is suspect."

Failure Points

Shirani's nuke casket story is akin to, say, ordering a new Hummer from the dealership. In the glossy brochure, the thick boxy steel can repel almost anything short of armor-piercing projectiles. But when you get the SUV home, you find it's made of glued fiberglass and spills passengers all over the sidewalk at every approaching pothole.

If the casks are shoddy, would they leak radioactivity and endanger public health? Shirani could only guess that it could affect "millions." Activists say they just don't know.

"Federal regulations should not make [Shirani], or us, or the NRC, or the cask owner guess about consequences," said David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists nuclear safety engineer. "The regulations require a certain level of performance and his findings were below that minimum level. It may not be that the cask will fail when challenged, but they are unnecessarily and illegally closer to the failure point."

Welds on the casks were performed by "unqualified welders"
and materials control was inadequate for the casks, Shirani reported to Exelon in mid-2000.

Fabrication engendered brittleness in materials, weakening them, Shirani notes. He maintains Holtec failed to report holes in the neutron shielding material. He allleges that Exelon "falsified" quality assurance documents and "misled" the NRC in last year's investigation of the problem. He found "hundreds of non-conformance items." Overall, he claims that what is being manufactured to hold nuclear waste is not what was approved in conceptual design by the federal government.

"I called my people in Washington and tried to get them to do something, but they didn't do anything," said Ross Landsman, NRC Region III inspector in a January deposition provided by Shirani.

"Every time I find some stuff wrong with any of the Holtec stuff, my brilliant cohorts in Washington say, 'Give them an exemption'," Landsman said sarcastically. "Holtec, as far as I'm concerned, has a non-effective QA (quality assurance) program and US Tool & Die has no QA program whatsoever."

Landsman added that the issues raised by Shirani on the casks headed for the Dresden plant had not been resolved, despite an August 2000 audit stating the problems had been fixed.

Cover Up?

Shirani had audited Holtec and its suppliers for the Nuclear Users Procurement Issues Committee, identifying what he calls "major design and fabrication issues" against Holtec in 1999 and 2000. He filed those with the NRC in November 2000. The NRC closed the allegations procedure a year later.

Shirani said he tried to put a "stop work" order on the casks' fabrication to no avail. Anti-nuclear activists have followed up on Shirani's claims, filing Freedom of Information Act requests to find out what the government did about these claims.

The activists are backing Shirani in his quest to get the NRC to look into the original allegations and their cover up through the NRC inspector general.

"The NRC has not contacted us," responded Brian Gutherman, Holtec manager of licensing. "The NRC did approve the design as a snapshot in time. We're allowed to make certain changes below the safety threshold." Gutherman said Holtec "is absolutely not concerned" about cask safety and potential leakage, and that between the NRC and Holtec's clients, "nowhere has anyone suggested such a thing." As for Shirani, Gutherman said, "He's just making things up."

If the casks are found to be fabricated below specifications, the NRC could simply let them be. "They could be accepted as is or get approval of the [changed] design. There could also be an exemption," said NRC spokesperson John Monninger. He added, though, there is a possibility the government won't let the casks be used at all.

Insider Information

Being a whistleblower isn't easy. You can be celebrated, like Jeff Wigand who revealed the dirt on tobacco purveyors Brown & Williamson and had a movie, "The Insider," made about him. Most likely, though, whistleblowers lose their livelihood, are mocked by their former peers and considered "eccentric" at best -- all this for deciding to follow the muse of conscience instead of the dominant paradigm.

"It's ethical cleansing," of the nuclear industry, chided Union of Concerned Scientists' Lochbaum -- a former industry man himself.

Shirani's former employer, Exelon, rejected the dust-up. "His case has been heard by numerous boards and agencies and it was dismissed. There is no substantiation for those claims," said Exelon spokesperson Ann Mary Carley She could, however, say that only the labor administrative review board has heard Shirani's complaints. The board's decisions are on appeal.

As a pro-nuclear power conservative company man, Shirani can't help still believing in the efficacy of the system -- but now he believes that the system can be flawed.

"Without the enforcement [of NRC regulations] I believe that we allow these people to spit on the face of quality and safety. This would be my top priority in my life more than my financial damage -- to see justice served."

Exelon says radioactive leak has been contained
http://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/06/exelon-radioactive-leak-contained-not-in-water-supply.html
June 9, 2009 2:25 PM | 2 Comments

A radioactive leak at Exelon's Dresden nuclear power plant has been contained and isn't a risk to public health, authorities said today.

Leaked tritium -- a radioactive by-product of nuclear reaction that can cause cancer and birth defects -- was found Saturday during routine tests at the Grundy County plant, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The leak is not believed to have left the 1,700-acre plant site. Exelon officials said leaked tritium has not entered the public water supply.

But the company hasn't found the cause or source of the leak, which was discovered in a monitoring well and storm sewers at the 37-year-old plant, the oldest privately-financed nuclear reactor in the United States and not far from the Kankakee and Des Plaines Rivers.

Workers today were digging in the "general area" where a waste pipe is believed to have failed and are testing other wells at the plant, Exelon spokeswoman Krista Lopykinski said.

"There's no danger to public or staff safety," she said.

Records show Exelon officials took steps to hide radioactive tritium spills which escaped its Braidwood Generation Station in Will County between 1996 and 2003. It agreed to pay $11.5 million toward a new water supply for the neighboring village of Godley and is now required to inform state and federal officials of tritium spills as soon as they are discovered.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Viktoria Mitlyng said the latest Dresden leak was "completely different" from the Braidwood leaks because it is limited to the plant site. Federal and state monitors are overseeing Exelon's clean-up effort and the firm is not expected to be fined, Mitlyng said.

But Paul Gunther, of anti-nuclear campaign group Beyond Nuclear, said Exelon has a history of "trivializing uncontrolled and unmonitored" tritium leaks.

"Where is that contaminated water going to be 10 years from now?" Gunther said. "Groundwater can move and its movement is hard to predict."

With a radioactive half-life of 12 years, the leak will pose a toxic hazard for 120 years, increasing the cost of decommissioning the site when the plant eventually closes, Gunther added.

Campaigners say Exelon should be more proactive in replacing aging underground pipes at Dresden, and rely less on monitoring wells to detect leaks after they've happened.

The level of leaked tritium detected in the monitoring well Saturday was 3.2 million picocuries per liter of water, more than three times what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines as safe for drinking water.

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Officials investigating Illinois reactor shutdown

CHICAGO (AP) — Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nuclear reactor in northern Illinois, but believe they may have traced the cause to a piece of equipment at a switchyard dozens of miles away.

After the shutdown Monday morning at Exelon Nuclear's Byron Generating Station, operators began releasing steam to cool the reactor from the part of the plant where turbines produce electricity, not from within the nuclear reactor itself, officials said. The steam contains low levels of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, but federal and plant officials insisted the levels were safe for workers and the public.

Exelon Nuclear officials believe a failed piece of equipment at a switchyard at the plant about 95 miles northwest of Chicago caused the shutdown, but they were still investigating an exact cause. The switchyard is similar to a large substation that delivers power to the plant from the electrical grid and from the plant to the electrical grid.

Diesel generators were supplying the reactor with electricity, though it hasn't been generating power during the investigation into what happened. One question is why smoke was seen from an onsite station transformer, though no evidence of a fire was found when the plant's fire brigade responded, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Viktoria Mitlyng said.

The commission declared the incident an "unusual event," the lowest of four levels of emergency. Commission officials also said the release of tritium was expected.

Read the rest of the story here.

[EvadingGrid]

If anyone remembers 3 Mile Island, they also initialy claimed to have safely shut the plant down..

Also at 3 Mile Island, this valve thingy jammed open releasing coolant as steam. Well that was bad, because they needed that water to keep the reactor cool.
( If I remember correctly )

[donnay]

If anyone remembers 3 Mile Island, they also initialy claimed to have safely shut the plant down..
( If I remember correctly )

Yep I remember it!  They lied then and they are probably lying now!   

[Effie Trinket]

BP wanted the carbon tax

Halliburton wants the the carbon tax

Black and Veatch wants the carbon tax

General Electric wants the carbon tax

PG&E wants the carbon tax

EVERY ENERGY COMPANY PUSHING THE CARBON TAX ARE GETTING THEMSELVES INTO INSURMOUNTABLE DEBT AND SABOTAGING THEIR OWN INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES!

Exelon and Tom Ridge conduct Chernyobl style Nuclear Reactor drill 3/23/2011

You cannot make this shit up.  The president of Exelon is part of a task force of some of the chief architects of false flag terrorism for the past 50+ years.  The current bullsh*t "front runner" for the 2012 election is also a member of this same treasonous taskforce:

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac-future-terrorism-010107.pdf

Attachment A  
Task Force Members
Honorable Lee Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Task Force Chair)
Frank Cilluffo, Associate Vice President for Homeland Security, The George Washington University (Task Force Vice-Chair)
Kathleen Bader, Textron Inc., Board Member Elliott Broidy, Chairman and CEO, Broidy Capital Management
Dr. Roxane Cohen-Silver, Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine  
Dr. Ruth David, President and CEO, ANSER
James Dunlap, President, Dunlap Consulting (Former Oklahoma State Senator) Honorable Thomas Foley, Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, Feld Steve Gross, President, BiNational Logistics LLC Glenda Hood, Chairman, Glenda Hood Consulting (Former Secretary of State, State of Florida)
Don Knabe, LA County Board of Supervisors
John Magaw, Former Under Secretary for Security, U.S. Department of Transportation Patrick McCrory, Mayor, Charlotte, North Carolina Bill Parrish, Associate Professor, Homeland Security and Emergency Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University

Mitt Romney, Former Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

James Schlesinger, Chairman, Board of Trustees, The MITRE Corporation (HSAC Vice-Chair)

Jack Skolds, President, Exelon Energy Delivery and Exelon Generation

Dr. Lydia Thomas, President and CEO, Mitretek Systems Inc.

Judge William Webster, Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP (HSAC Chair)
Houston Williams, Chairman and CEO, Pacific Network Supply Inc.
Allan Zenowitz, Former Executive Officer, FEMA
Homeland Security Advisory Council Staff
Doug Hoelscher, Executive Director, Homeland Security Advisory Committees
Michael Fullerton, Deputy Executive Director, Homeland Security Advisory
Committees, Director/Future of Terrorism Task Force and Director/Academe and Policy
Research Senior Advisory Committee
Candace Stoltz, Director/Future of Terrorism Task Force, Director/Private Sector Senior
Advisory Committee
David Baker, Associate Director/Future of Terrorism Task Force, Intelligence Analyst
Mike Miron, Director/State and Local Officials Senior Advisory Committee
Ruth Smith, Special Assistant
Carnes Eiserhardt, Executive Assistant
Kezia Williams, Conference Coordinator


Attachment B
Subject Matter Experts

Javed Ali, Senior Intelligence Officer, DHS
Sheriff Lee Baca, Los Angeles County, California
Randy Beardsworth, Assistant Secretary for Strategic Plans
Gina Bennett, Deputy National Intelligence Officer, Transnational Threats, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Chief William Bratton, Los Angeles Police Department
Frank Buckley, Co-Anchor, KTLA Prime News, Los Angeles, California
Sharon Cardash, Associate Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute, The George Washington University
Sheriff Michael Carona, Orange County, California
Joel Cohen, Intelligence Liaison Officer, California, Department of Homeland Security
Ambassador Henry Crumpton, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State
Osborne Day
Derek Dokter, Counselor, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Royal Embassy of the Netherlands
Steve Emerson, Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Eric Fagerholm, Acting Assistant Secretary for Strategic Plans, DHS
Richard Gerding, Counselor for Police and Judicial Affairs, Royal Embassy of the Netherlands
Jim Guirard, TrueSpeak Institute
Chris Hamilton, Senior Fellow, Counterterrorism Studies, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy


Attachment B
Subject Matter Experts

Chief Jack Harris, Phoenix Police Department
Brian Michael Jenkins, Senior Advisory to the President, Rand Corporation
Brigadier General Yosef Kuperwasser, CST International
Dr. Harvey Kushner, Chairman, Department of Criminal Justice, Long Island University
Jan Lane, Deputy Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute, The George Washington University
Tony Lord, First Secretary, Justice and Home Affairs, British Embassy
David Low, National Intelligence Officer, Transnational Threats, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Simon Mustard, Counter Terrorism and Strategic Threats, Foreign and Security Policy Group, British Embassy
Dr. Walid Phares, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Dennis Pluchinsky, George Mason University
Peter Probst, Consultant
Mark Randol, Director of Counterterrorism Plans, DHS
Ambassador Dennis Richardson, Australian Embassy
Dr. Joshua Sinai, Program Manager, The Analysis Corporation
Robert Spencer, Director, Jihad Watch
Dan Sutherland, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, DHS
Major General Israel Ziv, CST International

[Effie Trinket]

This has been pre-emptively exposed almost one year ago:

http://www.helencaldicott.com/childrenshealth_proc.pdf

"The Chicago area is ringed with nuclear power stations.  It is the heaviest concentration of nuclear power plants in the United States."

A perfect target for the Club of Rome/Aspen Institute to false flag cyber attack with a Stuxnet/Ptech/Duqu initiated meltdown.  The only way to completely destroy an economy is to eliminate a nations ability to generate cheap and abundant energy.  The shut down of nuke plants proves in another way also that the carbon footprint false paradigm is exactly that--a completely manufactured, non-existent threat.  They can't demonize nuke power over carbon emissions because it doesn't have any, so they have to attack it from completely different angles in order to strike Earth-shattering fear into the entire population, and get them to surrender their freedom for James Lovelock's cybernetically enslaved Gaia Earth Pantheism.

[Effie Trinket]

http://animatedsoftware.com/environment/whistleblowers/OShirani/Cooper_cns_issues2_20031124.htm

Cooper Nuclear Station Report

Prepared by Oscar Shirani, Dated November 24, 2003

As a concerned citizen and a nuclear power plant worker, I have the following ALLEGATION against Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) and Entergy regarding the safety of our public and termination of my employment while my project is fully funded by the board of directors and very well managed by me:

    U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Public Affair (Washington, DC 20555-0001) NUREG/BR-0240, Revision 1, September 1998, States:

"Acts of discrimination by a licensee, contractor, or subcontractor taken against a worker for bringing safety concerns to the attention of licensee management or the NRC are against the law. Specific examples of discrimination include firing, reduction in pay, poor performance appraisals, and reassignment to a lower position or job". "Workers who raise safety concerns serve a vital role in the protection of public health and safety. Retaliation against those who do so is unlawful and will not be tolerated by the NRC."

Explanation for my allegation stated above:

My Background Information shared with the CNS Managers (Kevin Jones and Jeff Edwards)

1. I was blackballed by Exelon from nuclear industry for 18 months due to the nuclear safety concerns that my audits had raised by issuing the stop work orders against GE Nuclear Energy, Holtec, and US Tool & Die from 1997-2000. ComEd hired the same GE Manager, David Helwig who was responsible for the 100% failure and the design flaws of GE that resulted to their shutdown by my audit and then he fired all my managers who supported my stop work order.

2. Worked at the Calvert Cliff Nuclear Power Plant (CCNPP) as a contractor from January through April 2003 and I had an opportunity to be hired as direct employee, but the Engineering VP, John Hosmer who came from Exelon stopped my chance to be hired or stay as a contractor. As a Structural Engineer, I also refused to put my signature on my last day, April 18, 2003 on an inaccurate information in the nonconforming condition report disposition of concrete crack by their contractor, SGT for the Steam Generator Replacement at CCNPP Unit 2. CCNPP and SGT refused to report the concrete crack issue to the NRC as required per their QA Program. SGT and CCNPP did not perform the operability evaluations per my repeated request for the pressurizer wall crack subjected to seismic and high energy line break. The concrete testing lab results also confirmed my conclusion about the concrete strength. Even the repaired concrete did not have an adequate strength required by CCNPP UFSAR and Design Bases documents as revealed by the testing lab. As we speak, CCNPP is operating at risk for seismic and high energy line break events. I have sent all my documentation to CCNPP President and NRC. NRC is coming to Nebraska City to interview me in December 1, 2003 in this regard.

My Job as a Project Manager at CNS

    I started at the Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) as a contractor in August 18, 2003 and was assigned with 16 Projects including Environmental Qualification (EQ) Project. In the first week of September, Ms. Judy Carter, the Nebraska Public Power District’s (NPPD) Internal Auditor was conducting an audit of EQ Program. My boss, Jeff Edwards, the CNS Nuclear Projects Manager asked me to help Judy to understand the technical questions that she needed help from an independent technical expert. I sat down with Judy in her office for almost an hour and answered all her questions. Judy became concerned about the EQ Status 3 that should be Status 1 to meet our commitment to the NRC and to meet the Strategic Improvement Program and Corrective Action Letter from NRC (TIP/CAL Item 5.3.2.1). This is also required by the CNS Procedure 3.4.7 and 10CFR50 Appendix B (QA Criteria for Nuclear Power and Fuel Processing Plants). Judy picked up the phone and called Kevin Bielsback, the CNS Quality Assurance (QA) Supervisor and told me to talk to him and tell him what I just explained to her. I explained that in order to be in compliance with 10CFR50.49 and meeting the EQ Criteria, all the calculations should be status 1 (active) and not the Status 3 (pending or on hold) Calculations. I did not know who he was. I just performed my assignment to help Judy as directed by my boss. Why Should I have to be punished for doing my job and express my professional viewpoint as requested?

    On the phone conversation, I explained all the requirements of the design basis and also informed Kevin Bielsback that none of the Quality Assurance’s (QA) four performed audit reports from 2000-2003 regarding the EQ Program had addressed the requirements of 10CFR50 Appendix B for the EQ program, which deals with the design control (design basis and design input). Kevin Bielsback did not disagree with my logic and reasons. Kevin Bielsback said that he will call me back and also indicated that he has a budget to support the audit. Kevin Bielsback never called me back nor did any audits conducted by CNS QA Department.

    I documented this conversation and sent an e-mail to the DED Manager, Kevin Jones on September 9, 2003 and CC’d all the appropriate customers that needed to know including Allen Williams, the Engineering Support Department (ESD) Manager of Programs. (Please read the e-mails that I have arranged in chronological order).

    Allen Williams had called Jeff Edwards and complained about my e-mail of September 9, 2003. Jeff called a meeting with Allen & I on September 10, 2003 (Please read my file "Oscar" documenting this meeting notes).

    Prior to the meeting, Allen Williams saw me on the third floor of Admin Bldg. about 7:55 AM, September 10, 2003 while waiting for Jeff to arrive and vividly threatened me. Allen told me: "your god damn e-mail was totally inappropriate and I don’t appreciate this kind of garbage and nonsense that you put in writing to screw my EQ Program three weeks prior to the NRC’s Inspection". He added that "the CNS has done so much for the EQ and I won’t let you screw it with your god damn e-mail to everyone and not only your e-mail has pissed me off, it also has pissed off all the other managers and my boss Gary Kline and the QA Manager". I told Allen that the QA Manager had agreed with me on the phone. He said: "Kevin Bielsback is not the QA Manager and he is only a QA Supervisor and he was chewed up by Steve Blake, his boss why did he agree with you on the phone".

    Allen totally ignored me as the Project Manager of EQ and did not invite me to any of the preparation meetings for the NRC inspections while more than 20 other EQ staff was invited.

    I communicated these Allen’s resentments towards me to Jeff Edwards. Kevin Jones, my current boss, left his position as the Design Engineering Department (DED) and became my boss after my e-mail of September 9, 2003 was sent to him and other engineering managers. Kevin started to only supervise me and Mike Sparr among all the 15 Project Managers. I informed Kevin Jones about Allen’s attitude towards me. Kevin told me that the method of communication was not appropriate.

    It is so strange that my e-mail "that pissed off all the engineering and QA managers who received it" as quoted by Allen, all of the sudden one of the pissed off engineering managers became my direct supervisor and all my communication with Jeff regarding EQ was absolutely halted. Jeff’s last conversation with me regarding EQ ended with this quote from him: "if the deliverables of EQ is not meeting its commitments and dates then he would be whistle blowing himself". Jeff Edwards quit his job in early November 2003 and joined St. Lucie’s Nuclear Plant in Florida. I would like to subpoena him as my witness.

    NRC as usual did their paper work audit in October 6, 2003 for only two and half days for hundreds of EQ Calculations and blessed the EQ Program as meeting the intent of the 10CFR50.49. NRC trusted the CNS and relied on the accurate information by CNS, but CNS misled the NRC. NRC did not question the validity of the design input in the Environmental Qualification Data Packages (EQDPs) that are relied upon 100’s of status 3 Calculations from Design Engineering Department’s (DED) for bounding design conditions, which does not meet the design basis requirements of the CNS plant per CNS Procedure 3.4.7 and 10CFR50 App. B.

    Despite all the Allen’s attempts to exclude me from EQ, I asked Kevin Jones to attend the Allen’s meeting for the NRC preparation and Kevin did not disagree. I have documented in my meeting minute notes that Allen was saying: "the time is to our advantage and NRC is going to be here for less then 2 and half days and we should not let them wonder around and ask questions from anyone that they desire. If we don’t know the answer, don’t give your opinion, because NRC is good at getting different information from different individuals and bash our EQ Program like in the past". In the whole meeting, Allen was like a football coach who is preparing the team for the enemy. He was admiring the EQ team repeatedly for their heroic acts and said: "we should not show any sign of weaknesses to NRC that we had done in the past". It is amazing how he was focusing the attention to his egotistic attitude and not on the facts and the design basis of the plant that he knew he would not meet. In the meeting, Allen did not introduce me to the EQ Group. I had to ask him to introduce me as the new PM. He introduced me and indicated that Oscar Shirani would stay on the peripheral of the NRC Inspection and Tim would contact NRC. By that remark from Allen, I knew that I should stay away and I did. I did not even walked on the hallways that NRC’s room were, because Tim Pospisil and Mark Unruh were watching the traffic and only brought people who had to answer the NRC’s questions.

    In early September 2003, David Mckibbin (one of the contract Project Managers, PM) and I attended a meeting with Todd Hottovey, Equipment Reliability Manager and Vince Roppel, a Contract PM from INPO and introduced myself as the new PM for Equipment Reliability Improvement Project (ERIP). I told Todd and Vince that I have 16 projects to do. Vince and Todd were very concerned that I have other projects and expressed to David and I that ERIP needs almost a full time PM and it is a very heavy-duty project. Based on that input, my projects were starting to cut down to only three: EQ, ERIP, and Reactor Water Clean Up Pumps Replacement (RWCU). I was told by Bob Wulf, the System Engineering Department (PED) Manager to delay the RWCU Project to 2005.

    When the NRC inspection was over, I was supposed to take the EQ as a full time PM effective October 16, 2003 upon Jim Pospisil’s (the current PM) departure. With less than one week fully replacing Tim on the EQ Project, I was fired by Ted Hough and Allen Williams who were not my bosses with no explanations. Ted told me: "his boss, Allen Williams had called your boss, Jeff Edwards and told him to remove Oscar Shirani from this project and Jeff had agreed". I told Ted that if my boss agreed to that, then I have to verify it with my boss. I went to my office and found out that Jeff Edwards and Kevin Jones were out of town. I talked to Rich Dewhirst, Projects’ Director to call Jeff. Rich immediately called Jeff by his cell phone in front of me and Jeff denied that he had received such a phone call from Allen Williams. I left a message for Ted that his information to me that my boss had agreed with Allen was inadequate. I knew that my troubles had just begun from the last week of October 2003. I had explained my situation to a couple of my witnesses and I will subpoena them if necessary.

    In October 2003, Mike Sparr and I were talking about his projects and he mentioned the spent nuclear racks and spent nuclear fuel dry cask as future projects. He informed me that NPPD is willing to go with Holtec for the job. I informed Mike that Holtec QA program had many design and fabrication flaws. He asked me for references to read about those issues. I told him to go to the Internet and search for dry cask by Holtec and US Tool & Die. Mike looked at the Website and saw my name and allegations about the Holtec casks all over the Internet and the news reporters’ interviews with me. I openly discussed my allegations and I decided to be proactive and tell Jeff Edwards and Kevin Jones about my issues with Exelon.

    In the second week of November 2003, Randy Edington, the new Chief Nuclear Officer (CNO) from Entergy who had taken over the CNS Management requested for the status of all the TIP/CAL Items that contains the NRC commitments. Kevin Jones told me to provide the status update for both EQ and ERIP. I explained to Kevin that you know that Allen Williams had terminated me from that project and you and Jeff has not said anything to me whether you agreed with his decision or not. Kevin and Jeff as my managers never told me yes or no about their decision for my removal from EQ Project and they are the ones who should have decided and not Allen Williams who was not my boss. I guess that Kevin and Jeff knew that this might get ugly and did not want any part of that. This is exactly where we are. However, I provided the status update in the Spreadsheet to our secretary Pat Garris to prepare the report as requested by Randy and documented it in my weekly status reporting.

    When Kevin Jones read my update status for the TIP/CAL Item in the spreadsheet called me immediately and privately met me in the Russ Wenzl’s office and closed the door and advised me not to include my comments to Randy Edington for the sake of CNS. I told him that my report is written for you and you as my manager could do whatever you want to do with it and risk is yours. I told him that I don’t want the Projects team, you or Jeff be liable to all the risks that I had identified in my report. He tapped my shoulder and said thanks. We need to subpoena the spreadsheet to Randy Edington and find out how Kevin Jones had censored my report.

    In the second week of November 2003, Kevin told me that Todd Hottovey told him: "I don’t need Oscar Shirani as a full time PM to charge my project". I told Kevin that I am not charging that project as a full time PM and only charging the amount that Todd Hottovey and the Integrated Management Committee (IMC) had agreed on 10/6/03 ($211,000 for my services as PM for ERIP). I also told Kevin that I have asked you repeatedly that you need to assign me with another project or let me get back some of my old projects that you and others eliminated.

    Todd Hottovey had always recommended that ERIP Project should be combined with Bill Of Materials (BOM) Project. Meshelle Borush, the ex-Procurement Manager and current HR manager told me that Todd Hottovey agreed in late October that Oscar Shirani should be the PM for BOM Project. I informed Kevin Jones and he has refused to talk about the BOM or any other projects with me.

    On November 20, 2003, I received a call from the Computer Department that needed to work on my computer and wanted to know when I am not available for them to do that. I told them that I am leaving today and my computer is yours until I come back on December 1, 2003.

    On November 20, 2003, I left the site to go home to Illinois for the weekend. On November 21, 2003, I received a phone call from Kevin Jones that my contract is terminated due to budgetary issues and since I only have one project to run. I told him that it was not my choice of having one project and all my other projects were removed by you and others and I would do whatever it takes to keep my job. I also informed him that my project is fully funded and going very well. Kevin said that it is not performance issue and we only terminated you for budgetary issues. I told Kevin that financially I cannot afford to lose my job and I need to feed my family especially being blackballed from the industry and not being able to find another job. He said let me think about it this weekend and call you on Monday November 24, 2003. I told Kevin that Mike Sparr had asked me to help him out with his many projects and him and John Humphries are very much loaded and are willing to give up some of their projects. I also reminded Kevin about my other project RWCU and he said that we don’t need to spend that money this year. Kevin Jones called me on Monday November 24, 2003 at 2:15 PM and indicated that Karen Fili, the new Projects Manager from Entergy who replaced Jeff Edwards and he could not remove other people’s projects to give me. I told Kevin that all this was planned to get my projects to other people and now you cannot give my projects back to me. He said that he had to call Mark Inserra, Demark Owner, the company who had signed a two year contract with me and CNS for my services.

    This is the way that Engineering Department Managers, Allen Williams and Kevin Jones with the blessing of their boss, Gary Kline had planned to terminate my position slowly, but surely. I have documented my whole ordeals and willing to publish it for public to know what is going on in the nuclear industry and how public safety has no value to these people. This is the way that nuclear industry punishes people who cannot look the other way and maintain their high ethics and integrity. Now I leave it up to the NRC to find out what would they do about it?
 

This document was posted online December, 2003 by Russell D. Hoffman. For a complete guide to Oscar Shirani's allegations please visit:

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environment/whistleblowers/OShirani/Oscar_Shirani.cfm

[chris jones]

 I remember as a child listening to the propaganda about nuclear power, it was daily, and painted that N. reactors to be mankinds answer to energy. The people were estatic, finally cheap energy, safe and forever, even Walt disney got in his two cents..
 We now have Nuke plants dotted across the USA, there is no possible way these plants are disposing of the waste safely, nor our military despite the hype. IF a nuclear meldown should occur, there is no safe solution,the masses will be sacrificed, thats it. We have witnessed two catastrophys, they were an abomination.
 Cheap, no way, more costly than coal, safe, not possible these plants are old, and the majority are found with serious problems daily.
 We have to smarten up, the powermongers are acutly aware they have robbed our coffers with these apocoliptic lies. Any area of the USA can be effected, thats is.. one problem, be it suposed safety problem or premeiditated scenario it will do the elites trick.
 Lets face the facts, scientists for years have developed alternative methods of energy, either they have been bought out or suicided. This is not an idle claim, we all shoud be aware of this. Not only is there a method of WMD's here on our soil, the supercorps have rigged the game and our sucking our money to continue the usage of thes atrocitys.
 Energy runs the world, be it oil, atomic, hydro power etc. They are keenly aware of this have used it to their davantage. Did I go off the map, if so I apoligize, I detest this silent death controlled by the powers, have seen the results, and wish this atrocicty commited on no human being. Our military is using ammo that has been treated for Gods sake, How low can they go.

 

[Optimus]

Nuclear Plant Leak in Southern California
Radiation leak found at nuclear power plant north of San Diego.
02:41 | 02/01/2012

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/nuclear-plant-leak-southern-california-15493393


San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closed After Radiation Leak



A small quantity of radioactive gas leaked inside one of the buildings at San Onofre nuclear power plant north of San Diego, according to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The spokesman said the radiation levels were “barely measurable,” but the plant was shut down as a precaution.

“At no point were the public or our workers in any danger,” Southern California Edison spokesman Gil Alexander told ABC News.

Officials say the radiation leak likely occurred in the steam generator tubes of San Onofre’s reactor #3. The steam system, which is supposed to be shielded from exposure to radiation, was replaced in December 2010. Alexander said plant officials will be conducting an investigation into why the new steam tubes leaked.

More: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/san-onofre-nuclear-plant-closed-after-radiation-leak/

[chris jones]

 The NRC is a controlled arm of the Gov. Each and every day irregularitys are listed.
 No rant, I am sure people are sick of my long winded ramblings. Just one point, there are just a few items to bear in mind, the Gov, NSA, etc, are sticklers on one topic, do not tell the morons   people the entire story, SPIN AWAY- we musn't create panic,,,,,, its an easy out.
 Nuclear waste is another issue,
There are some 65,000 tons of nuclear waste now in temporary storage throughout the U.S., but in 2009, the President halted work on a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, following years of controversy and legal wrangling. Few people in Nevada or elsewhere doubt the need for a safe and enduring place to stash radioactive debris, but no one wants it close to home.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2086917,00.html#ixzz1lGmcQddo
   Ocean Dumping by US Militarywww.highstrangeness.tv/.../militarydumping
Recently the US Congress has focused more attention on the illegal ocean dumping of chemical weapons and hazardous nuclear waste by the US military.
Cont:Fact Sheet on Ocean Dumping of Radioactive Waste Materialsnepis.epa.gov/Exe/
Records of military operations and government contractors (such as the national ... The environmental survey work of the ocean nuclear waste dumpsites by EPA ... are salient points in the history of U.S. ocean dumping of radioactive materials.