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Sunday, April 20, 2003 Issue 5   VOLUME 1 ISSUE 5
TOPICS
Eagle News
Nuclear Issues
CONTENTS
Update from the Secretary/Treasurer
"NRC commissioners want critique of "Alvarez report""
"Plutonium Myth and Reality"
"NRC chief says Davis-Besse didn't endanger public"
"Audience Uneasy About Nuclear Future"
"New head of US nuclear agency plans safety changes"
Can nuclear energy compete with turkey offal?
"Understanding nuclear plant benefits"
"New nuclear power plant could be in state's future"
"Nuclear Power Project Delayed"
"Dismayed by scare story"
"Youngsters know about benefits of nuclear power"
"New nuclear plants may be coming to Ontario"
"Group will oppose nuclear plant plans"
"TEPCO's last nuclear power reactor to shut down today"
"Russian company plans massive marketing campaign to sell nuclear power
plant to Finland"
"Framatome ANP Submits Its Tender to Build a New Nuclear Unit in Finland"
Letter from the author
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April 24, 2003
Update from the Secretary/Treasurer
Thank you to all for your voluntary contributions!
http://cnts.wpi.edu/ea/MemberInfoForm.pd...
by Donald R. Todd

Also, on behalf of the Board of Managers, if you have yet to do so, please
consider contributing to Eagle Alliance, and/or revising your contact
information with us.
[FULL STORY]

April 20, 2003
"NRC commissioners want critique of "Alvarez report""
[It's time to produce credible, realistic, analysis! --JM]
by Ted Rockwell

Friends:
The news report below shows Chairman Diaz's intent to produce more realistic
nuclear safety evaluations. Dr. Diaz has expressed his concern about studies
using unrealistic premises that claim that unprecedented public health
hazards. The "Alvarez Report," to be published shortly, is such a study.
Our Policy Forum in "Science" stated that experience, engineering judgment,
and data from 25 years of analysis and largescale tests with molten fuel
show that radioisotopes are not released in large quantities from molten
fuel, and that the radioactivity released does not stay in respirable form
for long periods but tends to dissolve in water, plate-out on structural
sufaces and clump and fall out of the plume. This conclusion is borne out by
the TMI experience and even the extreme case of Chernobyl. The NRC is now
being pressed to either repudiate all that data and experience or else to
repudiate the unsupported analyses that predict cancer deaths up to 500
miles in the NRC's own recent reports.
[FULL STORY]

April 24, 2003
"Plutonium Myth and Reality"
[Prepare to respond to recent false claims of Pu toxicity! --JM]
by Clinton Bastin

Myth: Plutonium is one of the most dangerous poisons known

Reality: Three studies in the report, "Toxicological Profile for Plutonium,"
prepared for and issued by Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,
Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, in collaboration with U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, December 1990 show just the opposite:
[FULL STORY]

April 20, 2003
"NRC chief says Davis-Besse didn't endanger public"
[A refreshing dose of candor - more needed! --JM]
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindeale...
by John Mangels and John Funk

Washington, D.C. - Although the rust hole that festered unnoticed for years
on the lid of the Davis-Besse nuclear reactor represents "an enormous
failure" in plant management and government oversight, Ohioans were never
endangered by those gaffes, the new chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission said yesterday.
--
The news media's tendency to "hype up" stories about nuclear power and the
public's inability to understand what does and doesn't pose a legitimate
risk made it seem that Davis-Besse was a greater threat than it was, Diaz
contended.
[FULL STORY]

April 20, 2003
"Audience Uneasy About Nuclear Future"
[Denis Beller carrying the nuclear message --JM]
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Apr/04192003/...
by Judy Fahys

He felt like he had walked into a time machine.
    That's the way the final daytime speaker opened his remarks on Friday at
the symposium, The Nuclear West: Legacy and Future.
    But it could have been a commentary on the entire day's program,
including the penultimate debate about the ways nuclear energy might improve
international relations.
    "Nuclear energy has a glowing future," concluded University of
Nevada-Las Vegas research professor Denis Beller, in a hotly contested
presentation on how nuclear energy can relieve world poverty.
[FULL STORY]

April 20, 2003
"New head of US nuclear agency plans safety changes"
[Nils Diaz appointed NRC Chairman --JM]
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory....
by Reuters - Planet Ark

WASHINGTON - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will soon issue orders to
improve the training of guards at U.S. nuclear power plants and to revise
rules for nuclear fuel enrichment to prevent sabotage or attacks, the new
head of the agency said.
--
Diaz replaced former NRC Chairman Richard Meserve, who was appointed during
the Clinton administration. Diaz previously was an NRC commissioner for some
seven years, taught nuclear engineering and worked as a consultant on
nuclear weapons.
[FULL STORY]

April 24, 2003
Can nuclear energy compete with turkey offal?
Nuclear power may have to be reengineered to be cost-effective
http://www.discover.com/may_03/gthere.ht...
by Jim Muckerheide

The link above is to a Discover magazine article on the thermal
depolymerization process that turns all carbon-based feedstock, from turkey
offal to tar sands, into light oil, gas, minerals and pure water, and it's
claimed to be energy efficient. Is it a shot across the bow of the high-cost
nuclear power technologies? The CANDU ACR-700 has undertaken serious
engineering design to improve the cost-effectiveness of nuclear power. The
LWR have improved constructability of fundamentally over-built LWR designs,
with some significant refinements to reduce miles of cables and hundreds of
valves. But the fundamental designs continue to be driven by the gross
non-conservative conservatism of the unknowns and uncertainties of the
1960s, combined with the "just put it in the ratebase" mindset of the
regulated utilities, vendors, architect-engineers to the consequences of
piling conservatism on conservatism to the profit of all but the ratepayer.
Perhaps this may provide the incentive needed for the nuclear industry to
have to seriously reconsider the design basis of current plant designs. The
"next generation" plants, the gas reactors, now being built, have a great
advantage (not including the pie-in-the-sky paper pushing efforts of DOE's
"Gen IV" make-work projects. (If it's not in detailed design and being
built/operated today, it's not "next generation.")

April 20, 2003
"Understanding nuclear plant benefits"
Letter - St. Petersburg Times - April 12, 2003
by Lynn E. Weaver

It is thus important for the NRC's Dr. Nils Diaz to make sure that there is
an appropriate balance in the public understanding of the risks from nuclear
plants. It is important to realize that if we were to no longer operate our
nuclear plants that their electricity would have to be replaced with that
from burning more fossil fuels. The result would be significantly increased
electric bills, and greater air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
[FULL STORY]

April 15, 2003
"New nuclear power plant could be in state's future"
[Congressional initiative!? --JM]
http://www.charleston.net/stories/041203...
by RON MENCHACA

South Carolina could get a new nuclear power plant, something that hasn't
happened anywhere in this country for almost 25 years, under a federal
energy reform bill approved by the U.S. House on Friday.
A nuclear power plant hasn't been built in the United States since the late
1970s, but some congressmen from South Carolina say it's time to reconsider
the controversial fuel source, which they argue is cleaner and less
expensive than traditional plant fuels, such as coal.
[FULL STORY]

April 15, 2003
"Nuclear Power Project Delayed"
http://allafrica.com/stories/20030413007...
by Belinda Anderson

South Africa's nuclear power project has been held up over feasibility and
funding issues, but IST, the JSE-listed engineering group is still positive
it will go ahead.
[FULL STORY]

April 15, 2003
"Dismayed by scare story"
[Strong response - not by nuclear industry --JM]
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSect...
by John Ledger & Roger Wedlak

Your reporter is an award-winning environmental journalist. Surely she
should know that South African society expects her therefore to act
responsibly by reporting in an objective and scientific way that leaves her
readers better-informed. Instead she has concocted an unsubstantiated,
emotional scare story that is the false currency of the hysterical
anti-nuclear lobby.
For now, the world is demanding energy, and the wakening giants of the
developing world, India and China, have vast coal reserves that they will
burn unless they have a better option. Nuclear power is that option.
[FULL STORY]

April 15, 2003
"Youngsters know about benefits of nuclear power"
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/14Apr200...
by The Bangkok Post

Pathom Yaemket, deputy secretary-general of the Atomic Energy for Peace
Office, said surveys found people of the younger generation had a better
understanding of nuclear technology than adults aged 50-60...
However, research on the sensible use of nuclear technology was rarely
reported by the media and there was inadequate teaching in schools about the
subject. The science of nuclear technology should be included in the
curriculum, he said.
[FULL STORY]

April 20, 2003
"New nuclear plants may be coming to Ontario"
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/04/18/ont...
by CBC News Online staff

TORONTO - Faced with an energy shortage, the Ontario government is looking
at building new nuclear power plants for the first time in 15 years.
[FULL STORY]

April 20, 2003
"Group will oppose nuclear plant plans"
[NRC to take 3 years? --JM]
by Scott Richardson

A citizens group will meet for the first time today to organize opposition
to Exelon Corp.'s request to certify a second nuclear plant at its Clinton
site.
--
The process to receive Nuclear Regulatory Commission permission can take
three years.
[FULL STORY]

April 15, 2003
"TEPCO's last nuclear power reactor to shut down today"
[Have all politicians gone mad? --JM]
http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2...
by The Asahi Shimbun

Tokyo could be facing a power shortage this summer if most of the 17
reactors stay off-line.
[FULL STORY]

April 20, 2003
"Russian company plans massive marketing campaign to sell nuclear power
plant to Finland"
Chernobyl anniversary kickoff date for PR move
http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=2...

The Russian Atomstroyexport is planning a massive marketing campaign aimed
at selling a nuclear power to Finland. The company hopes to persuade both
the Finnish public and nuclear experts that Russia should supply Finland
with its fifth commercial nuclear reactor.
[FULL STORY]

April 20, 2003
"Framatome ANP Submits Its Tender to Build a New Nuclear Unit in Finland"
Press Release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030331/chm02...
by Framatome ANP

PARIS, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Framatome ANP, an AREVA and Siemens company,
has today submitted its tender to Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) for the fifth
Finnish nuclear power plant. Framatome ANP is offering two reactor types:
the EPR, a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) and the SWR 1000, a Boiling Water
Reactor (BWR).
[FULL STORY]

April 30, 2003
Letter from the author
Re: NASA To Boost Nuclear Space Science With Project Prometheus. -
Spacedaily
http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projecto...
by Wayne Smith

If you enjoyed this article then you might be interested in my other work to
date.
http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion/

Communications Director and Editor Jim Muckerheide
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