C-10 has sent the 2.206 emergency petition to the NRC. We have received acknowledgement that it was received but have no decision whether it has been accepted. This petition calls for the NRC to issue an order to the Seabrook licensee requiring immediate implementation and enforcement of ACI 349.3R and ASTM C 856-11 code standards requiring core sampling, and petrographic testing for the mechanical properties of tensile strength, Poisson’s ratio, modulus of elasticity, and compressive strength—specifically for walls of the Containment Building and Spent Fuel Pool at Seabrook Station. (Read petition...)

INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTION: OUR SENSORS IN FUKUSHIMA

Three of C-10’s old sensors, re-furbished by International Medcom, are now at work doing real-time monitoring in Fukushima. They are providing immediate readings and data for specific sites, which is being recorded; these are the only stationary real-time monitors there. (Other monitoring is being done with mobile bGeigies.) Data from our sensors is recorded by Safecast and is visible online at safecast.org. We are glad to have made this contribution especially in light of the fact that relocation aid to displaced families from the Fukushima region is being terminated and families who are moving back need access to information about radioactivity levels.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF SEABROOK STATION’S COOLING SYSTEM

In 2015, the EPA registered an influx of flounder, smelt, lobster, cod, hake and bivalve deaths thought to be the result of Seabrook Station's cooling system. The NRC made public its responses to the EPA’s comments on the General Environmental Impact Statement of the Seabrook nuclear power station in a letter to the Boston EPA dated 3 August 2015. (NRC docket number 50-443: FINAL PLANT-SPECIFIC SUPPLEMENT 46 TO THE GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR LICENSE RENEWAL OF NUCLEAR PLANTS REGARDING SEABROOK STATION, UNIT 1(TAC NO. ME3959) ((Read full article...)