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Roger Witherspoon
Mar 31, 20167 min read
Critical Nuclear Reactor Bolts Fail at Indian Point 2
By Roger Witherspoon A special inspection of the Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor found that more than a quarter of the stainless steel...
Roger Witherspoon
Mar 4, 20167 min read
Dangerous Flaw Threatens to Close Nation’s Nuclear Fleet
Byron Nuclear Power Plant By Roger Witherspoon After four years of increasingly tense internal discussion, seven Nuclear Regulatory...
Roger Witherspoon
Feb 13, 20166 min read
Indian Point Contaminates the Hudson River With Uncontrollable Radioactive Flow
By Roger Witherspoon For more than a decade, it has been impossible for operators of the Indian Point nuclear power plant to stop highly...
Roger Witherspoon
Oct 7, 20139 min read
Former NRC Chair: Emergency Plans Won’t Protect Residents from Radiation, And Indian Point Should Be
Gregory Jaczko: Shut Indian Point down By Roger Witherspoon The former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday that...
Roger Witherspoon
Mar 15, 201316 min read
A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 4 Living with the Aftermath
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article The large black sailor was naked in the middle of a roped-off area below decks, and he...
Roger Witherspoon
Feb 11, 20139 min read
A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 2: The Navy Life – Into the Abyss
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article To the US Government, Operation Tomodachi was just another big humanitarian aid and...
Roger Witherspoon
Dec 13, 20127 min read
Double-Teamed: New York Battles the Feds And Entergy to Close Indian Point Nuclear Plant
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article William Holston was obviously exasperated. For nearly two hours he had fielded the...
Roger Witherspoon
May 25, 20128 min read
White House Moves Swiftly To Replace NRC’s Jaczko
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article The White House, wasting no time lamenting the pending departure of embattled Nuclear...
Roger Witherspoon
Oct 26, 20115 min read
Indian Point vs. the Hudson River: Hearings Begin on Cooling System Impacts
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article “…EPA’s insupportable assumption that screening technologies are available at nuclear...
Roger Witherspoon
Oct 8, 20114 min read
Weapons Upgrade Sought For Indian Point Guards
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Entergy Nuclear has asked federal regulators to override New York State’s weapons law...
Roger Witherspoon
Feb 16, 20116 min read
Suit Seeks Review of Local Nuclear Waste Storage
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article A federal court suit challenging the right of nuclear plant operators to store high...
Roger Witherspoon
Sep 7, 20103 min read
NRC Probes Indian Points’ Troubled Steam Generators
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Federal officials are investigating Entergy Nuclear Corps’ management of its massive...
Roger Witherspoon
Sep 5, 20105 min read
Graceless Ageing at Salem
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article A series of wide ranging, federal inspections of the twin Salem nuclear power plants...
Roger Witherspoon
Jun 23, 20104 min read
Regulators Cite FP&L For Safety Violations
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Federal regulators have fined Florida Power & Light $70,000 for improperly maintaining...
Roger Witherspoon
Nov 16, 20095 min read
Nuclear Power and the Bottomless Bank
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Congress and the Obama Administration are on a course to provide the nation’s nuclear...
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