Donald Polish
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Who doesn't know the American company «Westinghouse» and it's policy in the sphere of atomic energy?
Here is some links to get familiar with it:
Ukraine to Boost Use of Nuclear Fuel From Westinghouse Electric - Bloomberg
http://www.ncwarn.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Rept-Fukushima-AP1000-Fairewinds_11_10_11.pdf
As we see it is quite a notorious company which can provoke a real nuclear conflict in the World!!!
Here the list of accidents connected to the "Westighouse":
August 27, 2000
USA - a truck carrying a 40-ton reactor coolant pump from the Surry Nuclear Power Station in Virginia to a Westinghouse plant in the nearby state of Pennsylvania was improperly directed by state officials under a bridge with insufficient clearance. The pump hit the overpass and tumbled onto a heavily-traveled highway, spilling about 5 gallons of radioactive coolant water. All lanes of the highway (the main evacuation route for the Surry plant) were shut down for several hours. One direction was closed for nearly 24 hours as workers literally dug up the road and shoulder for shipment to a "low-level" radioactive waste dump (WISE News, Sept 27, 1991).Savannah River, North Carolina, USA - Greenpeace identified a series of 13 spills of radioactive water in the year 1991 at the Savannah River nuclear weapons materials production site. The Savannah River tritium production site has been inoperative for safety reasons for three years (WISE News, Sept 27, 1991).
1989 August
Fuel Fabric, Pennsylvania, USA - A recent US General Accounting Office (GAO) report has found severe radioactive contamination at nine civilian nuclear sites, all of which had been declared decommissioned or decontaminated. Contamination levels were discovered to range between two and 730 times above federal standards. The sites were Westinghouse Fuel Fabrication Plant in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, The Combination Engineering Site in Hematight, Missouri, The Texas Instruments Plant, South of Boston, Mass., The Gulf United Nuclear Corporation Fabrication Plant near Pawling, New York and the KERR McGEE in Cushing, Oklahoma. All five sites have ground water contamination higher than the Federal drinking water standards allow. Additionally, the KER McGEE Cimarron Uranium Enrichment Facility in Crescent, Oklahoma, has ground water contamination 400 times the EPA's drinking water standards and the Nuclear Fuel Services site in Erwin Tennessee has contamination levels 730 times above drinking water standards. ("The Nuclear Monitor" 21/8/89. WISE-319 20/10/89).1989
1987 June
Tennessee, USA - A truck carrying 14 Westinghouse fuel assemblies overturned approximately 10 miles west of Knoxville, Tennessee. ("Nucleonics Week" 25 June 1987, WISE NC 279 18/9/87)
1986 December
Ohio, USA - Uranium and toxic chemicals seeping through waste pits at Feed Materials Production Center in Fernald, Ohio USA, which makes uranium products for nuclear warheads, have contaminated the Great Miami Aquifer, the main source of water for residents of SE Ohio. ("Northern Sun News" 10/86, WISE NC 264 5/10/86)1970-1993
Oyster Creek emitted 77.0 curies of airborne radioactivity in the period 1970-1993, the largest amount of any U.S. reactor.
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The TVA has made application to build on a two unit site that was scrapped in the 1980s leaving Bellefonte Unit 1 90% complete and Unit 2 58% complete. This infrastructure was written off in 1990s. Bureaucratic mismanagement by the TVA has left the floundering Government Corporation desperate for funds so they have successfully gotten their hands further into taxpayers' pockets. They propose to study the potential of building a two unit Nuclear Power Plant on the Bellefonte site (Bellefonte Unit 3 and Unit 4). Cost of the study will be $4.25 million with taxpayers picking up $2.125 million of that. One can only imagine how much more they will suck from tax coffers but rest assured that if the plant is built rate payers will pay and pay and pay.
Apparently lessons have not been learned and the delusion of Nuclear power economy, environmental friendliness and safety will waste billions of needed tax dollars that should be directed at truly alternate forms of energy and a serious program of educated reduced usage.
Members of this Nuclear Coven include DTE Energy, Duke Power, EDF International North America, Inc., Entergy Nuclear, Exelon Corporation, FPL Group, Progress Energy, SCANA Corporation, Southern Company, Tennessee Valley Authority, GE Energy and Westinghouse Electric Company. These companies are the cornerstone of the Military Industrial Complex and contribute significantly to the maintenance and expansion (under Bush) of the US Nuclear Arsenal as well as well as lucrative excursions into the research and development of even more horrifying Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Nuclear Power Plant Accidents
Now please answer the question: "How dare they to provide the Ukranian Government with atomic fuel in such an unstable situation? Does everyone realize this real THREAT?!
Here is some links to get familiar with it:
Ukraine to Boost Use of Nuclear Fuel From Westinghouse Electric - Bloomberg
http://www.ncwarn.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Rept-Fukushima-AP1000-Fairewinds_11_10_11.pdf
As we see it is quite a notorious company which can provoke a real nuclear conflict in the World!!!
Here the list of accidents connected to the "Westighouse":
August 27, 2000
USA - a truck carrying a 40-ton reactor coolant pump from the Surry Nuclear Power Station in Virginia to a Westinghouse plant in the nearby state of Pennsylvania was improperly directed by state officials under a bridge with insufficient clearance. The pump hit the overpass and tumbled onto a heavily-traveled highway, spilling about 5 gallons of radioactive coolant water. All lanes of the highway (the main evacuation route for the Surry plant) were shut down for several hours. One direction was closed for nearly 24 hours as workers literally dug up the road and shoulder for shipment to a "low-level" radioactive waste dump (WISE News, Sept 27, 1991).Savannah River, North Carolina, USA - Greenpeace identified a series of 13 spills of radioactive water in the year 1991 at the Savannah River nuclear weapons materials production site. The Savannah River tritium production site has been inoperative for safety reasons for three years (WISE News, Sept 27, 1991).
1989 August
Fuel Fabric, Pennsylvania, USA - A recent US General Accounting Office (GAO) report has found severe radioactive contamination at nine civilian nuclear sites, all of which had been declared decommissioned or decontaminated. Contamination levels were discovered to range between two and 730 times above federal standards. The sites were Westinghouse Fuel Fabrication Plant in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, The Combination Engineering Site in Hematight, Missouri, The Texas Instruments Plant, South of Boston, Mass., The Gulf United Nuclear Corporation Fabrication Plant near Pawling, New York and the KERR McGEE in Cushing, Oklahoma. All five sites have ground water contamination higher than the Federal drinking water standards allow. Additionally, the KER McGEE Cimarron Uranium Enrichment Facility in Crescent, Oklahoma, has ground water contamination 400 times the EPA's drinking water standards and the Nuclear Fuel Services site in Erwin Tennessee has contamination levels 730 times above drinking water standards. ("The Nuclear Monitor" 21/8/89. WISE-319 20/10/89).1989
1987 June
Tennessee, USA - A truck carrying 14 Westinghouse fuel assemblies overturned approximately 10 miles west of Knoxville, Tennessee. ("Nucleonics Week" 25 June 1987, WISE NC 279 18/9/87)
1986 December
Ohio, USA - Uranium and toxic chemicals seeping through waste pits at Feed Materials Production Center in Fernald, Ohio USA, which makes uranium products for nuclear warheads, have contaminated the Great Miami Aquifer, the main source of water for residents of SE Ohio. ("Northern Sun News" 10/86, WISE NC 264 5/10/86)1970-1993
Oyster Creek emitted 77.0 curies of airborne radioactivity in the period 1970-1993, the largest amount of any U.S. reactor.
Click Here For Source
Any paragraph above with out a link below it can be found here.
Click Here For Source
The TVA has made application to build on a two unit site that was scrapped in the 1980s leaving Bellefonte Unit 1 90% complete and Unit 2 58% complete. This infrastructure was written off in 1990s. Bureaucratic mismanagement by the TVA has left the floundering Government Corporation desperate for funds so they have successfully gotten their hands further into taxpayers' pockets. They propose to study the potential of building a two unit Nuclear Power Plant on the Bellefonte site (Bellefonte Unit 3 and Unit 4). Cost of the study will be $4.25 million with taxpayers picking up $2.125 million of that. One can only imagine how much more they will suck from tax coffers but rest assured that if the plant is built rate payers will pay and pay and pay.
Apparently lessons have not been learned and the delusion of Nuclear power economy, environmental friendliness and safety will waste billions of needed tax dollars that should be directed at truly alternate forms of energy and a serious program of educated reduced usage.
Members of this Nuclear Coven include DTE Energy, Duke Power, EDF International North America, Inc., Entergy Nuclear, Exelon Corporation, FPL Group, Progress Energy, SCANA Corporation, Southern Company, Tennessee Valley Authority, GE Energy and Westinghouse Electric Company. These companies are the cornerstone of the Military Industrial Complex and contribute significantly to the maintenance and expansion (under Bush) of the US Nuclear Arsenal as well as well as lucrative excursions into the research and development of even more horrifying Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Nuclear Power Plant Accidents
Now please answer the question: "How dare they to provide the Ukranian Government with atomic fuel in such an unstable situation? Does everyone realize this real THREAT?!
