America’s Quake-Proof Nukes
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article As the Japanese struggle to prevent a widening disaster in its nuclear fleet from...
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Roger Witherspoon
Mar 30, 20116 min read
Feds Rate Region’s Nuclear Fleet “Safe” But Japanese Problems Fuel Skepticism
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article All six nuclear reactors in the New York/ New Jersey metropolitan area are operating...
Roger Witherspoon
Mar 17, 20114 min read
The Conflict of Nuclear Safety: Protect the Public or Protect the Money
By Roger Witherspoon March 17, 2011 Download and/or Print Article For the most part, David Lochbaum’s analyses of the escalating problems...
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Mar 14, 20113 min read
Japan’s Information Deficit
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Information is vital in times of calamity. Unfortunately, it is difficult to determine...
Roger Witherspoon
Mar 13, 20116 min read
A Nuclear Hail Mary – Seawater or Disaster
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article The announcement by the Japanese government that sea water is being pumped into the...
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
Dec 5, 20106 min read
Entergy Leaving Gotham Behind
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Entergy Nuclear has dropped its share of electricity supporting New York City and...
Roger Witherspoon
Nov 15, 201011 min read
Reversal of Fortune: Entergy’s Humbling Nuclear Venture
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Entergy Corporation’s low key announcement might well have been posted on Craig’s...
Roger Witherspoon
Nov 8, 20104 min read
Explosion Forces Eighth Nuclear Plant Shut Down
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article An explosion and fire in a transformer at the Indian Point power station Sunday...
Roger Witherspoon
Sep 11, 20104 min read
Unexplained Mishaps Shut Indian Point 3
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article A series of unexplained mechanical failures – including a large hot water leak and the...
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
Jun 21, 20105 min read
The Myth of Technological Infallibility
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article The unfolding events in the Gulf of Mexico underscore the importance of journalists...
Roger Witherspoon
Apr 28, 20103 min read
St. Lucie’s Safety Rating Among Nation’s Worst
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Continuing problems with critical safety systems at the St. Lucie nuclear power plant...
Roger Witherspoon
Apr 7, 20104 min read
Nuclear Powered Cancer Clusters
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article For the past 20 years, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has used an epidemiologically...
Roger Witherspoon
Apr 5, 20104 min read
Double, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Hope Creek’s Cobalt Stew
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Nuclear safety experts warn that a proposal to increase profits at the Hope Creek...
Roger Witherspoon
Feb 6, 20105 min read
Harvesting Energy from Plants
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article It is called winter canola, and the crop is a mainstay in Canada. But that harsh...
Roger Witherspoon
Jan 2, 20104 min read
Solving the Puzzle of the Sky
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article For Warren Washington, a lifetime of researching the heavens began with a relatively...
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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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