Where the reactors are - U.S., Midwest
About the Prairie Island reactors
How a pressurized water nuclear reactor works - part I
How a pressurized water nuclear reactor works - part II
Northern States Power sues Westinghouse over faulty tubes
Problems with Steam Generator Tubes (Part I)
Problems with Steam Generator Tubes (Part II)
A nightmare confirmed: steam tube degradation is increasingly likely to cause a nuclear meltdown (Part I)
A nightmare confirmed: steam tube degradation is increasingly likely to cause a nuclear meltdown (Part II)
Chernobyl to Prairie Island - We are all in the zone (Part I)
Chernobyl to Prairie Island - We are all in the zone (Part II)
Prairie Island routinely emits radioactivity into the environment
A little lesson on radioactivity: how it affects the human body
The difference between high-level and low-level radiation exposure
The effects of low-level radiation exposure
The waste fuel pools are filling up
Dry cask storage: problems guaranteed, and problems unknown
Yucca Mountain, Nevada: not a good place for nuclear waste
Transporting the waste: how safe can 45,000 shipments be?
Most mining and milling of uranium occurs on Indian lands
People of color are also targeted for other uranium processing facilities
Nuclear waste dumps - guess where they want to put them
Anything is cheap if you don't pay the cost
Nuclear power can be phased out
An interview with two of the neighbors
REFERENCES
Nuclear Waste - No Solution
Transporting the Waste: How Safe Can 45,000 Shipments Be?
If Yucca Mountain is developed, it will not take waste before 2010, at the very earliest. But the nuclear industry is desperate to ship waste from reactor sites now, and wants to send it to a parking lot next to Yucca Mountain. Legislation to accomplish this passed Congress in 1997. President Clinton has promised a veto.
Transporting this waste would require 15,000 to 45,000 shipments over the next 30 years.
This would create a host of very troubling public health and security problems. And if Yucca Mountain does not accept the waste, it would have to be shipped again, to somewhere else.
The only purpose for this legislation, called Mobile Chernobyl by opponents, is to enable the nuclear industry to produce more nuclear waste.
Security problems are not limited to nuclear waste transportation. A private commercial pilot took this picture. Existing security at reactor sites is for public relations only.