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The following are items that were posted on our Home Page. Unplug Salem
Where is all that Fukushima radiation going, and why does it matter? http://vimeo.com/23186557
Physicians for Social Responsibility Cites Flawed Evacuation Zones
Resources related to the crisis in Japan and ways to help.
Christie Administration Forms Nuclear Review Task Force
UNPLUG Salem response
Salem/Hope Creek and reactions to Japan
Dave Lochbaum explains the new steam generator safety issue at Salem:
We have been concerned about the problems with alloy 600 since 1999. PSEG fired their senior chemist back in 1997-1998 over his concerns about alloy 600. - Norm
NJ Silences Nuke Power Whistleblower
State Officials Block Open Testimony by DEP Nuclear Whistleblower
Jane Nogaki's statement at NRC hearing on Salem/HC relicensing
NRC APPROVES PILOT PROGRAM FOR CO-60 PRODUCTION
AT HOPE CREEK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Critics call for probe of Salem-Hope Creek
N.J.'s Salem nuclear power plants showing their age
Check out NEW links in the above table - License Renewal - Corrosion Reports - Salem Complex # 4 Reactor - check back often as these are being updated every few days. Also check out and PRINT the new - No More Nuclear Plants at Salem Petition - Print them out and get your fellow concerned citizens to fill them out. Spending Billions of dollars on New Nuclear Power plants instead of Wind farms is NOT the direction we should be going.
Moratorium 03/30/2011
Fish Kill 2/12/2011 AC Press
Stop Fish Slaughter 2 2011
Frieda Berryhill - statement July 14,2010 concerning New Jersey’s Emergency evacuation plan.
SUBJECT: Salem Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station 2010 Full Scale Exercise; Identification
of Issues Requiring Timely Corrective Actions
Nuclear Watchdog Groups Raise Reactor Safety Concerns over the Gulf Oil Spill
PSEG would buy wetlands
PSEG APPLICATION FOR EARLY SITE PERMIT IN NEW JERSEY
Wind power changing energy delivery
PSEG Files Site Permit
Article on Hope Creek's Cobalt adventure:
PSEG's Cobalt plan Flawed & Dangerous
Nuclear Waste -- Now What ?
Temporary Storage at 131 sites, over 60,000 metric tons of Nuclear Waste.
The Department of Energy acknowledged that peak radiation releases come about 300,000 years after removal.
Check Out Scientific American article
Tax Incentives Assistance Project (TIAP)
The high cost of nuclear waste (Video)
More nukes would divert us from right energy choices A letter from Norm
Notice of Licensee Meeting April 6th 2010
Hope Creek Early Site Permit
Salem Unit 1, Docket No. 50-272, License No. DPR-70, and Salem Unit 2, Docket No. 50-311, License No. DPR-75.
Hope Creek Docket No. 50-354 License No. NPF-57 PSEG Nuclear, LLC
Fred Stine, Citizen Action Coordinator for the
Delaware Riverkeeper Network Testimony to NRC
RPHP
(Radiation and Public Health Project) which now has their office in Ocean City,
is doing a follow-up study to the 1950s St Louis tooth study, the results of
which helped convince President Kennedy to sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty,
which ended atmospheric nuke bomb test. RPHP is looking for interns or
volunteers to help input data from the St Louis study so that they can follow up
with the original participants to see how many contracted cancer.
Please
email Joe Mangano at odiejoe@aol.
False Promises, NIRS recent book countering nuclear industry propaganda on safety, economics, sustainable energy, radiation and health, and more. You can download it for free on NIRS website (www.nirs.org) or you can buy a printed copy for $15 (including postage and handling). If you want bulk copies, contact us.
HWasserman: The Reactor Relapse Takes 3 Hits to the Head
Officials review Cumberland, Salem counties emergency evacuation plans July 2009
7/02/2009 Emergency Plan Hearings
STOP URANIUM MINING in the GRAND CANYON
PSEG Slide Presentation at 03/16/2009 License Renewal Meeting - This is in pdf
Cooling Tower issues & under ground cable
Dave Lochbaum's Analysis of PSEG's near miss at Salem
NRC Sends Special Inspection Team to Salem Nuclear Plant
H.R. 6049 - Renewable Energy & Job Creation Act of 2008
Info OpenCongress.org
Spinning The Atom
Consideration of the Need for a New Nuclear Plant in New Jersey
News from Beyond Nuclear
Blowing the Whistle on Nuclear Safety Lapses:
Federal Whistleblower Protections Act At A Glance
pdf file
Let's BBQ! More specifically, let's BBQ ourselves from the inside with radioactive particles.
Baby teeth study to begin 2008
02/13/2008 Hope Creek Integrated Inspection
Hope Creek to increase power output
Short Video of Salem / Hope Creek from plane, Notice The ONE Cooling tower for Hope Creek - NO Cooling towers for Salem One or Salem Two
From the latest NRC inspection report:
SUBJECT:
SALEM NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNIT NOS. 1 AND 2 -NRC
INTEGRATED INSPECTION REPORT 05000272/2007003 and
N-reactor
an outage away from rating cut
News Journal 1/3/2008 - Power plant's cooling system said to destroy millions of fish each year
Child Cancer Risk Higher Near Nuclear Plant
Nuclear Power Plants Water Need's
9/09/2007 Letter to Editor by Frieda Berryhill
Nuclear should be left out of state energy master plan 9/12/2007
Human Error Report 9/2007
Hope Creek Greenhouse Gas Exceeded limit pdf.
Norm's Letter to editor Opposing New Nuclear Plant
Salem/Hope Creek Problem ID inspection.
PSE&G Bold New Plan to Spur Investment in Solar Energy
Under the plan, PSE&G will invest approximately $100 million to help finance the installation of solar systems on homes, businesses and municipal buildings throughout its service area. The funding will provide a source of capital to spur additional investment in solar energy.
PSE&G
would provide loans to developers to cover approximately 40-50 percent of the
cost of a solar installation project. The
utility would be repaid plus interest over
15 years, a longer investment timeframe than traditional lenders are willing
to provide for solar installations.
PSE&G
would be repaid in the form of credits called Solar Renewable Energy
Certificates or SRECs, which have value in the energy marketplace. An SREC is
a New Jersey tradable product that represents the clean energy benefits of
electricity generated from a solar system.
PSE&G would earn a return to compensate the company for its full cost of
capital, plus an incentive for spurring the development of the solar market.
The solar panels would be owned by the developer or the host customer.
NRC Inspection Reports of Salem & Hope Creek
Frieda Berryhill - Working for Common Sense
Helen Caldicott
Sustainable Energy Blueprint
Nuclear
Power – One of Humankind’s Biggest Mistakes
Link for info on 316(b) intake rules
Dr.
Janette Sherman’s
groundbreaking book,
Life’s
Delicate Balance, (now out of
print) is
available for sale from the UNPLUG Salem Campaign.
NEVER DOUBT THAT A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!
Sidney Goodman: Atomic Myths - Radioactive Realities
Oyster Creek Steel Liner Corrosion
New Jersey's First Wind Farm
NRC Special Inspection .pdf - Salem & Hope Creek
New Jersey Voluntary Green Power Choice Program
Hope Creek Trip Report 01/06-03/06
It's never been about making a difference. It's about doing the right thing
NRC Rejects Public Petition (Hope Creek involved)
Exelon PSE&G buy out
N.J. Board of Public Utilities Public Hearing
NRC Salem 2 Performance Indicators
NJ Nuclear Plant Evacuation Plan
Letter to: Colonel Rick Fuentes, Superintendent, NJ State Police
Letter to: FEMA Region 2
USC comments on Emergency Preparedness .pdf
Hope Creek Shutdown Event 41956
NRC June 30th 2005 Salem Report
7/29/2005 Request for renewal of deviation to the action matrix to provide heightened NRC oversight of the Salem & Hope Creek generating stations. .pdf file
Salem Hope Creek NRC Employee Concerns Program Inspection Report.pdf
David Lochbaum USC on Fuel Defect .pdf
News from Ed Markey United States Congress on Nuclear Plant Security
Letter to editor, on Building New reactors - by Frieda Berryhill
Hope Creek Event 41753 (Drywell Leakage pdf file) explained by: David Lochbaum UCS
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports, testimony, and correspondence: GAO report .pdf
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Hearing Statements Date: 05/26/2005
Sub committee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety Oversight on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Thinking Twice About Nuclear Power By Sidney J. Goodman
Global Warming Versus Nuclear Power
Nuclear Regulatory Commission: NRC Needs to Do More to Ensure That Power Plants Are Effectively Controlling Spent Nuclear Fuel. GAO-05-339, April 21.(pdf file)
Statement from UNPLUG Salem Campaign
"This is a sad day for all those folks, both 'pro' and 'anti' nuke, who believe in making nuclear power as safe as possible.
The NRC decision on Dr Harvin sends a chilling message to workers at PSEG's nuclear plants as well as workers throughout the nuclear industry.
From now on, they'll just pencil-whip the problems and save their jobs.
The NRC and the individual NRC members who wrote and endorsed this decision should be ashamed and should resign their positions immediately.
UNPLUG was not surprised by this decision.
The NRC sent strong pro-PSEG messages when they appointed Sam Collins, the NRC staffer who screwed up royally at Davis Besse, to be the new Region 1 administrator.
NRC's subsequent authorization of the re-start of the defective Hope Creek nuke was just more evidence of where NRC's loyalties lay-
with the nuke owners, not with safety whistleblowers.
UNPLUG Salem supports Dr Harvin in whatever action she now takes to find justice in the cause of nuclear power safety".
Norm Cohen Coordinator, UNPLUG Salem Campaign 609-601-8583
Note from Dave Lochbaum UCS on Dr. Harvin NRC statment
NRC Notice on Pump Shaft Vibration
UCS Requests Public Meeting before Hope Creek Restart .pdf
Consumer
Groups Move to Intervene in
Damaging Nuclear Security Report Delayed
Attached please find comments by UCS in response to a notice published in the Federal Register last week about a license amendment sought by the Hope Creek licensee. As detailed in our comments, this licensee seeks to short-cut a long and established process for reducing defense-in-depth. This licensee seeks to "cherry pick" among the Improved Technical Specifications and adopt only those that can speed up its refueling outages. The established process is to convert completely to the Improved Technical Specifications as virtually all of the other licensees have done or are currently doing so. The NRC must deny this short-cut and make this licensee convert entirely to the Improved Technical Specifications if it wants the luxury of this one defense-in-depth rollback. Thanks, Dave Lochbaum Nuclear Safety Engineer Union of Concerned Scientists Comments by UCS
Dr. Nancy Kymn Harvin to receive Carl Barus Award for Outstanding Service in the Public Interest
A former nuclear worker went to the NRC nearly 18 months ago with allegations, including one that her termination was in retaliation for having conveyed safety concerns to senior management. Despite internal procedures that specify allegations to be addressed within 180 days and investigations to be completed within 18 months, the NRC has yet to announce a decision on this matter. Read Dave Lochbaun's letter to NRC. (in pdf)
NEW STUDY SUGGESTS SPIKE IN INFANT MORTALITY ASSOCIATED WITH RADIATION FROM NUKE PLANTS more info
Hope Creek NRC Integrated Inspection Report of 12/31/2004.pdf
Hope Creek NRC Special Inspection Report of 12/16/2004.pdf
Letter to NRC on Lack Of Safety Work Environment from David Lochbaum
Statement By Suzanne Leta of NJPIRG
Statement at NRC Public Meeting on Hope Creek By Dave Lochbaum (in pdf)
Dave Lochbaum & Dr. Kymn Harvin on Jeff Rense Show (.wma audio file)
GE Recommendation on inspection of Pump Shaft
Letter to PSEG Subject: Hope Creek NGS Summary of Results NRC Review Technical Issues .pdf
Letter to PSEG, subject: Hope Creek HGS Preliminary Results Special Inspection for October 10th 2004 event .pdf
Junk Science? by Sidney Goodman
Norm's letter to the Press
NRC Credibility on the line Dr. N. K. Harvin
Letter by Cumberland County Freeholder Jane Y. Christy
Letter to NRC from David Lochbaum on Safety Culture Problems.pdf
Independent Assessment of Hope Creek Reactor Re-circulation System.pdf
Letter to PSEG on Re-circulation System Vibration Problems at Hope Creek .pdf
Delaware Delegation wants more answers from U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Hope Creek Shutdown .pdf
Steam Leak in Turbine Building Event 41109
UCS Background on Event .pdf
Statement from Union of Concerned Scientists
by David Lochbaum
House Subcommittee on Nuclear Security
Printed statement in pdf
GAO report on NRC Security.pdf
NRC and Nuclear Plants need to do more
Has anything changed? for a video report on Salem 1 in 1983 click on
(this is a real media file) if you need a player click here http://www.real.com/
Letter from NRC to David Lochbaum
Subject: Questions raised regarding NRC actions to address
Safety Culture at Salem & Hope Creek Nuclear Plant's
PSEG nuclear plants continue to have poor safety culture - NRC
Performance Review - Hope Creek.pdf
Performance Review - Salem.pdf
Coalition Demands Solution for Nuclear Reactor
Vulnerability to Terrorist Attacks
Letter to E.J Ferland CEO PSE&G.pdf
Letter to Congressman Lobiondo
Formal Allegation of PSEG "Gaming" The NRC's Reactor Oversight Process .pdf
Letter to Congressman Lobiondo on Safety Concerns 7/13/2004
Statement July 7th 2004 by Norm at Evacuation Plan Meeting
Need More Baby Teeth From New Jersey
Letter to NRC from David Lochbaum of UCS
"Same Problems at Same Nuclear Plant Deserve Same Protection for the Public" .pdf
Statement by Dr. Kymn Harvin
U.S. Nuclear Plants in the 21st Centuary
Hope Creek Circulating Pump Problems 1 - 2 (both .pdf)
Response to Gloucester County Editorial
Draft SPDES Permit for Indian Point.pdf
Fact sheet on Indian point.pdf
Letter To: Nils J. Diaz, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Letter to NRC expressing No Confidence (in pdf.)
ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS
AND CHILDHOOD CANCER IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
FINAL REPORT OF RESEARCH ON
THE SOUTH FLORIDA BABY TEETH AND
CANCER CASE STUDY
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. Statement
PSEG Dry Cask Storage Project pdf file
Letter to Editor on Dry Cask Storage
Robust Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
By Gordon Thompson
If you need to download
Adobe Acrobat Reader to open a .pdf file click here 
KILLING FISH and GUTTING the CLEAN WATER ACT
Report: Radioactive Strontium-90 in Baby Teeth by Joseph J. Mangano
BILLIONS FOR CONSTRUCTING NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS!
Radiation Threat: NUKE WASTE to MAKE TOYS, TOASTERS & TOOTHBRUSHES?!
NRC, PSEG
NUCLEAR TO DISCUSS SPENT FUEL STORAGE PLANS
FOR SALEM AND HOPE CREEK NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Potassium
Iodide Tablets
Shelf Life Extension
Study Finds Cause in Nuclear Plant Radiation Emissions Drinking Water Most Likely Source
PSEG Emergency News Center Salem County Department of Emergency Services Building 135 Cemetery Road Salem, NJ 08079 DIRECTIONS
NRC - Annual Assessment Letter
Unplug Salem Wins partial victory on Nuke plant security issues - NRC approves portions of our 2.206 petition
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to open a .pdf file click here
PSEG Will Not Send Nuke Waste to Utah Read Letter
Study: Energy efficiency product standards would benefit consumers, environment in Northeast
Baby Teeth Studies Reveal Childhood Radiation Exposure
UNPLUG Salem Campaign Demands That PSEG Replace Steam Generator Now, Not In 2006
Response to Atlantic City Press Article 12/04/02 "pseg & nj: perfect for environment"
Letter to NRC, Responding to Director's decision to Unplug's 2.206 petition.
updated
Preventing Nuclear Power Plant Terrorism:
A Case Study of The Salem Power Plants
By Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University (in .pdf format)
Security and Vulnerability (in .pdf format)
Spent Fuel Fact Sheet (in .pdf format)
Potassium Iodide Fact Sheet (in .pdf format)
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to open a .pdf file click here 
Do You live near a proposed route for the shipment of Radioactive Waste ?
Letter to Editor Atlantic City Press on Potassium Iodide
Frieda Berryhill & Sid Goodman at the first Salem Demonstration
TMI Accident Radiatio (letter to AC Press.)
Dave Lochbaum "The Second Biggest Mistake"
Pictures of Dead Horseshoe Crabs at PSEG Site, Thompson's Beach
Riverkeeper Alliance Needs Your Help
Preventing Nuclear Power Plant Terrorism:
NRC's reply to 2.206 petition. This is in PDF format
Norm's letter to Editor on Yucca Mountain Transport
Testimony on Nuclear Plant Security before the Senate Committee on Appropriations
Testimony to Committee about Homeland Security
By: David Lochbaum of UCS
NRC RESPONSE TO UNPLUG SALEM IS MIXED;
Environmental Foundation Awards UNPLUG Salem 12K Grant
UNPLUG Salem Urges McGreevy to Distribute KI Directly to Residents Near Salem Nukes
Potassium Iodide as a blocking agent
New Jersey Officials (and the nuclear industry) to decide whether to stockpile potassium iodide
Nuke
Watchdog Group Releases Nuke Sabotage Report:
Calls for Changes
or Shutdown of NJ Nuke Plants
FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS
Nuke Watchdog Group Demands Answers To Salem Nuke Security
Questions
Supports Assemblyman Guear's Call For Security Upgrades
Letter to: Robert Fretz, NRC - from Norm Cohen
Letter to: Harry Kaiser, PSEG - from Norm Cohen
Dave Lochbaum's background on David-Bessie "The Reactor with a Hole in its Head"
Pictures of Norm & Paul at CSNY concert
Dr. Helen Caldicott
NUKE WATCHDOG TO ASK "UNANSWERED QUESTIONS" AT SALEM
NRC INSPECTION MEETING
Recent Safety Hazards at aging Nuclear Plants
Clean Energy Blueprint (pdf file)
Sabotage at Nuclear Power Plants
New
Nuclear Age
After A Long Moratorium, More Generators Are On Drawing Boards
"Clean
Energy: Jobs for America's Future", is available in
PDF form
Peoples Health, Red Tape & Bull Shit or A Lesson in how you as a tax payer are being protected.
segment on Steam Generators from the video
"Good
Nukes - Almost Good Enough.".
(This is a video clip in Real Audio format - the Quality is Fair - download time is approximately 10 minutes)
Potassium Iodide Will it protect you if there is a nuclear accident?
U.S. nuclear power plant insurance plan questioned
GOVERNMENT
ADMITS EACH NUCLEAR REACTOR RE-LICENSING
EXPECTED TO KILL 12
PEOPLE
David Lochbaum, Nuclear Safety Engineer for The Union of Concerned Scientists
Testimony to Congress on the NRC Click and Read
Radioactive Releases from New Jersey Nuclear Power Plants and The Link with Cancer
Scientist links cancer to nuclear power
The Domenici Deception: Nuclear Energy Bill Is an Atomic Waste
Read Testimony - Maya K. van Rossum - Delaware Riverkeeper 1/23/2001
People's Hearing on Salem Nukes
To The Editor, Atlantic City Press
Corporate Take-Over of World's Nukes
Unplug Salem Host Radiation Health Forum
Re-Launch of Oyster Creek Nuke Group
Radiation Poisoning Protection
Report - Salem / Hope Creek Cancer