Two Years After Fukushima: the Environmental and Political Impacts

TUES Mar 26th, 7PM

USC, Green Quad Learning Center

(Wheat & Sumter St. Entrance off of Sumter St between building. Look for sign that reads West Quad-Sustainable Learning Center)

Panel featuring:

Dr. Jeff Patterson, President, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) www.psr.org

Dr. Timothy Mousseau, biologist at USC and expert on environmental effects of Chernobyl & Fukushima.

Mary Olson, Nuclear Information Research Service (NIRS) www.nirs.org

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Carolina Peace Resource Center

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Recent article from The State "Critics fear $7 billion SRS boondoggle" by Sammy Fretwell, January 27, 2013

The State's Sammy Fretwell interviews Columbia nuclear watchdog Tom Clements about cost overruns at the Savannah River Site's MOX program.

"An energy department report published last month shows that the mixed oxide fuel factory is in danger of falling behind schedule and costing more than anticipated. The DOE’s Project Dashboard report gave the mixed-oxide factory complex a red rating, the most serious of three categories on the progress of agency construction projects...But the price tag could rise to nearly $7 billion when the federal government provides new cost estimates, according to a recent letter to the U.S. Department of Energy and those who track issues concerning the SRS complex near Aiken. The new cost estimates are expected this year."

Clements has this to say

Tom Clements, a longtime anti-nuclear activist with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, was more blunt in his assessment. He said today’s rising costs reflect only current conditions. But the site has a history of cost questions, Clements said. Records that Clements said he has reviewed show the MOX plant, at one point in the past, was estimated to cost about $1.8 billion. Now, the project could cost as much as $7 billion, he said, referring to Markey’s letter.

“If you look at spending on the MOX plant, you’d think we are rolling in dough and have no budget problems whatsoever,” Clements said. “Nobody is minding the store on this.”

Article Link:

www.thestate.com/2013/01/27/2606562/critics-fear-7-billion-srs-boondoggle.html

SCE&G Rate Increases for New Nuclear Reactors

Public Service Commission Hearings on Rate Increases

MON Nov 26th, 2PM & TUES Nov 27^th, 6PM

Public Service Commission of SC, 101 Executive Center Drive

Facebook Event for  Evening TUES Nov 27th Hearing: https://www.facebook.com/events/120497311442800/

SCE&G rates increase have taken effect to pay for construction of two new (and unnecessary) nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear unit in Jenkinsville, SC.

“Nuclear Weapons, Energy and Waste:

What South Carolina Needs to Know”

Panel Discussion

WED Oct 10^th, 7PM

USC,  Green Quad Learning Center

1216 Wheat Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208.

Featuring

Tom Clements, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability

Susan Corbett, Sierra Club of South Carolina

Glenn Carroll, Nuclear Watch South

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