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Opponents of the relicensing of Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey lost another round Monday in their ongoing battle. Advertisement The four commissioners who oversee the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied a petition aimed at suspending license renewal proceedings at Oyster Creek and three other plants in the Northeast. One commissioner dissented in part.

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, et al.; Notice of Hearing and Opportunity To Petition for Leave To Intervene and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information and Safeguards Information for Contention Preparation on a Combined License for the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Units 3 and 4

Three environmental groups accuse the Tennessee Valley Authority of violating federal environmental law in its latest request to complete two reactors at Bellefonte Nuclear Plant near Scottsboro and build another plant with two reactors next to it. TVA's neglecting to include the two unfinished reactor units in its licensing application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for two new reactors violates the National Environmental Policy Act, according to the groups' petition to the NRC for a hearing on the issue.

The state attorney general's office suffered a major defeat yesterday in its fight to influence relicensing proceedings for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied a petition submitted nearly two years ago that sought greater consideration of the environmental impact of spent fuel storage facilities in the event of an accident or terrorist attack. Attorney General Martha Coakley had argued the pools where used fuel rods are stored could be drained, leading to a zirconium fire and a significant amount of radioactive material being released into the environment.

Neither a group of environmental organizations nor a labor union have grounds to contest Entergy's plan to spin off six of its nuclear reactors into a new company, stated the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in a ruling issued Aug. 22. Because they have no standing, wrote the NRC, their petition to intervene in the license transfer of nuclear power plants in Vernon, Oswego and Buchanan, N.Y., Plymouth, Mass., and Covert Township, Mich., was denied.

Environmentalists and Navajo groups who have been fighting a proposed coal-fired plant on tribal land in northwestern New Mexico have appealed an air permit granted for the plant. The petition filed Thursday alleges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to complete required analyses of the project, and instead was stampeded into granting the permit because developers of the Desert Rock power plant filed a lawsuit contending the EPA was taking too long.

Texas Must Not Let Nuclear, Coal Power Take Priority on State's Renewable Energy Transmission Lines Cost and Safety of Nuclear and 'Clean' Coal Plants Is Questionable, Could Take Resources Away from Wind, Solar Initiatives, Coalition Says AUSTIN, TEXAS - The Texas Public Utility Commission (PUCT) should not give nuclear plants or "clean" coal plants priority on the "new renewable energy superhighways" as part of its decision on the state's competitive renewable energy zones (CREZ), according to a coalition of consumer and environmental groups in a petition filed today with the commission.

The Utah Attorney General filed a petition Tuesday to intervene in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision process on whether to allow EnergySolutions to import into Utah waste from old nuclear reactors in Italy. The NRC also received more than 2,500 responses by Tuesday's final day of a public comment period to weigh in on a proposal by EnergySolutions to process Italian radioactive materials at a site in Tennessee and then store up to 1,600 tons of leftover waste at the company's dump in Tooele County.

In the first formal opposition to TVA's plans for nuclear power expansion, environmental groups have laid out their case against construction of two reactors at TVA's Bellefonte site in Jackson County, Ala. The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and its chapter called the Bellefonte Efficiency and Sustainability Team, along with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, which has its headquarters in Knoxville, filed a petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission late last week requesting a hearing on TVA's license application for the Bellefonte reactors.

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Decision To Evaluate a Petition To Designate a Class of Employees for the Linde Ceramics Plant, Tonawanda, NY, To Be Included in the Special Exposure Cohort

The debate between six environmental groups opposed to the relicensing of the Oyster Creek nuclear plant and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission continued Thursday with further responses to the idea of delaying the power plant's license renewal process. The NRC is opposing both a petition to require further deliberation and a motion to further postpone the license renewal of the Forked River-based power plant by the coalition of environmental groups, according to the coalition's attorney, Richard Webster, who is also the legal director of the Eastern Environmental Law Center. On Feb. 12, the NRC issued a response on the coalition's motion to reopen the record and to postpone final disposition of the licensing decision.

South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company Application for the South Texas Project Units 3 and 4; Notice of Order, Hearing, and Opportunity To Petition for Leave To Intervene

A coalition of citizen groups is asking federal regulators reject DTE Energy's plans to build a new Fermi 3 nuclear plant, contending that it would pose a range of threats to public health and the environment. The groups have filed 14 contentions with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, claiming that a new plant would pose "radioactive, toxic and thermal impacts on Lake Erie's vulnerable western basin." DTE Energy, which already operates the Fermi 2 reactor near Newport, is considering building a Fermi 3 plant at the same site, using a new and as-yet unapproved, design. "For starters, this plant is not needed and we're prepared to demonstrate that," said Michael Keegan of Monroe and member of Don't Waste Michigan, one of the groups opposing the project. "We have national experts and former NRC commissioners -- some of the nation's best minds -- who helped compile this document." "The proposed Fermi 3 would represent another half-century of safety and security risks for the Great Lakes shoreline," he said. "Many concerned local residents don't want to play yet another round of radioactive Russian roulette."

Ghislain Lévesque has dealt with many contentious issues during the 12 years he's been mayor of Sept Îles. But nothing has stirred emotions in the regional hub, 650 kilometres northeast of Quebec City, like the proposal to mine uranium on the outskirts of the city. MARK CARDWELL, Special to The Gazette Published: Saturday, February 07 "I've never seen people here get so worried and upset over a single subject," Lévesque said about the groundswell of public opposition to the project in recent weeks, included petitions, a demonstration, and a threat by most of the city's doctors to leave the region if it goes ahead. "It's the only thing people are talking about around town these days, and almost everybody seems to be against it."