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SEJ Urges Nuclear Regulatory Commission To Improve Openness [1]

SEJ's comments included suggesting the NRC lose the "minders" that babysit agency people while they talk to reporters and asking that the NRC press operation do its job of keeping reporters and the public apprised of real news.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Calls for Input on Openness [7]

Secrecy News reports the NRC, responding to a Dec. 2009 White House OMB directive, has asked the public what information it should post online and how else it might improve transparency and collaboration with the public.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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At Los Alamos, Secrecy Is the Opposite of Safety [8]

The U.S. Department of Energy scrambles to delay a report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board about a significant threat of radiation release from Los Alamos National Laboratory, a citizen watchdog group discovered.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
California [10]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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IG Finds Former NRC Commissioner Hid Ethics Violations [11]

The Project on Government Oversight used FOIA to get reports and documents from an NRC Inspector General's investigation of Jeffrey Merrifield.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Toolbox: Homeland Security Daily Infrastructure Report [12]

Reporters interested in following the hazards of dams, refineries, chemical plants, pipelines, and other infrastructure may find story leads in DHS reports.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [13]
Chemicals [14]
Disasters [15]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Health [16]
Natural Resources [17]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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List of Nuclear Sites Released in Flub [18]

The Government Printing Office web site apparently took down the publication after discovery of the mistake -- but the entire report is still available on the site of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Government [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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TOLEDO BLADE COVERS DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR COVER-UP TRIAL [19]

A federal jury in Toledo may soon be deciding whether some company officials engaged in a cover-up of safety problems at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. Although the story has gotten little national attention, the Toledo Blade's Tom Henry has covered the trial in detail.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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AREVA Bans Pens, Cameras, Recorders at SEJ's Lynchburg Nuclear Tour [21]

AREVA, the world's largest builder of nuclear reactors, banned pens, recorders and cameras during a field trip to the company's Lynchburg facilities organized by SEJ during its 2008 annual meeting held in Roanoke, VA.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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DOE Releases Nuke-Building Environmental Impact Statement [22]

In the waning months of the Bush administration, the push for nuclear energy continues.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Pressure Mounts To Fix Old Uranium Sites [24]

One of those problem areas is the thousands of old mines that were dug to extract uranium ore. During the era from the 1940s to the 1980s when most were excavated, many were simply abandoned when they played out or the economic incentives changed. Radioactivity now contaminates many sources of human and environmental exposure.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [25]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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