The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States–based 501(c)(3) non-profit international environmental advocacy group,with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington D.C.,San Francisco,Los Angeles,Chicago,Bozeman,India,and Beijing. The group was founded in 1970 in opposition to a hydro-electric power power plant in New York.
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township,near Harrisburg,Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28,1979,and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale,the TMI-2 reactor accident is rated Level 5,an "Accident with Wider Consequences".
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy. Established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974,the NRC began operations on January 19,1975,as one of two successor agencies to the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Its functions include overseeing reactor safety and security,administering reactor licensing and renewal,licensing radioactive materials,radionuclide safety,and managing the storage,security,recycling,and disposal of spent fuel.
The Duane Arnold Energy Center (DAEC) was Iowa's only nuclear power plant. It is located on a 500-acre (200 ha) site on the west bank of the Cedar River,two miles (3.2 km) north-northeast of Palo,Iowa,USA,or eight miles (13 km) northwest of Cedar Rapids.
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is a shut-down nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units,TMI-1 and TMI-2.
The H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant,also known as Robinson Nuclear Plant,is a nuclear power plant located near Hartsville,South Carolina. The plant consists of one Westinghouse 759 MW pressurized water reactor. The site once included a coal-fired unit that generated 174 MW and a combustion turbine unit that generated 15 MW.
The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant,more commonly known as Seabrook Station,is a nuclear power plant located in Seabrook,New Hampshire,United States,approximately 40 miles (64 km) north of Boston and 10 miles (16 km) south of Portsmouth. It has operated since 1990. With its 1,244-megawatt electrical output,Seabrook Unit 1 is the largest individual electrical generating unit on the New England power grid. It is the second largest nuclear plant in New England after the two-unit Millstone Nuclear Power Plant in Connecticut.
In politics,regulatory capture is a form of corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity,policymaker,or regulator is co-opted to serve the commercial,ideological,or political interests of a minor constituency,such as a particular geographic area,industry,profession,or ideological group.
The Apollo affair or NUMEC affair was a 1965 incident in which a US company,NUMEC,in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Apollo and Parks Township,Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200–600 pounds (91–272 kg) of highly enriched uranium,with suspicions that it had gone to Israel's nuclear weapons program.
Peter A. Bradford is a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission who teaches energy policy and law at the Vermont Law School. He is the author of Fragile Structures:A Story of Oil Refineries,National Security and the Coast of Maine and has written many articles. He served on various advisory panels and expert groups relating to nuclear power. He participated in a 1968 Ralph Nader-sponsored study of the Federal Trade Commission. Bradford has a law degree from Yale Law School.
Gregory B. Jaczko is a physicist who was chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 2005 to 2012. While at the NRC,he voted against the opening of new nuclear plants;an inspector general report found that he sought unilaterally and improperly to block the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project from advancing. After leaving the NRC,Jaczko called for a global ban on nuclear power.
Peter Bruce Lyons was confirmed by the US Senate as the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy on April 14,2011. He was appointed to his previous role as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy in September,2009. As Assistant Secretary,Dr. Lyons was responsible for all programs and activities of the Office of Nuclear Energy. He retired from the Department of Energy on June 30,2015.
The Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is an agency of the United States Department of Energy which promotes nuclear power as a resource capable of meeting the energy,environmental,and national security needs of the United States by resolving technical and regulatory barriers through research,development,and demonstration.
Eileen Gail de Planque was an American nuclear physicist. An expert on environmental radiation measurements,she was the first woman and first health physicist to become a commissioner at the US government's Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Her technical areas of expertise included environmental radiation,nuclear facility monitoring,personnel dosimetry,radiation shielding,radiation transport,and solid state dosimetry.
Kristine L. Svinicki is an American nuclear engineer and former chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annie Caputo is an American political advisor and government official. She currently serves as a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She was initially nominated for the commission by President Donald Trump in May 2017 and was renominated by President Joe Biden in May 2022 after her original term expired on June 30,2021. She was formerly a senior policy advisor for Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) on the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Jeff Baran is an American attorney who served as a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) starting on October 14,2014. In September 2017,he was renominated by President Donald Trump to another five-year term on the NRC. Prior to joining the NRC,Baran served on the staff of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and was senior counsel to the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce,advising ranking member Henry Waxman.
James Patrick Danly is an American attorney who was a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He was nominated by President Donald Trump in 2019 and took office on March 30,2020. He formerly served as the agency's general counsel. On November 5,2020,he was named chairman of FERC. After serving for only 77 days,Danly was demoted on January 21,2021,when President Biden named Richard Glick Chairman. He stepped down at the end of the 2023-2024 congressional session when his term expired.
Willie L. Phillips is an American attorney who is the incumbent chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
