Rapacious nuclear company Holtec: its dodgy record on safety, finance and lack of transparency
New Mexico’s nuclear rush. A massive nuclear waste site near Carlsbad is seemingly on a fast track. Can the company behind it be trusted?
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-” ………………There really is no fixed date on a repository,” said Rod McCullum of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry trade group. In the absence of a permanent storage place, the conversation has turned to interim storage sites that could save companies money until a final destination is established.Enter Holtec. The company was formed in the 1980s to design spent-fuel storage technology for nuclear plants. By the early 2000s, Holtec had secured contracts to provide specialized dry storage casks for a never-built interim facility on the Skull Valley Goshute reservation in Utah and the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Sequoyah Nuclear and Browns Ferry Nuclear plants. By 2018, Holtec operated branches in seven countries, includin
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NJEDA Announces Small Business Emergency Assistance Loan Program Phase 2 February 01, 2021
TRENTON The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) will open pre-registration for Phase 2 of its Small Business Emergency Assistance Loan Program at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10. The $10 million program expansion will support New Jersey small businesses and nonprofits impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and will be capitalized by a U.S. Economic Development Administration Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act appropriation.
Any business or entity that intends to apply for a loan must first pre-register on the New Jersey COVID Business Information Portal during the pre-registration period, which will run from 9 a.m. on Feb. 10 to 5 p.m. on Feb. 22.
LOOSE ENDS 2/5: Princeton Councilwoman Michelle Pirone Lambros ×
By Pam Hersh
The week of Jan. 18 was jam-packed with two emotionally intense celebrations: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 18 and the inauguration of the nation’s president and vice president on Jan. 20. There was a third celebration, however, that may have lacked the goosebump drama of the inauguration and MLK Day, but nevertheless was significant for Princeton residents. Over a period of three (half) days (Jan. 19, 21 and 22), Downtown New Jersey (DNJ) held its annual conference “Downtown Recovery: Survive and Thrive in 2021.”
Although I was unable to attend the remote conference in real time (I watched the proceedings afterwards via a link on the Downtown NJ website), there was an important Princetonian – Princeton Councilwoman Michelle Pirone Lambros – who was among the 170 attendees. Michelle – unlike me – is in a really good position to take the knowledge gleaned at the conference
Economic Development Authority claims project will not disturb Delaware Bay’s aquaculture, but Riverkeeper raises concerns about sturgeon
Credit: NJ Governor s Office
A rendering of the New Jersey Wind Port showing the different phases of development
Since last June, when Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled plans to build the country’s first greenfield port for offshore wind adjacent to the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear power plants on Artificial Island, his administration has issued a steady stream of progress reports affirming ground will be broken on the Salem County project this year.
Initially, the Wind Port would serve as the assembly point for turbines to power offshore wind farms not just along New Jersey’s coast but for projects up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
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