Where the reactors are - U.S., Midwest
About the Prairie Island reactors
How a pressurized water nuclear reactor works - part I
How a pressurized water nuclear reactor works - part II
Northern States Power sues Westinghouse over faulty tubes
Problems with Steam Generator Tubes (Part I)
Problems with Steam Generator Tubes (Part II)
A nightmare confirmed: steam tube degradation is increasingly likely to cause a nuclear meltdown (Part I)
A nightmare confirmed: steam tube degradation is increasingly likely to cause a nuclear meltdown (Part II)
Chernobyl to Prairie Island - We are all in the zone (Part I)
Chernobyl to Prairie Island - We are all in the zone (Part II)
Prairie Island routinely emits radioactivity into the environment
A little lesson on radioactivity: how it affects the human body
The difference between high-level and low-level radiation exposure
The effects of low-level radiation exposure
The waste fuel pools are filling up
Dry cask storage: problems guaranteed, and problems unknown
Yucca Mountain, Nevada: not a good place for nuclear waste
Transporting the waste: how safe can 45,000 shipments be?
Most mining and milling of uranium occurs on Indian lands
People of color are also targeted for other uranium processing facilities
Nuclear waste dumps - guess where they want to put them
Anything is cheap if you don't pay the cost
Nuclear power can be phased out
An interview with two of the neighbors
REFERENCES
Nuclear Waste - No Solution
Yucca Mountain, Nevada: Not a Good Place for Nuclear Waste
Currently, the only site being considered by the United States for permanently storing high-level nuclear waste is at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Yucca Mountain is not a good place for a nuclear waste repository. The region has active volcanoes and earthquakes.
Since an earthquake in 1992, the water table under the mountain fluctuates quite dramatically. Humidity inside the mountain is above 80%. Steam produced by heat from the waste could blow Yucca Mountain apart.
Water migrates rapidly through the mountain, and the sides of the tunnel inside the mountain tend to crumble. Crystals found in the tunnel could only have been formed in the presence of high-pressure, geothermically heated water.
An upwelling of super-pressurized water through the repository could kill people all across the country.