Podcast appearances and mentions of davis besse

[This is one of the finalists in the 2023 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I'll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you've read them all, I'll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked] The date is June 9, 1985. The place is the Davis-Besse nuclear plant near Toledo, Ohio. It is just after 1:35 am, and the plant has a small malfunction: "As the assistant supervisor entered the control room, he saw that one of the main feedwater pumps had tripped offline." But instead of stabilizing, one safety system after another failed to engage.  https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-safe-enough  

Our guest host Shehbaz Khan takes us on a trip beyond the solar system to explain why radiation is so harmful. Next he interviews Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear about the latest failure at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. It seems to be sinking into the ground. Rebecca Wood tells us all about dandelions. Ecological News includes stories about solar power taking off around the world, even as it's banned in Vienna township. 

Platinum-based green hydrogen and fuel cell clean energy solutions made news across a broad front in 2022. Active support for the creation of a viable green hydrogen economy, along with the firm underpinning of a just energy transition in South Africa, have captured many headlines Moreover, South Africa's Sasol is among 18 international companies that are part of an initiative – led by the Port of Rotterdam Authority – to enable the import of one-million tonnes of hydrogen a year for the decarbonisation of industry and mobility in Europe. The procurement of 30 km of pipeline and valves for the Rotterdam section of the hydrogen network began more than a year ago. Attention has also been drawn to new green hydrogen pipeline plans being advanced in conjunction with renewable energy generation the world over. Green hydrogen generation is gaining traction fast as a means of increasing energy security at a time when geopolitical disruption is creating energy insecurity. Platinum-based proton exchange membrane, or PEM, electrolysis technology is increasingly being acknowledged as one of the most advanced and efficient technologies available to manufacture electrolysers that turn water into green hydrogen – a zero-emission standout. International consultancy firm McKinsey has described the urgency to invest in mature hydrogen projects as being greater than ever. Globally, 40 national hydrogen strategies, including South Africa's Hydrogen Society Roadmap, have been announced as countries set pathways to tap into hydrogen's potential to decarbonise, ensure energy security, and spur sustainable economic growth from stranded energy resources, added McKinsey in a recent report. Hydrogen is being acknowledged for having the capacity to accelerate the energy transition by allowing clean energy to be stored and large volumes to be transported over long distances through pipelines and ships. It is credited with being able to foster greater resilience, cost-efficiency and optimisation at a system level. Hydrogen is being increasingly recognised as a versatile clean molecule that is able to perform multiple roles across end-uses while going hand-in-hand with other decarbonisation levers such as direct electrification, carbon capture and storage, biofuels, and energy efficiency measures. As the lightest of elements, hydrogen is directly usable in fuel cells, which are also PGMs-based, to provide mobility or stationary power, or for high-grade heat. Most importantly, it is needed in its green form to achieve genuine net-zero emissions. Platinum-based PEM water electrolysis development is under way in South Africa by HySA Infrastructure at North West University and is increasingly the electrolysis method of choice internationally. A platinum-based PEM electrolyser system is earmarked for Linde's new hydrogen production plant in Niagara Falls, New York, a milestone project for energy transition in the US, said Amy Davis, VP new power at Cummins, which is intent on scaling the green hydrogen economy as well as its ability to support large-scale renewable hydrogen production. At the plant, Cummins' electrolysers will be powered by hydropower, making the end product completely green. Efforts to establish a role for hydrogen in energy systems have been taking place in several countries since the 1970s, wrote senior associate editor Sonal Patel in the July edition of Power, which focuses on Japan's Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research, where a hydrogen energy management system is being tested to achieve the optimal combination of production and storage without using storage batteries. Mining Weekly can report that other nuclear power stations gearing up for clean hydrogen include New York's Nine Mile Point, Ohio's Davis–Besse nuclear power station, Minnesota's Prairie Island nuclear generating plant, and Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear station. Meanwhile, aircraft company Airbus has revealed that it is developing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine. “Fuel ...

Joe DeMare interviews Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear who tells us about Davis-Besse's most recent near brush with disaster, July 8, 2021. Generators failing, automatic plant shut down, emergency feedwater pumps activated, which could have resulted in reactor vessel failure, NW Ohio and Lake Erie survive yet another incident at DB. Rebecca talks about the Rhine River. In ecological news, the Earth is on fire. NOTE: The broadcast version contains an error. Joe incorrectly read a graph. There apparently WAS a drop of about 2 ppm of CO2 from June to July. So, don't panic, yet. 

This episode is sponsored by Davwill Consulting Inc. How do you measure executive functioning for your executive team? What if you could measure all dimensions of thought and have a baseline to start from?David Amerine has 45 years of experience in the nuclear industry. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy and obtaining a Masters in Management Science from the Naval Post Graduate School, he served on two nuclear submarines. After leaving the Navy, he joined Westinghouse at the Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Site. There he worked as a shift operations manager and refueling manager for the initial core load of the Fast Flux Test Facility, the nation's prototype breeder reactor.Mr. Amerine furthered his career in the commercial nuclear power industry throughout the 1980s, first as the Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) vendor, Combustion Engineering, Site Manager at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station during startup and then as Assistant Vice President at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station. There he led special, interdisciplinary task forces for complex problem resolutions involving engineering and operations during the recovery period back in the late 1980s. From the Davis-Besse experience, Mr. Amerine went on to a series of leadership and executive positions in the nuclear industry.Mr. Amerine has lead several recovery projects in his career. Davis-Besse was the first of eight nuclear plants where he was part of the leadership team or the leader brought in to restore stakeholder confidence in management and/or operations. In the DOE Nuclear Complex, these recovery endeavors included the Replacement Tritium Facility, the Defense Waste Processing Facility, and the Salt Waste Processing Facility projects. In 1997 he was brought in as the Vice President of Engineering and Services at the Millstone Nuclear Power Station to contribute to the recovery actions following the facility being shut down by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). His responsibilities included establishing a robust Safety Conscious Work Environment (SCWE) program.In 2000, Mr. Amerine assumed the role of Executive Vice President of a $2.5 billion business unit of Washington Group International (WGI). Mr. Amerine was then selected as the Executive Vice President and Deputy General Manager, CH2M Hill Nuclear Business Group, where he supported the President in managing the day-to-day operation of the group, which included six major DOE sites. In both these executive roles, he was charged with integrated safety management, overall conduct of operations and project management, and developing synergies between the diverse operating companies.Mr. Amerine was selected by B&W as President of Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) in early 2010 after the NRC had shut down that facility which is the sole producer of fuel for our nuclear Navy. He led the restoration of confidence of the various stakeholders including the NRC and Naval Reactors. The plant was restored to full operation under Mr. Amerine's leadership. He retired from NFS in 2011.Website - https://www.ismsinc.com/David's Book - https://www.amazon.ca/Push-Move-Lessons-Learned-Management/dp/1682892085--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deb-crowe/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit debcrowe.substack.com

Benton-Carroll Salem Schools don't get funds in the nuclear plant bailout, but they won't lose the plant's tax revenue. Detailed show notes at https://www.ideastream.org/news/energy-bill-deal-spares-davis-besse-plant-and-local-schools-for-now.

Joe goes to Columbus to testify against HB6, the multi-billion dollar bailout for Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants. Also, clean air and the Glass City Marathon, and the Letter From The Future.

Our guest is Tim Judson, Executive Director at Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS). We talk about the proposed bailout of Davis-Besse; take calls from Brandon and Cary. Read our letter from the future and talk about Keystone XL pipeline.

Kevin Kamps joins us from Beyond Nuclear to discuss First Energy's proposed taxpayer rip off to keep Davis-Besse limping along. Examples of Trump exceeding his authority, and Bowling Green's proposed plastic bag ban.

INTERVIEW: "Atomic Eggs" - Mary Olson of NIRS.org on gender differences in the impact of radiation on the human body and how women and girls are more vulnerable to its negative consequences. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Heeere, radioactive materials from Los Alamos National Laboratory... Heeeeeere, radioactive materials...! NRC DUCK AND COVER REPORT - Watts Bar, Davis-Besse, Millstone on hot standby, Sen Markey (D-Mass) wants to know how well reactors can stand up to extreme weather events. And all the news that fits.

INTERVIEW: "Atomic Eggs" - Mary Olson of NIRS.org on gender differences in the impact of radiation on the human body and how women and girls are more vulnerable to its negative consequences. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Heeere, radioactive materials from Los Alamos National Laboratory... Heeeeeere, radioactive materials...! NRC DUCK AND COVER REPORT - Watts Bar, Davis-Besse, Millstone on hot standby, Sen Markey (D-Mass) wants to know how well reactors can stand up to extreme weather events. And all the news that fits.

Tokyo resident, blogger and neighborhood activist Dennis Riches, living 120 miles from Fukushima, gives us a first-hand glimpse at the mental twists and turns that let TEPCO executives and PM Abe live with themselves. BONUS INTERVIEW: Michael Leonardi of Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy and the Coalition Against Nukes gives a first-hand account of police shenanigans around Canadian hearings on nuclear waste dump proposed for less than a mile from Lake Huron. PLUS: FDA "decision" to test or even ban foods from Japan is non-binding and essentially meaningless (SMOKE AND MIRRORS ALERT!); Duke Energy given North Carolina Utilities Commission to continue to gouge ratepayers for its nuclear debacles; more cracks found in Davis-Besse containment vessel but the NRC thinks that's just safe as safe can be!; nosebleed epidemic in Japan w/over 5,000 tweets in two days; 70% of kids in Kanto have cesium in their urine; 2011 increase in Japanese birth defects documented; Kaku says TEPCO the equivalent of the Three Stooges - Wo wo wo wo wo...!

Tokyo resident, blogger and neighborhood activist Dennis Riches, living 120 miles from Fukushima, gives us a first-hand glimpse at the mental twists and turns that let TEPCO executives and PM Abe live with themselves. BONUS INTERVIEW: Michael Leonardi of Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy and the Coalition Against Nukes gives a first-hand account of police shenanigans around Canadian hearings on nuclear waste dump proposed for less than a mile from Lake Huron. PLUS: FDA "decision" to test or even ban foods from Japan is non-binding and essentially meaningless (SMOKE AND MIRRORS ALERT!); Duke Energy given North Carolina Utilities Commission to continue to gouge ratepayers for its nuclear debacles; more cracks found in Davis-Besse containment vessel but the NRC thinks that's just safe as safe can be!; nosebleed epidemic in Japan w/over 5,000 tweets in two days; 70% of kids in Kanto have cesium in their urine; 2011 increase in Japanese birth defects documented; Kaku says TEPCO the equivalent of the Three Stooges - Wo wo wo wo wo...!

Do you know where your green tea came from? Might it be northeast Japan? Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network brings us up to date on the latest foods and supplement ingredients to avoid, and with Citizens for Health's Sean Witzling, tells us about the FDA petition that can make a big difference in our food safety. PLUS: Scientists and medical experts take on the UN over Fukushima radiation report; Energy Dept. considers dumping $3.7 billion boondoggle Savannah River Site; Davis-Besse shuts down - again; millions of shrimp-like krill dead on beaches of northern California, Oregon; India/Russia nuclear liability head-butting may permanently sink proposed Koodankulam 3,4,5 & 6, even as #1 may be commissioned "at any time;" TEPCO shareholders demanding the utility dump nukes; scandal brewing in Japan over funds for recovery from the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster diverted to cover utility companies ; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The US "alternative energy" loan guarantee program guaranteed to give billions... to nukes - oy!

Do you know where your green tea came from? Might it be northeast Japan? Kimberly Roberson of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network brings us up to date on the latest foods and supplement ingredients to avoid, and with Citizens for Health's Sean Witzling, tells us about the FDA petition that can make a big difference in our food safety. PLUS: Scientists and medical experts take on the UN over Fukushima radiation report; Energy Dept. considers dumping $3.7 billion boondoggle Savannah River Site; Davis-Besse shuts down - again; millions of shrimp-like krill dead on beaches of northern California, Oregon; India/Russia nuclear liability head-butting may permanently sink proposed Koodankulam 3,4,5 & 6, even as #1 may be commissioned "at any time;" TEPCO shareholders demanding the utility dump nukes; scandal brewing in Japan over funds for recovery from the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster diverted to cover utility companies ; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: The US "alternative energy" loan guarantee program guaranteed to give billions... to nukes - oy!

INTERVIEWS: Michael Keegan, Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will impact the campaign to shut down Davis-Besse in Ohio.      Links: Beyond Nuclear – http://www.beyondnuclear.org/ Citizens Environment Alliance SW Ontario – http://www.citizensenvironmentalliance.org/ Don’t Waste Michigan – http://dwmi.homestead.com/ Sierra Club Ohio – http://ohiosierraclub.org/ MamaBears Brigade’s...

Michael Keegan, Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will be the model for shutting down Davis-Besse. Then MamaBears Brigade's Dr. Catherine "Wind" Euler and native medicine man Havasupai Waters on their continuing protest of uranium mining at the Grand Canyon, including elevated radiation readings on tourist walkways. PLUS: Hanford leak is "worst case scenario;" MacFarlane re-nominated as NRC Chair; Lochbaum provides the NRC "DUCK!" Report on Non-Detecting Examinations; elevated levels of tritium, strontium found in harbor at Fukushima Daiichi; Yablokov takes on the UNSCEAR; first of the Fukushima 50 dies of lung cancer; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK goes to Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority.

Michael Keegan, Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will be the model for shutting down Davis-Besse. Then MamaBears Brigade's Dr. Catherine "Wind" Euler and native medicine man Havasupai Waters on their continuing protest of uranium mining at the Grand Canyon, including elevated radiation readings on tourist walkways. PLUS: Hanford leak is "worst case scenario;" MacFarlane re-nominated as NRC Chair; Lochbaum provides the NRC "DUCK!" Report on Non-Detecting Examinations; elevated levels of tritium, strontium found in harbor at Fukushima Daiichi; Yablokov takes on the UNSCEAR; first of the Fukushima 50 dies of lung cancer; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK goes to Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority.

Michael Keegan, Chair of the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, fills us in on how San Onofre strategy will be the model for shutting down Davis-Besse. Then MamaBears Brigade's Dr. Catherine "Wind" Euler and native medicine man Havasupai Waters on their continuing protest of uranium mining at the Grand Canyon, including elevated radiation readings on tourist walkways. PLUS: Hanford leak is "worst case scenario;" MacFarlane re-nominated as NRC Chair; Lochbaum provides the NRC "DUCK!" Report on Non-Detecting Examinations; elevated levels of tritium, strontium found in harbor at Fukushima Daiichi; Yablokov takes on the UNSCEAR; first of the Fukushima 50 dies of lung cancer; and NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK goes to Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority.

Mary Olson of NIRS on what it means when nuclear reactors are in hot water – literally.  How To Be a Homebound Activist (hint: Yes You CAN – in time for the Coalition Against Nukes Congressional Briefing on Sept. 20 in DC); Hanford site leaking; NRC just might decide to maybe study health risks for...

Mary Olson on nuclear reactors in hot water and what it really means; How To Be a Homebound Activist (hint: Yes You CAN); Hanford leaking; NRC just might decide to maybe study health risks for those who live near nuclear reactors; SCE letting 730 San Onofre workers go "beause Unit 3 is unlikely to produce power any time soon" (Let's retrain them to work in solar!); Kucinich demands NRC investigate its own handling of Davis Besse restart; mutated worms and eggplant in Japan; radioactive fish 258 times higher than Japanese government deems safe found 12.5 miles off Fukushima; and Pennsylvania gives free potassium iodide tablets to anyone living near Limerick NPP - the question being: WHY???

Mary Olson on nuclear reactors in hot water and what it really means; How To Be a Homebound Activist (hint: Yes You CAN); Hanford leaking; NRC just might decide to maybe study health risks for those who live near nuclear reactors; SCE letting 730 San Onofre workers go "beause Unit 3 is unlikely to produce power any time soon" (Let's retrain them to work in solar!); Kucinich demands NRC investigate its own handling of Davis Besse restart; mutated worms and eggplant in Japan; radioactive fish 258 times higher than Japanese government deems safe found 12.5 miles off Fukushima; and Pennsylvania gives free potassium iodide tablets to anyone living near Limerick NPP - the question being: WHY???