I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The 50 control room operators at DTE Energy’s Fermi nuclear plant are supposed to have their senses of smell and touch tested every six years when their licenses come up for renewal but DTE stopped conducting these tests in 1999, Tom Henry of the Toledo Blade reports.
Smell and touch are considered important to an operator’s ability to detect problems and respond under unusual circumstances.
The discovery of the incomplete medical testing has prompted an enforcement conference at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Midwest office.
At today’s enforcement hearing, the NRC will consider the utility’s explanation before deciding whether it should be penalized for the neglected tests.
“We renewed and issued numerous senior reactor operator and reactor operator licenses since May, 1999, without knowledge of the incomplete medical testing, relying on incomplete and inaccurate information you provided in licensing documentations,” the agency’s letter to the utility states.
An NRC report further stated that “this failure had regulatory significance because the incomplete and inaccurate information was provided under a signed statement to the NRC and impacted numerous licensing decisions.”
DTE’s Fermi operations have been under increased scrutiny over the last year because the company is seeking a permit to build a new reactor.
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