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 Entergy corporation’s Palisades nuclear power plant, which sits along Lake Michigan five miles south of South Haven, will remain on the list of facilities that require extra supervision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after an annual safety inspection revealed ongoing problems with human error, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
NRC spokeswoman Viktoria Mytling told the Gazette that in 2009 workers at Palisades failed to identify a problem in which spent fuel rods where being stored in a pool in racks that had become deformed.
There have been several other safety problems identifies at the plant in recent years.
A 2008 NRC safety assessment found Palisades failed “to recognize and assess the impact of radiological hazards in the workplace.” The NRC found Palisades failed to determine how much radiation employees were exposed to after radiation monitors worn by the workers warned of an exposure.
Also in 2008, five workers were trapped for 90 minutes inside a high-temperature area when a hatch malfunctioned. The NRC found the plant did not take proper precautions to prevent such entrapments.
In 2007, the plant came under scrutiny after its head of security resigned amid revelations he had fabricated some of his credentials.
In 2005, a crane stopped working, leaving 110 tons of nuclear waste partially suspended in the air for 55 hours. The NRC found a worker did not follow procedures to assess damage to the crane’s brake system.
Palisades generates 798 megawatts of power and sells all of it to Consumers Energy.
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