Artist's rendition of Fermi 3 (depicted in blue), to be built right on top of the exact spot where Fermi 1 suffered a partial meltdown on Oct. 5, 1966.Terry Lodge, a Toledo-based attorney who serves as legal counsel for an environmental coalition including Beyond Nuclear, on Oct. 28th filed a legal appeal against Detroit Edison's proposed new Fermi 3 atomic reactor targeted at the Great Lakes shore in southeast MI (see photo, left). The coalition has resisted Fermi 3 since 2008. The appeal focuses on quality assurance violations (Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates, Inc. serves as the coalition's expert witness), as well as Nuclear Regulatory Commission violations of the National Environmental Policy Act, by excluding the proposed new transmission line corridor from its Environmental Impact Statement. Re: the latter, this is the first ever legal challenge against a highly controversial 2007 NRC regulatory rollback involving the Orwellian change in the definition of a single word -- construction -- in the agency's regulations. More
November 3, 2016