From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:51 PM To: [email protected]' Subject: Re: Are u here in Dirksen?
Yes. Front roe. Fone has not been working. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cl (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
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From: Ghneim, Munira Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:27 PM To: Landau, Mindy Cc: Harrington, Holly; Akstulewicz, Brenda Subject: Rob Hendin - CBC- interview with Chairman
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And in addition to questions below: 1. How long has it been dry? 2. And can you address situation by adding water to pool?
From: Cappiello, Dina Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:12 PM To: Burnell, Scott ([email protected]) Cc: Eliot Brenner ([email protected]) Subject: ALL WATER GONE IN SPENT FUEL POOL Importance: High
Eliot, Scott,
As you know, we are writing a story on NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko saying that all the water is gone from spent fuel pool at Unit 4 of Fukushima Dai-ichi. The Japanese are denying that is the case.
Two questions: 1. Did Jaczko speak correctly? 2. What is the source of his information? How does he know no water exists?
I know you guys are slammed, but this is of primary importance, obviously.
Dina
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From: Hannah, Roger Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:03 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly Subject: RE: My travel Attachments5. imageOOl.png
I can be there early or later on Sunday.. .Joey has a weekend trip but will be back in the Region office Monday. He leaves for the Robinson EOC meeting Thursday so I would likely need to be back in the Atlanta office sometime Thursday... Roger Hannah, APR Senior Public Affairs Officer Region II -- Atlanta, Ga. Office - 404-997-4417 Cell - (b)(6) roger.hannah(&nrc. gov CU.S.NRC Unied -Soto Nucale~r RI•llpt ory Comnission ProtectingPeoplekatd th, Envirornnat
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:59 PM To: Hannah, Roger; Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: My travel
Where were you going and why? Where will joey be? Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CI (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Hannah, Roger To: Harrington, Holly Cc: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 15:50:54 2011 Subject: My travel
Should I go ahead and make travel plans and if so, when do you need me there Sunday? - and is it OK that I fly back to ATL Wed. or should I fly back Thurs. morning?
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Hi there,
We will be at Russell Rotunda and would love to interview Chairman Jaczko after the briefing this afternoon. My cell is (b)(6) ]if you need to reach me. Bob Orr forwarded your email.
Thanks!
1 (if,u2-1 From: Tavangar, Sayeh
Hi Eliot,
Do you know yet if the Chairman would be available for a 7 minute interview on Friday? I think it would be an excellent feature for this week's show if we had the Chairman on. Thanks so much!
1 ,ýV /,ý) 6 Kind Regards,
2 Sayeh Tavangar
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:06 PM To: Tavangar, Sayeh Subject: RE: Interview Request: Chairman Jaczko
I doubt it. Wish I could be more definitive.
From: Tavangar, Sayeh [mailto:sayeh [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:06 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Interview Request: Chairman Jaczko
Hi Eliot,
Any chance you can tell me if the Chairman is even available on Friday? I just need to plan for the show.
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From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:23 PM To: Tavangar, Sayeh Subject: RE: Interview Request: Chairman Jaczko
Don't know. Check me Thursday. Way to early to think about that far out.
From: Tavangar, Sayeh [mailto:sayeh [email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:22 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Interview Request: Chairman Jaczko
Hi Eliot,
I'm a Producer with Platts Energy Week TV and wanted to see if Chairman Jaczko was available this Friday to come on our show to talk whether the crisis at the Japanese nuclear reactors will lead to questions about U.S nuclear safety. We can do the interview anytime between 9-11 am at our studios in D.C., and the interview will be approximately 7 minutes.
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Eliot:
Do you understand the concept of avoiding yelling fire in a crowded room when you are only repeating a rumor? I have heard that you are an agency that always takes time to get it right. In fact, you once told me, "Speed will not be allowed to supplant safety."
Panic can cause death far more easily than low levels of radioactivity, especially when you are basing your assumptions on a media report that has already been denied.
Rod
On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Brenner, Eliot wrote:
> Rod, We are actinfg to protewct u.as. Citizwens in japan. The > recommendation w have made is consistent with what we qould do in thw > US for a similar situation
" I have to get baack to rthw hearing ... And let my vllackberry charge. it is dying rapidly. > Eliot Brenner > Director, Office of Public Affairs > US Nuclear Regulatory Commission > Protecting People and the Environment > 301415 8200 >CJ (b)(6) > Sent from my Blackberry
* ---- Original Message ----- > From: Rod Adams
> Eliot:
> That is a very poor decision. Has the NRC ever thought about simply measuring radiation levels at the places that you are considering evacuating? Radioactive materials are not magic dust, they are very simple to find and to wash off if necessary.
> Rod
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Brenner, Eliot wrote:
>3 /v >> If you were here you wouldn't need a bbird ... Or matt's blog. He spoke from out latest info based on whjat we believe from all sources. This is a rapidly moving playing field. We havee recommenmded protyective evac for US citizens to 50 miles. >> Eliot Brenner >> Director, Office of Public Affairs >> US Nuclear Regulatory Commission >> Protecting People and the Environment >> 301 415 8200 >>C1 (b)(6)C >> Sent from my Blackberry
>> ---- Original Message ----- >> From: Rod Adams
>> Eliot,
>> A little bird just told me that Dr. Jaczko testified a few minutes ago to the House Energy & Commerce committee that unit 4 fuel pool is dry.
>> I checked with Taro Ishida of Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan. Here is what he told me.
>> ...... +>++++++++++++++++++++++++---+++++ >> We haven't had any official statement regarding your question. >> As long as the news, no confirmed news.
>> I guess it is based on just his assumption and the real words are >> "there might be a crack in the container of one of the spent fuel pools at the Fukushima Daiichi plant"
>> I think he didn't specify which reactor.
>> Taro >> ++++++++++++++4+++++4++++++++++
>> Any response on why the Chairman is making such easy to verify misstatements in a situation that demands accuracy?
>> Rod
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" NYT Reporters Missing in Libya [1 Update] * MSNBC LIVE [3 Updates] * Movie Review: Adiustmet Bureau [I Update] " rox wa [1 Update] * IDH] MSNBC the ONLY one live at 8P PT? [3 Updates] • Brian Lanker OBIT [1 Update] * OBIT: Tony Zecca (INS, UP - na) [1 Update] • NBA Ref sues AP reporter over a tweet [4 Updates] * AP March (was UPI March) [4 Updates] • Would you stay in Japan covering this story? [1 Update] * News Alert: Pakistan Frees American Who Worked for C.I.A., Officials Say [1 Update] " hand signals [2 Updates] • Arabs call for no fly zone [I Update] * mail service getting stranger [1 Update]
Topic: NYT Reporters Missing in Libya Tom Foty (b)(6) I> Mar 16 02:59PM -0400 A
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in- libyar March 16, 2011, 1:07 pmn
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya
By JEREMY W. PETERS
The New York Times said Wednesday that four of its journalists reporting on the conflict in Libya were missing.
Editors at the paper said they were last in contact with the journalists on Tuesday morning New York time. The paper said it had received second-hand reports that members of its reporting team on the ground in the port city of Ajdabiya had been swept up by Libyan government forces.
The paper's executive editor, Bill Keller, said The Times had not been 1 V)/2,1 9 able to confirm that information.
"We have talked with officials of the Libyan government in Tripoli, and they tell us they are attempting to ascertain the whereabouts of our journalists," Mr. Keller said. "We are grateful to the Libyan government for their assurance that if our journalists were captured they would be released promptly and unharmed."
The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2009 and rescued by British commandos; and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have worked extensively, in the Middle East and Africa.
"Their families and their colleagues at The Times are anxiously seeking information about their situation, and praying that they are safe," Mr. Keller said.
The uprisings in the Arab world have made the region a dangerous place for journalists. During the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, journalists were repeatedly assaulted, accosted and detained. Two Times reporters were detained there and eventually released unharmed. Others, including Lara Logan of CBS News, who was sexually assaulted by a group of men, fared worse.
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Topic: MSNBC LIVE
I (b)(6) IMar 16 12:09PM -0400 A
Barney et al...
I noticed the same thing.. .our DISH TV does not carry MSNBC but starting at 9pm MT we had constant reruns of Anderson Cooper, Piers Morgan, O'Reilly, Greta the Fretter, and even Hannity ....around 0100 oe 0200 Fox and CNN were into the third or fourth reruns of these shows with no updates. On previous nights around midnight CNN has switched to CNN World Live and CNBC had gone to Europe and Asia casts live.
9p and lOp local affiliate news actually using network drop ins from Washington had later details than anyone, and ABC Nightline seemed to keep up at least partially the old ABC-TV tradition from my days there ages ago ....one or two or in big stories such as Japan three feeds with slightly different updates and news holes for live coverage during the show. I noticed 30 minutes of news from DeutscheWelle which was almost all soft features on food
2 production in German; no Al Jazeera English, no BBC or BBC America. the biggest surprise was regular programming on the Weather Channel. In the first days of the quake and tsunami they were excellent. I guess they do not consider wind and rain as a key to a nuclear disaster. Weather Channel was in regular repeat of repeat of repeats programming after lOp MT.
Kudos to MSNBC if they are indeed amongst the only folks running live news at night. mark scheinbaum/numex
Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 16 02:22PM -0400 A
At 12:09 PM 3/16/2011, you wrote: >Kudos to MSNBC if they are indeed amongst the only folks running >live news at night.
I suspect that might have been a one-time shot.
They had heavily promo'd a live special at I lp eastern.. anchored by Chris Jansing on the scene, most of the evening.
Over the weekend, MSNBC is usually almost wall-to-wall repeats of old jail documentaries .. and while they broke that a bit this past weekend, some of those canned shows still got plenty of airtime.
I had to monitor these nets in off hours as I was working. Because of the time difference, both CNN and MSNBC were mostly live in the latenite/onite hours.. CNN sometimes putting on its international feed on the domestic net.
Didn't watch Fox much, so don't known how or what they are doing.. but Murdoch's London-based Sky News (with which CBS has a tradeout agreement) has a pretty heavy presence on this story.
Truth be told, just as Al Jazeera was the best source on Egypt and Libya, NHK is the best source on Japan for those who can access it. - tf
gary haynes
The other day I think it was ABC that was first with that mind boggling series of video clips from Japan that later appeared on CBS. CBS "sunday morning," as I mentioned earlier, gave a chunk of time 3 this Sunday to the video that news channels either ignored or ----but Sunday Morning is still the province of some of broadcasting's best visual journalits.
On Mar 16, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Tom Foty wrote:
Topic: Movie Review: Adiustmet Bureau LIII bi(ZII ]Mar 16 02:27PM -0400 A
LIKED: ADJUSTMENT BUREAU: Review: Men in Black run into the Matrix on their way to lunch with Bruce Almighty who is watching Black Swan. ***stars
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Topic: rox wa
We have been experiencing miserable coverage from AP on a number of fronts, especially the one that concern us -- tsunami and California budget. Now I am hearing there may be a strike or slowdown or possible byline strike, anyone hearing anything? rosso-wa
Topic: {DH1 MSNBC the ONLY one live at 8P PT? gary haynes
Barney Lerten - Are we seeing impact of staff-budget cuts? It's the middle of the day there for goodness sake;
ghaynes - I'm a major skeptic about what most TV types even know about news. If a news director sent Charlie Sheen or Lindsay Lohan to Japan, a fawning correspondent or two with camera crews would surely follow, suddenly recognizing an important event///
"Barney Lerten"
4 Gary, I'm a 'TV type.' Please don't generalize. Lumps hurt. Some of us fight the good fight. Tnx
Barney Lerten-JO/SX/SXC Assignment Mgr/Digital Content Director NewsChannel 2 1/KTVZ.COM Bend, Oregon
ghaynes - I'm a major skeptic about what most TV types even know about news
gary haynes
Barney Lerten =Gary.I'm a 'TV type.' Please don't generalize. Lumps hurt. Some of us fight the good fight.
ghaynes - apologies to those of you fighting that fight - my wife's in the TV business and keeps the station on track when she's doing it, to make sure they get the story she's reported straight. My vitriol, I should have made more clear, is for those national TV folks at Fox, and CNN, and HLN, and to some degree these days even the broadcast networks, whose idea of covering something is to assemble a panel of experts in the studio to disagree about what's being shown on the screen. No matter how dramatic the video, they cannot stop inject themselves and their anchorpeople into that story.
I call it "nightlight radio."
Topic: Brian Lanker OBIT gary haynes
ghaynes
Sad news = Brian Lanker, a friend and inspiration to photographers everywhere, who was a UPI photo stringer in Kansas and Oregon who went on to become a giant in the photojournalism world, has died.
He was 63, and died Sunday, just ten days after his being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Lanker worked at the Topeka Capital-Journal in the early 1970s, for the celebrated Rick Clarkson. Lanker said he wanted to do a photo
5 story for the Sunday family section, which Mr. Clarkson was trying to wrest from the realm of society coverage. Lanker proposed he attend a class in the Lamaze method of natural child-bearing, pick one of the couples and follow them through the delivery of their baby. Clarkson told him to go for it. The key photo in the resulting set of remarkable pictures is "Moment of Life," showed newborn Jacki Coburn, umbilical cord still intact, upon her ecstatic mother. Clarkson remembers it running full width of the cover of the family section one Sunday, occupying about one-third of the whole page - "just the way we wanted it."
It didn't appeal to the publisher, Oscar S. Stauffer, who phoned the city editor that morning to make his views "warmly" clear.
Months later, Lanker's "Moment of Life" won 1973 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. The publisher was shown the wire service item, and professed not to recall the prizewinning image.
"the picture you told us we never should have published," the City Editor reminded him.
He later worked for LIFE magazine and Sports Illustrated, and took high-paying commercial assignments so he could afford to stay in Eugene, Oregon, and pursue personal projects. He married Lynda Coburn, the mother in his Pulitzer photo.
Topic: OBIT: Tony Zecca (INS, UP - na) Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 16 11:42AM -0400 A http://www.philly.com/community/pa/philadelphia/netimes/Services held for Tony Zecca longtime c ity servant.html
Services held for Tony Zecca, longtime city servant
Funeral services were planned this week for Tony Zecca, a longtime Far Northeast resident and former deputy mayor who died Feb. 27.
A viewing was scheduled for Wednesday, March 9, from 6 to 8 pm, at the Louis C. Galzerano Funeral Home, at 9304 Old Bustleton Ave.
Another viewing was set for 8 am on Thursday, March 10, at Our Lady of Calvary, at 11024 Knights Road, followed by a Mass at 10 am and burial at SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery in Marple Township, Delaware County.
Contributions in Zecca's name can be made to any charity.
Zecca, 89, died of respiratory and heart failure at a hospital in Central Florida. He had lived on the 3800 block of Dorchester Road for more than 50 years.
6 Zecca was a graduate of South Philadelphia High School. His classmates included Freddie Cocozza, who would later become the famous singer and movie star Mario Lanza, and Frank L. Rizzo, a future police commissioner and mayor.
Tony and Jennie Vitali Zecca moved to Mayfair after getting married before settling on Dorchester Road. They had two children, Adrienne and Mark.
Jennie died last October. The couple were married for 65 years.
The son of Italian immigrants, Tony Zecca majored in journalism at Temple University and worked as a reporter for International News Service, United Press International, Channel 3 and KYW-AM.
He interviewed political powerhouses including Harry S. Truman, Joseph McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey and covered the presidential campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.
He interviewed political powerhouses including Harry S. Truman, Joseph McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey and covered the presidential campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.
Zecca also covered major sporting events, such as the 1948 NFL championship game at Shibe Park, where the Eagles beat the Chicago Cardinals. He also covered the 1950 World Series between the Phillies and New York Yankees.
In 1957, he accepted a job as the city's director of public information. Five years later, he became press secretary to Mayor James HJ Tate. He later became deputy mayor under Tate and kept that post through the Rizzo administration.
Zecca retired from the city in 1980, when Rizzo left office. He helped Rizzo during comeback bids in 1983, '87 and '91.
On July 16, 1991, Rizzo entered his Walnut Street campaign headquarters at 12:30 pm and told Zecca he wanted to see him in 10 minutes to discuss a speech he was to give.
Zecca didn't see Rizzo in his office, so he knocked on the bathroom door. After getting no response, he opened the door and saw Rizzo on the floor. He called Carmello Rizzo, the former mayor's wife, and held the intravenous in the ambulance en route to the hospital.
A little later, in front of a throng of reporters, Zecca announced that Rizzo had died.
Besides his political work with Rizzo, Zecca served as an independent communications consultant and sat on various boards of directors.
"I like the Northeast," Zecca said in an interview with the Northeast Times in 1997. "This is a lovely area. It's a nice community. It's so close to everything."
Topic: NBA Ref sues AP reporter over a tweet Doug Levy (b)(6) Mar 16 10:21AM -0400 A
7 Really wondering what this guy (and his lawyer) are thinking. The ref is wasting his money and not helping his reputation, which he claims to be trying to protect. httD://www.scribd.com/doc/50803967
Levy
Jeffrey Reynolds (b)(6) Mar 16 02:45PM tough call. if i was the ref i'd be pissed, especially if i was subsequently disciplined, like maybe fined big bucks or suspended. not the most frivolous lawsuit i've heard of.
Jeffrey C. Reynolds
Really wondering what this guy (and his lawyer) are thinking. The ref is wasting his money and not helping his reputation, which he claims to be trying to protect. http://www.scribd.com/doc/50803967
Levy
Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 16 11:09AM -0400 A nothing like a worldwide microphone for people who don't quite understand it... http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2011-03-16-sickiokes 16 ST N.htm
- Comic Gilbert Gottfried was fired Monday as the voice of insurance giant Aflac after tweeting jokes such as "They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."
- Family Guywriter Alec Sulkin tweeted that feeling better about the quake was just a matter of Googling "Pearl Harbor death toll." Almost 2,500 died in that 1941 attack; more than 10,000 are feared dead in Japan.
- Rapper 50 Cent joked that the quake forced him to relocate "all my hoes from LA, Hawaii and Japan." He tweeted in apology: "Some of my tweets are ignorant I do it for shock value." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hSHnhtBmT z 1pYvlLlyeG5UCPiA?docld=bc effe90debb40c6ab31 ea7453beb412
8 Pondexter apologizes for tweet about Japan
(AP) - 1 day ago
New York Liberty guard Cappie Pondexter apologized for Twitter postings over the weekend about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Pondexter tweeted on Saturday: "What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes."
She later tweeted: "u just never knw! They did pearl harbor so u can't expect anything less."
Pondexter posted an apology Monday:
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2011/03/15/aflac-duck-gilbert-gottfried-self-twimmolates-with-japan- jokes-on-twitter/
Gilbert Gottfried and the Rise of Self-Twimmolation
Posted by James Poniewozik Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 4:53 pm
If you take a guy known for making outrageous jokeslike his notorious remarks at the Friars Club three weeks after 9/11 and hire him as the voice of your adorable duck mascot, you're taking a risk. Particularly if you're an insurance company, and you do business that may directly involve enormous tragedies. Aflac discovered that this week, when Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of its duck, tweeted a series of insensitive jokes on Twitter about the tragedy in Japanwhere Aflac does 75 percent of its business. Gottfried apologized, but he is no longer Aflac's spokesduck.
Read more: http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2011/03/15/aflac-duck-gilbert-gottfried-self-twimmolates- with-japan-jokes-on-twitter/#ixzz1 Gm7xmiKv
Dan Rosenbaum
There are times, I swear, that I think Americans are the dumbest, rudest, and most tone-deaf people on the face of the earth. Gottfried has made a good living being abrasive; how could he do otherwise with a voice like that? And at least he was trying to be funny (though he wildly missed). These others are just stupid racist.
I do love the term Twimmolation.
rosenbaum
Topic: AP March (was UPI March)
9 Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 16 10:01AM -0400 A
>At 10:18 AM 3/15/2011, you wrote:
>His most recognized march is Associated Press, published in 1897.
It suddenly dawns that year more or less corresponds with what was perhaps the "second coming" of the AP.
And that is likely no coincidence.
That was year of the establishment of the relatively new "Associated Press of Illinois" as THE "national AP" .. on the ashes of both the original New York Associated Press and the original United Press.. as periodically recounted in history posts here.
The original UP collapsed that year and the "new" AP more or less had an agency monopoly.
I'd bet that march was commissioned as some kind of celebration of that fact.
Coincidentally (and likely not commemorated with any marching bands), that same year of 1897, a group of western papers formed the Scripps-McRae Press Association, while a group of eastern newspapers formed the Publishers Press.
Three years later, the new AP marched from Illinois to New York.
Ten years later, the Scripps-related agencies became the United Press Associations.
-tf
Mitchell Martin (b)(6) Mar 16 07:13AM -0700 A I neglected to save a copy of Don Mullen's Groaners from about a month ago. They make excellent daily updates on my emails.
Been using the set from Tracy Wood, but they're almost gone....
Anybody still have it?
Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 16 10:22AM -0400 A
here you groan...
From: I (b)(6)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 07:40:33 -0500 (EST)
10 Subject: [DH] and yet more groaners
One good pun deserves a lot more ......
Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
Shotgun wedding - A case of wife or death.
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead give away.)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.
She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia - the LAN down under.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
11 A lot of money is tainted - Taint yours and taint mine.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large.
Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.
Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 16 10:53AM -0400 A
At 10:01 AM 3/16/2011, you wrote:
>At 10:18 AM 3/15/2011, you wrote:
>His most recognized march is Associated Press, published in 1897.
Noted without comment ... there is not one word about this march, or its composer, James Melville Fulton (who ironically shared a name with AP's longtime honcho of that period).. in any of the few books about AP ... not the 1940 house history, not the 2007 version ... nor in Melville Stone's memoirs.
The United Press March and its composer Paul Lavalle (real name:
Joseph Usifer) do get a mention in "Deadline Every Minute."
Topic: Would you stay in Japan coverinq this story? chucklippmeier
You remind me of 3 Mile Island and my time in bx then. News side was reporting that a 300 mile radius around TMI would soon be uninhabitable. The nx buro couldn't get any engineers to set up a remote in Harrisburg so management decided to see if I'd drive down from bx to do it. Unfortunatly, I believed what we were reporting so I declined. Otherwise, this would have been a much better story about the hero engineer that got the news out inspite of the threat to his own life. :- ) Chuck Lippmeier bx, sx, hkg
12 Topic: News Alert: Pakistan Frees American Who Worked for C.I.A., Officials Say Jeffrey Reynolds (b)(6) Mar 16 01:25PM _
money wins again.
Jeffrey C. Reynolds
Topic: hand signals (b)(6) ar 16 06:36AM -0400 A
Hey Slick
Thank my husband for your getting your MC endorsement on your drivers' license. He taught driver examiners how to give the test and approved the manueverability course, in essence getting endorsement No. 1 in Ohio.
Sandlot/CZ
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:27:42 -0400 Jim Sielicki
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Bill
I've been riding Harleys for the past 25 years or so, and we still use a lot of hand signals. Not so much for turning and stopping, but to tell MC riders in back about stuff in the road, pedestrians and bicycle riders up ahead, whether to change from staggered formation to
13 single-file, etc.
Frederick-me
Topic: Arabs call for no fly zone Susan DeLong < (b)(6) Mar 16 07:32PM +1100 A
No. I don't think it is.
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
From: _ (b)(6) To: downhold(agooglegroups.com Subject: RE: [DH] Arabs call for no fly zone Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:28:18 +0000
susan - if the arab league wants a no-fly zone over libya, no one is stopping it from imposing one. the arabs all have air forces, most of them supplied by us. but they'd rather the u.s. and europe do it so they can bitch about white guys making war on muslims. libya is gonna be stuck with ghadaffi and his family for a long time. f--k 'em.
the payment to egypt is a bribe for making nice-nice with israel, who we also pay very nicely thank you very much. you decide whether it's worth it.
Jeffrey C. Reynolds
14 Ted;The United States of America provides annual military assistance to Egypt which amounted to US$1.3 billion in 2009 (inflation adjusted US$ 1.33 billion in 2011).] This level is second only to Israel.
And what do we get for this huge sum?
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
Topic: mail service getting stranger Margaret Bauman
Our locked roadside mailbox today contained the front and back covers of the latest edition of the Economist, but all other parts of the magazine were missing... Wonder what the post office will have to say about this... Wonder if this has happened to other Downholders or whether our inept postal carrier is just in a contest where a prize will be given for worst carrier in the valley.
margieb
15 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:34 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: Commission brifing on Monday
Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C: 7 (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 15:31:20 2011 Subject: Commission brifing on Monday
I'm told we're doing this on Monday and you're the guest speaker. not sure if open or closed. I've got Susan Whittick from OCA working on specifics for us. We're being asked for slides, etc., of course From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:34 PM To: Batkin, Joshua Subject: White house press request
I (b)(5)
Let's talk enroute to senate. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
1 From: Watkins, Charles Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:32 PM To: Harrington, Holly; Howard, Patrick; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: **Update 1:15pm March 16** Information on the Japanese Earthquake and Reactors in that Region
Pat, we had the Security Operations Center review the sender and the links and they all check out as legitimate and not spoofed or malicious. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. Charlie
From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:14 PM To: Howard, Patrick; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Watkins, Charles Subject: RE: **Update 1:15pm March 16** Information on the Japanese Earthquake and Reactors in that Region
It's nei.org. looks ok to me
From: Howard, Patrick Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:28 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly Cc: Watkins, Charles Subject: Fw: **Update 1:15pm March 16** Information on the Japanese Earthquake and Reactors in that Region
Eliot/Holly - Can you tell me ifthis message is legitimate? I've never received anything from this sender before. I'm suspicious. Pat
From: [email protected]
UPDATE AS OF 1:15 P.M. EDT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16:
NEI has posted an updated version of the fact sheet Used Nuclear Fuel Storage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Also available is a new fact sheet called Industry Taking Action to Ensure Continued Safety at U.S. Nuclear Energy Plants.
As always, please go to http://resources.nei.org!iapan for the latest updates. 1 K~, /22> Click here to unsubscribe
2. From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:30 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Fw: Press Release Attachments: imageO0O.jpg
Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cf (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: McIntyre, David To: Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]'
They should be at the very bottom of the press release: EDE - Effective Dose Equivalent TEDE -Total Effective Dose Equivalent CEDE - Committed Effective Dose Equivalent
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:09 PM To: '[email protected]'; McIntyre, David Subject: Re: Press Release
David: can you help? Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cf (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Wald, Matthew
Thanks, Brenda. What is EDE, TEDE and CEDE? From: Akstulewicz, Brenda [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:39 PM To: Wald, Matthew Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Press Release
Hi Matt,
Eliot asked that I send this to. Please let me know if you need anything else.
Brenda
Brenda Akstulewicz Administrative Assistant Office of Public Affairs 301-415-8209 [email protected]
2 From: Sanchez, George D.
Thank you Eliot -- please give us an approximate time when you have a better idea. g
---- Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:25 PM To: Stark, Lisa Cc: Sanchez, George D.; Klein, Rick Subject: Re: We do want NRC interview
Happy to tey opne on one. May have to tape given demands on our time. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CJ (b)(6) bent from my Blackberry
---- Original Message ----- From: Stark, Lisa
Eliot. We definitely want this interview for tonight's WN. George Sanchez copied on this note can coordinate with you. Did u decide on one on ones or as a group? Also when you have an idea on time please let us know. Thanks. Lisa Subject: Alignment Meeting for CM - Brief on Japanese Event & U.S. Response (CM date TBD) Location: O-17B4
Start: Thu 3/17/2011 10:00 AM End: Thu 3/17/2011 11:00 AM
Recurrence: (none)
Meeting Status: Accepted
Organizer Borchardt, Bill Required Attendees: Weber, Michael; Virgilio, Martin; Brenner, Eliot; Leeds, Eric; Grobe, Jack; ConferenceRoomO17B4 Resource
When: Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:00 AM-11:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada). Where: O-17B4
Note: The GMT offset above does not reflect daylight saving time adjustments.
Rct 3/16
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(, 1 1ý ')/ eL, -tý, From: McIntyre, David Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:09 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: DFW Plane thanks
From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto:I (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:06 PM To: McIntyre, David Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: DFW Plane
Im trying to learn like you are. Dot/faa/dhs are your best bets. Sorry but im not sure what is happening, on a call now. that other chain I added eliot to, which im on would be best to reply to.
As for context of rad levels, that's ALWAYS important to do I think
I'll add you to that chain now
From: McIntyre, David [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:05 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: DFW Plane
Nick - can you send us a little more info on this? I could ask our protective measures team for context on the rad levels.
Dave McIntyre NRC OPA
1 SO/IL211- From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:05 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: HR contact
Got a top level person paying attention to our need for contractors. Can bring them on fairly quickly for 89-day appointment, she assumes at 13/14 level. Do need fingerprints and a few days.
Needs from us:
Resumes or other information on individuals.
In addition to you, I have someone who would be asset - FEMA experience, top-secret clearance at one time
eo U/1 From: Stark, Lisa
Perfect!
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot
Yep. Told pete williams this was my gulf war! So, we're putting the disaster band back together. I'm even working with laura on the periphery! Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C1 (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message ----- From: Stark, Lisa
/,SO//L,0 From: Stephen Stromberg
Got it. Let me know what might be possible. I am writing for tomorrow, but I might be able to change here and later a bit later in the evening.
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:55 PM To: Stephen Stromberg Subject: Re: 3:30 or later?
Steve, we are probably not going to be avaiable for quite some time. This breakinmg japan stuff is chewing up our day. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Stephen Stromberg
Hi Eliot-
I see the Chairman is still testifying. I assume he won't be available before 3:30? I have a couple other interviews to conduct before then, though, so that's okay with me.
Thanks.
Steve
Steve Stromberg Deputy Opinions Editor Editorial Writer The Washington Post Office: 202.334.6370 Cell:i (b)(6) From: Sosa, Belkys Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:46 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FW: INQUIRY ERT TV GREECE- (MANOLIS)
(b)(5)
From: Apostolakis, George Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:24 PM To: Blake, Kathleen; Sosa, Belkys Subject: Re: INQUIRY ERT TV GREECE- (MANOLIS)
(b)(5)
George Apostolakis Commissioner, US NRC BlackberryI (b)(6)
From: Blake, Kathleen To: Apostolakis, George; Sosa, Belkys Sent: Wed Mar 16 13:31:45 2011 Subject: FW: INQUIRY ERT TV GREECE- (MANOLIS)
(b)(5)
Kathleen M.. Blake Administrative Assistant to Commissioner Apostolakis U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852 301-415-1810
From: CMRAPOSTOLAKIS Resource Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:27 PM To: Blake, Kathleen Subject: FW: INQUIRY ERT TV GREECE- (MANOLIS)
From: Theofanis Papathanasiou [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:20 AM I. / ZýN To: CMRAPOSTOLAKIS Resource Subject: INQUIRY ERT TV GREECE- (MANOLIS)
Hello Dr. Apostolaki:
My a ologies for this message out of the blue. I happen to be a good friend and colleague in ERT with your (b)([) . He has contacted you as well for this. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Fanis Papathanasiou and I am anchor and international correspondent working for ERT (Greek Public Television) in Athens..
I am wondering if you are available for a live short interview from DC in our main newscast at 9 o clock (local time) about the situation in Japan. We can provide you with topics -questions.
Thank for your attention to this request.
Fanis Papathanasiou ERT TV anchor / senior international correspondent News Department Mesogion AVE 432, Agia Paraskevi, 15342 Athens MobI (b)(6) I
2 From: Sosa, Belkys Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:42 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FYI: BBC Radio- London
Importance: High
Eliot, more requests for interviews. Thanks, - belkys
From: Apostolakis, George Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:29 PM To: Blake, Kathleen; Sosa, Belkys Subject: Fw: BBC Radio- London Importance: High
Standard reply.
George Apostolakis Commissioner US NRC Blackberryr jjjj
From: Tamsin Barber
Dear Professor Apostolakis, I am working for BBC Radio 4 in London on the weekly science programme Material World. For this week's programme, we are focussing on the earthquake/Tsunami in Japan and the potential risks from the nuclear plant. In particular, we are interested in looking at the design and safety precautions of building a nuclear power plant in an area where there is seismic activity and Tsunami risk i.e. are there any design implications, general risks, what precautions/risk assessments are taken etc. We would be interested in talking about Japan/US and other countries.
I wondered if I could talk to you about your work in this area via telephone today, with a view to a possible interview for the programme? If we do go ahead with an interview we would be looking to record between 12-1 pm (Boston time) tomorrow Thursday 17th March. The interview would be live and would need to be from the nearest radio studio or if this is not possible, via telephone.
However, if this is not an area that you are familiar with, would you be able to recommend someone for us to talk to? Many thanks and Kind Regards,
Tamsin Barber Assistant Producer BBC Science Radio Unit 00 44 207 557 2476 http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.
2 From: Williams, Pete (NBCUniversal)
Thanks for the heads up about the chairman. We'll be there.
Contacts for NBC News:
Our desk is (202) 885-4887 nbcnewsdcdesk&,nbcuni.com
My e-mail is pete.williams•,nbc.com
Tom Costello, who sometimes covers these issues, is tom.costello(a•nbc.com
And Lisa Myers, who's doing stories about US nuclear plants during the Japan crisis, is lisa.myers(,nbc.com
Best to you.
Pete From: Strickler, Laura
We have- we'll see what they say. Thank you.
Laura V. Strickler, Producer CBS Evening News with Katie Couric Desk: 202-457-1597 Cell::= strickle [email protected] news. corn
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:03 PM To: Strickler, Laura Subject: Re: Info from Japanese government
This is what we would do in the USN based on what we know at this point. You would have to ask the japanese about their advice to their residents. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CI (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Strickler, Laura
Hello-
Checking in to see if the NRC has full confidence in the information about radiation levels that is coming out of the Japanese government. Some of our people on the ground in Japan say they have had some difficulty getting a clear picture of the radiation levels from Japanese authorities. I see that the NRC is now recommending evacuation of US citizens within 80km - is this new caution being matched by the Japanese government?
Thank you very much,
Laura Strickler
Laura V. Strickler, Producer CBS Evening News with Katie Couric Desk: 202-457-1597 Cell:. (b)(6) striCKlerl.cbs news.corn
2 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:10 PM To: McIntyre, David Subject: Re: Ops Center
Ok Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: McIntyre, David To: Harrington, Holly; Brenner, Eliot; Akstulewicz, Brenda Sent: Wed Mar 16 14:08:23 2011 Subject: Ops Center
I have now relieved Scott in the OPS CTR, though he refuses to leave.
Please cc me on any relevant emails from now on.
1 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:10 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: ANS Public Information: Japan Nuclear Reactors
Ok and thanks. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Hayden, Nancy Kay
I'm sorry. I'm also glad to know that someone like you is there to help our leadership try to understand the situation and know how to communicate to our public. It sounds like things are not going well at all over there. I will tune in to hear, and you keep in touch, ok?
Nancy
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:05 PM To: Hayden, Nancy Kay Subject: Re: ANS Public Information: Japan Nuclear Reactors
We just broadened our eveacuation notice. I booked a room neatr the office tonight and for downtown tomorrow. Damn busy. In congressional hearin now. Tune n to cspan3 or house energy and commerce committee website. It's one of the subcommittees. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C[ (b)(6) Sent from my blackberry
From: Hayden, Nancy Kay
1 / FYI. In case you were not aware. Hope you arc holding together better than the reactors are.
Nancy
Information: Japan Nuclear Reactors
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Dear ANS Member,
Many of you have told us you are frustrated when you see someone on TV, in a newspaper, or the Internet, claiming to be a "nuclear expert" sharing inaccurate and misleading information about the situation in Japan or nuclear energy generally. You can do something about it!
We have established [email protected] to serve as a centralized communications email address for ANS member communications to ANS Headquarters on the Japan situation. ANS staff will make sure the proper person gets your email.
SERVE AS A MEDIA CONTACT
There is an URGENT NEED for ANS members who can serve as media contacts. The need is particularly urgent for experts on radiation and human health effects, but we are also seeking people who can speak to reactor design and operation, licensing and safety issues, and crisis response activities.
Email [email protected] with MEDIA in the subject line-include your name, city/state, phone numbers, area of expertise, and any additional information you think we should know
HELP CORRECT INACCURATE AND/OR MISLEADING NEWS REPORTS
Directly engage local news media when you read, hear, or view reports that contain technical information about nuclear energy topics that are not factually correct. See the guidance document attached that provides some "rules of the road" for talking with the news media.
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Email them to [email protected] with JAPAN in the subject line. ANS RESOURCES
ANS continues to provide a news aggregation service on the ANS Nuclear Cafe blogsite at http://ansnuclearcafe.org/. I urge you to share this link with friends, colleagues, and your social networks.
The ANS Professional Divisions are currently engaged in an urgent effort to develop talking points on the Japan situation for distribution to members. Additionally, ANS-HQ will be providing a periodic update of communications efforts under a 'What's New' link on the ANS website at http://www.ans.org/.
Thank you all for your efforts in supporting the nuclear community during these challenging times. Our professional responsibility is to provide credible information based on the information on hand, realizing that this information may be incomplete and/or evolving.
Sincerely,
Candace Davison Chair, ANS Public Information Committee
Dan Yurman Social Media rep, Public Information Committee Email:f (b)(6) - witter: @djysrv Mobil ()6
Laura Scheele American Nuclear Society Communications & Outreach Email: [email protected] Twitter: @lscheele Phone: (708) 579-8224 Responding to inaccurate information in the news media
Take it as a given that in dealing with the technical complexities of the nuclear crisis in Japan, the mainstream news media is going to make mistakes. You can do something about it, but you must use proven methods to do so.
It is OK to reach out to local or national news media using email or telephone, but don't hit the keyboard or keypad before you assemble the facts.
First, ask yourself, "am I technically qualified to really address this issue?" Assuming the answer is yes, assemble a brief set of one-liners that explain your expertise. Use plain English.
Next, tackle the issue at hand. What's factually wrong with the news media report? What facts are needed to make it correct?
Assemble the facts in a rough order of descending order of importance. Keep an eye on the big picture. Do not get wrapped up in hair splitting details.
Write your response using the active voice and in talking points format. Remember, general assignment reporters will not follow detailed technical arguments. You must keep it simple.
Be sure to include your contact information and a summary of your expertise at the end of the talking points.
Once you have your talking points prepared, you are ready to contact the reporter or their editor by email or phone.
How talk to a journalist
Do not argue with a journalist. Stick to the facts.
Communicating with journalists makes a difference. It does not have to be perfect. When you write to journalists, be factual, not rhetorical. Do not personally attack them; that's more likely to convince them that they're in the right. Address them in the language that most journalists are trained to understand - plain English.
Remember, you are responding as expert and viewer. You are NOT responding on behalf of ANS or your employer.
Please send us a copy of your emails or notes about telephone conversations (published and unpublished) to iapanfact(o~ans.org. Writing letters to the editor
Letters that are intended for publication should usually be drafted more carefully. Here are some tips to keep in mind:
Make one point (or at most two) in your letter, email, or fax. State the point clearly, ideally in the first sentence.
Make your letter timely. If you are not addressing a specific article, editorial or letter that recently appeared in the paper you are writing to, then try to tie the issue you want to write about to a recent event.
Familiarize yourself with the coverage and editorial position of the paper to which you are writing. Refute or support specific statements, address relevant facts that are ignored, but do avoid blanket attacks on the media in general or the newspaper in particular.
Check the letter specifications of the newspaper to which you are writing. Length and format requirements vary from paper to paper. (Generally, roughly two short paragraphs are ideal.) You also must include your name, signature, address and phone number.
Be sure to say something, even one sentence, about your technical expertise, in the letter. You can provide more but don't expect it to be published.
Look at the letters that appear in your paper. Is a certain type of letter usually printed?
Support your facts. If the topic you address is controversial, consider sending documentation along with your letter. But don't overload the editors with too much info.
Keep your letter brief. Type it whenever possible.
Find others to write letters when possible. This will show that other individuals in the community are concerned about the issue. If your letter doesn't get published, perhaps someone else's on the same topic will.
Monitor the paper for your letter. If your letter has not appeared within a week or two, follow up with a call to the editorial department of the newspaper.
An increasing number of broadcast news programs (60 Minutes, All Things Considered, etc.) also solicit and broadcast "letters to the editor." Don't forget these outlets.
Remember, you are responding as expert and viewer. You are NOT responding on behalf of ANS or your employer.
Please send us a copy of your letters (published and unpublished) to japanfacts ans.org. How to Write an Op-Ed
Op-eds are longer than letters to the editor, and there is more competition for space. You may want to call the paper for length requirements (usually 600-800 words).
Try to write on a controversial issue being covered at that time. If you can use a professional title that suggests authority, do so. If you work for an organization, get permission to sign the op-ed as a representative of that organization.
Feel free to send it to papers far from where you live, but avoid sending it to two newspapers in the same "market." (Sending to the San Francisco Examiner and the Seattle Times is OK, but not to the Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.)
"National" newspapers like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor and USA Today generally do not accept op-eds that are also being offered to other papers. But you can easily submit the same piece to five or ten local dailies in different regions-greatly increasing your chances of being published.
Assure the op-ed editor in your cover letter that the piece has not been submitted to any other paper in their market. If, on the other hand, you sent it to only one paper, let that paper know you are offering them an exclusive.
In writing op-eds, avoid excessive rhetoric. State the subject under controversy clearly. You are trying to persuade a middle-of-the-road readership. If you rely on facts not commonly found in mainstream media, cite your sources.
Try to think of a catchy title. If you don't, the paper will be more likely to run its own-which may not emphasize your central message. (Even if you do write your own headline, don't be surprised if it appears under a different one.)
Be prepared to shorten and re-submit your article as a letter to the editor in case it does not get accepted as an op-ed. From: OPA Resource Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:08 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Burnell, Scott; Chandrathil, Prema; Couret, Ivonne; Dricks, Victor; Hannah, Roger; Harrington, Holly; Hayden, Elizabeth; Janbergs, Holly; Ledford, Joey; McIntyre, David; Mitlyng, Viktoria; Screnci, Diane; Shannon, Valerie; Sheehan, Neil Subject: FYI - Listserave is misbehaving, i've contacted our contact.
Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-8200 opa.resource•wnrc.cov
1 BU/ Z3-7- From: Johnson, Michael Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:54 PM To: Ruland, William; Williams, Donna; Uhle, Jennifer;, Sheron, Brian; Moore, Scott; Miller, Charles; Brenner, Eliot; Haney, Catherine; Dorman, Dan; Wiggins, Jim; Evans, Michele; Doane, Margaret; Mamish, Nader Cc: Holahan, Gary; Leeds, Eric; Grobe, Jack; Howe, Allen Subject: RE: Planning for upcoming, short notice Commission meeting
Donna Williams is NRO's poc.
From: Ruland, William Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:19 PM To: Williams, Donna; Uhle, Jennifer; Sheron, Brian; Moore, Scott; Miller, Charles; Brenner, Eliot; Haney, Catherine; Dorman, Dan; Wiggins, Jim; Evans, Michele; Doane, Margaret; Mamish, Nader Cc: Johnson, Michael; Holahan, Gary; Leeds, Eric; Grobe, Jack; Howe, Allen Subject: Planning for upcoming, short notice Commission meeting
Folks,
Attached find a early draft of a scheduling note for a Commission meeting that may be held as early as this coming Monday, March 2 1st. NRR has been assigned as the lead to pull the meeting together. As you could imagine, this will take some effort. To help with coordination, please provide me a contact so that we can draw on your expertise and help to make this happen. Alan Howe, currently deputy director of DORL, has the lead to pull this together.
I know you have many questions. I'd ask for your patience as we try to get this done. I'll keep you updated through the contact that you provide to us.
Thank you very much.
Bill Ruland From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:45 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: permission to post these FAQs previously blessed as Q&As for the public by et, PMT, LT and RST
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:14 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: permission to post these FAQs
After our statement goes out. Who has blessed them? Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 13:12:05 2011 Subject: FW: permission to post these FAQs
No answer on these? Can I make them into a short blog post? Anything would help...
From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:08 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: permission to post these FAQs
These focus only on questions of U.S. nuclear power plant safety (not current situation). Would be very helpful to us if we could put these up. Media calls increasing exponentially
1. Can the Japanese nuclear crisis happen here in the United States?
The events that have occurred in Japan are the result of a combination of highly unlikely natural disasters. These include the fifth largest earthquake in recorded history and the resulting devastating tsunami. It is highly unlikely that a similar event could occur in the United States.
2. I live near a nuclear power plant similar to the ones having trouble in Japan. How can we now be confident that this plant won't experience a similar problem?
U.S. nuclear power plants are built to withstand environmental hazards, including earthquakes and tsunamis. Even those plants that are located outside of areas with extensive seismic activity are designed for safety in the event of such a natural disaster. The NRC requires that safety-significant structures, systems, and 1 p I2-39 components be designed to take into account the most severe natural phenomena historically reported for the site and surrounding area. The NRC is confident that the robust design of these plants makes it highly unlikely that a similar event could occur in the United States.
3. Has this crisis changed your opinion about the safety of U.S. nuclear power plants?
The NRC remains confident that the design of U.S. nuclear power plants ensures the continued protection of public health and safety and the environment. However, the NRC is always looking to learn information that can be applied to U.S. reactors and we will analyze the information that comes from this incident.
4. With all this happening, how can the NRC continue to approve new nuclear power plants?
It is premature to speculate what, if any, effect the events in Japan will have on the licensing of new nuclear power plants.
5. What is the NRC doing in response to the situation in Japan?
Since the beginning of the event, the NRC has continuously manned its Operations Center in Rockville, MD in order to gather and examine all available information as part of the effort to analyze the event and understand its implications both for Japan and the United States. A team of 11 officials from the NRC with expertise in boiling water nuclear reactors have deployed to Japan as part of a U.S. International Agency for International Development (USAID) team. The NRC has spoken with its counterpart agency in Japan, offering the assistance of U.S. technical experts. The NRC is coordinating its actions with other Federal agencies as part of the U.S. government response.
6. What other U.S. agencies are involved, and what are they doing?
The entire federal family is responding to this event. The NRC is closely coordinating its efforts with the White House, DOE, DOD, USAID, and others. The U.S. government is providing whatever support requested by the Japanese government.
7. What else can go wrong?
The NRC is continuously monitoring the developments at the nuclear power plants in Japan. Circumstances are constantly evolving and it would be inappropriate to speculate on how this situation might develop over the coming days.
8. What is the worst-case scenario?
In a nuclear emergency, the most important action is to ensure the core is covered with water to provide cooling to remove any heat from the fuel rods. Without adequate cooling, the fuel rods will melt. Should the final containment structure fail, radiation from these melting fuel rods would be released to the atmosphere and additional protective measures may be necessary depending on factors such as prevailing wind patterns.
2 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:44 PM To: Batkin, Joshua; Coggins, Angela; Brenner, Eliot Subject: Press release going out Attachments: 11_16_evac.docx
All;
I've attached the final language - please ignore the draft markings. The PDFs are being incorporated and the final package should be going out on the listserv in a few minutes. Web posting should follow shortly.
Scott
1D SRB G\CrisisCommunication\JapanQuakeTsunami\l 1_16_evac.doc 5/6/2013 9:06 PM
OPA
D R A F T PRESS RELEASE (Source: CHRMN )
NRC PROVIDES PROTECTIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS
BASED ON U.S. GUIDELINES
Under the guidelines for public safety that would be used in the United States under similar circumstances, the NRC believes it is appropriate for U.S. residents within 50 miles of the Fukushima reactors to evacuate.
Among other things, in the United States protective actions recommendations are implemented when projected doses could exceed I rem to the body or 5 rem to the thyroid. A rem is a measure of radiation dose. The average American is exposed to approximately 620 millirems, or 0.62 rem, of radiation each year from natural and manmade sources.
In making protective action recommendations, the NRC takes into account a variety of factors that include weather, wind direction and speed, and the status of the problem at the reactors.
Attached are the results of two sets of computer calculations used to support the NRC recommendations. In response to nuclear emergencies, the NRC works with other U.S. agencies to monitor radioactive releases and predict their path. All the available information continues to indicate
Hawaii, Alaska, the U.S. Territories and the U.S. West Coast are not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity. From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:43 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Any info updates on Japan?
Check embassy for something new. We expect a press release shortly. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CI (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message ----- From: Eric Weiner
Eric Weiner Producer Tokyo Broadcasting System Washington, DC Bureau Office: 202-393-3801 Cell: (b)(6) From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. d (b)(6) I> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:39 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: How shall we charcterize
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I . (b )(5) I Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C: (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
/7)V V 1 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:36 PM To: Hammer, Michael A; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; Brenner, Eliot; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; Harrington, Holly; Poneman, Daniel; Sheehan, Neil; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B; TaskForce-1 Subject: RE: JAPAN Statement is out
Pushing our button, should be out shortly.
Original----- Message----- From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:35 PM To: Hammer, Michael A; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; Brenner, Eliot; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; Poneman, Daniel; Sheehan, Neil; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B; TaskForce-1 Subject: JAPAN Statement is out
NRC - you have a go sign
U.S. Embassy Tokyo, Japan
March 16, 2011
Statement by U.S. Ambassador John V. Roos
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Energy and other technical experts in the U.S. Government have reviewed the scientific and technical information they have collected from assets in country, as well as what the Government of Japan has disseminated, in response to the deteriorating situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Consistent with the NRC guidelines that apply to such a situation in the United States, we are recommending, as a precaution, that American citizens who live within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant evacuate the area or to take shelter indoors if safe evacuation is not practical.
We want to underscore that there are numerous factors in the aftermath of the earthquake and Tsunami, including weather, wind direction and speed, and the nature of the reactor problem that affect the risk of radioactive contamination within this 50 mile (80 km) radius or the possibility of lower-level radioactive materials reaching greater distances.
The U.S. Embassy will continue to update American citizens as the situation develops. U.S. citizens in need of emergency assistance should send an e-mail to [email protected] with detailed information about their location and contact information, and monitor the U.S. Department of State website at travel.state.gov.
The United States is continuing to do everything in its power to help Japan and American citizens who were there at the time of these tragic events. To support our citizens there, the Embassy is working around the clock, we have our consular services available 24 hours a day to determine the whereabouts and well-being of all U.S. citizens in Japan and
1 /3\J/d 'ý ' we have offered our Japanese friends assistance, including disaster response experts, search and rescue teams, technical advisers with nuclear expertise and logistical support from the United States military.
This email is UNCLASSIFIED
2 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:35 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Seeking clarification FW: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto:I (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:50 PM To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Seeking clarification FW: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Im good
From: Burnell, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:31 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Seeking clarification FW: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
(b)(5)
From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtoi (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:30 PM To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Seeking clarification FW: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
I'm good
From: Burnell, Scott
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From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtoI (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:26 PM To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Seeking clarification FW: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
(b)(5)
From: Burnell, Scott
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From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:12 PM To:- (b)(6) 1;'[email protected]'; Burnell, Scott; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Seeking clarification FW: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Scott: get ours in parralel with White house and state please. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:J (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. (b)(6) :> To: '[email protected]'
From: Hammer, Michael A
(b)(5)
This email is UNCLASSIFIED.
From: Bumell, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:06 PM To: Klevorick, Caitlin B; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Hammer, Michael A;I (b)(6) Subject: RE: Seeking clarification FW: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Hi Caitlin;
I don't have access to the staffs projections, so that language is all I have. In context the answer would seem to be it's a looking slightly forward statement.
Scott
From: Klevorick, Caitlin B [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:03 PM To: Burnell, Scott Cc: Hammer, Michael A; (b)(6) Subject: Seeking clarification FW: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
(b)(5)
Thanks
From: Burnell, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:48 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Hammer, Michael A Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Nick, Michael;
Here's our finalized statement, to go out following State's release:
3 NRC PROVIDES PROTECTIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON U.S. GUIDELINES
The NRC no longer concurs with the existing protective action measures recommended by the Japanese government for evacuation to 20 miles and sheltering out to 30 miles from Fukushima. Under the guidelines for public safety that would be used in the United States under similar circumstances, the NRC would recommend that residents within 50 miles of the affected site evacuate.
Among other things, in the United States protective actions recommendations are implemented when projected doses could exceed 1 rem to the body or 5 rem to the thyroid. A rem is a measure of radiation dose. The average American is exposed to approximately 620 millirems, or 0.62 rem, of radiation each year from natural and manmade sources.
In making protective action recommendations, the NRC takes into account a variety of factors that include weather, wind direction and speed, and the status of the problem at the reactors.
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:43 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
(b)(5) Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:1 (b)(6) I Sent from my Blackberry
4 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:31 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Data attachment
Sending to Brenda/Holly now.
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:31 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Data attachment
(b)(5) Is our packsage ready??? Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CJ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
---- Original Message ----- From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 13:29:26 2011 Subject: RE: Data attachment
(b)(5)
---- Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:22 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Data attachment
I (b)(5) Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
---- Original Message ----- From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 13:17:46 2011 Subject: RE: Data attachment
Further revised end language -- share with WH/State?
(b)(5)
---- Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:10 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Data attachment
You have it now. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:J (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
---- Original Message ----- From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 13:08:33 2011 Subject: RE: Data attachment
Once I get them, fairly quick
---- Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:08 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Data attachment
How long will it take to attach? Boss would like it to all go at once? Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
2 From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:22 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Press after our afernoon hearing
Sunday Fox News with Chris Wallace Andrea DeVito, Phone: 202-824-6494 Cell: (b)(6)
FOX5 DC Beth 202-895-3000
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:14 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: Press after our afernoon hearing
Minutes away. Scott is working with brenda on logidtics.
Need aFOX contact.
What is core question bothering regions? Things moving too fast to follow on a blackberry. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 3014158200 C1 (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message ---- From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 13:11:08 2011 Subject: RE: Press after our afernoon hearing
Things deteriorating here. Regions frustrated with onslaught of calls particularly about earthquake stuff. Trying to do a short with them and Scott soon. Dave have previous engagement and won't be here until 2
Any idea when release will be Ok'd?
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:06 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: Press after our afernoon hearing
1 e~\J ILI& Ok. Keep me posted. May just do networks from senate rotunda, then cnn and then ithers. Will advise. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cl (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message ----- From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 13:01:57 2011 Subject: RE: Press after our afernoon hearing
Do not yet know what media outlet is at 400 north capitol.
---- Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:00 PM To: F (b)(6) [; Harrington, Holly Subject: Press after our afernoon hearing
Fyi, I will be trying to puit the chairman up with networks this afternoon from the senate side, followed most likely by CNN and anyone at 400 North captiol. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C: (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
2 From: Farrington, John Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:03 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Salley, MarkHenry Subject: Re: Dey
Mark, Eliot,
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John
John S. Farrington Attorney, Office of The General Counsel Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(301) 415-2196 Telephone
1 ep I1'ý From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:01 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: IMMEDIATE
Many thanks. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C: (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message ----- From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:57:26 2011 Subject: RE: IMMEDIATE
DOS:
In response to the deteriorating situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Energy and other technical experts in the U.S. Government have reviewed the scientific and technical information they have collected from assets in country, as well as what the Government of Japan has disseminated. Consistent with the NRC guidelines that would apply to such a situation in the United States, we are recommending, as a precaution, that American citizens who live within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant evacuate the area or to take shelter indoors if safe evacuation is not practical.
We want to underscore that there are numerous factors in the aftermath of the earthquake and Tsunami, including weather, wind direction and speed, and the nature of the reactor problem that affect the risk of radioactive contamination within this 50 mile radius or the possibility of lower-level radioactive materials reaching greater distances.
The U.S. Embassy will continue to update American citizens as the situation develops. U.S. citizens in need of emergency assistance should send an e-mail to [email protected] with detailed information about their location and contact information, and monitor the U.S. Department of State website at travel.state.gov.
The United States is continuing to do everything in its power to help Japan and American citizens who were there at the time of these tragic events. To support our citizens there, the Embassy is working around the clock, we have our consular services available 24 hours a day to determine the whereabouts and well-being of all U.S. citizens in Japan and we have offered our Japanese friends includes disaster response experts, search and rescue teams, technical advisers with nuclear expertise and logistical support from the United States military. NRC:
Under the guidelines for public safety that would be used in the United States under similar circumstances, the NRC believes it is appropriate for U.S. residents within 50 miles of the Fukushima reactors to evacuate.
Among other things, in the United States protective actions recommendations are implemented when projected doses could exceed I rem to the body or 5 rem to the thyroid. A rem is a measure of radiation dose. The average American is exposed to approximately 620 millirems, or 0.62 rem, of radiation each year from natural and manmade sources.
In making protective action recommendations, the NRC takes into account a variety of factors that include weather, wind direction and speed, and the status of the problem at the reactors.
---. Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:56 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: IMMEDIATE
Please cut and paste a message to me withj our text and the DOS text. NEED NOW. Thanks. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C (b)(6) Sent from my Backberry
2 From: Ledford, Joey Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:57 PM To: Ake, Jon; Kammerer, Annie; Uselding, Lara; Burnell, Scott; Manoly, Kamal Cc: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly; Screnci, Diane; Sheehan, Neil; Hannah, Roger; Chandrathil, Prema; Mitlyng, Viktoria; McIntyre, David; Couret, Ivonne Subject: RE: Reporters are asking for research?
Never mind. Found them.
Joey
From: Ake, Jon Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:10 PM To: Kammerer, Annie; Uselding, Lara; Burnell, Scott; Manoly, Kamal Cc: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly; Screnci, Diane; Sheehan, Neil; Hannah, Roger; Ledford, Joey; Chandrathil, Prema; Mitlyng, Viktoria; McIntyre, David; Couret, Ivonne Subject: RE: Reporters are asking for research?
ALL Pages 17-23 of the Q/A's deal explicitly w/ GI-199
From: Kammerer, Annie Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:07 AM To: Uselding, Lara; Burnell, Scott; Ake, Jon; Manoly, Kamal Cc: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly; Screnci, Diane; Sheehan, Neil; Hannah, Roger; Ledford, Joey; Chandrathil, Prema; Mitlyng, Viktoria; McIntyre, David; Couret, Ivonne Subject: RE: Reporters are asking for research?
Jon and cliff know the contents of the various GI-199 documents better than anyone.
Also, just in case any of you don't have it.. .l've attached the latest version of the Q&As.
Annie
From: Uselding, Lara Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:02 PM To: Burnell, Scott; Kammerer, Annie; Ake, Jon; Manoly, Kamal Cc: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly; Screnci, Diane; Sheehan, Neil; Hannah, Roger; Ledford, Joey; Chandrathil, Prema; Mitlyng, Viktoria; McIntyre, David; Couret, Ivonne Subject: Reporters are asking for research?
Is there a report we can point to on this or more to give?
Lara Uselding U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Public Affairs - Region IV
[email protected] BlackBerryf. (b)(6) Office: 817-276-6519 For more information visit www.nrc.gov
From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:22 AM To: Kammerer, Annie; Ake, Jon; Manoly, Kamal Cc: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly; Screnci, Diane; Sheehan, Neil; Hannah, Roger; Ledford, Joey; Chandrathil, Prema; Mitlyng, Viktoria; Uselding, Lara; McIntyre, David; Couret, Ivonne Subject: FW: Numbers Importance: High
Annie, Jon, Kamal;
I know you're going to have a cow over this - somewhat inevitable when a reporter new to the subject tries to summarize things. Apart from "you're totally off-base," what specific technical corrections can we ask for??
OPA - this is likely to spark a lot of follow-up. The immediate response would be "that's a very incomplete look at the overall research and we continue to believe U.S. reactors are capable of withstanding the strongest earthquake their sites could experience." I'll share whatever we get from the experts.
Scott
From: Bill Dedman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:47 AM To: Bumell, Scott Subject: RE: Numbers
Scott,
FYI, this story is online now.
If you or the NRC technical see any error, please let me know right away. I linked to all the source documents so people can also read in full.
Thanks,
Bill http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42103936/ns/world news-asiapacific!
From: Burnell, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:38 PM To: Bill Dedman Subject: Numbers
Bill;
Staff's amazing here - they were compiling these numbers just in case - the Western plants are in there.
Scott Burnell
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3 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:56 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Our release
Roger Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message ----- From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:55:01 2011 Subject: RE: Our release
Don't want to delay initial statements any further, will do comprehensive update.
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:54 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Our release
At soonest opportunity Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C: (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
---- Original Message ----- From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:52:46 2011 Subject: RE: Our release
For revised release when PDFs available? Please?
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:52 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Our release
(b)(5) Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Ci (b)(6)m c Sent from my Blackberry
2 From: Landau, Mindy Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:53 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FW: Eliot needs info
Importance: High
Eliot - we received an inquiry from someone named Erin at MSNBC here in DC. She wanted an interview (Hardball w/Chris Matthews). Don't know her last name. 202-885-4833
Mindy
From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:48 PM To: Akstulewicz, Brenda; Harrington, Holly; Landau, Mindy Subject: Eliot needs info Importance: High
Eliot's asking for contact information for an MSNBC person, preferably in DC.
He also needs to know which media outlets have offices at 400 N. Capitol St.
Please send directly to Eliot.
17--l ) 1 eýýQ From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:49 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Apologies for being brusque
If it goes out before we are ready, attach pdfs when you have them. Email o me our final statement when out, state's, and the PDFs. Thanks. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C1 (b)(6)
Sent from my Blackberry From: Batkin, Joshua Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:46 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Burnell, Scott Subject: Fw: Jaczko called to white house?
Joshua C. Batkin Chief of Staff Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko (301) 415-1820
Original---- Message ----- From: LIZZIE OLEARY, BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:
Hi Josh -
Lizzie O'Leary from Bloomberg. I saw the E&C hearing go into recess because the chairman was called to the White House. Can you tell me more about this? Was this previously scheduled or did it just come up?
Thanks,
Lizzie O'Leary Bloomberg TV 202.654.4322 (b)(6) inm) loleary2@ bloomberg.net
I 15u /-253 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:46 PM To: Shannon, Valerie Subject: Re: Transcript
Send what they can tonight. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:L (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Shannon, Valerie To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:42:19 2011 Subject: Transcript
Eliot, Federal News will not have the entire segment to us today. They are asking if there is a portion that we would like to have by this evening or if they should give us the entire segment tomorrow? Val
1 S U / -2, !ý4 From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:43 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FW: Good Morning America / Stephanopoulos Request
Still want him
From: Stanitz, Emily A. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:39 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Good Morning America / Stephanopoulos Request
Hi Holly- As I mentioned over the phone, I'd like to renew our request for a live interview with NRC Chairman Dr. Jaczko on tomorrow morning's broadcast. George Stephanopoulos would be the interviewer, and we'd like to have Dr. Jaczko on near the top of our broadcast at 7amET.
We can be very flexible when it comes to location.
I hope we can find a way to work something out, and I'll look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for all your help this week, Holly.
All the best, Emily
Emily Stanitz Segment Producer ABC News - Good Morning America 1717 DeSales Street NW Washington, DC 20036 o: 202.222.7036 C: I (b)(6)
eýu /,-?- 5 -5 1 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:38 PM To: F (b)(6) Subject: Re: NRC Chair
Yes. Waiting for hearing to resume. Start time is now 130-140pm Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cf (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. (b)(6) To: Brenner, Eliot; Sheehan, Neil; Burnell, Scott Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:36:00 2011 Subject: Fw: NRC Chair
(b)(5)
From: Favole, Jared <[email protected] > To: Stevens, Clark; Shapiro, Nicholas S. Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:33:37 2011 Subject: NRC Chair
I know Jaczko was supposed to testify today on the Hill. My colleague said the committee told attendees at the hearing that Jaczko wouldn't be at the hearing because he was called to the White House. Why is he coming to the WH? To brief the President?
Jared A. Favole Dow Jones Newswires The Wall Street Journal White House Correspondent Office: 202.862.9256 Cell: (b)(6) iared.favolecdowjones.com
1l2 From: Batkin, Joshua Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:30 PM To: Coggins, Angela Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: Thanks
(b)(5)
Joshua C. Batkin Chief of Staff Chairman Gregory B.Jaczko (301) 415-1820
Original----- Message ----- From: Coggins, Angela To: Batkin, Joshua Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:26:37 2011 Subject: Re: Thanks
(b)(5)
Angela Coggins Policy Director Office of Chairman Gregory B Jaczko US Nuclear Regulatory Commission [email protected]/301-415-1828
Original----- Message ----- From: Batkin, Joshua To: Coggins, Angela Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:21:38 2011 Subject: Re: Thanks
Good
Joshua C. Batkin Chief of Staff Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko (301) 415-1820
Original----- Message ----- From: Coggins, Angela To: Batkin, Joshua Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:18:54 2011 Subject: Thanks I just finished getting mike there. He was good, cindy still not. And I said ok to the paragraph. Angela Coggins Policy Director Office of Chairman Gregory B Jaczko US Nuclear Regulatory Commission [email protected]/301-415-1828
2 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:19 PM To: '[email protected]'; (b)(6) r; Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: NRC
We are in te mifdst of an evolving situation and w willl notr commenmt hour to hour on what may or mnay not be going on. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cf (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Tapper, Jake
Thanks
Eliot and Scott, we're hearing a lot of things here at ABC News and wanted to make sure we touch base...
We've heard that the US believes two cores have been breached---two containment ruptures. We're hearing that the US is going to start withdrawing non-military personnel from Japan tonight.
And as you must know Giinther Oettinger, Europe's energy commissioner, said: "There is talk of an apocalypse and I think the word is particularly well chosen. Practically everything is out of control. I cannot exclude the worst in the hours and days to come."
Eager for any guidance you might have. Thanks.
Jake Tapper 202 222 7715 (b)(6) - cell
From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto:[ (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 "L:11z iVM To: Tapper, Jake; '[email protected]'; 'Scott. [email protected]' Subject: Re: NRC
Adding nrc here
From: Tapper, Jake
1 (& U I called NRC but didn't know who to ask for - do you have a contact there? thanks
2 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:10 PM To: Screnci, Diane; Sheehan, Neil; Hannah, Roger; Ledford, Joey, Chandrathil, Prema; Mitlyng, Viktoria; Uselding, Lara; Dricks, Victor, Harrington, Holly; McIntyre, David; Couret, Ivonne; Landau, Mindy; Brenner, Eliot Subject: FW: NRC response to MSNBC
Staff's response, feel free to use it in responding to follow-ups on MSNBC's jaw-flapping.
From: Munson, Clifford Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:06 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: NRC response to MSNBC
The objective of the GI-199 Safety/Risk Assessment was to perform a conservative, screening-level assessment to evaluate if further investigations of seismic safety for operating reactors in the central and eastern U.S. (CEUS) are warranted consistent with NRC directives. The results of the GI-199 SRA should not be interpreted as definitive estimates of plant-specific seismic risk. The nature of the information used (both seismic hazard data and plant-level fragility information) make these estimates useful only as a screening tool. The NRC does not rank plants by seismic risk. Currently operating nuclear plants in the United States remain safe, with no need for immediate action. This determination is based on NRC staff reviews of updated seismic hazard information and the conclusions of the Generic Issue 199 Screening Panel. Existing plants were designed with considerable margin to be able to withstand the ground motions from the "deterministic" or "scenario earthquake" that accounted for the largest earthquake expected in the area around the plant. During the mid-to late-1990s, the NRC staff reassessed the margin beyond the design basis as part of the Individual Plant Examination of External Events (IPEEE) program. The results of the GI-199 assessment demonstrate that the probability of exceeding the design basis ground motion may have increased at some sites, but only by a relatively small amount. In addition, the Safety/Risk Assessment stage results indicate that the probabilities of seismic core damage are lower than the guidelines for taking immediate action. From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:04 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Wait 15 minutes on press release?
Understood again.
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:04 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Wait 15 minutes on press .release?
Scott: if you have shared with white house and state, the embassy is covered. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C: (b(6J Sent from my Blackberry
From: Bumell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 12:01:50 2011 Subject: RE: Wait 15 minutes on press release?
Understood, will include Embassy on e-mail if I get address.
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:01 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Wait 15 minutes on press release?
Go live immediately after state. If we need to resend with raw data or additional paragraph or two later, we can do so. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment CF301 415 (b)(6)8200 I Sent trom my Blackberry
From: Bumell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:57:54 2011 Subject: Wait 15 minutes on press release?
To share with Embassy?
Or go live with no wait after State's done? 1 G /2J0 From: Batkin, Joshua Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:56 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; Coggins, Angela; Loyd, Susan Subject: Re: Release of data?
(b)(5)
Joshua C. Batkin Chief of Staff Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko (301) 415-1820
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot To: Coggins, Angela; Loyd, Susan Cc: Batkin, Joshua Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:44:52 2011 Subject: Re: Release of data?
(b)(5)
Eliot Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C1 (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
---- Original Message ----- From: Coggins, Angela To: Brenner, Eliot; Loyd, Susan Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:31:55 2011 Subject: Release of data?
(b)(5)
(b)(5) My bb no. is (b)(6) I'm in ops ctr. Angela Coggins Policy Director Office of Chairman Gregory B Jaczko US Nuclear Regulatory Commission [email protected]/301-415-1828
2 From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:51 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: harold denton
Got it
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:48 AM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: harold denton
Chairman briefed on differences between japanese and US BWRs. Not sure chairmn wants to be one-upped. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Ct (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:45:48 2011 Subject: harold denton
Called to say he's getting a lot of requests. Turning them down and referring to NRC. Also suggested folks brief chairman on specific design. (duh). Do you have any need for me to reach out to him? Do we want him doing press? Do we want him working for us?
1 eZO 1'2, 4'?'- From: Coggins, Angela Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:50 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Can you call the ops ctr
301-816-5419 Angela Coggins Policy Director Office of Chairman Gregory BJaczko US Nuclear Regulatory Commission [email protected]/301-415-1828
1 eoul-2, From: Screnci, Diane Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:49 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: annual assessment meetings
I (b)(5) Diane Screnci Sr. Public Affairs Officer USNRC, RI 610/337-5330
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:30 AM To: Screnci, Diane Subject: Re: annual assessment meetings
(b)(5) I I I will keep you posted. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C1 (b)( bent Trom my ackberry
From: Screnci, Diane To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:28:07 2011 Subject: RE: annual assessment meetings
(b)(5)
Diane Screnci Sr. Public Affairs Officer USNRC, RI 610/337-5330
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:56 AM To: Screnci, Diane; Harrington, Holly Cc: Hannah, Roger; Sheehan, Neil; Mitlyng, Viktoria; Dricks, Victor; Uselding, Lara Subject: Re: annual assessment meetings
(b)(5)
Diane: what message did youi contemlate for TV Eliot Brenner 13v/ý2,6 1 Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 q (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Screnci, Diane To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Hannah, Roger; Sheehan, Neil; Mitlyng, Viktoria; Dricks, Victor; Uselding, Lara Sent: Wed Mar 16 08:49:23 2011 Subject: annual assessment meetings
Eliot,
I attended a meeting this morning in the Region to discuss the upcoming annual assessment meetings. The staff is going-forward with the schedule.
(b)(5)
Diane Screnci Sr. Public Affairs Officer USNRC, RI 610/337-5330
2 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:47 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: FINAL draft state dept statement - No more changes pis unless absolutely needed
Yup, saw it. I'll call Holly/Brenda as soon as I see confirmation State's pushed the button.
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:46 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: FINAL draft state dept statement - No more changes pis unless absolutely needed
Did already Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 3014158200 C1 (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message ----- From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:43:39 2011 Subject: FW: FINAL draft state dept statement - No more changes pis unless absolutely needed
Are you in a position to concur?
Original----- Message ----- From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:36 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; Brenner, Eliot; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; Poneman, Daniel; Sheehan, Neil; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: FINAL draft state dept statement - No more changes pls unless absolutely needed
PIs respond within 15 minutes:
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Original----- Message ----- From: Hammer, Michael A Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:20 AM To: 'Shapiro, Nicholas S.'; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Let me add, and recirculate
Original----- Message ----- From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto[ (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:18 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; Holly. [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Hold hammer is this up to date? j (b)(5)
Original----- Message ----- From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:16 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement Importance: High
All:
2 Below with State edits. Given schedules RAPID clearance is important so we can get it out in advance of the Secretary doing several interviews with domestic and international media w/in the next 15 minutes.
Please raise any concerns ASAP.
Thanks
Statement below
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O rig----- in a l M e s s a g e-.... From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto: (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:00 AM To: Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; Holly. [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Great. DOE/NRC/DOD have all cleared. Again, state, over to you Hammer
Original----- Message ----- From: Lapan, David COL OSD PA [mailto:I (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:59 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; Holly. [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B
3 Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
DoD clears.
Col. Dave Lapan, USMC Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Media Operations) 1400 Defense Pentagon (2E974) Washington, DC 20301-1400 (703) 697-2300; DSN 227-2300
O rig----- in a l M e ssa g e -.... From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:52 AM To: Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Thanks. obviously DoE approves. State/DoD/NRC can you review again?
Here is full statement
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From: Leistikow, Dan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:47 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Hammer, Michael A; [email protected]; (b)(6) Holly. [email protected]; Scott.Burnell@ nrc.gov; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected] Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
The updated version below eliminated (b)(5)
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We want to underscore that there are numerous factors including weather, wind direction and speed, and the nature of the reactor problem that affect the risk of radioactive contamination within this 50 mile (80.4kms) radius or the possibility of lower-level radioactive materials reaching greater distances. In addition, the fast moving situation at the Fukushima reactor site means that the level or risk and the affected areas may change. The U.S. Embassy will continue to update American citizens as the situation develops.
From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtoI (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:35 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected];l (b)(6) [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]
5 Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Please add to this draft folks. im on a conf call with rest of USG, please make edits as you see fit and make sure all on this chain approve
From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:33 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected];[ (b)(6) ; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected] Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
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(b)(5) Sa separate chain because we have many folks here working this and don't want to confuse matters but am adding Caitlin Klevorick, who is now working with me 24/7 on Japan.
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From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtoI (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:59 AM To: Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; '[email protected]'; (b)(6) 1; '[email protected]'; 'Scott. Burnell @nrc.gov'; Poneman, Daniel; '[email protected]' Cc: Jensen, Robert R. Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
How about this? fixed the typos, added kms, and deleted i (b)(5) /I I
6 From: Leistikow, Dan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:49 AM To: '[email protected]'; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; '[email protected]'; (b)(6) '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Poneman, Daniel; '[email protected]' Cc: Jensen, Robert R. Subject: Re: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
DOE clears with the following comments/questions:
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7 From: Hammer, Michael A
I just got out of meetings sorry - will jump on this now.
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From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:22 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; I (b)(6) ; Hammer, Michael A; '[email protected]'; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; '[email protected]'; Sheehan, Neil Cc: Jensen, Robert R. Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Roger. State dept and DoE, you are only folks who have not blessed
Nick
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:20 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; 'I (b)(6) l; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; '[email protected]'; Sheehan, Neil Cc: Jensen, Robert R. Subject: Re: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
PIs advise when state has annoiunced. We are at hearinmg and have own release to send following state. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs
8 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Ci (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
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Chu says Japan reactor accident worse than Three Mile Island
By Edward Felker
Energy Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday that the Japanese nuclear station failures appear to exceed the severity of the Three Mile Island accident, but reiterated that President Barack Obama continues to support new nuclear power.
"The events unfolding in the Japan incidents actually appear to be more serious than Three Mile Island, to what extent we don't really know," Chu said at a hearing before two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees.
Chu's assessment was more serious than that made by Japanese nuclear authorities, who initially rated it as a four on the International Atomic Energy Agency's accident scale from one to seven. Three Mile Island has been rated a five, a 1957 Soviet Union accident as a six, and Chernobyl a seven.
Chu said U.S. plants are safe, and under questioning by Rep. Joe Barton, R- Texas, said Obama still backs construction of new U.S. reactors and is standing by his 2012 budget request for a tripling of nuclear loan guarantees, to $54 billion.
But he stressed that the Energy Department and NRC will "look again at the current existing nuclear power plants and any that are being considered and designed, look very hard and see how one could possibly upgrade the security."
Chu added, "We don't believe that there is any danger, but in any instance like this, when there are truly unfortunate events like what we're seeing in Japan, what we do is we look and learn from that."
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From: McIntyre, David Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:39 AM To: Hawkens, Roy; Graser, Dan; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Press contact/request
Et tu, Brute?
I'm getting slammed on the comments and the Food chat for writing about that .... the Yahoos ....
From: Hawkens, Roy Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:17 AM To: McIntyre, David; Graser, Dan; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Press contact/request
Not unless you've been drinking expensive Virginia wine.
From: McIntyre, David Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:06 AM To: Graser, Dan; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Hawkens, Roy Subject: Re: Press contact/request
Sounds like good advice. I rarely disagree with Eliot. In public, anyway.
David McIntyre NRC Office of Public Affairs (b)(6) ](mobile) 301-415-8200 (office) Sent from my BlackBerry, which is wholly respnsble for all typoos.
From: Graser, Dan To: McIntyre, David; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Hawkens, Roy Sent: Wed Mar 16 07:46:38 2011 Subject: RE: Press contact/request Dave, Eliot sent a quick response advising me to "stay away for now", which is in accord with my sentiment.
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Daniel J. Graser Licensing Support Network Administrator Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, NRC (301) 415-7401 [email protected] "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
From: McIntyre, David Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:45 AM To: Graser, Dan; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Hawkens, Roy Subject: Re: Press contact/request
I will call him later today if I remember. I be working 2 to midnight.
David McIntyre NRC Office of Public Affairs (b)(6) I(mobile) 301-415-8200 (office) Sent from my BlackBerry, which is wholly respnsble for all typoos.
From: Graser, Dan To: Brenner, Eliot; McIntyre, David Cc: Hawkens, Roy Sent: Wed Mar 16 07:26:03 2011 Subject: Press contact/request I got a voice message on my phone from an individual named Scott Conner (ph: 424-781-6036) who stated that he is with CBS/talk format and who asked me to give him a "shout back". I'm disinclined to do any interviews right now, any thoughts/recommendations?
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"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
2 From: Hayden, Elizabeth Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:39 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: NICCL Call at 10:30am (eastern) Japanese reactor
Great.
From: Brenner, Eliot To: Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:31:40 2011 Subject: Re: NICCL Call at 10:30am (eastern) Japanese reactor
Once we put out our release, let's resummarize on tje blog and any subsequient release where additinal info can be found. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CJ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Hayden, Elizabeth To: Harrington, Holly; Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:29:36 2011 Subject: Re: NICCL Call at 10:30am (eastern) Japanese reactor
We need to summarize what the overall govt is doing and pointing to links/(if there are any) with useful info. I.e. EPA has monitors...DOS has traveler advisories etct
From: Harrington, Holly To: Hayden, Elizabeth; Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 10:58:21 2011 Subject: RE: NICCL Call at 10:30am (eastern) Japanese reactor
Eliot says no. info changes too fast
From: Hayden, Elizabeth Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:54 AM To: Harrington, Holly; Brenner, Eliot Subject: Fw: NICCL Call at 10:30am (eastern) Japanese reactor
We need to get this info on our website as well as FAQs and links to other agency websites such as DOS for advice on travel to and travellers in Japan. That way we can refer callers there and take some workload off of us.
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Please make sure to get on this call as there seems to be some confusion over what folks can or should be doing.
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Federal communicators,
Please join a NICCL call at 10:30am to discuss your department's messaging role for the ongoing crisis in Japan.
We would like to focus our discussion on public events and opportunities taking place today, communications on Federal radiation monitoring, food, water, public health etc.
We will also plan to conduct a SICCL call this afternoon with Pacific Territorial communicators and western PlOs.
7 From: Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA <1 (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:39 AM To: 'Hammer, Michael A'; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; Poneman, Daniel; Sheehan, Neil; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: FINAL draft state dept statement - No more changes pls unless absolutely needed
DoD concurs
Original----- Message ----- From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:36 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: FINAL draft state dept statement - No more changes pis unless absolutely needed
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Original----- Message ----- From: Hammer, Michael A Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:20 AM To: 'Shapiro, Nicholas S.'; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Let me add, and recirculate
---- Original Message -.... From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:18 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
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--- Original Message---- From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:16 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement Importance: High
All:
Below with State edits. Given schedules RAPID clearance is important so we can get it out in advance of the Secretary doing several interviews with domestic and international media w/in the next 15 minutes.
Please raise any concerns ASAP.
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Statement below
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Original----- Message---- From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:00 AM To: Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Great. DOE/NRC/DOD have all cleared. Again, state, over to you Hammer
---- Original Message ----- From: Lapan, David COL OSD PA [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 20111 0:59 AM
3 To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
DoD clears.
Col. Dave Lapan, USMC Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Media Operations) 1400 Defense Pentagon (2E974) Washington, DC 20301-1400 (703) 697-2300; DSN 227-2300
Original----- Message ----- From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtoL (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1U:5L AM To: Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; [email protected]; Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected]; Lapan, David COL OSD PA; Whitman, Bryan SES OSD PA Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Thanks. obviously DoE approves. State/DoD/NRC can you review again?
Here is full statement
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From: Leistikow, Dan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:47 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Hammer, Michael A; [email protected]; (b)(6) ; [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected] Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
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From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:35 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; (b)(6) [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected] Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Please add to this draft folks. im on a conf call with rest of USG, please make edits as you see fit and make sure all on this chain approve
From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:33 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; F (b)(6) [email protected]; [email protected]; Poneman, Daniel; [email protected] Cc: Jensen, Robert R.; Klevorick, Caitlin B Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
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From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto:1 (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:59 AM To: Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; '[email protected]'; [ (b)(6) 1;'[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Poneman, Daniel; '[email protected]' Cc: Jensen, Robert R. Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
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From: Leistikow, Dan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:49 AM To: '[email protected]'; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; '[email protected]'; I (b)(6) I'; 'Holly.Ha rrington @nrc.gov'; '[email protected]'; Poneman, Daniel; '[email protected]' Cc: Jensen, Robert R. Subject: Re: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
DOE clears with the following comments/questions:
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I just got out of meetings sorry - will jump on this now.
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From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:22 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; I (b)(6) r; Hammer, Michael A; 'Dan. [email protected]'; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; '[email protected]'; Sheehan, Neil Cc: Jensen, Robert R. Subject: RE: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
Roger. State dept and DoE, you are only folks who have not blessed
Nick
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:20 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.;I (b)(6) '[email protected]'; 'Dan.LeistiKo h oe.gov'; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; '[email protected]'; Sheehan, Neil Cc: Jensen, Robert R. Subject: Re: emergency review needed on this draft state dept statement
PIs advise when state has annoiunced. We are at hearinmg and have own release to send following state. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:1 (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
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11 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:33 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: have to head to meeting. statement in your hands.just make sure dod signs off on both as well as you guys each do
No meeting for me, I don't understand his message...
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:29 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: have to head to meeting. statement in your hands. just make sure dod signs off on both as well as you guys each do
Go to meeting I will watch for signal. Hearing for gbj delayed until early afternoon. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cr (b)(6) I Sent from my Blackberry
From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:25:16 2011 Subject: FW: have to head to meeting. statement in your hands. just make sure dod signs off on both as well as you guys each do
From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto[ (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:23 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Burnell, Scott; Sheehan, Neil; Leistikow, Dan Subject: have to head to meeting. statement in your hands. just make sure dod signs off on both as well as you guys each do
Nick Shapiro Office of the Press Secretary The White House 202-456-3294 (direct) (b)(6) (cell) nshapirocbwho.eop.qov From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:25 AM To: Cappiello, Dina Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Quick Question
Dina;
On background, very quickly - it's not a single person, senior managers at the NRC Operations Center are communicating with NRC staff in Japan on relaying the latest information from official Japanese sources.
Scott
From: Cappiello, Dina [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:14 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Burnell, Scott Subject: Quick Question
Eliot, Scott:
I have a general question for you that AP needs for background purposes: Who at the NRC (or if it is more accurate what unit) at the NRC is most in contact with Japanese officials about the status of the nuclear incident unfolding over there?
We basically want to know _ at this point for internal purposes only _ the flow of information from Japan to U.S. So who is the main point of contact at NRC for that information, and what unit does he/she work in?
Thanks,
Dina Cappiello Environment/Energy Reporter The Associated Press
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1 Ib ~ ,?,- 1 From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:09 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Staffing
We can talk long-range strategy later, I guess. But people are thoroughly exhausted. We are running 12+ hours a day with no break. No one has sleep. We are overwhelmed with media requests. No regular work getting done at all. In the long run, this will be more and more focused on us -- are our plants safe, why aren't they closing, I expect, with full media attendance at all end-of cycle meetings etc. Regions not in a position to help us. Dave is scheduled to leave for vacation on Wednesday, etc. etc.
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:06 AM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: Staffing
Put neil on overnight again.
Explain why we need to get agency in. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CJ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original Message ----- From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:02:32 2011 Subject: RE: Staffing
You said all hands on deck tmorrow and so I said we'd have to pull Neil off nights to staff Thursday and Friday day. We can put Neil back on, If you want, because I think I'll get help from FEMA etc. by tomorrow.
Yes, very very bad and we do not have staffing to handle. I talked to beth today. We will need to hire PR people or get PR agency contract asap.
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:59 AM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: Staffing I will call laura and see if she can lend me someone. I have talked to dyer and a loan without request to reimbuirse is ok. What are we doing for overnight coverage. This is going to be bad Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cl (b)(6) 1 Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 10:57:03 2011 Subject: RE: Staffing
Can I ask someone from OCA?
---- Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:56 AM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: Staffing
No. I think we need himover night. I will handle it. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Ct (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
---- Original Message ----- From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 10:54:28 2011 Subject: RE: Staffing
I can wake up neil
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:47 AM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Staffing
Is there a spare body who could help downtown as I juggle interviews for bot GBJ and borchardt? Doesn't have to be an OPA regular. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C[ (b)(6)
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3 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:07 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: PDFs
No. Gbj pulled away to metinng. We will go on at 1 or 130. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CJ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 11:05:29 2011 Subject: RE: PDFs
Forwarded your note to Cyndi, will discuss momentarily. Chairman testifying?
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:02 AM To: Bumell, Scott Subject: Re: PDFs
Tell her the chairman wants the mterial made public. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 10:59:38 2011 Subject: PDFs
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Staying across street tonight (freebie) and downtown tomorrow night. PeGgy unavalable for barbara as they enroute paris. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C7 V(b)(6)7 Sent from my Blackberry From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:28 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Revised language for concurrence
Yes Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment Cf301 415(b)(6) 8200 Sent from my Blackberry
From: Bumell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 10:27:09 2011 Subject: RE: Revised language for concurrence
To office for finalization and wait for State before issuing, yes?
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:27 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Revised language for concurrence
Ok Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C:[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Bumell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 10:25:47 2011 Subject: RE: Revised language for concurrence
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From: Bumell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 10:20:25 2011 Subject: RE: Revised language for concurrence
Send to office for finalization?
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:13 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Revised language for concurrence
S (b)(5) I Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C1 (b)(6) Sent from my Bakberry
From: Bumell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wed Mar 16 10:00:56 2011 Subject: RE: Revised language for concurrence
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From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:55 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Re: Revised language for concurrence
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Then resend to me for GBJ approval.
Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Burnell, Scott To: Brenner, Eliot; Borchardt, Bill Sent: Wed Mar 16 09:34:24 2011 Subject: Revised language for concurrence
NRC PROVIDES PROTECTIVE ACTION RECOMMENDATIONS
TO STATE DEPARTMENT
The NRC no longer concurs with the existing protective action measures recommended by the Japanese government. Under the guidelines for public safety that would be used in the United States under similar circumstances, the NRC would recommend that residents within 50 miles of the affected site evacuate. The
NRC has provided this information to the U.S. State Department.
3 Among other things, in the United States protective actions recommendations are implemented when projected doses could exceed 1 rem to the body or 5 rem to the thyroid. A rem is a measure of radiation dose. The average American is exposed to approximately 620 millirems, or 0..62 rem, of radiation each year from natural and manmade sources.
In making protective action recommendations, the NRC takes into account a variety of factors that include weather, wind direction and speed, and the status of the problem at the reactors.
4 From: McIntyre, David Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:06 AM To: Graser, Dan; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Hawkens, Roy Subject: Re: Press contact/request Attachments: image00l.jpg
Sounds like good advice. I rarely disagree with Eliot. In public, anyway.
David McIntyre O Public Affairs (b() (mobile) 301-415-8200 (office) Sent from my BlackBerry, which is wholly respnsble for all typoos.
From: Graser, Dan To: McIntyre, David; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Hawkens, Roy Sent: Wed Mar 16 07:46:38 2011 Subject: RE: Press contact/request
Dave, Eliot sent a quick response advising me to "stay away for now", which is in accord with my sentiment.
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Daniel J. Graser Licensing Support Network Administrator Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, NRC (301) 415-7401 [email protected]
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
From: McIrtyre, David Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:45 AM To: Graser, Dan; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Hawkens, Roy Subject: Re: Press contact/request I will call him later today if I remember. I be working 2 to midnight.
David McIntyre NRC Office of Public Affairs (b)(6) I(mobile) 301-415-8200 (office) Sent from my BlackBerry, which is wholly respnsble for all typoos.
From: Graser, Dan To: Brenner, Eliot; McIntyre, David Cc: Hawkens, Roy Sent: Wed Mar 16 07:26:03 2011 Subject: Press contact/request
I got a voice message on my phone from an individual named Scott Conner (ph: 424-781-6036) who stated that he is with CBS/talk format and who asked me to give him a "shout back". I'm disinclined to do any interviews right now, any thoughts/recommendations?
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DanielJ. Graser Licensing Support Network Administrator Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, NRC (301) 415-7401 [email protected]
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
2 From: Hendin, Robert
Eliot, Hi, Its Rob Hendin with CBS News. I wanted to inquire about Chairman Jaczko's availability for a live interview this Sunday on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer. Is this something he would be available for or willing to do?
Thank you, Rob
Rob Hendin Sr. Political Producer Face the Nation CBS News 2020 M Street, NW Washington DC, 20036 202-457-4481 main 202-457-4450 (b)(6) cell rhe•,cbsnews.com
1 2eTl From: Peggy Friedlander Theil I (b)(6) Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:59 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: This weekend
Please Eliot. There's is NO need for you to have to remember our schedule. I'm just sorry I can't help out!
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 16, 2011, at 9:37 AM, "Brenner, Eliot"
> Ok. Thanks. Forgot your schedule. > Eliot Brenner > Director, Office of Public Affairs > US Nuclear Regulatory Commission > Protecting People and the Environment > 301415 8200 > Ci (b)(6) > Sent from my Blackberry
-----Original- Message ----- > From: Peggy Friedlander Theil (b)(6) 1> > To: Brenner, Eliot > Sent: Wed Mar 16 09:33:09 2011 > Subject: Re: This weekend
> Hi Eliot (b)(6) > Again, I'm really sorry I can't help out.
> Peggy
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> On Mar 16, 2011, at 8:35 AM, "Brenner, Eliot"
>> Eliot >> Eliot Brenner >> Director, Office of Public Affairs >> US Nuclear Regulatory Commission >> Protecting People and the Environment >> 301 415 8200 >> C. (b)(6) >> Sentfrom my Blackberry From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:41 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FW: 60 Minutes Request
Reqeuest for chuck casto
From: Kun, Rachael [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:57 PM To: Harrington, Holly Cc: OPA Resource; Young, Nicole; Ruetenik, Daniel Subject: 60 Minutes Request
Dear Holly,
Our 60 Minutes team with corresondent, Scott Pelley, are currently on the ground in Sendai Japan. We wanted to see if there's any way they can link up with NRC staffers at Fukushima. They are one of the last news teams on the ground covering this urgent and important situation. Please, let me know if there's any further information they can provide you to help with this request.
Thank you! best, Rachael Kun
~u 1 /Z1-1 From: Tifft, Doug Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:40 AM To: Burnell, Scott; Nguyen, Quynh Cc: Meighan, Sean; Couret, Ivonne; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Question
Thanks. -Doug
From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:43 AM To: Nguyen, Quynh; Tifft, Doug Cc: Meighan, Sean; Couret, Ivonne; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Question
Doug;
The bolded language below is an acceptable response from OPA's perspective. Thanks for checking.
Scott
From: Nguyen, Quynh Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:38 AM To: Couret, Ivonne; Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Tifft, Doug; Meighan, Sean Subject: FW: Question
Doug, you are correct. OPA needs to bless the answer to ensure we align with our currently available messages.
From: Tifft, Doug Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:34 AM To: LIA04 Hoc; Nguyen, Quynh Cc: Barker, Allan; Browder, Rachel; Erickson, Randy; Logaras, Harral; Maier, Bill; McNamara, Nancy; Trojanowski, Robert; Woodruff, Gena; Flannery, Cindy; Lukes, Kim; Noonan, Amanda; Rautzen, William; Rivera, Alison; Ryan, Michelle; Turtil, Richard; Virgilio, Rosetta; Dean, Bill; Lew, David Subject: RE: Question
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John, although we typically provide the state with nonpublic predecisional information and security related information (including safeguards information) related to the nuclear power plants in your state, due to the international nature of the event coupled with the difficulty of receiving clear, consistent, and accurate information from another country during their ongoing crisis, the NRC is unable to provide information on the magnitude of the release. We can say, that at this time, it does not appear that harmful levels of radiation will reach any part of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii. (b)(5)
-Doug
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From: Tiftf, Doug Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:44 PM To: LIA04 Hoc Cc: McNamara, Nancy Subject: FW: Question
Getting this question again. Can we say anything on this? -Doug
From: Giarrusso, John (CDA) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:00 PM To: McNamara, Nancy; Tifft, Doug Subject: Question
Nancy and Doug Continue to hear and see a wide range of information regarding the magnitude of the release in Japan. Can you clarify what Japan is seeing around the reactor, 10miles out and others? Thanks John
John Giarrusso, Jr. Planning and Preparedness Division Manager MEMA 508-820-2040 (w) (b)(6) (C)
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Yes and we very much appreciate it- our teams on the ground were really needing some solid advice.
Back to news - if any of your folks are free for a short interview, it would be great to talk to them on the ground. Thanks again.
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Did we get you sorted out ok? Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C: (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
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Eliot - Off the record - we are checking with you and anyone else at NRC to see if there are any additional precautions we should take with our teams on the ground in Japan based on changing conditions within the last six hours.
This is not a news request, it's a safety inquiry.
We are trying to determine the best route for the network - can someone/anyone at NRC call our National Desk tonight with any updated guidance at 212-975-4114, we are trying to make some immediate decisions.
Any guidance from the experts at NRC would be most appreciated, thank you very much,
Sorry to bother you so late,
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Unsure most have landed yet. I don't have a flack with them. Fyi they are officially part of the AID team. For time being you will have to go through usembassy or AID.
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1 (i~ House Passes Continuing Resolution By 271-158 Margin Coverage of the House vote on a three-week temporary funding measure, or continuing resolution, tends to highlight the divisions in the GOP caucus, which are cast as portending added difficulties in future budget deals. The AP E reports that the bill passed "despite opposition from some tea party-backed conservatives who said it 'kicks the can down the road' instead of imposing steep and immediate spending cuts. ... Fifty-four Republicans opposed the bill, which meant that Democratic support was required to pass it -- a prospect that GOP leaders must avoid to keep control of the debate in future rounds." The New York Times 'Eaareports that "21 of the 87 Republican freshmen" opposed the bill, a development that suggests that "the House leadership could have difficulty selling a final budget compromise to its membership if the plan dips very far below the $61 billion in cuts approved by the House and does not contain policy restrictions on abortion, the new health care law and environmental rules that many House Republicans favor." AF._._PP notes that "eighty-five Democrats joined 186 Republicans to muscle the legislation." Fox News' Special Report similarly reported that "conservative opposition gave Speaker John Boehner heartburn. And he acknowledged frustration over short-term budgeting and their call for so-called riders to defund the President's healthcare overhaul and Planned Parenthood, among other liberal favorites." USA Today Q meanwhile, says "the new measure is likely to pass the Senate." However, "six Republicans voted against the earlier short-term spending bill," and "more defections almost certain when the Senate takes it up in the next two days." For example, McClatchy EQalreports, "Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said he was against any more short- term extensions, saying he did 'not come to the US Senate to be part of some absurd political theater."' GAO Report On Duplicative Spending Proves Popular The Washington Times [aeports that the Government Accounting Office's "just-published look at waste and duplication in federal agencies," the "'duplication report,' as it's come to be called, garnered 90,277 visits in the first week after its March 1 release -- or more than three times the previous best-read item on GAO's website." While readership "has reached beyond the Beltway, it's within the Capitol that the document has really hit the target, drawing praise I even from the Senate's top Democrat and the Obama White House." Republicans Will Move To Cut Off NPR Funding Today The Los Angeles Times E;_jUreports, "House Republicans are preparing a new effort to strip NPR of all federal support, even as new questions have emerged from last week's scandal that forced an NPR fundraiser, as well as its chief executive, to resign." Today, "the House Rules Committee will meet in 'an emergency' session...to consider a bill that would permanently bar NPR or its affiliate stations from receiving federal funds."
Fire At Japanese Reactor Adds To Fears Of Nuclear Catastrophe The nuclear crisis in Japan continued to receive saturation coverage on US media outlets last night and this morning. Major news outlets focused on the risk of a major nuclear disaster in Japan, while downplaying fears of the ensuing radiation reaching the US West coast. "Japan's nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe," says the New York Times Eaon its front page, "after an explosion damaged the vessel containing the nuclear core at one reactor and a fire at another spewed large amounts of radioactive material into the air, according to statements from Japanese government and industry officials." The AP [• meanwhile, reports that "a fire broke out at a nuclear reactor again Wednesday, a day after the power plant emitted a burst of radiation that panicked an already edgy Japan and left the government struggling to contain a sniralina crisis."
2 The Los Angeles Times [inotes that "authorities" also said that "about 70% of another reactor's fuel rods had been damaged by the spate of accidents and breakdowns since Friday's earthquake and tsunami." This "ominous disclosure...compounded a sense of escalating hazards and fear." "Japan's nuclear emergency grew more dire", reports the Washington Post = ABC World News said, "The big fear is nuclear meltdown. Meaning the reactor core gets so hot, it turns into a radioactive molten mass, breaks through the containment vessel, spewing radioactivity through the air, ground and water." On the CBS Evening News, however, James Acton of the Nuclear Policy Program said, "Ithink is important to emphasize is that the possibility of a catastrophic release of radiation equivalent to Chernobyl is still very low." ABC World News reported that "for the first time, 750 workers at the Fukushima plant were told to leave to seek safe shelter. Only about 50 now remain. They are the last line of defense, willing to stay and continue what so far has been a difficult mission." ABC World News also reported, "We now have 3,500 confirmed dead...in the disaster area in Japan. And at least 7,400 reported still missing. That undoubtedly will rise." The Washington Post EIýreports from Tokyo, "With Japan in the throes of a three-pronged disaster, foreigners began fleeing the country in larger numbers Tuesday, as millions of people endured another frigid night with little food, water or heat." Warnings About Reactor Design Reportedly Ignored The New York Times [1ýhreports, "The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the cooling systems ever failed at a 'Mark 1' nuclear reactor, the primary containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably burst as the fuel rods inside overheated. ... Now, with one Mark 1 containment vessel damaged at the embattled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and other vessels there under severe strain, the weaknesses of the design - developed in the 1960s by General Electric -- could be contributing to the unfolding catastrophe."
Obama Touts NRC's Work, Vows Focus On Nuclear Security At Home President Obama addressed the nuclear crisis in Japan during interviews with local TV stations yesterday. The President's comments, in which he tried to reassure the country about the danger from nuclear power, received little attention from major news media outlets. AFP EýQnotes that Obama "emphasized that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 'thinks through all eventualities,'" adding, "Ido think it's important for us to think through constantly how can we improve nuclear technologies to deal with additional safety concerns that people have." The AP E]reports that in his local TV interviews, Obama defended "nuclear power as an important source of energy in the US," while warning that "all energy sources have downsides and none are foolproof." Politico's [_=Matt Negrin and MJ Lee report in a blog entry that Obama "granted local reporters.. .interviews in the Map Room as part of his effort to sell his education agenda. But the earthquake in Japan - and even his NCAA bracket - arose as topics in the interviews." WVEC-TV Norfolk, Virginia showed Obama telling interviewer Regina Mobley, "Istill think nuclear power is an important part of our overall energy mix, but I think, like anything else, we have to do it in a safe and sensible way." WPCW-TV Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania reported that Obama told anchor Jon Delano, "Our hearts go out to the people of Japan. They are dealing with a triple whammy, the earthquake, tsunami and now this nuclear accident, so we're providing them all the support we can." USA Today I ]reports, "In the United States, where 104 nuclear power reactors provide about 20% of the nation's electricity, the Japan disaster threatens to undermine a tenuous coalition of industry and environmental groups that support ...Obama's push to make nuclear power a significant piece of the nation's long-term push toward energy independence."
Petraeus Says He Will Soon Recommend Troop Drawdown The AP EýQreports that in testimony before a Senate panel, "amid signs of deepening war weariness among Americans, the top US commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday he will soon recommend a plan for beginning troop reductions." Gen. David Petraeus "said the tide is turning
3 in the war despite persistent questions about the durability of the Afghan government led by Hamid Karzai and the commitment of neighboring Pakistan to keep militants at bay." AFP E41says Petraeus' "upbeat assessment.. contrasted with more skeptical comments from the US intelligence services." Petraeus said "that four months before US troops begin to withdraw from the country he was optimistic about the course of the fight." The Washington Post IIreports, "In response to questions, Petraeus said he has not yet decided on the scope of the withdrawals that are to begin in July. But he expressed support for the concept of starting the drawdown then because 'it undercuts the narrative of the Taliban that we will be there forever' and sends a message of urgency to the Afghan government." Politico E lnotes that "Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, who testified alongside Petraeus on Tuesday, agreed that 'our strategy is working."' However, "Petraeus's cautiously optimistic remarks were met with skepticism on both sides of the aisle from senators who questioned whether the United States could meet its 2014 withdrawal deadline, beginning with a drawdown in July, considering the outsize security role Americans play." PetraeusDefends Concept Of Joint, Long-Term Bases The New York Times EQ!reports that Petraeus and Flournoy also "described the value of sustaining a long-term relationship with Kabul, and raised the possibility of operating joint military bases with local forces long after foreign troops are scheduled to withdraw in 2014."
Michigan Legislature Approves GOP-Backed Emergency Financial Measure The Detroit Free Press Eareports that the Michigan House "gave final approval to far-reaching powers for emergency managers appointed by the state to cities and school districts in financial distress. That includes the ability to terminate employee union contracts, fire local officials and even dissolve local governments and merge them with others. On a 62-48 vote, with only one Republican opposed, the bill was sent to Gov. Rick Snyder for his signature." According to the Detroit News 4 "Thousands of teachers and other union members have staged raucous protests against the legislation in recent weeks. ... Proponents of the bill said emergency financial managers need authority to right the financial ship in communities and school districts that have failed to solve their own financial problems."
CAMPAIGN NEWS
PPP Poll: 2012 Presidential Race Remains Wide Open A Public Policy Polling E[U(D) survey of 600 national Republican primary voters taken March 10-13 shows a tight race among potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates. According to the poll, Mike Huckabee leads with 18%, followed by Mitt Romney with 17%, Sarah Palin with 16%, Newt Gingrich with 14%, Rep. Ron Paul with 9%, Tim Pawlenty with 5%, Gov. Mitch Daniels with 4%, and Gov. Haley Barbour with 1%. With Huckabee excluded from the poll, Romney leads with 20%, followed by Palin with 19%, Gingrich with 18%, and Paul with 12%. With Palin excluded from the poll, Huckabee leads with 22%, followed by Gingrich with 20%, and Romney with 18%. With Huckabee and Palin both excluded from the poll, Romney and Gingrich tie with 24% each, followed by Paul with 12%.
Traversing Iowa, Barbour Woos GOP Activists Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Tuesday spent the day wooing activists in the first-in-the-nation caucusing state of Iowa. The LP LTU1eports, "In a week that made clear he's all but running for president," Barbour "told Iowa Republicans on Tuesday that their state would be central in his campaign - if, of course, he decides to seek the GOP nomination." The Des Moines Register EaaIreported on Barbour's busy day in Iowa, saying, "This is the new life for a man who, once the Mississippi legislative session ends in April, seems poised for a bid toward the Republican presidential nomination: Sioux City at breakfast, Des Moines at lunch, Davenport in the afternoon, then back to Mississippi at night." Radio Iowa EIapdds that Barbour, who "has been to Iowa twice in the past three weeks and plans a return trip before the end of" the month, "describes these trips as crucial for a candidate who's not well known beyond the ranks 4 of party insiders. 'Get to know some more people,' Barbour said. 'And some more people in Iowa have an understanding of what a Haley Barbour is."
Heller Announces Bid To Succeed Ensign The Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal Eareports NV2 Rep. Dean Heller (R) on Tuesday announced that he will mount a 2012 bid to succeed retiring Nevada Sen. John Ensign (R). Heller "first announced his candidacy in an e-mail to supporters, emphasizing his opposition to the 2008 bank bailouts and his commitment to ending President Barack Obama's 'big-government, job-killing agenda."' The Washington Times [pdd that in the email, Heller "accused the Obama administration and 'his Beltway allies' of 'proposing record spending that will add to America's job-killing debt."' Noting that Heller was reelected "in November by almost 31 percentage points," and "has significant campaign cash reserves in place," the Times adds that the Congressman will still likely face "a tough battle for the seat, said Jennifer E. Duffy, who covers Senate races for the Cook Political Report." Said Duffy, "This is going to be a competitive race. Republicans are fortunate that they right now have a really strong candidate." The Hill [ýipcdds Heller "is expected to be a formidable candidate. A recent poll from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) showed Heller starting ahead of every rumored Democratic candidate for the seat. Democrats see Rep. Shelley Berkley (Nev.) as their best choice but she told The Ballot Box earlier this month she's in no hurry to make a decision." The Los Angeles Times [E]reported on its website that Heller, "who won three statewide elections as secretary of state, goes in as the early favorite."
Missouri GOP Files Complaint Over McCaskill's Flights Politico [J-reports state Republicans "have filed a complaint against Sen. Claire McCaskill with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, calling for an investigation into whether the Missouri Democrat improperly used taxpayer funding to cover the cost of at least one airplane trip to a political event. McCaskill, who is up for reelection in 2012, paid more than $88,000 to the Treasury Department last week after a POLITICO report that she had used taxpayer funds from her Senate office account to repay nearly 90 -flights on a private plane that she co-owned." The Kansas City Star [•Nuotes Lloyd Smith, executive director of the Missouri Republican Party, as saying, "What she did was wrong. She used taxpayer money to pay for a political trip." According to the Star, McCaskill aides contend that she "had not violated any ethics rules," but "repaid the costs for all of the flights to dispel any notion that she had benefited financially from using the plane."
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Ambassador John V. Roos Press Conference U.S. Embassy March 16, 2011 Tokyo, Japan
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Well, first of all, good afternoon everyone. I just want to start by reiterating that the United States obviously continues to have Japan and the consequences of this tragedy and the victims in our thoughts and prayers, and those who are in the, particularly in the devastated areas, we are thinking of them at this time. We are continuing to have obviously massive search-and-rescue and recovery operations as well as humanitarian support. We know it's as urgent as ever, and I'm very proud of the fact that the United States, our government and its people, are stepping up in countless ways for the Japanese people during this time of need. I also understand that there's a lot of conflicting information out there and we're committed to providing you as much as up-to-date information as possible. As you know, it's an evolving situation in areas throughout Japan, but we'll try to get you as up-to-date information on an ongoing basis. I will take several questions today, and as in the past I'm joined by several members of my team here who we can rely on for some of the specifics. In addition, I think as you know, we have significant numbers of experts coming from the United States to help in the humanitarian disaster relief effort, the issues with regard to the nuclear situation, and we will be announcing many of those resources as they come.
First, why don't I just spend a minute giving you a list of some of the new information today. First of all, with regard to the Fukushima nuclear plant, as you know there are two NRC engineers as well as a Department of Health and Human Services radiation emergency specialist, and Department of Energy radiation health hazards experts have been already on the ground since last Saturday. I was just told an additional seven experts from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have arrived in Japan today. In addition, U.S. aerial and ground radiation monitoring equipment and 34 personnel arrived in Japan last night. These personnel have expertise in health physics and airborne and ground-based radiation field monitoring. The equipment includes detectors, data acquisition systems, and health physics kits. In the military support area, we have delivered over 7,000 pounds of food and water to the disaster area and more is on the way. Nine ships are assisting in the relief operations, and helicopters and other aircraft have now flown over 50 missions to conduct survivor recoveries, transport passengers, and distribute food and water supplies in the most needy areas. With regard to some of the other assistance that's being provided by USAID, at this point in time more than 5.8 million dollars of United States aid has come to Japan so far and more is on the way. Urban search-and-rescue teams are working under the instruction of the Japanese and are coordinating with UK and Chinese teams to ensure a coordinated international response. So, this is just obviously a small piece of the incredible resources that the United States is providing to this human tragedy. Again, our thoughts are with the people of Japan in this incredibly difficult and tragic time, and we will continue to provide assistance in any way possible as Japan confronts its enormous challenges in the weeks and months and years ahead. Thank you.
QUESTION: Anthony Rowley, Singapore Business Times. Mr. Ambassador, I've just been at a briefing at the Prime Minister's office given by an official and he said, "We do not expect that there will be a significant increase in radiation levels on the basis of what's happened up till now." He also said, "At this time, we do not see that those living beyond the 30 km radius need to take further precautionary measures." My question is: Is that the same assessment that your own U.S. experts have of the situation?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Well, I would defer - are you talking about the latter half of your question, is it the same? I think with respect to the first part of your question, I would defer to the Prime Minister on that. With regard to the second part of the question, I think that our experts both here on the ground with massive support at the highest levels of the United States have continued to review on a continual basis and have, after careful analysis of the radiation levels and damage assessments of the units at Fukushima, our experts continue to be in agreement -- and particularly the NRC statement that came out that they recommended to continue to follow the advice of the Japanese government in this regard.
QUESTION: Ken Moriyasu from Nikkei. Has the Japanese government requested the U.S. military helicopter assistance in pouring coolant or water over the nuclear reactors? And what kind of capabilities would you say that the U.S. military has in this regard?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Well, we've been consulting with the Japanese on a whole broad range of requirements. I would defer to the Department of Defense with regard to that specific request. Justin Cooper, do you have anything to add to that?
CAPTAIN JUSTIN COOPER: These types of requests for specialized equipment are all being coordinated through our bilateral joint operations center in Yokota Air Base by USFJ. QUESTION: Satoru Suzuki with TV Asahi. I'm following up on the previous question. You're not sure that you have received such request for helicopter operations from the government of Japan?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: I would just refer to Captain Cooper's response on that.
QUESTION: On Monday, the Seventh Fleet repositioned their ships, including the USS Ronald Reagan, away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. In the wake of the further radiation from the nuclear power plant, have you moved your ships farther away?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Justin, do you want to take that? With regard to the first question, the first part, I want to reemphasize that Admiral Willard stated that those were precautionary measures and I would refer you to the statement that came out in the Defense Department with regard to the rationale for that. Captain Cooper?
QUESTION: Where's the Essex?
2 AMBASSADOR ROOS: You got away with an extra one.
CAPTAIN JUSTIN COOPER: I don't think I heard your third question.
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Where's the Essex?
CAPTAIN JUSTIN COOPER: Right, the Essex is on its way. It should arrive tomorrow, bringing critical supplies, men, and equipment, and those will be moved into the area as soon as possible.
MODERATOR: The second question, Captain Cooper, was in regard to the repositioning.
CAPTAIN JUSTIN COOPER: The reposition of the Navy ships, I really can't comment on that, but you can go to the Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Navy and they can provide those justifications.
QUESTION: Matt Frei from the BBC. Has the U.S. deployed its own radiation detection equipment because you're trying to help the Japanese, or you don't trust the data they're giving you? And also, what is your advice to American citizens at the moment, regarding the nuclear question?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Well, I already answered the question with regard to the advice to the American citizens and that is with regard to the guidelines that are provided by the Japanese, the NRC is in concurrence with it. Let me see specifically. The Japanese are recommending a 20 km radius for evacuation and additional shelter-in-place recommendations out to 30 km. What was the second question again?
QUESTION: [inaudible]
AMBASSADOR ROOS: No, it's not. We're deploying all these capabilities because there is a crisis going on and it's important to provide as much assistance to the Japanese as possible, and in addition we have our own citizens here in Japan. Their health and safety is obviously our highest concern, so the bottom line is it's not a matter of a lack of trust in the data that's being provided, but the fact that. we have these tremendous capabilities that we are deploying here to Japan.
QUESTION: Mr. Ambassador, Jun Kaminishikawara with Kyodo News. French government and American think tanks are assessing the incident of the Fukushima nuclear power plant reactor as 'class 6,' just below the Chernobyl. Is that the same as the American experts' assessing? And also, French government is considering to send special flight to evacuate, for evacuation from Tokyo. How do you think about that?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Well, I think the French have to, every country has to make its own decision in that regard, and I respect the French. And they've made their independent judgment. The United States will continue to make its judgment, which is based on the primary importance of the health and safety of the American citizens in Japan. That will continue to be our number-one objective, and we will do anything we feel necessary in order to protect their health and safety. With regard to the first part of the question, I'd have to refer you to the NRC, and the analysis they apply in this type of situation.
QUESTION: Martin Williams from IDG. I wonder if you could tell me a little bit about the mood of American citizens in Tokyo. We're hearing reports of a lot of people at Narita Airport, on the Shinkansens, at the immigration center. Have you been getting a lot of calls? Are your words of 3 reassurance, do you think, being heard? Or do you think there's a danger of some sort of panic amongst the foreign residents, particularly the Americans? Thank you.
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Well, I'll give you my take on the question. Obviously, American citizens, like all citizens, like all people in Japan and throughout the world, are concerned right now. There is concern, and it's only natural. With regard to specific calls we're receiving, why don't I call on Paul Fitzgerald, who is our Consul General here in the Embassy.
CONSUL GENERAL FITZGERALD: We have, since Friday, received a large number of calls, both here at the Embassy, at our five constituent posts around Japan, and to the Department of State from U.S. citizens concerned about their own welfare and Whereabouts, and in many cases from concerned relatives and friends in the United States about individuals here in Japan. Is there another part?
QUESTION: The mood?
CONSUL GENERAL FITZGERALD: The mood? Again, people are calling with concerns, but I would call it just a concern at this point. We've seen nothing beyond that.
QUESTION: Hideki Yui, NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation. I have a couple of follow-up questions on the USS Essex. The USS Essex and the other two amphibious ships were supposed to arrive in Sendai port, but because of the radioactivity concerns, they moved to the east of sea. And I'm wondering, if that's true, your assessment is different from the Japanese assessment, because Sendai port is pretty far away from Fukushima nuclear power plant. And my second question is, the mission of the 3 1st MEU, the mission of the 3 1st MEU was supposed to clean up Sendai Airport. Because of the destination change, has the mission been changed or not?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: I would refer to Captain Cooper with regard to that.
CAPTAIN COOPER: I would direct you mostly to U.S. Forces, Japan to answer the specifics of that question. But I can tell you that they're looking to bring the equipment and the men in as soon as possible, in the most efficient way and the safest way, the quickest way they can get that equipment to the areas affected. So they're looking at that. And that's why they changed the location, it's to better support the Ground Self-Defense Forces in their role and response.
QUESTION: Mr. Ambassador, Nao Tase from TBS. I have a question about the situation in Fukushima. What are the specific, can you be more specific about the measures that you are discussing with the Japanese government in order to handle the situation in Fukushima? And what will be the standard to move your fleet further away from what's happening in Fukushima?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: When you say, 'our fleet'?
QUESTION: Your fleet. Your ships, further away from where they are now.
AMBASSADOR ROOS: I think Captain Cooper already answered the second part of the question. With regard to the first part of the question, it's basically, we have our experts at the NRC, the Department of Energy, throughout our entire government, analyzing the data, consulting not only among themselves but with experts that have significant expertise in addressing the different complexities of this complex problem. So I think that you can't point to one determination or 4 standard that the United States government is applying. The NRC has come out with a statement. I would refer you to the NRC. The NRC has come out with recommendations. I would refer you to their statement. But I don't think that, well, the bottom line is, it's a very complex set of decisions that involves significant numbers of people and data. QUESTION: I am Iwata, Sankei Newspaper. I'd like to ask about the nuclear plant. Did the Japanese government give any request to U.S. nuclear experts?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Any...
QUESTION: Any request, any request?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Any request? We have been in consultation - well, first, I should emphasize that the Japanese government has significant expertise - and that's probably an understatement saying 'significant,' they're one of the most experienced countries in the world with regard to nuclear power and nuclear power plants. The United States government also has significant and massive expertise in the nuclear area that we have offered and made available to the Japanese. I think it's important to state that this is a Japanese nuclear power plant, and they are obviously the ones that are taking the lead and are responsible for addressing the issues that are faced at Fukushima right now. But the United States has and will continue to provide any support it can in continuing to address the issues as they have arisen.
QUESTION: Mary Kay Magistad from the BBC Public Radio International program "The World." Two questions: first of all, is there anything that the equipment or the experts coming in from the U.S. related to radiation detection, is there anything they can do that the Japanese already on the ground can't? Is there a complementarity, an enhancement of ability to figure out the situation, that the U.S. team brings? And secondly, what is your current advice to Embassy staff and their families in terms of staying in Tokyo regarding the level of radiation?
AMBASSADOR ROOS: Well, with regard to anything special about the equipment, I'd have to refer you to the experts. I mean, I think that the way that the United States has approached this issue, the overall issue of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the Fukushima plant, is to mobilize significant resources to be here in Japan, both for the United States citizens as well as obviously to confront the major issues that Japan is dealing with. And whether or not there is duplication in some of the capabilities, you know, is not really that important. Because what's most important is that we have the resources here, as things develop here in Japan, to confront the issues that are coming up, that have come up and will come up. And we're trying to, obviously, and our government is trying to anticipate future contingencies. So we will continue to provide that level of support here in Japan. *With regard to what we're advising the American citizens, again I'd point back to the NRC guidance, and I would refer you to that. Obviously we're spending a lot of time with our employees here at the Embassy, because this is a difficult time for everyone in Japan. There have been horrible tragedies. There's the earthquake, there's the aftershocks. And this is something that is deeply felt by everyone in this country, whether you are an American or Japanese. And so, this is a time not only for our two countries and the international community to pull together to address this human tragedy, but it's an important time in our Embassy community to continue to, as we work 24 by 7, to address the tragedies here. It is a time for us to pull together and be with one another, and support each other as these days and weeks go on.
5 MODERATOR: We've run out of time for this session. Thank you, Mr. Ambassador. We will try to establish another time and place for the next update of information for the briefing, so please stay in touch with us and we'll send that information out. Thank you.
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No risk of Japan radiation on West Coast - OC Science - The Orange... By Pat Brennan, science, environment editor Tweet Share Radiation from Japan's troubled nuclear reactors has virtually no chance of reaching the West Coast, Alaska or other locations in the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said... OC Science - htt2://sciencedude.ocregister.com/
Nuclear Power Play: A Look at the Industry in the Tri-State - WNYC He said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is too pro-industry to contemplate a worst-case scenario that he said could have catastrophic consequences for the metro region. "The regulators are completely absent in terms of the unexpected ... The latest stories from www.wnyc.org - http://www.wnyc.or•/?sourceref=rss
NRC recognizes appropriateness of Japan's 20-kmn evacuation order ... The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday it recognizes the appropriateness of Japan's order for residents within a 20- kilometer radius of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to evacuate following the continuing accidents there ... News - Kvodo News - http:i/enelish.kvodonews.ip!
What the nuclear crisis in Japan means for U.S. nuclear policy By Allison Fisher Here's Gundersen on Democracy Now!: "The NRC in 1972 said we never should have licensed this containment. And in 1985, the NRC said they thought it was about a 90 percent chance that in a severe accident this containment would fail. Fner••v Vox - httn:i!www.enerwvvox.orol
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US stands by nuclear power, Energy secretary says Los Angeles Times Chu is scheduled to return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday with Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Jaczko is also scheduled to brief the Senate Environment and Public Works ... See all stories on this topic >>
US help needed to contain nuclear disaster, Tokyo says Monsters and Critics.com The commission's chairman Gregory Jaczko said there were plans to send another team soon. The commission said that Japan's evacuation of a 20-kilometre radius around the Fukushima plant, 250 kilomnetres north of Tokyo, was 'parallel' with US emergency ... See all stories on this topic ))
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1 /ý ý/,z qý From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:58 AM To: Digest Recipients Subject: [DH] Digest for [email protected] - 20 Messages in 10 Topics
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" Arabs call for no fly zone [4 Updates] * Would you stay in Japan covering this story? [2 Updates] " Danger of earthquake on US west coast [4 Updates] • torture in Cairo (and YER tgwitter reappears...) [1 Update] • IDH] MSNBC the ONLY one live at 8P PT? [3 Updates] * evacuated [1 Update] * hand signals [2 Updates] " NPR Defunding Bill [1 Update] " state of the art. or something [I Update] " Al Webb address [I Update]
Topic: Arabs call for no fly zone Jeffrey Reynolds I (b)(6) Mar 16 02:28AM . .
susan - if the arab league wants a no-fly zone over libya, no one is stopping it from imposing one. the arabs all have air forces, most of them supplied by us. but they'd rather the u.s. and europe do it so they can bitch about white guys making war on muslims. libya is gonna be stuck with ghadaffi and his family for a long time. f--k 'em.
the payment to egypt is a bribe for making nice-nice with israel, who we also pay very nicely thank you very much. you decide whether it's worth it.
Jeffrey C. Reynolds
Ted;The United States of America provides annual military assistance to Egypt which
amounted to US$1.3 billion in 2009 (inflation adjusted US$ 1.33 billion in 2011).] This 1 eý ()) 2 ý f level is second only to Israel.
And what do we get for this huge sum?
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
victor laszlo (b)(6) Mar 15 07:48PM -0700 A
Susan asks -- And what do we get for this huge sum? --- A cold peace between Israel and Egypt.It's worth it. War would disrupt oil supplies in this crucial region. FrankCsongos
Anthony Miller (b)(6) Mar 15 11:06PM -0700 A
I agree with Frank: a cold peace btwn Israel and Egypt is worth the price. Right now the West could NOT sustain a war that would disrupt the oil flow -- or hike prices too much higher. 73 tony/mx
--- On Tue, 3/15/11, Jeffrey Reynolds (b)(6) wrote:
From: Jeffrey Reynolds I (b)(6) Subject: RE: [DH] Arabs call for no fly zone To: "downhold"
susan - if the arab league wants a no-fly zone over libya, no one is stopping it from imposing one. the arabs all have air forces, most of them supplied by us. but they'd rather the u.s. and europe do it so they can bitch about white guys making war on muslims. libya is gonna be stuck with ghadaffi and his family for a long time. f--k 'em.
the payment to egypt is a bribe for making nice-nice with israel, who we also pay very nicely thank you very much. you decide whether it's worth it.
Jeffrey C. Reynolds
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Ted;The United States of America provides annual military assistance to Egypt which amounted to US$1.3 billion in 2009 (inflation adjusted US$ 1.33 billion in 2011).] This level is second only to Israel.
And what do we get for this huge sum?
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
"R. E. Stannard Jr." (b)(6) Mar 15 11:55PM -0700 A Susan DeLong (b)(6) Mar 16 10:18AM +1100 A on $1.3 billion annual US military aid to Egypt:
And what do we get for this huge sum?
Answer:
Besides the peace treaty with Israel, the original quid pro quo? Well, how about: * annual joint desert war maneuvers with the Egyptian Army? * a close working relationship with the Egyptian airforce (including arms and airplane sales our MIC loves)? * closer oversight over how the money is used than we have with the Israelis? * probably overflight and refueling rights (but that's an unresearched guess)? and of course, * rendering privileges for prisoners we wish to see undergo "robust" interrogations we don't want on our own record? (This gives their spooks and ours a shared interest in shielding against war-crimes prosecution)
I believe our top policymakers see it as a real bargain.
I have my doubts, but few in the Middle East are better positioned than Egypt to collaborate with us at the covert-agencies level.
And the Egyptian professionals and elite generally think more highly of Americans than of the arrogant wealthy Saudi princes that circumstances make them work for.
Perhaps you detect some of the reasons young Egyptians (and I) are cynical about these things. And maybe even why rural Egyptians distrust us as much as they distrust their own rulers -- as devoutly to be dodged...
It also makes the rural folk easy marks for Islamist equivalents of a certain Kansas city clergyman and his ilk. Sharia Law has a lot in common with other fans of a God of Wrath. Were the prince of peace to reappear incognito today as a penniless but compelling itinerant teacher/preacher, the wrath-worshippers of both faiths would join in calling for his earthly immolation or worse...
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Topic: Would you stay in Japan coverinq this story?... Susan DeLong I (b)(6) Mar 16 12:15PM +1100 A
Radio France to withdraw staff reporting on Japan quake PARIS, March 15, Kyodo Radio France decided Tuesday to pull out staff dispatched to cover the major earthquake in Japan, following a series of accidents at a Japanese nuclear power plant, a public relations official told Kyodo News. The state-nm radio station has sent a total of seven reporters and technical staffers to report on last week's quake and tsunami, and accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The decision to withdraw the staff was made given the seriousness of the accidents at the nuclear power plant, the official said. The pullout will leave one correspondent based in Japan for the French radio station. If the correspondent decides to leave Japan, support will be offered in arranging return travel, according to the official.
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
Anthony Miller (b)(6) Mar 15 11:12PM -0700 A
I would take the same precautions our U.S. Military is taking on station in Japan. 73 tony/mx
--- On Tue, 3/15/11, Susan DeLong (b)(6) wrote:
From: Susan DeLong <1 (b)(6) Subject: [DH] Would you stay in Japan covering this story? To: "downhold downhold"
4 Radio France to withdraw staff reporting on Japan quake PARIS, March 15, KyodoRadio France decided Tuesday to pull out staff dispatched to cover the major earthquake in Japan, following a series of accidents at a Japanese nuclear power plant, a public relations official told Kyodo News. The state-run radio station has sent a total of seven reporters and technical staffers to report on last week's quake and tsunami, and accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The decision to withdraw the staff was made given the seriousness of the accidents at the nuclear power plant, the official said. The pullout will leave one correspondent based in Japan for the French radio station. If the correspondent decides to leave Japan, support will be offered in arranging return travel, according to the official.
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
Topic: Dangqer of earthquake on US west coast Susan DeLong (b)(6) Mar 16 01:13PM +1100A
Maybe you ought to look at this
httD://news.vahoo.com/s/nm/20110315/ts nrn/us auake california
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
"Dave Rosso" ý_ (b)(6) ]- Mar 15 07:35PM -0700 A
Interesting. Also notice at bottom of story, a very familiar name - Steve Gorman.
Rosso-wa
Maybe you ought to look at this
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110315/ts nm/us quake california
5 Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
gary haynes
Susan DeLong posted an article on a California quake, a variation of the not if but when statement of the inevitable that The New York Times has reported every five years or so since Walter Sullivan, the Science Editor, did a "takeout" on it
The Japan situation is unlikely to shake San Franciscans out of denial and when Sullivan reported the story originally he found a rare bird - a genuine San Francisco native who'd survived the 1906 quake.
The guy was on a bench in Union Square. At the time, Sullivan was almost 70; his subject was probably 80 or bettter. But when Walter got around to asking the guy if he didn't realize that another quake was a certainty, the guy stood up, the 80 year old pumching his finger into the chest of the NYT 70's - year old.
"Sonny," the guy says. "just say that if she (meaning San Francisco) goes, I want to go with her, because without her, life wouldn't be worth living anyway."
Anthony Miller (b)(6) Mar 15 11:00PM -0700 A
I know how the Old Timer feels. San Francisco gets "into" you that way. I lived 14 years on the West Coast, many of them IN San Francisco; most of the rest in the IMMEDIATE S.F. Bay Area.
"The City" is something special. Old SX hands like Art McGinn, his bro. Jerry McGinn and Max Vanzi (if he's still with us) would know what I mean. "Ya' had to have been there... "
73 tony/mx
--- On Tue, 3/15/1l, gary haynes
"Sonny," the guy says. "just say that if she (meaning San Francisco) goes, I want to go with her, because without her, life wouldn't be worth living anyway."
6 Topic: torture in Cairo (and YER tciwitter reappears...) "R. E. Stannard Jr." (b)(6) Mar 15 10:09PM -0700 A
These days the eyes of America are on Japan 24/7. But meanwhile, for those who can tear their eyes away, here is a click-link into dismal developments unfolding on the streets of Cairo.
https ://twitter.com/YasmineRashidi
I was quite worried this past fortnight when Yasmine El Rashidi's twitter messages & relays abruptly vanished after the Feb.26 crackdown, so I'm much relieved to see it reappear. (Did wonder if she hied off to Libya, but I doubt she'd let go of the Egyptian story.) Still have no direct word from her where or how she has been, but surely she's had too much on her hands to chatter with old friends in retirement.
I'm still too new to the twitter universe to be quite sure which tweets are hers and which are her relays of others. (TF may be able to illuminate) But it sounds like earlier Copt/Muslim solidarity was pretty fragile and the authorities are viciously driving a wedge between them rather than protecting Copts and order.
Also don't know what to make of the term "electrocution" without more context. YER's earlier tweets reported folk arrested by military coming out with reports of torture interrogation, including electric. This excerpt from the William J. Dobson piece on the WP op-ed page this a.m. offers some explicit detail:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/the- military-is-above-the-nation/2011/03/04/ABYTfcW_blog.html
Soldiers beat and kicked her. They tore her headscarf from her. And then, in what was as bizarre as it was shocking, they took her and other peaceful demonstrators to the famed Egyptian museum on the north side of the square - to be tortured. Samira was handcuffed to a wall in the museum complex. For nearly seven hours - almost every five minutes, she said - Samira was electrocuted with a stun gun. Her torturers would sometimes splash water on her and others to make the shocks more painful. The electrical jolts were applied to her legs, shoulders and stomach. She pleaded with the soldier to stop. Repeating what the demonstrators had chanted in Tahrir Square, she said, "I begged them. I said, 'You are my brothers. The army and the people are one."' Her tormentor replied, "No, the military is above the nation. And you deserve this." At around 11 p.m., Samira and others were moved to one of the main military prisons. She would remain there for three more days. Over those days, the abuse, insults and intimidation continued. They spit on her. All of her belongings were stolen. She was given kerosene-soaked bread for food. But the most humiliating moment was when they first brought her into the prison. She and 10 other women arrested in the square were stripped and forcibly examined to determine whether they were virgins. She had been told that any woman found not to be a virgin would have prostitution added to her charges.
7 When they led her into the room where she would suffer this indignity, she paused for a moment. Behind the military man waiting for her, she noticed a photograph. It was a portrait of Hosni Mubarak. She asked the soldier, "Why do you keep that up there?" He replied, "Because we like him."
If Americans have been getting any detailed coverage out of Cairo this month, I've missed it. Certainly the TV spotlight has been turned off. But I have myself been otherwise preoccupied and not really searched. A quick google just now yielded the above op-ed AND this unbylined ghost of our DH glories past:
CAIRO, March 15 (UPI) -- Egyptians are called on to prepare for Friday demonstrations to reject proposals to amend the country's constitution, reform movements said.
The account runs several paragraphs, with little attribution and no credits. Read more at: http://www.upi.com/Top News/Special/2011/03/15/Refonnists-call- for-Egyptian-protests/UPI-65981300208587/#ixzz 1GjRpDMxy
I fear that the maze of intelligence and security forces in Egypt, as in Pakistan, have their own diverse and self-designed agendas that will linger on and weaken any reformist trends. I suspect they share with covert sub-cultures the world over -- government or anti-government -- the survival reflex to resist opening-up as fiercely as they resist constraints or elimination.
Tough, self-perpetuating burrowers that feed and operate out of sight in total darkness, tunneling into the very structures of society, have more in common with termites than watch-dogs or guard dogs. They don't strengthen social solidarity; they riddle and weaken it.
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Topic: {DH1 MSNBC the ONLY one live at 8P PT? "Barney Lerten"
What is incredible to me this week is, I get home from work, and watch Anderson Cooper-CNN or whoever on Fox - TAPED at 8p West Coast time amid these tremulous times in Japan? I understand the replays during normal times, but this ain't them. So glad to see MSNBC is on live now. I'm sure the others can do cuts in - heck, CNN with help from the international folks WAS live in West Coast primetime/East Coast late night last week. Are we seeing impact of staff-budget cuts? It's the middle of the day there for goodness sake;-/
Barney Lerten-JO/SX/SXC
8 Assignment Mgr/Digital Content Director NewsChannel 21/KTVZ.COM
Bend, Oregon
Tom Foty (b)(6) > Mar 15 11:23PM -0400
watched a few mins of Cooper at top of hour, mostly a prepared background package... but do note the absence of the "live" super.
on MSNBC, saw intvu with ex NRC commissioner Victor Gilinsky .. which is serious deja vu .. as he was a key player at TMI.
tf.. via wireless Sidekick
Tom Foty I (b)(6) Mar 15 11:25PM -0400 A
so now watching NHK live .. just bunning new quake warning.
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Topic: evacuated (b)(6) Mar 15 10:55PM -0400 A
ema3lsv06.turner.com Sent: 3/15/2011 8:52:56 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time Subj: CNN Breaking News
Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear power plant have suspended operations and evacuated, chief Cabinet secretary says.
Topic: hand siqnals Jim Sielicki (b)(6) Mar 15 09:27PM -0400 A
Ah, Jeff. Those of us who rode vintagemotorcycles (I had a 1958 BMW) had to know hand signals, and if I remember back to the days of taking the MC test, it was one of the items you had to know to get an endorsement. Oh, the joy of gathering bugs in your teeth. cheers slick-tl
9 Jeffrey Reynolds (b)(6) Mar 16 02:2 1AMA
never was a cyclist - older brothers both took it up in their 50s for some reason, one was still riding in his 70s - but the first car i had with automatic signals was a used '49 mercury, circa '54 when i got out of the army. before car a/c motorists were more likely to hand-signal in the summer when the windows were open, less likely in the winter when they were not. straight out for left, up and to the right over the roof for right. was tempted to mutter about the good old days but they weren't that good.
Jeffrey C. Reynolds
Topic: NPR Defundincq Bill Tom Foty I (b)(6) Mar 15 08:59PM -0400 A
The House is expected to take up a standalone bill to prohibit taxpayer funds for NPR on Thursday .. pretty specific in its goal. Doubt the Senate will buy it like this, but the GOP really does dislike NPR.
HR 1076 - Defunding NPR
Bill Summary:
Prohibits direct federal funding of National Public Radio
. NPR received over $5 million in direct funding in FY10 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Department of Education, Department of Commerce, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Prohibits stations from using federal funds to pay NPR dues
• Current Corporation for Public Broadcasting Guidelines allow public radio stations to use their federal grant funding for the payment of dues to NPR. In FY10, over 400 member stations paid a total of $2.8 million in dues to NPR.
Prohibits public radio stations from using federal funds to purchase programming
• Current federal law requires that approximately 26% of federal grants to public radio stations be used for the production or acquisition of programming, including programming for national distribution. Many stations use these "restricted" grants to purchase programming from
10 NPR. Programming fees are the largest single source of NPR revenue, at $56 million in FY10.
The bill permits public radio stations to use non-federal funds for the payment of NPR dues and the acquisition of programming. Stations can continue to receive federal grants for the production of their own programming.
Questions & Answers:
Q. How does this fit in with H.R. 1?
A. H.R. 1 defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. If the House position were to prevail and this bill (H.R. 1076) were enacted, H.R. 1076 would prohibit other federal funding from going to NPR.
Q. Why does this bill restrict what local stations can do with federal funding?
A. In FY09-10, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributed federal grant money to over 600 public radio stations. These stations, in turn, spend that money (in part to comply with federal law) to purchase programming from and to pay dues to NPR. NPR claims to be "an independent, self-supporting media organization," yet receives 36% of its funding from station programming fees and membership dues. As NPR's website explains, "The largest share of NPR's revenue comes from program fees and station dues paid by member stations that broadcast NPR programs."
Q. Why does this bill prohibit the use of federal funds to acquire programming from sources other than NPR?
A. Programming is content. The common objection to taxpayer funding of NPR and other public radio is that taxpayers are financing the propagation of views with which they may disagree. This bill treats NPR and all other providers of content equally by providing that taxpayer funds are not used for the acquisition of programming. Stations may still use non-federal fund to purchase programming.
tf.. via wireless Sidekick
Topic: state of the art. or something Susan DeLong (b)(6) Mar 16 11:49AM +1100 A
Dave,
11 I never buy newspapers anymore. I read on line The Telegrapgh and the Sydney morning Herald. Skipping the stuff that doesn't interest me is so much easier on line. Our local paper, The Mudgee Guardian I also read on line. Unfortunately they don't put my book reviews on line. Ed buys one paper only for council to archive it. Then I read Drudge because he highlights most of the most interesting stories from around the world. Saves a lot of time looking at other sites. His site also is the quick go to site for any newspaper of note around the world. Then I read Yahoo's most popular stories. Then I check my stocks and weep a bit. Then I check my email accounts. Then I get concerned that I have so much to do that I shouldn't be wasting time online.
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
From:[ (b)(6) To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [DH] state of the art. or something Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:12:36 -0700
I have just read this report and taken notes for a speech I am giving on the 26th about the future of the media and news gathering. I am going to try to have a sit-down with our publisher to get some numbers on how much it costs to put out a newspaper - printing press operation and maintenance, oil, electricity, crew, paper, bundlers, trucks, gas, oil, tires, drivers, deliverers, etc etc etc - as opposed to a tech sitting in an office and pushing a button to send the day's news on a computer to all of our subscribers to their computers, laptops, twitters, ipods, whatevers. This report has some very interesting numbers and I will use them at the conclusion of my speech, which will deal with how we did things at UPI with a big staff all around the world. Would love some input from my former colleagus.Rosso-wa BC-US--State of Journalism,0148 Report: Internet usage transforming news industry Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated.
NEW YORK (AP) - A new report says the rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the Internet the destination of choice for consumers looking for news. The Project for Excellence in Journalism said Monday that local, network and cable television news, newspapers, radio and magazines all lost audience in 2010. But in its eight annual State of the News Media survey, the project says news consumption online increased 17 percent last year over the year before. The percentage of people who say they get news online at least three times a week surpassed newspapers for the first time. Project director Tom Rosenstiel says only local TV news was a more popular news platform.
12 The report says the percentage of people who say they got most of their national and international news on the Internet in December was more than double what it was the year before.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Topic: Al Webb address Susan DeLong I (b)(6) Mar 16 11:40AM +1100 A
We correspond still. Primarily about, you guessed it, cats!. I actually went for a walk around the garden with Delilah and two of the kittens this morning. We discussed world affairs and they expressed great interest in the rabbit burrows. Very pleasant to be out of sight of two irate chihuahuas who were barking their jealousy.
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
13 From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:19 PM To: Harrington, Holly; Brenner, Eliot; Uselding, Lara; Hannah, Roger; Mitlyng, Viktoria; Chandrathil, Prema; Burnell, Scott; Screnci, Diane; Sheehan, Neil Subject: EPA Statement
The EPA statement is on the web at this address: http:/lwww.epa.govlradiation/statement.html. It's kinda buried on the rad page, but my contact there assures me they will put something on their home page tomorrow.
Dave
1" ) 2 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:43 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: Potential OPA Questions.docx
Done. If he can handle it. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C: (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 20:34:51 2011 Subject: RE: Potential OPA Questions.docx
I think we should pull Neil onto day shift for those two days, then. I'm not convinced overnight is all that critical. Rob already on board to continue to help. I can bring in people to answer phones and will ask Mindy to work with Ivonne to handle media requests.
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:27 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: Potential OPA Questions.docx
Yes. And we are going into full outreach mode thursdady and friday. Need to pull inhelp to take calls, talkk on background from q/a, help with inerview logistics, etc. Pull all stops.
Will talkmore tomorrow. Aiming for morning shows friday, CNN the night before. Only blessing is no sunday shows. Also, we will probably coopt the aauditorium as a studio and may use it for a publi commission meeting next week. Will also see what we can work out with chuck casto to feed the beast from tokyo.
Eliot (still downtown and ready to drop.
Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 20:20:30 2011 Subject: FW: Potential OPA Questions.docx After considerable work but a number of people, including Rob Taylor and Amy Bonocorrso, these have been developed and blessed by the Liaison Team, Protective Measures Team and Reactor Safety Team. In most cases, they mirror the Chairman's Q&A, with some additions. Tomorrow, I'd like to disseminate to the regions and give to folks designated to answer voice mails and e-mails from the public.
All OK with you?
From: Taylor, Robert Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:10 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Potential OPA Questions.docx
Holly,
I have incorporated your comments. I think this is ready to go.
Rob
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Topic: Arabs call for no fly zone Susan DeLong (b)(6) > Mar 16 10:18AM +1100 A
Ted;The United States of America provides annual military assistance to Egypt which amounted to US$1.3 billion in 2009 (inflation adjusted US$ 1.33 billion in 2011).] This level is second only to Israel.
And what do we get for this huge sum?
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
Topic: Susan, Pye and the iguanas Susan DeLong (b)(6) Mar 16 10:15AM +1100A
Isn't memory a very iffy thing ? Yes, Tom, it was the famous 1980 Iowa caucuses where I got to
10
, V interview George Bush II times and Ronald Reagen once. That was written about by a Washington Post reporter on the front page no less. It was picked up be other papers and I got a death threat for 'not being respectful to Reagen.'
First of all, I was not in the habit of "going drinking" at bars as I had two little kids at home.
I interviewed Pye because he was a UPI guy and it was a "support the team" move probably promoted by Ed DeLong just as my interview with Ed was promoted by Ken Braddick.. Pye invited me to dinner and during dinner told me he had pet iguanas which sounded quite plausible as a kid down the street also had lizards of some sort in his bedroom. Remember I had been in Asia and keeping reptiles as pets was not uncommon. If he said that they protected his home by attacking strangers, I don't recall.He was a very funny guy. But I probably was paying him back for being silly by using it on air. Anything to keep the audience from shifting that dial. Jerry Brown was as dull as dishwater and called all the time begging to be interviewed.
Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:22:08 -0400 To: [email protected] From: (b)(6) Subject: [DH] Susan, Pye and the iguanas
Susan - here's Pye's version. I'm pretty sure the year was 1980 ... and the occasion the Iowa caucuses. That's the only reason he and Gibbons would have been in Iowa at the same time. Gene's telling had him more than a little puzzled; non-plussed would be a bit more like it.
Reading the exchange with Moonbeam, sounds like you should have stayed with the iguanas ...
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002
13:39:43 -0400
From: Pye Chamberlayne
Subject: [DH] My night of the iguanas
2 Tom Foty suggested that I explain my recent reference to attack iguanas and Susan Bray....
I ran into Susan while I was covering a political story in Iowa a long time ago. Back in the seventies, I think. Susan and I got to drinking in a bar in that nice hotel the Democrats like. Susan was a talk show host on WHO, which was a UPI Radion Network or UPI Audio client at the time and I was going to do the show the next morning as I occasionally did when I was in Des Moines. For reasons that I cannot remember I made up a story about how my home in Alexandria, Virginia was protected by a pair of four-foot tall iguanas which I had trained to walk erect on their hind legs and to attack strangers. I assumed that Susan would realize that I was kidding.
To my horror, the next morning, she introduced me on the radio as a man whose home was protected by gigantic killer iguanas. By good luck we soon got Presidential Candidate Jerry Brown on the air with us and I shifted the conversation away from Iguanas by asking him what he thought about the demonetization of the U.S. Dollar. He said that would be impossible and I said something to the effect of I guess that means you are opposed to it? How about the RE monetization of gold? He was not for that either and went on to describe what he WOULD do about what ever was perceived at the time as the big economic issue of the day. The conversation got into organic food and either the perceived shortage of oil or excess of cars.
Gene Gibbons heard all this. He was in Iowa covering the same story with me and driving a car fifty miles or so away but he said the WHO signal came through clearly, though he was a little puzzled by the show's content.
chrs,
pye
Topic: News Alert: Fire Erupts at Troubled Reactor; Helicopters May Be Used for Blazes gary haynes
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Topic: berens Jeffrey Reynolds (b)(6) Mar 15 07:52PM A
anyone know if this guy is related to berens/bh?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Reporter Michael J. Berens of The Seattle Times is winner of the 2010 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for his comprehensive six-part series "Seniors for Sale: Exploiting the aged and frail in Washington's adult family homes."
Jeffrey C. Reynolds
Topic: state of the art. or something. gary haynes
> the 18th century. On each press, a minimum "manning" requirement > that as recently as the 70s often exceeded the number the press crew > actually needed by 33% or so.
At one point in its recent history the Philadelphia Inquirer's pressman's unions required almost twice the crew size the presses needed - so the most senior pressmen could "punch in" their fulltime Inquirer job but not have to actually do any work, allowing several of them to take fulltime jobs across town at the Inquirer's nemesis, the Bulletin.
Not until the 1970s that newspapers abandoned "letterpress" printing, technology used by Gutenberg in the 14th century,
Topic: NPR Kearney Bothwell (b)(6) Mar 15 09:49AM -0700
Interesting that Newsmax is carrying the following (if Glenn Beck says its misleading, it must be really badly done):
4 Analysts: Video Edit of NPR Executive Misleading
WASHINGTON - News analysts say that a hidden-camera video by a conservative activist targeting NPR was edited in misleading ways to showcase inflammatory remarks from a public radio executive.
Analysts from the Poynter Institute and The Blaze, a website set up by Fox News host Glenn Beck, told an NPR reporter that they found a short version of the video deceiving when compared with the full two- hour tape of a lunch meeting between NPR fundraisers and two conservative activists posing as a fake Muslim group. The men offered NPR a $5 million donation and engaged in a wide-ranging political discussion.
Topic: Minott / BH archives (3 of 3: 2007-2010 ) - refilinci Tom Foty I (b)(6) Mar 15 12:21PM -0400 A1
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Tom,
Fantastic job!
Frank
Topic: Minott / BH archives (1 of 3: 2007-2010) Tom Foty (b)(6) >Mar 15 12:03PM -0400 A
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:18:20 -0500
From: I (b)(6) I> Subject: [DH] UP then; nupes and new media now
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Op-Ed Editor Hank Ruark in the early 1940's when he was new to the newspaper reporting business
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http://www.salem-news.com/articles/ianuarv252007/oped 12506.php 5 Salem-News.com (Jan-25-2007 20:13)
Op Ed:
SOMEbody Gotta
Cover The Story,
As US Free Press Fails
Op-Ed by: Henry Clay Ruark
Citizens Losing Essential Information for Democratic Decisions.
(SALEM) - When I worked as Wires Editor in Boston for United Press, we had a Bureau Chief named Hank Minott --famed for his newsroom shout when chaos threatened-- intermittently always, more often than not.
No matter what the first-content of any one shout, he always ended with "SOMEbody gotta cover the (insert word) STORY!"
AND somebody did --on the dead run, conscientiously, completely and professionally-- if you wished to keep on coming to work there.
That was then.
Things have changed over the last thirty years --NOT for better, but for much worse-and-sinking.
Thousands of citizen-participants met in Memphis last week to work out what can still be done to reform, rebuild, restructure, and reshape the fundamental communications channels so essential for all democratic governance at all levels.
(Examples abound for print-side press-failures these days. "See also" any issue of any major daily newspaper, or any issue of the three major journalism reviews over the past full decade.)
What they learned from each other in hundreds of seminars, presentations, issue panels and demonstrations at Memphis is now established fact.
What they taught many around the nation, seeking somehow to preserve, protect, strengthen and even extend these same functions, fundamental not only for the future of the print-side press, but for the nation itself, is that we now are "blessed" with rapid new digital technologies to carry on that tradition -- and those same essential functions-- if we are wise enough, and have the will to move forward quickly.
Today the vaunted "free American press" print-side -- pressured into premature denigration by Wall St. dollar-demand, despite continuing constant profit margins double nearly all other industries-- is not just endangered, but rapidly sinking into fundamental, threatening disarray. The print-side will never disappear: There are learning functions best served by the flexibilities and rapid review it makes possible.
There will continue to be a "daily newspaper" in different, primarily digital, format --accessible on every 6 kind and level of viewing device.
The IPod et al is only a bare beginning, broadly supplemented by rapid revolution in format and function for the cellphone, too.
There is now an alternative to print-side.
There will be many more, including everything from IPod to hand-held Blackberry to "Micro-Pen", et al; all receiving rapid transmission of instant news AND essential life-shaping information.
Already one or the other has become ubiquitous for teen-agers and their parents; for corporate execs on the run; for governance agency personnel; and for many others --including the "ordinary Joe" and his tribe.
But as with all previous world-shaping new technologies, the digital formats offer depth, diversity, speed and cost-effectiveness.
That is why they are becoming broadly integrated into our life-style, our learning habits --and our home environments.
With all of this, can "the Home Learning Center" be far behind, with instant access to the entire world of information for anyone, at any time?
Internet access is fundamentally a prime essential of life-now, and will soon be supplied via new economic means, similar to water, sanitary system, power, and similarly-essential utilities.
There is already a world-shaping lead established in every other major communications-demanding economic, social and governance user-group. "We" may be stupid, but "us" is not nearly such a slow- learner.
Where a single newspaper has survived in any town or city, where several once prospered previously, the circumstances --even for monopoly manipulation under management by a once-strong chain-- are now so slim and demanding that most find themselves slashing staff, cutting out content long covered, and shutting down on once-basic "Must-Do"s.
That is professional suicidal, as many press pundits have rapidly, if ponderously, pointed out.
You cannot compete by consistently cutting your own content, staff, coverage and community functions. Subscribers may merely notice --but advertisers pay on people-reached --and circulation continues to collapse across the entire nation, with Wall St. watching closely.
Page-sections drop from 4 or 6 or even 8 --to a thin-2.
Paper-quality is cut; and even page-size trimmed, despite the curl and the loss of quality for illustration - -and advertising presentation.
Probing investigative reporting in the community interest disappears since it demands too much staffing and long-working time, as well as maintenance for many strong professional relationships as sources.
Stories essential to the public understanding go unreported or slowly, sloppily-done, by inexperienced personnel still working on the needed skills - and inhibited by their own inexperience. 7 Popular guidance and informative-issue reporting slows or even disappears, for the same essential elements-demanded; values are lost when incompetently covered by the same inexperienced beginners at low salaries.
But staff-salary vulnerability is one of the few major cost-areas still under corporate control --with no thought of journalism's longtime community responsibilities allowed to interfere while Wall St. fires up the heated declaration for that next corporate board-meeting.
Public concerns are complex these days. They demand top-quality competence and constant effort to keep up in both background and current-issue levels. Then there are those taxing relations with extremely authoritative pundits pursuing those specialized interests.
These fundamental revisions in operations and presentation also find similar change --enforced by ever- rigorizing economics-- underway throughout the news-gathering, preparation and publication, and most especially in the distributing processes, which allows the print-side operate in the first place.
Much of great magnitude was learned-and-shared at Memphis, of that you can be sure.
What will it mean? When it will happen here? Either could be the next logical question --especially with our Legislature "at work" in the "Salem Arena", rebuilding ethical operational rules and reworking the tattered cult-confrontation consequences.
OR perhaps it should simply be:
What HAS ALREADY happened here, given our current one-paper, monopoly-managed, longtime- questioned and still-ongoing Capitol City demonstration.
(Editor's Note: For ongoing information rapidly occurring nationally and internationally on this exceptionally important --and volatile-- set of issues, see: www.freepress.net)
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From: "John Skalko" (b)(6)
Subject: [DH] Berens (was Knight)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:30:53 -0500
Not sure which was worse, getting it from Stan in person or on the phone. I think the phone is the easiest because its length was governed by Stan's (or
Alan Wade's or Henry Minott's) constant concern about expenses.
I believe, however, that if he opened a south-facing window at 262
Washington St., I probably could have heard him 50 miles away in downtown
8 Providence.
He was a character, but a damn good wire service editor. Loved him dearly.
John Skalko www.skalko.com
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:54 -0400
To: "Downhold Wire"
From: Tom Foty (b)(6)
Subject: Re: [DH] annals of unipress (length alert)
At 08:50 AM 4/14/2008, you wrote:
(although I'm told that HM got the famous Vanzetti jail letter).
According to his 1981 book, it was given to Boyd Lewis by Vanzetti's lawyer.
He says Henry Minott, who was convinced of of their guilt, nevertheless immediately put it on the wire, with Vanzetti's byline ... "Written for the United Press."'
Lewis' book reproduces the letter in full ... running about two and a half pages of type.
- tf
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From: Isabelle Hall (b)(6)
Subject: Re: [DH] behrens
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:40:11 -0800
Yes, Ron, I was in BH but I have no recollection of your session with Stan Behrens ( I still am not sure about the spelling) and that interview.
I was put in a spot when Cal Thornton agreed to keep his promise to me that I would only have to stay a year or two in Montpelier. I had come from the Toronto Bureau as manager with two staffers and felt I should have a better job but I was so grateful to be transferred to the US that I made the most of Montpelier.
However, Cal said I had to find someone to take my place before I could get to BH. So, I did and he
9 turned out to be a bit of a mess.
Perhaps his worst fault was his inability to spell, rather a critical need in journalism. He had been a radio editor in Middlebury or Burlington as I recall.
I told Henry Minott he needed a dictionary when he made some terrible mistakes on that network to BH that went to all our customers in Vermont and New Hampshire as you know. "He needs a spellah," Henry yelled, in his broad Boston accent.
By the way, I never had the "formidable and frightening" welcome from Stan that you and China describe. He couldn't have been more pleasant and glad to have me. Seems to me we got along very well. That's why I was so chagrined at his work in that brief NX session.
Isabelle
On Nov 21, 2010, at 8:10 AM (b)(6) wrote:
China...
I think I've recounted this story before your arrival at DH -- Foty the Archivist probably could say in a minute. If so, I apologize to those who have heard it.
My first face-to-face with the formidable and frightening Stan Behrens came as I was being transferred in late 1963 from Hartford to to be UPI's one-person Montpelier bureau. The deal was I would spend a week in Boston meeting folks I knew only via phone and message wire, and learning the intricacies of the New England story transmission network, which included Montpelier and Concord sharing a 20- minute radio split each hour -- the only way we could get our stories to BH for transmittal onto the newspaper wires.
I arrive on a Monday morning simultaneously with a new hire in BH, a young man so outwardly nervous I thought he might be in the process of soiling his undergarments. We both sat at a copy desk waiting for Behrens, who arrived about 9:15 and growled a greeting to me. A few seconds he threw a piece of copy at the newbie and shouted, "Read this out!" The poor guy had no idea what that entailed, so I leaned over and translated: "He wants you to edit that story and get it ready to move on the wire. And by the way, that's Stan Behrens, your new boss."
The kid leans across the desk, picks up a pen, and begins to study the story. A few minutes later Stan charges out of his office looking like Ichabod Crane, head cocked at that weird and distressing angle, his wall-eye blazing, and cut loose with the loudest, longest string of invective I had ever heard -- and I am no babe in the woods. It revolved around the fact the kid had inadvertently picked up Behrens' favorite pen, which he could not have dropped faster were it radioactive.
I handed him a replacement, but he stood up and announced, "I forgot, I have to feed my parking meter." He left and never returned, a Unipresser for all of about 28 minutes.
Isabelle: I think you were there. If so, you can add to this or correct my memory.
10 There are a million more Behrens stories, but I'll mention just one more. Years later I was ME when a story broke about Teddy Kennedy sailing off the Cape with a woman who wasn't his wife Joan -- replete with some grainy and inconclusive photos. We trailed badly on the story, and I called Behrens from home. He was very apologetic, but said the bureau had exhausted every means of advancing the story, which, after all he pointed out, was occurring miles away -- on the water.
"No excuses, Behrens. Get somebody out there in a boat, and send a shooter, too."
He protested how much it would cost to rent a speed boat and driver, and how hard it would be to find Ted's sailboat.
"Just do it, dammit!" I shouted -- echoing words he had fired at me I many times, cleaning up his originals which included prefixes and suffixes like "mother" and "sucker." As he bitterly muttered his assent, I reveled in the sweet payback. I don't think we ever found the philandering senator as he sailed the bounty.
Ron Cohen
Isabelle Hall
(b)(6)
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:00:08 -0500
Subject: [DH] Hank Minott
From: "jmilne mcttelecom.com"
China: You're one of the few unipressers still around who knew Hank Minott. What was he like?
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From: Isabelle Hall (b)(6)
Subject: Re: [DH] Hank Minott
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:00:11 -0800
John,
I also knew Hank and have some stories. For starters, when Cal Thornton offered to bring me to the US. if I would go to Montoelier,Vermont, I was amazed at how fast he got me into the country.
Turned out Hank had lots of connections and wits about him. He brought me into the US from Toronto to Vermont as a "foreign correspondent." That was no mean trick and allways struck me as funny.
11 He also had a few good stories. He loved his yam about a reporter who was sent to cover the launching of a new ship in Boston. When the guy did not call in with a story long past the time he should have, Minott was irked.When he finally called, Hank asked him where the story was.
"Oh- ,there wasn't one," said the reporter. "The ship sank." I am sure he made it up but you never know.
Reminded me of a story out of Toronto when I was manager about a man who said he was going to marry a woman with eight children so he would have "nine people to love me at night when I came home."
New York was thrilled with that line and wanted far more stories than were available about the wedding. I told my reporter to wear a jacket and tie and go cover the wedding on a Saturday and I would be in the office to write it because New York was treating it like the story of the century. insisting on a Bulletin when the marriage occurred.
The phone finally rang and he said, "Well, they got married."
I said okay, dictate the story. "What will I say," he replied. Thunderstruck, I said how about what color the dresses were?
I am happy to say I did not hire this guy, he was sent to me by Montreal. Didn't last long with me.
Hank also had a fit every day over the weird stuff being put on the wire by the man I found to take over Montpelier so I could go to Boston--the terms set by Cal--for my new job as Northeastern Radiotv editor.
He would come roaring out of his desk daily waving the man's latest goof. I finally admitted we should get him a dictionary.
"Dictionary, hell no," said Hank. "He needs a spellah."
He had a wonderful Boston accent and was a wonderful man in my opinion.
Isabelle
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Subject: [DH] Re: Hank Minott
From: Bill
12 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:29:19 -0800 (PST)
Henry Minott retired before I arrived in BH but I do have a story
about him that I'm sure he would not find funny.
He carefully wrote his own obit before he retired, and left it in a
filing cabinet. When he died, Berens retrieved it from the filing
cabinet, and also sent a copy over
Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 15 09:18AM -0700 A
Cormn - last one shud read 3 of 3
Topic: computer "Allan Papkin" (b)(6) Mar 15 07:36AM -0400 A
Dave:
Have you replaced the batteries in the keyboard? Change the mouse.
allan
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Rosso Sent: Monday, March 14,2011 11:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DH] computer
Allan Papkin,
Having strange computer problems. Mouse stops working. Not wireless; hooked up by USB. Can't check to see if keyboard operates during this outage because I can't move anything to get to a blank screen to try the keyboard.
Then the keyboard will go out. Mouse works, but keyboard just quits.
13 Keyboard is wireless.
In both cases, if I turn the computer off and leave it off for a few minutes and then turn it back on, both mouse and keyboard resume operating.
When the mouse quit last time, I noticed that the clock in the comer continued to keep time. Therefore, I do not think it is a computer freeze as suggested by our computer tech from whom we bought the computer.
Any ideas?
Rosso-wa
"Dave Rosso" (b)(6) Mar 15 09:13AM -0700 A
Batteries have been replaced. No improvement. Mouse is new and is not wireless.
Rosso-wa
Dave:
Have you replaced the batteries in the keyboard? Change the mouse.
allan
Topic: Minott / BH archives (2 of 3: 2001-2007) Tom Foty
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:36:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Blume I (b)(6)
It was in the mid-'40s or so, a few years before I went to went to work for
UP on Newspaper Row in BH. I wasn't there to see it, but it was lore that
everyone on hand could spout.
14 An office boy had been practicing on one of the resting teletypes, punching tape he assumed would never move. For fun, he typed the five-belier "Flash!
Orson Welles Invades Mars"---then answered a summons from one of the staffers and walked away from the machine.
A few minutes later, the proper, staid and businesslike New England News
Manager, Henry Minott, got a phone call from NX. On the other end, someone
(EJJ, I think I was told) yelled: "Henry, what's with that flash?" "What flash?" asked Minott, who within seconds dived headfirst into the four-foot-tall, circular trash container nearest the teletype involved.
Of course, an innocent operator had activated the sender without skipping the offending piece of tape or "letters-ing" it out, and out went the
"flash."
The youngster, who would be known as "Flash" Mulvey in the annals of bureau legend, was looking elsewhere for work within an hour, the story goes.
DB/exBH
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From: (b)(
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 13:09:30 EDT
Subject: [DH] Fwd: FW: summer job feature
Original----- Message -----
From: Dave Haskell
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 3:05 PM
To: Claude Salhani
Cc: Harold Martin
Subject: summer job feature
15 Claude - heres an unusual summer job offering for your consideration for the Life and Mind series. I dont know how you want to customcode or slug it, so left that stuff up to you. Hope this is what you were looking for. Chrs. - dave..
By DAVID D. HASKELL
BOSTON (UPI) - It was the summer of 1962. My wife was pregnant with our second child. I had just finished college and needed a job. I had a promise of one, as a reporter for United Press International, but I had no idea when thered be an opening.
So I took a temporary job as a taxi driver in Boston.
Want to learn about a city? Drive a cab.
I didnt realize it then, but being a cab driver can be extremely hazardous. Fortunately, I never faced a dangerous situation. But in the two weeks I spent pushing a Checker cab around Boston I did have some strange experiences.
On my first day on the job, I took the rear spot in a queue of other cabs waiting for fares outside the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Finally, as each taxi in front of me in turn picked up passengers, my turn came to be top cab, the first in line. Into the cab stepped a man and woman. They handed me a note that said they spoke no English, and that they needed to go to a nursing home about five miles away in Somerville.
I had no idea where the facility was located, but I set the flag to start the meter and headed out.
Once in Somerville I went inside a couple of gasoline stations to ask directions, leaving my passengers in the cab with the meter ticking away, the fare growing with each tick. When I came out of a third station,
16 -the couple in the rear seat anxiously eyed the ticking meter and me. Even though the man spoke no English, he had no trouble telling me what was on his mind when he reached over the front seat and emphatically slammed the flag to off.
In subsequent similar situations, I learned to put the meter on pause.
On one night in June I recorded what was perhaps the shortest cab ride in history.
I was cruising for fares in the Combat Zone, the rowdiest section of the city, a district filled with bars and nightclubs and some really strange characters.
It was just past the 1 am closing time for the drinking establishments and the people crowding out along Washington Street were, as would be expected, fairly well fueled with booze.
While my vehicle was stopped at a red light, the rear door opened and into the cab came a garishly dressed woman. I was relatively naove in those days, but even so quickly recognized she was really a he.
Where to? I asked, turning on the fare meter.
Take me across the street, please, my passenger said.
So, at the green light I drove about 30 feet to the opposite comer of the street, stopped, and the passenger got out.
Thank you, honey he/she said, paying the fare and giving me a $1 tip.
There were other fares that night, but none so bizarre.
Boston during those days in the early 1960s was in the grip of
17 fear. It was the time of the Boston Strangler, a serial rapist and murderer whose identity to this day remains in dispute, despite Albert DeSalvos later confession to the crimes.
Women all over the city were petrified they might become his next victim.
One such woman got into my cab.
Where to? I asked.
Call your dispatcher, she said. I want to make sure you are a real cab driver and not the Boston Strangler.
I wanted to assure the obviously scared woman, but I had a problem. Because I was a rookie driver, I had one of the lousiest cabs available, and its radio was even worse. Even so, I tried to do what she asked. I pressed the talk button on the microphone and tried to raise the dispatcher. If there was any response, it was unrecognizable through all the radios crackle and static.
So I faked it. Doubting the dispatcher was hearing me, I nevertheless spoke into the mike explaining that I had a concerned woman in the cab that wanted assurances she wasnt going for a ride with a serial killer. I released the talk button, listened to a few seconds of noise coming over the speaker, which she could also hear but not understand, and said, Thank you.
I turned to the woman in the rear seat and said, The dispatcher confirms that everything is ok.
Reassured, she gave me an address and when I dropped her off she gave me a nice tip.
During those two weeks I learned where just about everything was
18 in downtown Boston, knowledge that still pays off.
But it was with great relief when I got a call from Henry Minott,
UPIs New England Division news editor, saying a job had just opened up in the Syracuse, NY, bureau.
Do you want to take it? Minott asked.
When do I leave, I said.
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:51:41 -0800
Subject: [DH] Re: Valhalla
From: David Blume (b)(6)
> Subject: [DH] UPI Valhalla
> Stanton J. Berens
> Henry Minot
Make that Henry Minott pls.
Old Henry frothed at the mouth over misspellings.
Occasional goofs may have occurred coz BH Herald editor was George Minot.
Dave B. HC, ex-BH
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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:32:15 -0700
From: David Blume (b)(6)
Subject: [DH] Re: Answering Pye
In closing, let me say, David, where did you work for UP in the 40s and
50s? Where did you work after that and what did you do? How old are you and
19 how are you? chrs, pye
Hi Pye:
Worked in Boston when Henry Minott was the NE News Mgr, Jack Frost was the buo mgr, Stan Berens was still a staffer and the legendary Tom Gillespie was a bleary-eyed puncher who tried with uncanny perseverance to drink the city dry.
Was to have spent the summer of'53, andmany more, with the BH Braves (and gotten a BBWAA card) when their unholy owners moved them to Gene's digs instead.
Spent the last 30 years of the century in various editing posts at the HC Times, retiring in 2000. During the missing years in between, was an A&R record producer for Paramount, then RCA, and a jazz pianist all along. Still play piano, both jazz and accompanying my wife, folksinger Carolyn Hester, which involves some welcome traveling. I will be 72 next Thursday and have had, and still deal with, several of the physical challenges that occur with age. But on the whole, am rather OK and can't complain.
I apologize to all for that lengthy graf above, but I was asked. And I'd have e-mailed it privately, but now I won't ever need to repeat it later on.
As I posted, DH is great fun for me, and you, Pye, are somewhat responsible for that.
73s
DB/HC ex-BH
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:29:49 -0800
From: David Blume <1 (b)(6)
Subject: [DH] Re: Hire date
Hired by Henry Minott in BH in Dec. 1949. Raised to staff after cuppla years as office boy. Left in mid- 1954 when drafted into Army.
Jeez, love all you guys, but I don't hear very much from those of my era.
Dave B., now of HC
From: John Skalko (b)(6)
20 To: [email protected]
Subject: [DH] Hiring Date
Lets see...
I joined UPI in RI in June, 1965, working for Barry Brooks (a lurker hereabouts, I believe), who had succeeded Bob Feinberg as buo mgr. Feinberg had left to join United Airlines in HX. Saw Bob later that year when United introduced the first B737 service between RI and HX. Had been working for UPI radio client WPRO while attending college fulltime. The job offer came from the late Alan Wade who, I believe, was New England Broadcast Editor at the time, working for Hank Minott (the honoree of the HM buo tag for Concord, NH). Stan Berens was the New England News Editor at the time. My age was 24 (damn, missed the lowest).
Worked for Brooks about a year before he transferred to BH and later left the company to join PRNewswire in BH. Stayed in RI until Nov. 68 when I transferred to BH as New England Broadcast editor, succeeding Pete Cronin, who had left to take a PR job at New England Telephone (nee Verizon). Stayed a couple of months before being offered a job as Assistant Press Secretary to the late Frank Licht (pronounced "leech"), who had been elected during the last election I ever covered. The job brought me back to RI (which I had never left when my job moved to BH), so I took it.
I lasted about 8 months in the APS job and began serious job-hunting. Cal Thornton, then NE Executive, got me a reading with Rhea Eskew in AJ and after a meeting with Rhea, Fred Parker and Chiles Coleman, was given the North Carolina regex job, succeeding Bill Tome. Well, that endeavor lasted about a year and after a meeting of the minds, I switched positions with Terry Wooten in CT. He took my job and I took his in the Baugh Building in downtown Charlotte.
While in CT for about a year, I got a call from Pete Cronin (see 2nd pgh), asking if I'd be interested in taking an employee communications job in providence for New England Telephone. I started in Providence in March, 1971. I moved to Boston in 1974, still in employee communications for NET. In 1983, just before divestiture, I was lured to New Jersey to work for AT&T (I was divorced in 1980). 1 worked in media relations for AT&T until 1996 when I joined Lucent Technologies, also in media relations, a position I still hold to this day.
I've since remarried (1996) and celebrated my 64th birthday June 21. I'll be retiring April 1, 2007. Then, who knows? Probably spend a lot of time with my grandson, spend some time on my stamp collection and web design work and -- I almost forgot -- my horrible golf game.
My starting pay in 1965 was $109.50/week, which was top scale. They gave me credit for all the time I had spent as a newscaster at WPRO (AM) in Providence and WXTR (AM) in Pawtucket. In Charlotte, I was making $9,800 a year. When I moved to NET in 1971, I started at $12,000 (a King's ransom in those days!).
John Skalko
(b)(6)
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21 Topic: Minott / BH archives (1 of 3: 1997-1999) Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 15 12:02PM -0400 A
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:28:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Ninety-Five
Henry Minott in BH had a strict rule that everyone had to come to the office
dressed in proper attire to attend "a wedding or a funeral." His wisdom was
brought home to me one quiet Saturday in JN when NX suddenly got excited
about a story I had written and ordered up bulletin copy on a wedding. My
staffer on the Saturday shift informed me he was not dressed for a wedding
when he called me at home to report the last minute orders. I grabbed one of
my brother's jackets and a tie on my way downtown to the bureau and tossed
them to the reporter as he went off to cover the wedding and call me with the
"bulletin." Ours never to wonder why. None of this would matter today, I
expect.
Isabelle Hall /JN VT BH NX WA)
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:25:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: (b)(6)
Subject: Re: Re: call letters
Seems to me I read about X in the Kansas City Milkman but as I have lost my
copy I can't check. I think a lot of early letters came from Western Union
usage.
Dick, I feel like I'm in the middle of this call letter go round but did you
know the
22 Concord, NH bureau HM was named for the late Henry Minott, BH editor.
Isabelle Hall JNNT/BH/NX/WA
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From: (b)(6) (dave & ethel haskell)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:32:28 -0400
Subject: Re: BH
Hiya Peg (& other downholders). Phil and I will sparkle.. .all
within 250 words. It's amazing somethings how that works when telling
some flak why I don't want to intvu his/her cli.
Remember how the washington street buo just sang with teletype
clackity-clak?
speaking of china altman, thx for the explanation of her first name. many through the years have wondered.
i'm in process of setting up my telecommute buo in my home. I
have to confess I like my neighborhood better than some in which I've
worked.
On my wall I have three upi photographs -- including one of China
sitting in the editor's slot on the tts desk. Remember that? tts? The pie
is late 50s, but it's undated. There's an operator with him I don't recognize, so it was obviously before I started in '60.
Re dave pickman.. .I met his daughter (can't recall her name) through Anna Christiansen, another former bh-er who's on downhowd, I hope. anyway, i've copied her in on this. Anna's in Safrica, being a mom and smiling all the while etc.
I remember pickman and richardson, whose straight-laced manner reminds me of tdy's mass. atty gen. scott harshbarger.
23 I believe dave later flakked at museum of fine arts in bh. I always admired his cultured manner, and his pipe (in those days) was impressive.
Kennedy. Ahhhh. Do I remember that day. You were moving. I was sleeping. We were in KT at the time, and I had bn working the onite. My wife Ethel woke me when the first bun hit the air about the shots. We lived 2 miles from KT buo. How I don't know, but I dressed, scooted the 2 miles, and was in the buo in time to see the death flash hit the wire.
Tnx for the memories., Peg.
Hey, I'm cleaning up the buo. Found a big box of press-pix negs of old bh staffers. Many unidentified, but got svrl of Berens, Minott,
Johns, and others. I'm hoping to sort them all out. I'm about 1/32nd through the pile.
Here's a couple more names: Dick Dew, Pete Cronin, Jack
McDonough, dick breen.
There were so many then. There are so few now.
Big thanks to Harnett for downhold. -- haskell-bh
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:25:11 -0400
Subject: punchers
From: I (b)(6) ](dave & ethel haskell) now punchers are a topic all pre-computer unipressers know a lot about. in KT and BH, I worked with many who were true characters, as bob noble and john skalko bv pointed out. tom flood and tony brozowsky were the main guys in KT. We've already talked about tony, but a word about
24 tom flood. tom never met a scotch he didn't like. we worked in the albany times union building, and it was just a short walk to the nearest bar. On tom's "ten" he was out the door, down to the bar, and back on time, well freshened with another shot of scotch. he never showed it, nor did it slow him down. in BH, there were many punchers who would require chapters by themselves, just a word about a few of them: tom gillespie plugged along for years, nearly dying at the keyboard from endless packs of cigarettes and gallons of booze. in his final days he was ordered not to smoke, but he'd still sneak down stairs on his "ten" and puff away. at the keyboard, he would peck a few keys, cough cough, peck some more, cough cough. It got to the point some days that I told him to take a break and I'd sit in and punch the tts copy myself. learning how to punch justified tape was the only way to survive somedays. tnx to dick breen and dick sullivan for teaching me. it was sully who used to bring in the porno flicks back in the days when they were on 8mm reels, he'd set up his projector in one of the dark rooms and a half dozen or so staffers would squeeze in to watch, guys and gals. Try doing that today and there'd be lawsuits aplenty. Hugh
Spurr was another great puncher, but his real love was fishing. every chance he'd get he'd be out somewhere on Mass. bay angling for stripers.
And finally, for now, a word about kate lema. Kate was one of the few punchers who crossed over to newsside. She was a real readheaded
Irishwoman who became the mother hen to all the female staffers in BH.
She also become a great newsperson and perhaps was the best speller I'd ever met, other than henry minott, but I'll leave him for another time. chrs -- haskell-bh. 25 -0-
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:17:47 -0800
From: "C. Hester/D. Blume"
Subject: Re: dowrhold VI #204
>From Dave Blume
To Dave Haskell & others:
I'll list guys I recall from '50s BH and perhaps you (or anyone else) can update me on their whereabouts (or final disposition), or perhaps offer recollections of those years. Or I'll answer anyone else's ?s best I can.
Staffers included Joe Levine (to BH Herald & passed), Jim Mahony (to
Herald-Traveler), John Hahn (to Tufts med PR & passed), Phil Cogswell, Stan
Calderwood (to Polaroid), Mike Ciccarelli, Dave Pickman, Joe Calitri, Juan de Onis (to LA Times Buenos Aires & retirement, I guess), Alan Wade
(recently passed), Len Zahn, John (now Jack) Adams (retired in Mamaroneck &
Cape Cod), Dom Cerulli (Downbeat, various record companies and ad firms and retired in Westchester), Bob Ruttenberg, Jeb Byrne (Portland), Tom Gerber
(RI)... Many others.
Punchers were the late John Shawlis, late Harry Thorsen, Bob (Whitey)
Whitehead (?), and the living-embalmed and notorious Tom Gillespie.
Photosiders Dave Wurzel, Frank Lorenzo and Joel Schrank.
Business-siders were Bob Woodsum, Ken Gilmore, NY-NE division mgr Bert
Masterson.
BH buo mgrs were Gardner (Jack) Frost and the late Stanton Berens.
NE News mgr before that was the late esteemed Henry Minott.
Office boys (I started that way) included Marty Leppo (later a criminal
26 lawyer), and Jack Driscoll (later Editor of the BH Globe).
Were you ever at (I believe it was) 262 Washington St.? And you must have hadChinese food with John Hahn.
Cheers,
Dave Blume, BH early '50s, now with LATimes Sundaymag.
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From: (b)(6) ](dave & ethel haskell)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:37:09 -0400
Subject: Re: downhold VI #204 to dave blume -- I started in bh as ofc boy in '60, and know most of those names you list. last I heard ciccarelli was working at bh globe, but tt was some time ago. unsure if pickman still around, but blv he is. he worked for a time as flak at museum of fine arts in bh. ruttenberg recently retired as chief flak for neweng div of irs. if tt tom gerber is the same one, he became publisher or ed-chief at concord, nh, monitor. don't know if he still is. driscoll has also retired after becoming top ed at bh globe. wurzel retired. berens, minott and wade were my mentors. all gone now. so's hahn. I used to run and get coffee ands for all of them, but nvr got to do chinese with hahn. and yes, it was 262 washington st., the heart of the old Newspaper Row, which no longer exists as such.
We were the last news org to Iv. Glad to see you're still on the job. chrs. -- haskell-bh
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 18:16:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Bureau Abbreviations
From: [ (b)(6) (dave & ethel haskell)
27 paul shindler -- new eng buos all pretty obvious, cept concord, nh That carried the designation HM, for Henry Minott, who gave me my first biline on a story bout a harvard student who was selling his castle back in england, and of course the castle was haunted. chrs. -- haskell-bh
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From: (b)(6) ]
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:29:47 EST
Subject: Minott & Eyeshades
Henry Minott may well have worn an eye shade in the early 60s, when I was in and out of the Boston bureau (mostly in connection with working in HM, the
Concord bureau named after him). Eyeshade or not, he was one of the great gentlemen of UPI and a wonderful yin to Stan Berens' yang.
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:23:14 -0800
From: "C. Hester/D. Blume"
Subject: Green eyeshades
Paul Freeman:
In '50s, NE News Mgr Henry Minott in BH sported a green eyeshade, though I wonder if he did in later years. Dave Haskell, did he?
Dave Blume, ex BH in HC
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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:25:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Green eyeshades
28 From: (b)(6) ](dave & ethel haskell)
Blume et al: I nvr saw minott or anyone else in bh wear green eyeshades, but heck, I was too busy making carbon copy books to notice. chrs. -- haskell-bh
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From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [DH] call letters
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:07:34 -0500
Richard:
HM was named after Henry Minott, a great and legendary Unipresser, but I never worked there. I was in Montpelier, sharing a radio split once an hour with Al Priaulx in HM and the BH zonal weather forecasts and ski reports
(leaving Al and I about 5 minutes on most splits to spew out our news and leading to some of the most memorable wire fights -- a couple of time we kept breaking each other through the leftover five minutes so that neither of us got a story out before BH inexorably took the wire back.
Ron
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8/27/99 THREAD
From: (b)
MINOTT
With all the traffic about Stan Berens of BH, can anybody add anything about
Henry Minott?
I think Minott was ahead of Berens. One anecdote is that when Minott was 29 visited by an old personal friend and fellow Unipresser, the friend asked him if he could cash a $25 check so they could go to lunch. Minott reportedly responded: "Iwouldn't cash a check even for my own mother." The UP friend left without having lunch. harnettlsx
From: Bill Frederick
Never met Minott (he was retired by the time I got there) but i can add a couple
of things:
-- The new hampshire buo was changed to HM when he retired.
-- When he retired, he wrote his own obit and left it in the obit file in a
filing cabinet in the BH office. When he died, we retrieved the obit and sent a
copy over to the AP. Don't remember exactly what happened but movement of
Monott's obit was delayed and we ended up losing the play on the story to the AP.
had he been buried at that point, he would have been spinning in his grave.
frederick-me
From: David D Haskell (b)(6)
While Stan Berens was my immediate boss, Henry Minott was his boss when I
started work in 1960 as an office boy in bh while attending Northeastern
U. in bh. Henry gave me my first biline, on a story about a harvard
student looking to sell his haunted castle in ireland. I gave henry my
copy, my first effort at a upi feature, and he promptly rewrote it from
top to bottom. he kept my signer on top, however, and that's when I
learned that just because your name was on a story did not necessarily
mean you wrote it. Over the years I did the same thing to many staffers.
After two years as an office boy, I was headed into my senior year. my
30 wife, ethel, was pregnant and I needed a fulltime job. I was in between semesters at school and work at upi. Henry told me that he'd put me in for the first staff job that opened up. I drove a taxi for twoweeks before getting a call from henry. "Are you interested in going to syracuse?" he asked. "You bet," I replied, and that began my staff career. Funny thing. Syracuse was a one-person buo, so for six months I worked alone before transferring to albany (kt). Now I'm working a
"virtual buo" at home and, sadly, alone again. Full circle. I often think back to those early days working with berens and minott. where berens was gruff, minott was gentle. where berens pounded away with two fingers, minott typed with all fingers, and I never saw him make a typo. every day was an exciting adventure in those days, and berens and minott showed me by example what made a unipresser. -- haskell-bh
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From: (b)(6)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:10:48 EDT
Subject: [DH] PMers
To Bill Wrights question about PMers. You may want to check Peter
Benjaminson's fine book of 1984 "Death in the Afternoon" (Andrews, McMeel and
Parker). He recaps the demise of the great PMers, and although there are no specific references to UPI the book will job some memories. The now-dead Hono
Star-Bulletin used UPI stuff on occasion, although the Hono Advertiser was our main squeeze in Hawaii. Syndicates were also dramatically affected by the loss of in-market newspaper competition when the PMers started dying.
Also, regarding Hank Minott. He was Division News Manager when I joined UPI in 1961 in Buffalo and then brought me to HM. The Concord bureau was named
31 for him, I believe, well before he retired. He was one of the great gentlemen
in UPI, always polite and considerate. A perfect antidote to Stan Berens, who
was terrific in his own way. (By the way, does anyone remember the specifics
of Berens' altercation with an automobile while standing in a phone book
talking to the BH news desk? Haskell may recall.).
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Topic: Barbara Frye I (b)() M Mar 15 11:56AM -0400 A
Bill ...
Great stuff. She was quite a character ... choosing between Wallace and Shirley! That's a classic!
I never learned to read tape, either. I trained myself to recognize read "the" and "a" and "and." But mostly I just hit the letters key enough times to keep the loop from hitting the stop bar so that I could read on the printer the last words I had written -- because, of course, the fone invariably rang in mid- sentence to wreck my train of though.
I know, I know ... "Fire the crippled bastard!"
Ron
Topic: Minott ...... Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 15 11:13AM-0400 A
At 01:42 PM 3/14/2011, you wrote:
I'm not positive, but I have a distinct memory (from SB) that Minott could have had something to do with it. Perhaps Hank edited the Lewis piece.
John -- digging thru the DH archives for mentions of Minott, find the following exchange we had two years ago, when my copy of the Lewis book was still handy.
BTW, obviously finding a lot of material about about Minott ... some of it only tangential ... and more generic abt the BH buo. But suspect some here will enjoy that too, so I will edit it down and move it a 32 bit later.
- tf
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:18:54 -0400
To: "Downhold Wire"
From: Tom Foty (b)(6) I
Subject: Re: [DH] annals of unipress (length alert)
At 08:50 AM 4/14/2008, you wrote:
(although I'm told that HM got the famous Vanzetti jail letter).
According to his 1981 book, it was given to Boyd Lewis by Vanzetti's lawyer.
He says Henry Minott, who was convinced of of their guilt, nevertheless immediately put it on the wire, with Vanzetti's byline ... "Written for the United Press."'
Lewis' book reproduces the letter in full ... running about two and a half pages of type.
- tf
Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 15 11:49AM -0400 _A
I've finished editing the archives posts about him and the BH buo and will break it up into a couple of takes.
Some of it is a bit redundant, with some repeated anecdotes, but should be fun for BH vets. It includes both some very early posts from Isabelle (back in 1977) and the recent Behrens thread a couple of months ago. - tf
Topic: UPI March Ray Herndon
Perhaps this has moved on Downhold before, but this YouTube video features the UPI March which I'd never heard of before. Mike Keats apparently unearthed it and sent it along to someone who moved it on the Vietnam Old Hacks message group. httD://www.voutube.com/watch?v=5DLi 1zshaOs
33 Tracy Wood (b)(6) [ Mar 15 06:01AM -0700 ^ I. ,D
Thanks for posting the march, Tom. I'd never heard it before, Tracy
Tracy Wood (b)(6) Mar 15 06:15AM -0700 A
Hi Bob, If you're looking for Roger Tatarian fans, put me at the top of the list! He pulled me out of BC at a time division news manager Joe Morgan was nixing transfers. And then Tatarian overrode foreign editor, who didn't want to send a woman to Vietnam, and sent me to Saigon. I wasn't close to corporate decision-makers but always wondered if some of the bad corporate decisions made down-the-road would have happened if Tatarian had lived to take over the top spot. Tracy BC, NX cables, Sgn, HK
Tracy Wood (b)6) Mar 15 06:20AM -0700 A
Al's current email address is [email protected]
He sounds great and wish we could lure him back.
Tracy
Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 15 09:51AM -0400 A here's a "rich text" email version of that page realtime scribers should see the pix and different typefaces and the links should work too. digest scribers .. not so much. check the URL below http://downhold.org/UPMarch/
The United Press March
[] "The United Press March" was created on commission from then-UP President Hugh Baillie in 1952 by composer and conductor Paul Lavalle. It was not uncommon for news organizations to commission such works. Most major US newspapers had official marches, with Sousa's "Washington Post March" 34 the most famous.
For several years in the 1960's, "The United Press March" was used as the theme music for the annual yearend news summary program produced by the UPI Audio network. The 1965 and 1966 versions of that program, titled "Playback '65" and "Playback '66" were also issued in vinyl LP form by Decca records.
From the 1930's into the 1970's, Lavalle was a well-known composer and performer of march and other band music, with numerous recordings to his credit. Through the intervention of famed United Press London correspondent (and musician) Robert Musel, "The United Press March" was performed during the coronation ceremonies for Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
"The United Press March" was commercially available as both a 45 RPM single record and as part of one of Lavalle's numerous LP's. See below.
The radio broadcast version was donated by David Baillie, son of Hugh Baillie, to Dick Harnett, founder of the -95- newsletter and the Downhold Wire.
After nearly a half century in musical obscurity, "The United Press March" received another prominent public performance on March 8, 2003.
As the president of Washington's famed "Gridiron Club," and responsible for its sole function .. the annual VIP dinner ... former UPI Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Manager Ron Cohen obtained the orchestration instructions for the march and arranged its performance by the United States Marine Band ("The President's Own"). On hand for the performance were President George W. Bush and numerous former and current employees of UPI. In the manner of former military personnel honoring their service songs, the UPI table contingent rose from their seats for the UP March .. to the cheers of former colleagues.
Here are TWO MP3 versions of the UP March ... the first from a radio broadcast, with introductory material; the second from a higher fidelity commercial recording.
To Listen:
LEFT-CLICK on either the pictures or the links below them. Please allow for a few seconds lag on broadband. On dialup connections, it will take considerably longer.
To Download:
RIGHT-CLICK on either the pictures or the links below them ... then LEFT CLICK on "Save Target AS" (or "Save Link As") ... and specify a path and filename on your hard drive where the file is to be saved.
[]
UP March .. Radio Broadcast.. in lower-fidelity mp3 (about 1.6 megs)
[]
UP March.. HiFi LP version.. in Hi-Fi mp3 (about 2.7 megs).
35 Jeffrey Reynolds (b)(6) J> Mar 15 03:08PM A al posts occasionally on the gritz wire.
Jeffrey C. Reynolds
Topic: Stephen Vincent Benet quote on the United Press "George Boosey"
I found that quote printed in my copy of "For the Beginning Unipresser" which was given to me when I went to work for UPI in Little Rock (ck) in 1971. The 14-page document also included this welcome: You are now a Unipresser, a member of an organization once aptly described as 'an international giant, the world's most enterprising wire news merchant.' As such, you become something special. One person who worked for both UPI and the other major domestic news service put it this way: 'You can work for the AP, but you an only belong to UPI.' As I dug through my collection (my wife, who worked for the AP calls me a packrat), I also located a 1976 UPI Election Handbook written by Arnold Sawislak and the 1973, 1974 and 1975 editions of Selections and several 1979 UPI Reporters from HLS.
Topic: Fw: [DH1 UPI March Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 15 10:18AM -0400 A
At 03:06 PM 3/14/2011, you wrote: >has issued a number of CD's featuring marches >written for various newspapers. Its URL is
>
I have one of those ...
The Chicago Tribune and More Newspaper Marches -- by The Advocate Brass Band
.. which includes the Associated Press March.
(many of the other nupes represented are long gone, tho about a half a dozen are left and the Washington Times is in a different incarnation.)
36 If anyone wants to hear the AP March for comparison purpose to the UP March, contact me privately.
It's actually not all that bad.. and no, it was not written and performed by a co-op.
Its composer was named James Fulton.. who (like UP March's composer, Paul LaValle) has a Wikipedia entry.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James M. Fulton
James Melville Fulton (1873-1940) was a composer, arranger, conductor, and music educator best known for composing
37 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:17 PM To: Batkin, Joshua; Loyd, Susan Subject: WAPost editorial writer
Wants 20 minutes on fone tomorrow to discuss t what's going on in Japan, and what the implications are for the U.S. Are there lessons to be drawn for American nuclear operators/policymakers?
I think this would be good to try to fit in. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry From: Google Alerts
News 2 new results for jaczko
Vermont Yankee license renewal delayed, but coming Boston Herald The federal commission's chairman, Gregory Jaczko, last week said the Vermont nuclear plant had satisfied his agency that it was fit to operate for 20 years past the expiration date of its original license next March. The paperwork was expected to be ... See all stories on this topic >
Radiation from leaking Japan nuclear plants reaching Louisville called unlikely Louisville Courier-Journal On Monday, Greg Jaczko, chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said at a White House press conference: "First and foremost, based on the type of reactor design and the nature of the accident, we see a very low likelihood, really a very low ... See all stories on this topic >
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1 e$.V / 3C) -I, From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:56 PM To: Couret, Ivonne Subject: Re: Media Request - FW: attn: Gregory B.Jaczko c/o Megyn Kelly
A generic OCM office email. Not his personal email. Ask patti what the generic office email is. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Couret, Ivonne To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 18:53:40 2011 Subject: RE: Media Request - FW: attn: Gregory B. Jaczko d/o Megyn Kelly
There is a Jaczko, Gregory email there are several OCM emails. Please advise how to proceed. Ivonne
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:50 PM To: Couret, Ivonne Subject: Re: Media Request - FW: attn: Gregory B. Jaczko c/o Megyn Kelly
See if there is anOCM office email. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Couret, Ivonne To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 18:48:19 2011 Subject: Media Request - FW: attn: Gregory B. Jaczko c/o Megyn Kelly
From: Brown, Megan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:22 PM To: OPA Resource Subject: attn: Gregory B. Jaczko c/o Megyn Kelly
Good Afternoon, 3 1 su/73o I understand schedules are incredibly busy at the moment but my anchor would like to send an email directly to the Chairman, can you let me know how best to coordinate?
Her email is [email protected]
Thank you, Megan
Megan Brown Segment Producer/ Supervisor NY Booking FOX NEWS CHANNEL 1211 Avenue of the Americas, Level C-1 New York, New York 10036 Unit: 212-301-5155/Direct: 212-301-3854 Cell for emergencies: (b)(6) www. foxnews. com
AMERICA has chosen.... FOX NEWS is # 1 in ratings, # 1 with viewers.
2 From: Jentleson, Adam (DPCC)
Happy to help.
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:48 PM To: Jentleson, Adam (DPCC) Subject: Re: Nuke comments
Owe you one. Tnx. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 3Q1 415 8200 C[ (b)(6) l Sent from my Blackberry
From: Jentleson, Adam (DPCC)
I hear you. I connected with Keith and he's all set.
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:33 PM To: Jentleson, Adam (DPCC); Batkin, Joshua; Miller, Chris (Reid) Cc: Summers, Jon (Reid); McDonough, Alexander (Reid) Subject: Re: Nuke comments
Thanks. We are in a murderboard. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cr (b)(6) I Sent from my Blackberry
From: Jentleson, Adam (DPCC)
Yup, it was Keith's inquiry that sparked this - I'll call him now and convey the message we discussed here.
Adam Jentleson Deputy Communications Director Senator Harry Reid/DPCC 202-224-2939
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:26 PM To: Batkin, Joshua; Miller, Chris (Reid) Cc: Summers, Jon (Reid); Jentleson, Adam (DPC); McDonough, Alexander (Reid) Subject: Re: Nuke comments
Aware of it. Got question from Platts a little bit ago. Can someone from Reid's office reach out to keith chu at 541-390- 0088 to elaborate?... Alternatively, I can say I have checked and we look at everything. Just don't want to be pulled in further Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CJ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Batkin, Joshua To: '[email protected]'
Ok, if you explicitly reference the chairman's statement then we can just say yes, we agree with what we said at the WH. Head's up Eliot (our public affairs director).
Joshua C. Batkin Chief of Staff Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko (301) 415-1820
From: Miller, Chris (Reid)
I think we're set. We will say Reid was referring to this piece from Greg's statement at WH Presser yesterday-
2 "...we will look at whatever information we can gain from this event and see if there are changes we need to make to our system"
And that their conversation(s) was about a pause for collecting and evaluating that information - not a pause/slowdown in considering license applications
WH Press Con from yesterday
Q There's already been calls -- this might be more for Jay, but there are already calls for moratoriums in the United States. For example, Congressman Markey called for that. Does the President know about these calls for changes in U.S. handling of this issue? And you said you were reviewing, but what is the timeline for that? This is obviously something that Americans are concerned about.
CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Again, as an independent regulatory agency, we will always take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the safety and security of nuclear power plants in this country. But right now we believe we have a very strong program in place. As we get more information from Japan, as this immediate crisis ultimately comes to an end, we will look at whatever information we can gain from this event and see if there are changes we need to make to our system.
I would just add as a similar scenario, following the 2004 tsunami, we did review tsunami requirements for nuclear power plants, and, in fact, went and made sure that our plants would be able do deal with that type of event.
From: Batkin, Joshua [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:56 PM To: Miller, Chris (Reid) Cc: Summers, Jon (Reid); 3entleson, Adam (DPCC); McDonough, Alexander (Reid) Subject: Re: Nuke comments
Thanks Chris. are you able to clarify at all?
Joshua C. Batkin Chief of Staff Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko (301) 415-1820
From: Miller, Chris (Reid)
Hi Josh - heads up. I know you have a lot going on, but we probably need to reconnoiter on this Reid statement below asap. "that" sounds like he and Greg/the Chairman agreed that a pause in new nukes was underway. Not what he meant but...
C.
3 From: Summers, Jon (Reid) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:31 PM To: Miller, Chris (Reid); Jentleson, Adam (DPCC) Subject: Nuke comments
This is what he said at Stakeout.
QUESTION: Senator Reid, do you support there being a pause (inaudible) until the Japanese situation (inaudible).
REID: I've had a number of conversations with Greg Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And they're going to do that. I am confident that it will be done.
Jon Summers Communications Director, Sen. Harry Reid/DPCC Twitter: @jonsummersdc
4 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:42 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: EPA STATEMENT
Ok Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 3014158200 C1 (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
-OriginalMessage ----- From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 18:41:20 2011 Subject: FW: EPA STATEMENT
I'd like to do a quick blog post to highlight this and send folks there. OK?
Original----- Message ----- From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:30 PM To: Uselding, Lara; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; Couret, Ivonne; Hannah, Roger; Mitlyng, Viktoria; Chandrathil, Prema; Screnci, Diane; Sheehan, Neil Subject: EPA STATEMENT
This should be on the EPA website soon! I'll add it to Web EOC and show it to the ET. Note data is ONLINE!
EPA STATEMENT: As the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said, we do not expect to see radiation at harmful levels reaching the U.S. from damaged Japanese nuclear power plants. As part of the federal government's continuing effort to make our activities and science transparent and available to the public, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will continue to keep all RadNet data available in the current online database. In addition, EPA plans to work with its federal partners to deploy additional monitoring capabilities to parts of the western U.S. and U.S. territories.
As always, EPA is utilizing this existing nationwide radiation monitoring system, RadNet, which continuously monitors the nation's air and regularly monitors drinking water, milk and precipitation for environmental radiation. The RadNet online searchable database contains historical data of environmental radiation monitoring data from all fifty states and U.S. territories.
NOTE: RadNet air monitoring data can be always be viewed on EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) website at www.epa.Rov/cdx. i'3\13o5 V
Adora Andy Deputy Associate Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education 202-564-2715 [email protected]
2 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:35 PM To: McIntyre, David; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Harrington, Holly Subject: RE: NBC News - Lisa Myers request on BWR-Mark ls
I'll put it on my to-do list...
From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:25 PM To: McIntyre, David; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Burnell, Scott; Harrington, Holly Subject: RE: NBC News - Lisa Myers request on BWR-Mark ls
Should have added more detail - he's interested specifically in how BWR Mark-Is go kaput.
From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:24 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Burnell, Scott; Harrington, Holly Subject: NBC News - Lisa Myers request on BWR-Mark ls
Eliot - I had a lengthy talk with Azriel Relph, a researcher who works with Lisa Myers at NBC. He had spoken today to Harold Denton, who recommended he talk to Brian Sheron about BWRs and all the problems they supposedly had. They want to do a piece for Thursday evenings' nightly news. I explained that we aren't making staffers available, and that the Chairman was testifying tomorrow so we wouldn't be putting others in front of cameras. So -
1) I (b)(5) he said they could certainly set up something after the hearing to interview him or anyone else we wanted to offer up. 2) I said that although we wouldn't be able to do an on-camera, we would like to make sure that he gets the information he needs, and I said we'd follow up in the morning. Scotty Nuke, you up for it?
His phone number is 212-413-5712, and email is azriel.relph(anbcuni.com
Dave
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Here are your energy and environment headlines for the afternoon of Tuesday, March 15, 2011:
House panel approves bill blocking greenhouse gas regulations
Chu remains confident in nuclear safety, details aid to Japan
Radiation levels drop near crippled Japanese reactors, raising hopes
More U.S. military members exposed to Japanese radiation
Reactor containment system used in Japan long known for weaknesses
McConnell seeks Senate floor vote on Upton-Inhofe EPA bill
Markey calls for oil company CEOs to testify on spill safety
GOP urges moderation in reaction to Japan's reactor failures
Renewable energy stocks jump in response to cloud over nuclear
Germany imposes moratorium on operation of old nuclear plants
Chernobyl's 25th anniversary points up enduring legacy of nuclear meltdowns
Gaddafi forces advance toward rout of rebels
Daybook: Upcoming events House panel approves bill blocking greenhouse gas regulations
By Edward Felker
..... The GOP-controlled House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday passed legislation by Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., that would ban the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases after rejecting numerous Democratic attempts to weaken the bill.
The final 34-19 vote was mostly along party lines, with no Republicans voting against and just three Democrats-Reps. John Barrow of Georgia, Jim Matheson of Utah and Mike Ross of Arkansas-voting for it.
The bill, dubbed the Energy Tax Prevention Act, would reverse the EPA's determination in 2009 that carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels is endangering public health.
It would stop EPA's regulation of emissions from major sources and stop the EPA from acting with the Transportation Department to impose higher auto mileage standards after 2016.
"There are a number of us who believe these new regulations will increase costs for every manufacturer out there," which will lead to higher consumer costs, Upton said. "It doesn't gut the Clean Air Act. This bill does not do that."
Upton hopes to pass the bill on the House floor later this spring, but the outlook is less certain in the Senate. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Tuesday introduced a companion bill by Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., as an amendment to the pending small-business bill on the Senate floor, setting up a possible early vote in that chamber.
Voting in the House committee Tuesday was confined largely to a group of Democratic amendments that sought to portray Republicans as "climate deniers" who reject the concept of global warming.
"The reality is pretending problems aren't real doesn't make them go away. Most of us learned that in grade school. We need to face these scientific facts," said ranking member Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who passed the Democratic cap- and-trade climate bill in 2009 when he chaired the committee.
Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., one of the most ardent Democrats in favor of reining in greenhouse gas emissions, said, "make no mistake about it, it is a war on science."
Republicans argued that the science behind global warming was uncertain and that EPA's regulations won't reduce the rise in global temperatures, but will send jobs overseas to nations that don't impose limits.
"We should not put the U.S. economy in a straightjacket because of a theory that has not been proven," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, the former committee chairman.
2 An amendment by Waxman declaring that Congress accepts the finding by the EPA that global warming is "unequivocal," was rejected on a 20-31 party line vote. A followup amendment by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., that declared human activity as the source of global warming, was also rejected on a similar 21-30 party line vote.
The panel also rejected amendments by Inslee endorsing the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases were a threat that required regulation under the Clean Air Act and by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., that would have delayed the law until EPA and the Defense Department certification that national security interests would not be harmed.
An amendment by Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., to allow the EPA to issue greenhouse gas regulations if the effect would be to reduce oil demand, was defeated on a 16-34 vote with four Democrats voting against.
Markey argued that the Upton-Whitfield bill would lead to "massive increases" in oil purchases from the Middle East by curtailing the agency's ability to set mileage standards.
The Democrats voting against the Markey amendment were Barrow, Matheson, and Reps. Gene Green and Charles Gonzalez of Texas. (Green voted against the bill on final passage, while Gonzalez missed the vote).
The committee adopted, by voice vote, an amendment by Matheson that expressed a non-binding sense of Congress that global warming is real and that Congress should develop a policy in reaction.
Waxman backed the amendment but said it was merely a statement of intent that had no practical effect without proposals to take action.
"Where's the beef, where's the proposal, what would you have us do?" he said. "If that's the best we can do I find it somewhat lame, but better lame than nothing, I suppose." Chu remains confident in nuclear safety, details aid to Japan
By John Solomon
The United States has deployed 34 workers to assist Japan in its reactor crisis and to monitor radiation, and remains confident nuclear energy will remain pivotal to America's future, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress on Tuesday
"Nuclear energy has an important role to play in our energy portfolio," Chu told the House Appropriations Energy and Water Development subcommittee in testimony designed to calm fears the Obama administration might abandon
3 plans for nuclear expansion in the aftermarth of Japan's catastrophe.
"The American people should have full confidence that the United States has rigorous safety regulations in place to ensure that our nuclear power is generated safely and responsibly. Information is still coming in about the events unfolding in Japan, but the Administration is committed to learning from Japan's experience as we work to continue to strengthen America's nuclear industry," he added.
Chu also described to the committee the extensive U.S. efforts to assist Japan and look for early warning signs that radiation might spread beyond the island nation from three crippled reactors that have exploded or caught fire.
A nuclear accident expert from DOE was deployed with the Agency for International Development Disaster Assistance Response Team, as was a nuclear engineer with Japanese language skills, Chu said.
Special teams were also positioned at U.S. Consulates and military installations in Japan to help assess, survey, monitor and sample areas for radiation and to deploy Aerial Measuring System equipment that measures contamination of the ground.
Energy also "is deploying assets at its National Laboratories to provide ongoing predictive atmospheric modeling capabilities based on a variety of scenarios" to determine where radiation might drift, he added.
Radiation levels drop near crippled Japanese reactors, raising hopes
By The Associated Press
A nuclear power plant damaged by fire and explosions emitted a burst of radiation Tuesday, panicking an already edgy Japan and leaving the government struggling to contain a spiraling crisis caused by last week's earthquake and tsunami.
Radiation levels in areas around the nuclear plant, which rose early in the afternoon, appeared to subside by evening, officials said. But the unease remained in a country trying to recover from the massive disasters that are believed to have killed more than 1O,OOO people and battered the world's third- largest economy.
The leak caused the government to order 140,000 people living within 20 miles (30 kilometers) of the plant to seal themselves indoors to avoid exposure and declared a ban on commercial air traffic through the area. Worries about radiation rippled through Tokyo and other areas far beyond that cordon. The stock market plunged for a second day, dropping lo percent.
4 The troubles cascaded Tuesday at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, where there have already been explosions at two reactor buildings since Friday's disasters. An explosion at a third reactor blasted a 26-foot (8-meter) hole in the building and, experts said, damaged a vessel below the reactor, although not the reactor core. Three hours later, a fire broke out at a fourth reactor, which had been offline for maintenance.
In a nationally televised address, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said radiation had seeped from four of the plant's six reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Japanese officials informed it that the fire was in a pool where used nuclear fuel rods are stored and that "radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere." Long after the fire was extinguished, a Japanese official said the pool might still be boiling.
Depending on how bad the blast was at Unit 2, experts said more radioactive materials could seep out. If the water in the storage pond in Unit 4 boils away, the fuel rods could be exposed, leaking more virulent radiation.
Experts noted that much of the leaking radiation was apparently in steam from boiling water - and the falling radiation levels suggest the situation could be stabilizing.
Government spokesman Yukio Edano said the radiation leak potentially affected public health. But authorities and experts said the risks to the public diminished the farther the distance from the plant. At its most intense, the leak released a radioactive dose in one hour at the site 400 times the amount a person normally receives in a year. Within six hours, that level had dropped dramatically.
A person would have to be exposed to that dose for 1O hours for it to be fatal, said Jae Moo-sung, a nuclear engineering expert at Seoul's Hanyang University.
Radiation elsewhere never reached that level. In Tokyo, 170 miles (270 kilometers) to the southwest, authorities reported radiation levels nine times a normal level - too small, officials said, to threaten the 39 million people in and around the capital. Weather patterns helped, shifting Tuesday night to the southeast, blowing any potential radiation from the plant toward the sea.
More U.S. military members exposed to Japanese radiation
By The Associated Press
More U.S. military crews were exposed to radiation Tuesday as the Pentagon ramped up relief flights over a Japan reeling from an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
The Defense Department said the Navy started giving anti-radiation pills to some of those exposed, and Americans on two military bases south of Tokyo were advised to stay indoors as much as possible. Meanwhile, U.S. aviation and
5 energy officials also worked with Japanese counterparts on the nuclear developments.
With more aid for victims on the way, the U.S. Navy said it was redirecting three ships to work in the Sea of Japan on the country's west coast rather than risk the hazards of radiation and the debris field in the waters off the east coast.
Sensitive air monitoring equipment on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington detected low levels of radioactivity from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant as the carrier sat pier-side at Yokosuka, Cmdr. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. 7th Fleet, said Tuesday.
Davis said that while there was no danger to the public from the radiation levels, the commander recommended as a precaution that military personnel and their families at the two bases, Yokosuka and Naval Air Facility Atsugi, limit their outdoor activities and seal ventilation systems at their homes as much as possible.
At the White House Tuesday, spokesman Jay Carney said that unlike some other countries the U.S. was not recommending that American citizens leave Tokyo over radiation concerns. Tokyo is about 170 miles (270 kilometers) from the nuclear plant and slightly elevated radiation levels were reported in the capital, but Japanese officials said the increase was too small to threaten the 39 million people in and around the city.
Reactor containment system used in Japan long known for weaknesses
The General Electric Mark I reactor containment system at the leaking Fukushima Daiichi plant and 16 stations in the United States, has been known for weaknesses since its design in the 196os, The New York Times reports.
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The Center for Public Integrity reported U.S. regulators considered banning the design in 1972 but decided it would be too much trouble.
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McConnell seeks Senate floor vote on Upton-Inhofe EPA bill
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced the Upton-Inhofe Energy
6 Tax Prevention Act as an amendment to the small business bill pending on the Senate floor, The Hill reports.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would allow a vote on the bill, The Hill also reports.
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Markey calls for oil company CEOs to testify on spill safety
House Natural Resources ranking member Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has called for oil industry executives to return to Capitol HI1 to detail offshore spill response capabilities, the Houston Chronicle reports.
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GOP urges moderation in reaction to Japan's reactor failures
Congressional Republicans are in no rush to judgment about U.S. nuclear power in response to the Japanese nuclear reactor failures, Greenwire reports.
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Renewable energy stocks jump in response to cloud over nuclear
Bloomberg reports that a rally in stocks of renewable energy manufacturing continued for a second day as Japanese authorities sought to gain control over damaged nuclear power plants.
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Germany imposes moratorium on operation of old nuclear
7 plants
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the government will order the temporary closure of nuclear reactors that went into service before 1980, Reuters reports.
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Chernobyl's 25th anniversary points up enduring legacy of nuclear meltdowns
The lasting effects of the Chernobyl disaster are getting new attention in light of the Fukushima station explosions, Reuters reports.
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Gaddafi forces advance toward rout of rebels
Troops loyal to Libya dictator Moammar Gaddafi pushed past rebels blocking the way to Benghazi, setting up a confrontation that could lead to a defeat of opposition forces, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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9 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:06 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: Reid's people walked back his quote
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So looks like the majority leader just spoke unclearly. Sorry for the false alarm.
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You can count on her for friday too. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 CF (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 17:51:05 2011 Subject: RE: staffing updates
That will help. I'd really like it if we could give everyone one day off this weekend. Otherwise, people, including myself, are going to start falling apart. We'll talk later this week
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:48 PM To: Harrington, Holly Subject: Re: staffing updates
We will have beth over the weekend. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:l (b) Sent friom my Blackberry
From: Harrngton, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 17:42:49 2011 Subject: staffing updates
Diane can come down on Sunday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to help out. this weekend Neil would like to go back Friday, meaning we need to get Friday overnight coverage (if needed) Scott is getting a hotel room for the rest of the week. Mindy is subbing for Ivonne tomorrow who is out (b)(6) and may be able to fill in throughout the week Susan from OCA with press background is now helping us out; may be available this weekend Christine may be able to help out one day this weekend. Brenda really needs a day off.
We'll have to sit down and talk about weekend staffing later. 1 /0 V/ 3 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:36 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: radiation question
Call EPA. It is in their backyard. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C:[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
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Hi Eliot, I'm hoping to get some sort of answer to this question. Suggestions? Thanks! Erika Bolstad
From: Bolstad, Erika Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:30 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: radiation question
Hi Mark, it's Erika Bolstad with the Anchorage Daily News. I left a voicemail as well. I'm trying to find out who monitors radiation, specifically, who would be monitoring any radiation levels if anything from Japan were to drift toward Alaska. Is it the EPA? The state air quality folks? Is it an air quality measurement? Or something the NRC or military does? Or is it even done at all?
Thanks so much! Erika
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Can it charge on the laptop? Amy Powell Associate Director Office of Congressional Affairs U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Phone: 301-415-1673
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From: Harrington, Holly To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 17:09:06 2011 Subject: RE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 3/15/2011
Is there a link to this we can send people to?
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From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. <1 (b)(6) To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 16:56:51 2011 Subject: FW: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 3/15/2011
Here is today's press briefing
From: White House Press Office [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:54 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Subject: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 3/15/2011
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I For Immediate Release March 15, 2011
PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
2:18 P.M. EDT
MR. CARNEY: Good afternoon. I apologize for the fact that we're running a little late here today. Before I get started, I'd just like to give you a short update on the response to the situation in Japan.
The United States is continuing to do everything in its power to help Japan and American citizens who were there at the time of these tragic events. USAID is coordinating the overall U.S. government efforts in support of the Japanese government's response, and we are currently directing individuals to www.usaid.gov for information about response donations.
The President is being kept up to date and is constantly being briefed by his national security staff. The national security staff in the White House is also coordinating a large interagency response with experts meeting around the clock to monitor the latest information coming out of Japan.
We have offered our Japanese friends disaster response experts, search and rescue teams, technical advisors with nuclear expertise, and logistical support from the United States military. Secretary Chu announced earlier today that the Department of Energy has offered and Japan has accepted an aerial measuring system capability, including detectors and analytical equipment used to provide assessments of contamination on the ground. In total, the DOE team includes 34 people.
To support our citizens in Japan, the embassy is working around the clock. We have our consular services available 24 hours a day to determine the whereabouts and well-being of all U.S. citizens in Japan. A short while ago the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the State Department each issued an update on the ongoing situation at the nuclear plant in question in Japan. The guidance, once again, was that after careful analysis of data, radiation levels and damage assessments to all units at the plant, our independent experts at the NRC are in agreement with the response and measures taken by Japanese technicians, including their recommended 20-kilometer radius for evacuation and additional shelter-in- place recommendations out to 30 kilometers.
Both the NRC and the State Department are continuing to ask American citizens in Japan to listen to the local Japanese officials for the very latest information regarding the situation there.
With that, I will take your questions. Julie.
2 Q I know you just said that you're urging Americans in Japan to listen to the local officials there. We are starting to see, though, some other governments -- China, France, Austria -- taking steps to either urge their citizens or recommend their citizens leave Tokyo. Does the U.S. feel like its citizens in Tokyo are safe at this point?
MR. CARNEY: The assessment that I just mentioned made by the NRC is that the actions and recommendations taken by the Japanese government are the same that we would take in the situation and therefore they support and are recommending to American citizens that they listen to and follow the instructions of the Japanese government or local Japanese officials.
Q So taking into account all of the possible options that could happen at this point, there's no recommendation that U.S. citizens leave Tokyo at this point?
MR. CARNEY: There is not that I'm aware of. I refer you -- obviously the State Department issues those kinds of advisories, but again, I would refer you to what the NRC has just put out.
Q Given that the situation at this plant took a turn for the worse overnight, do your comments from yesterday that there is no threat to Hawaii or the West Coast of the U.S. -- do those comments still stand?
MR. CARNEY: Well, as you know, those comments were not mine, because I'm not the expert, but the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is an independent agency charged specifically with safety regarding our nuclear industry. And he -- Chairman Jaczko made clear that he believes based on his analysis and the NRC's analysis that there is no threat posed by --
Q Actually he said "highly unlikely." He didn't say no. They later sent out --
MR. CARNEY: Let me actually -- I have language precisely what he said. "You aren't going to have any radiological material that, by the time it traveled those large distances, could present any risk to the American public." That's a quote from yesterday.
So I will defer to him as he is the expert on this.
Q But as far as you know, that comment stands, even given the developments overnight?
MR. CARNEY: Again, I think the NRC has put out additional information today, but on that issue, yes.
Tricia.
Q On Bahrain, yesterday you said the Saudi troops are not an invasion. But does the U.S. welcome them there and do you think it will
3 help stabilize the kingdom? And are you worried that it could inflame tensions and have an effect on oil prices?
MR. CARNEY: Tricia, we -- first of all, the GCC troops were obviously invited by the Bahraini government. However, we have made clear that we believe that there is no military solution to the unrest in Bahrain or in other countries in the region. And we urge the parties involved here and the governments involved to engage in the political dialogue that is necessary to respond to the grievances and the desires of the people of Bahrain.
And that's a call that we make to other governments in the region as well. We have maintained that position consistently as we have seen unrest affect different countries throughout the region.
Q And on Libya, given that the rebels seem to be finished or coming near being finished, does the U.S. have any regrets about not doing more sooner?
MR. CARNEY: Well, Tricia, I would say first of all that Secretary Clinton, as you know, met with the Libyan opposition in Paris, as well as our European and Arab partners, to discuss the best way to continue to raise pressure on the Qaddafi regime and ways of supporting the Libyan opposition. I can tell you that today, later this afternoon, the President will be meeting with his national security team to discuss the situation in Libya, and that we continue to be focused on ways to increase the pressure on Qaddafi, increasing our support for the Libyan people and working with the international community to stop the violence there.
And in terms of the speed of our response, I would simply say that it is -- we have acted with the utmost urgency. We have taken dramatic action, together with our international partners, to put pressure on Muammar Qaddafi and his regime. And obviously, as you know, the President has called on him to give up power.
We continue to review a variety of options that can be taken, that might be taken, together with our international partners, and we'll continue to do that. But it, again, has been four weeks, if that, since this began, and the actions that the United States and the international - - its international partners have taken have been quite swift and unprecedented, in many ways, in terms of the nature and range of the actions. And again, we continue to look at other options.
Jill.
Q Jay, following up on exactly that question, though, there is the feeling that the tide may have turned, that the opposition is now fleeing, they are under attack, and that they can't pull it together. There are others who are saying it's too late for a no-fly zone. Does the administration share that view? I mean, is it over for the opposition?
4 MR. CARNEY: I don't have a military assessment to make for you. I would say, again, that the Secretary of State met with the Libyan opposition yesterday. They discussed forms of assistance, including humanitarian assistance. She also has mentioned, I believe, and has said this, that we are exploring authorities to free up some of the seized regime assets, the 32 plus billion dollars that have been seized, to provide financial support to the opposition.
So this is another indication of the constant exploration of different options that we have to increase the pressure on the Qaddafi regime as we go forward.
Q Okay. And just one on Bahrain. Is there any indication that the U.S. has -- that Iran now actively is participating or just simply exploiting this situation undergoing -- underway in Bahrain?
MR. CARNEY: Jill, what I would say is that we believe that the situation in Bahrain needs to be resolved by the Bahraini people and the Bahraini government. We continue to urge all sides to refrain from violence and the use of force in any way; to respect the universal rights of the people in that country -- the right to free speech, the right to freedom of assembly, access to information; and to address the grievance that they have, their demands for greater participation.
And it is the broader point that we feel that the President has made since his speech in Cairo in 2009 that it is precisely to prevent ongoing unrest in the region -- or it will be one of the positive effects of having a dialogue, broadening your political participation of the people in these countries, addressing the grievances, responding in a non-violent way.
One of the effects of taking that approach will be to reduce the amount of unrest in the future, because there is no -- suppression is not an answer in the long run to the problems in the region that have led to the unrest that has affected so many countries so far.
Q Right, but the question was about Iran trying to exploit this situation.
MR. CARNEY: Well, we obviously believe that this has to be dealt with by the Bahrainis in Bahrain. And I don't have anything for you on Iran, but we believe that it is -- it began with protests by the Bahrainis, and we have encouraged the Bahrain government to engage in a dialogue -- we have encouraged actually both sides to engage in a dialogue, moderates on both sides who want to pursue that. And we continue to do so.
Yes, Jake.
Q How satisfied is President Obama with the information coming from Japanese authorities? Does the U.S. government, does the White House feel that you are getting all the information when it -- as soon as the 5 Japanese officials know it? I say this because on Friday President Obama, when I asked him about the nuclear threat in Japan, offered reassuring words, I could say, as conveyed from the Prime Minister. Obviously, the situation seems a little more dire today.
MR. CARNEY: What I can point you to, Jake, is the statement that the NRC has put out. And it's -- you have to remember that the NRC has its own independent experts on the ground there making assessments about the situation in Japan, determinations about advice that American citizens in Japan should follow. And we have an overall team, the number of which I gave you, on the ground there that is making its own assessments and working very closely with Japanese officials to make those assessments.
Q But that -- I appreciate the fact that we have our own independent experts there, but that wasn't the question. The question is how comfortable is the President with -- that the information the Japanese are giving to the U.S. from Prime Minister Kan to him and below is accurate and not just best-case scenarios and hopes and wishes?
MR. CARNEY: Again, Jake, I would point you to the fact that we have a certain amount of expertise in this area. We have people on the ground there. We are working with Japanese officials who are providing us information, and we are making our independent assessments with our own experts, as well as consulting with the Japanese.
And I just want to point to you right now, our focus is on helping the Japanese, helping our good friends and allies deal with this terrible tragedy that they've encountered -- the combination of an earthquake, a tsunami, and now the nuclear reactor problem that they have.
So we are obviously, in the ways that I mentioned at the top, coordinating very closely with the Japanese and offering assistance that's being accepted; our expertise that they can tap when they need it; and giving advice when it's solicited. So there's a great deal of coordination, and right now our focus obviously is on American citizens in the country, and those assessments are being made, and then also focus very closely on what we can do to help Japan deal with this series of really tragic events.
Q Are our independent experts there at least in part because we don't trust the assessments being made by the Japanese?
MR. CARNEY: No, Jake, they're there because we are a close ally and friend to Japan, and we are coordinating with the Japanese to assist them in any way that we can and in any way that they request in dealing with this terrible tragedy and historic tragedy. We are obviously, because we have expertise in this area, making independent assessments, and using them to evaluate decisions we make about advising American citizens in Japan and obviously about advising Americans on American soil about any impact they may face because of this, which is what Chairman Jaczko was talking about yesterday.
6 Q So just to button it -- the President is satisfied with the information he's been getting from the Japanese government? Yes?
MR. CARNEY: I have no reason to say that he's not, Jake. The coordination is deep in many ways. I would refer you for details on how that works and who's talking to whom to the NRC, the Department of Energy, the State Department, and the Embassy in Tokyo.
Q Okay, one other thing. The six youth groups who are part of the Egyptian revolution snubbed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who wanted to meet with them, who invited them to meet with her. They said that they would not meet with her based on her negative position from the beginning of the revolution in Egypt and the position of the U.S. administration. Did they misunderstand our position?
MR. CARNEY: Jake, I'll refer you to the State Department on that specifically. I believe --
Q They have no comment.
MR. CARNEY: Well, I would just say that we have said from the beginning of the situation in Egypt and the beginning even prior to that of the unrest in the region that this is not and should not be about the United States of America. We have operated under the principles that the President laid out in his speech in Cairo, and we believe that sticking to those principles was an important thing to do during the course of those historic days earlier this year during the events in Egypt. And we are working closely with our allies in Egypt and offering assistance where we can and advice where we can as they go through this transitional process that is really remarkable, given where they were just a few months ago.
As for the specific comments that those groups made, I don't have -- I do not have a response.
Chip.
Q Jay, could you clarify -- Secretary Chu -- and I'm not asking you to be a brilliant scientist here -- but he said two things that seemed a bit in contradiction. First of all, he said that the reactors in the U.S. are designed above what would be required to withstand a worst-case earthquake scenario. But he also said that the United States can learn from this to strengthen and -- strengthen the safety at its 104 reactors. So why do you need to strengthen the safety of the reactors if they're all designed above a worst-case scenario?
MR. CARNEY: I think as Chairman Jaczko made clear from this podium yesterday, that independent agency exists in order to ensure that the highest safety standards are met by the nuclear reactors that are part of the energy industry in this country. And it is -- part of their procedure is to constantly review information and data that comes in, to review incidents that happen around the world. I believe Chairman Jaczko even mentioned that they'd performed a review of safety measures in the wake of 7 the tsunami in Indonesia and made evaluations based on that in terms of the safety and security of our facilities here in the United States.
So it simply stands to reason that you make models for various scenarios and every time there is new information that comes in from an actual event you take that data and you analyze it and you examine whether or not it affects the models you have for safety and security of your facilities.
To suggest that everything is static forever obviously would be wrong, because there obviously -- there's new information to be gleaned from incidents. And I'm sure that's what Secretary Chu, a far wiser man than I, was talking about.
Q On no-fly zone, what exactly is the U.S. -- the administration's position before the Security Council?
MR. CARNEY: Our position, Chip, remains that we are evaluating a number of options, military options, including --
Q But a decision has to be made now.
MR. CARNEY: -- including a no-fly zone. We feel that it is important that any action like that that might be taken should be done in concert with our international partners. Through the United Nations would be our preferable vehicle for that, and therefore we would look to the U.N. as a forum for evaluating that option. I think I mentioned yesterday that today is the deadline for the no-fly zone option to -- preparations or plans to be submitted in Brussels at NATO. And I believe the NAC will review those tomorrow. So this process is moving forward.
But our position is that action like that should be considered and taken if decided upon in coordination with our international partners, because it's very important in the way that we respond to a situation like we see in Libya, that it be international and not unilateral; that it include the support and participation, for example, of the Arab League and other organizations and countries in the region.
And that is our sort of focus as we proceed with these conversations.
Q Is the President satisfied to follow, not lead, on deciding whether to do it?
MR. CARNEY: I take issue with the characterization. We think it is precisely because the President believes that the best outcome in a situation like we see in Libya, as we have seen in different forms in other countries in the region, that the best outcome will come when the action taken by countries -- third-party countries outside of the country where the unrest is happening -- be done in consensus with international partners, precisely so that it is not viewed by those who oppose positive democratic reform as the dictate of the West or the United States. 8 Q But wouldn't it be fair to say -- accurate to say the United States is still sitting on the fence on this? Isn't it time to make a decision, yes or no?
MR. CARNEY: Well, Chip, you tell me if as an American citizen would you want your President not to consider all the implications and ramifications of taking military action.
Q Doesn't there come a point to make a -- where you have to make a decision?
MR. CARNEY: And I would go back to what I said to Jill, that we have acted with great haste, and we have coordinated international -- led and coordinated an international response, the likes of which the world has never seen in such a short period of time. And we have -- we continue to consult with our international partners. We meet -- we have met with, as the Secretary of State did, with the Libyan opposition discussing new ways we can put pressure on Qaddafi.
And when it comes to considering military options, this President will always be mindful of what the mission, should it be engaged, what it entails, the risks that it poses to our men and women in uniform, and its likelihood of having the kind of impact that we set out for it to have. And that is his responsibility as Commander-in-Chief.
And I would suggest to you that that is what leadership is all about.
Yes, Mike.
Q Is he worried about, though, the bureaucracy of making this decision with our allies, that by the time a decision is made the conflict may be over? I mean, the rebels may have gone home.
MR. CARNEY: We are obviously aware of the situation in Libya and the events and the fighting that's happening there. Again, I do not believe that the American people would want the U.S. President to act unilaterally in a way to engage militarily without taking careful consideration of what the consequences of that would be; what the goals of the action would be; and being, as we have said from the beginning, very mindful of the fact that the desired result here will be best achieved if we act in concert with our international partners. And that is the position he's taken, and it's the position he takes today.
Q On nuclear energy in this country, Congressman Markey is calling for a moratorium on new reactors that could be built in seismically sensitive areas. Does the President believe that's an overreaction?
MR. CARNEY: I think, Mike, as you know, we have a program, a loan- guarantee program at the Department of Energy. I believe that's what some of the calls for a moratorium would address because those are -- that is
9 the program through which potentially new reactors are being assisted through a loan-guarantee program that is conditional.
And right now we have one conditional loan commitment to one nuclear project, and there are several others that are under consideration. It's a conditional loan agreement precisely because there are conditions attached, and one of those conditions is that any license would have to be granted by, of course, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the independent agency that ensures the safety and security of our nuclear reactors. And they would not issue that license if they felt that a proposed plant were not safe and secure to operate in the United States.
So that is the process we follow. The agency in question here, the NRC, as Chairman Jaczko said yesterday, focuses day to day, including prior to the events in Japan -- for days, weeks, months and years -- day to day on the safety and security of the nuclear facilities in the United States. And that would certainly apply going forward.
Q Is the President worried about an overreaction here in Washington as you view the events in Japan when it comes to nuclear energy and how it may affect U.S. energy policy?
MR. CARNEY: The President sees what's happening in Japan and feels, as most Americans do, a great -- he is -- I believe I heard him use the phrase today -- heartbroken by what he sees unfolding in Japan and the effect on the Japanese people. He is, every day, concerned about the safety and security of the American people.
He believes that our energy future will be best served by the approach that he's taking, which is to take an all-of-the-above approach in terms of our goals to reaching a clean energy standard, and that includes wind, solar, biofuels. It includes responsible drilling in the deepwater areas that, even in the wake of the deep -- of the Gulf spill -- I think as I mentioned the other day, we have issued our first permit several weeks ago since the Gulf spill for deepwater drilling, then just several days ago issued the second permit.
And we were able to do that because we're committed to responsible drilling because we need it for our energy demands, but we insist, in the wake of that spill, which demonstrated a weakness in our system and the dangers associated with that, with a terrible spill, that any industry that get a permit demonstrate that it can contain the kind of spill that we saw in the Gulf. And those permits are now being issued to those industries that demonstrate that capacity.
So, more broadly, I would just say that he is committed to a multidimensional or multisource approach to our energy needs in the future. Nuclear is one of those sources. And he believes that we need to proceed responsibly with the safety and security of the American people in mind, and if we do that, that nuclear can continue to be an element in our energy arsenal.
10 Q Does the President believe implementing a no-fly zone is an act of war?
MR. CARNEY: Chuck, I don't know about the terminology here, but he does believe it would be, in any situation, a serious action. It is a military action. And his concern -- again, I will go back to what I said -- is as he evaluates that option, which he has very clearly insisted be on the table for consideration and has driven the process to make sure that that option is evaluated and reviewed at NATO and now of course at the United Nations -- his preoccupation is, is this an option that can be effective? Is it the right option? What are the costs associated with it? What are the risks associated with it? And will it -- when I say the right option -- will it -- what confidence do we have that it will achieve the goals that we set if we were to implement it, because it is not a minor undertaking.
Q Well, I asked does he believe -- does the administration believe they need congressional approval?
MR. CARNEY: The issue here, I believe, is about deciding what is the best option to take in concert with our international partners.
Q And you do not believe you need --
MR. CARNEY: I have not heard any suggestion that there would be a --
Q There's no suggestion that you need a congressional resolution -
MR. CARNEY: Not that I have heard.
Q -- any sort of -- on that? On Japan, there is a pharmaceutical -- this run on potassium iodide that's taking place. One of the pharmaceutical companies here in the United States that makes it, the oral solution, says that the national stockpile of this actually begins expiring in April of 2011. Has there been any decision by the administration to look into that and make sure all of that is up to date, order more of it, if necessary, especially now that suddenly there's obviously a worldwide run on this right now?
MR. CARNEY: Well, let me refer to HHS for specifics about the program and the stockpiling of that. I would take this opportunity to remind you and the American people that this is an accident and a situation that's happening in Japan and not in the United States, and the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made clear yesterday his belief, based on the NRC's analysis, that there are no harmful effects that can come from any radiation spillage -- that's probably not the word -- but radiation emissions that might come from the reactors that had been damaged in Japan; any harm that could come to Americans on American soil, because of the great distances involved here.
11 Q To follow up on Jake's question, every single independent nuclear expert that we've talked to seems to think that this is at such a catastrophic level that the Japanese -- they don't have the capacity anymore to handle this on their own, that there needs to be a ton of international support.
Has the NRS -- has the NRC come to that same conclusion, that this is now beyond the scope of what the Japanese government can handle?
MR. CARNEY: Well, let me refer you to the NRC for questions to the NRC. But I would say that the NRC's role is tailored to its expertise. The Department of Energy, as I mentioned, is very engaged in this and has experts also on the ground, and we are participating in international assistance to the Japanese to help them deal with this tragedy, both the --
Q But dealing with the nuclear reactor itself, that this is -- they don't have the capacity anymore --
MR. CARNEY: Well, I don't know about the assessments of Japanese capacity except, of course, they do have a certain amount of expertise and -- a large amount of expertise. Again, I'm telling you what I know based on talking to those experts including the one who heads the NRC.
However, this is a huge event, and it requires the kind of concerted international response that we're seeing and which we are participating in a robust way. Because Japan is a close friend and ally, and we will do everything we can to help them in this situation.
Q Very quickly to follow up on Chip's question which is this -- safety at our own nuclear plants. Does the President not need to order a review of safety plans because they're constantly going on? Is that what you're trying to imply here?
MR. CARNEY: He doesn't have to order a review because they're constantly going on. He has, however -- I spoke with him about this within the last couple of hours -- asked, requested the NRC to evaluate the situation, the lessons learned from Japan as that information comes available and to incorporate it in its overall reviews of the safety and security of the reactors here in the United States.
Now, as we learned from Chairman Jaczko yesterday, that is what they do in any case. The President has added his voice, which is a singular and substantial voice, to the call for the need to do that today.
Yes, Jonathan.
Q Follow-up on Chuck's point. When the BP -- when Deepwater Horizon, when the President ordered a moratorium on new permitting while he did a review on response on that, in that case, there exactly was a planned incident response to a deepwater disaster. In the case of nuclear
12 meltdowns, there is no such thing. There are seven different agencies, no clear lines of command.
MR. CARNEY: I disagree with that, Jonathan. I think that obviously there are a variety of incidents that could happen with a nuclear facility, including, as I believe Chairman Jaczko discussed, maybe Secretary Poneman discussed yesterday, the reviews that were done in the wake of 9/11 in terms of the security of our nuclear facilities and other potentially vulnerable facilities to terrorist attack.
That is one incident and would require a response by -- with a different lead, perhaps -- a different agency in response. There could be the kind of meltdown, I guess, like occurred -- partial meltdown that occurred at Three Mile Island, and that would -- another agency might have the lead -- because they would have the expertise, so they would have the lead in responding to that. And then you have the natural disaster possibility that we've seen in Japan.
We have very specific and detailed plans in how response would be coordinated and which agencies would take the lead. Depending on what kind of incident we're discussing here, you would not -- there is not a one-size-fits-all response, we believe, and that's why we take the approach we take.
Q And in 2002, in the wake of 9/11, there was an amendment passed by Congress that ordered the distribution of potassium iodide to a 20-mile radius around all nuclear plants. The Bush administration ignored it and Markey sent a letter to President Obama. It's been ignored by the Obama administration as well. Is there any effort to follow the law and begin distributing potassium iodide on a 20-mile radius?
MR. CARNEY: Jonathan, I don't have any information on that law or how the previous administration or this one has handled it. I would just say that, again, this incident happened in Japan, not in the United States. It is not in a place in the world where it could have harmful effects -- according to the independent NRC -- it could harmful effects on Americans, on American soil.
And we -- the NRC has as its mission to constantly review the safety and security of the facilities we have here in the United States.
Julianna.
Q When you were speaking with the President earlier, was there any specific mention of reviewing older nuclear facilities, and that those should be an area that you might want to inspect in the wake of what we're seeing in the aftermath?
MR. CARNEY: Not in any conversation I had with him. But I would just refer you to the NRC and the Department of Energy for this. And again, the NRC is responsible for all the facilities and for the licensing and permitting the evaluations of their safety standards and the upgrade 13 of their safety procedures if they so deem it necessary. And again, it would be -- if the NRC decided that a facility was no longer safe, either because of something that had happened in that facility or because of new information, it has the authority to take the steps necessary to suspend activity at that facility or to shut it down.
So these procedures -- this agency is in place precisely for this reason, and the procedures are in place so that they can be followed if that contingency occurred.
Q Is there any response to what we saw in Germany earlier today where Chancellor Merkel has ordered the -- I think it was all pre-1980s plants to be shut down -- I think it was seven nuclear plants to be shut down, pending a review of their safety, until June? Does the administration have any response to that, or did the President talk about that at all?
MR. CARNEY: Well, I don't have a response to actions taken by other countries. What we know and what we're responsible for is the safety and security of those facilities in the United States. And that responsibility lies with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They have made the judgment that our facilities are safe and secure. They are constantly, as Chairman Jaczko said, evaluating their standards, their procedures, taking in new information, and making adjustments accordingly. And that would apply to old reactors as well as newer ones.
MR. CARNEY: Ann. Ann, yes.
Q Yes, thank you. On no-fly, a clarification. How does it work tomorrow when the North Atlantic Council considers this? Has the United States already decided how it feels, or does your representative have to call back to Washington and say, here are the options? And will any action by the -- or anything adopted by the NAC also require a green light from the Security Council?
MR. CARNEY: What I can tell you, as I mentioned, the President is having a meeting on Libya today in the White House with his national security team. In terms of how the process of communicating what happens in Brussels takes place, I'm not sure. This is not a, as far as I understand it, a decision moment where here's the option, sir, take it. I think it's -- they evaluate what's presented before them and then have discussions, and we move forward accordingly.
So I don't have a timeframe on when a decision will be made.
Q And real quick. Could it be a smaller no-fly zone? Does the President feel that he could do something other than cover the entire country?
MR. CARNEY: I don't -- I would just refer you on sort of the logistical aspects of it to NATO.
14 Q And who would pay for it?
MR. CARNEY: Again, I haven't seen an option that would spell that out. And it depends obviously --
Q You were asked in the non-broadcast briefing this morning about what might keep the President home from his foreign trip this weekend? Are there elements either in Japan or Libya that might --
MR. CARNEY: Ann, I'm not going to speculate on what could happen in the world we live in tomorrow or next week. The fact is the President is taking this trip because he is committed to growing the economy, to rebalancing our national security posture to take into account the world as it has changed. And he believes our relationships with Latin America are very important. So he will continue with the trip.
And as you know -- you've covered the White House for a long time -- our communications are very sophisticated. He will travel with a great deal of staff. I daresay they're a lot more sophisticated than they were back when you and I started covering this place. So he remains confident that he can fully execute his job while on the road.
Abby.
Q I wanted to go back to the question of the Libyan no-fly zone and the role of Congress. Senator Lugar yesterday suggested that not just that there must be a war declaration but that, as a courtesy, given the U.S. blood and treasure that might be at risk if a no-fly zone were implemented, that the President bring that decision to Congress so that they can have a chance to debate it and consult about it. To what extent is that something that is a part of the discussion of a no-fly zone? And does the President believe that Congress should have an opportunity to have that debate about whether we put soldiers and U.S. money on the line?
MR. CARNEY: I don't have a response, Abby, specifically to the role of Congress in this instance. I think that we're getting ahead of ourselves -- you're asking what role would Congress have should the President decide that this option is one that the United States should pursue. So why don't we wait and see as those steps are taken and that decision is made.
And I remind you that this is not the only option that is on the table. We're reviewing options constantly, including the one that I mentioned the Secretary of State brought up yesterday with a Libyan opposition leader, which is how to -- exploring ways to take those seized assets or a portion of them to aid the opposition in Libya.
April.
Q Jay, thanks. What safety nets is the White House considering when it comes to trade for American companies who gain items from Japan like electronics, cars, et cetera? What is the White House doing to the 15 possible pinch for these American companies when it comes to trade with Japan?
MR. CARNEY: April, that's a good question. I don't know. Obviously this incident happened four days ago; I don't know that any procedures are in place. I think that kind of question might be best addressed to the USTR. But we can look into that for you if you want to check back.
Margaret.
Q Thanks. After the Libya briefing the President is getting today, are we going to get any kind of a substantive readout, do you expect, on --
MR. CARNEY: I think I'll just put a mic in the room, and then you guys can -- (laughter) --
Q Should we wait for anything, or not really?
MR. CARNEY: I don't have anything for you. We obviously from here announced that the meeting is taking place, so we might have something to say about it. But I wouldn't anticipate a substantial announcement out of it. If we -- if there is something to say then we'll put out a statement.
Q Okay, and I had a last question --
Q Wild card.
Q Not really --
MR. CARNEY: Wild card for -- (laughter) --
Q So, on education, should we read anything into the fact that every education visit the President has made in the last week or so has been to a swing state, and the three interviews he's doing today are in swing states? Or is that a total coincidence and is there some other reason to explain --
MR. CARNEY: I think the interviews he gave today to regional television had to do with -- at least something to do with the fact that there are things happening in those states regarding education reform. And, look, we make decisions for a variety of reason about where he should visit and where he should -- to whom he should give interviews, so I wouldn't read too much into that.
Q Education follow-up, Jay?
MR. CARNEY: Let me go to Stephen.
Q What does it say about the state of U.S.-Saudi relations that they would stage this intervention in Bahrain without telling the U.S., given the fact that Secretary Gates was there, I guess, Friday, and you've 16 been very engaged in this whole issue about what Bahrain should do to reform and stop the violence?
MR. CARNEY: Stephen, I would just say that we were aware of obviously the invitation by the Bahrain government for assistance from GCC countries. And I would simply say that Saudi Arabia is an important partner of ours, as are other countries in the region. Our position, however, remains that it is -- military response is not a solution to the problems Bahrain or other countries in the region; that the countries in the region have -- are experiencing the unrest that they are experiencing precisely because their populations are -- crave more participation in the political process. They want more freedom, they want more economic possibilities, and they want to be heard.
And we support that. We support the peaceful demonstrations in which the peoples of the region voice those demands, and we call on the governments in the region to respond to those demonstrations to meet peace with peace and then to begin a dialogue that will produce the kind of changes that in the long run will ensure that the countries in the region have brighter futures, that the people in the region have brighter futures, and that the likelihood of further unrest is diminished because the people are feeling that their government is listening to them and responding.
Q So the experts in town that say that there's some tension between the U.S. and the Saudis over events in the Middle East, Bahrain -- are they incorrect? Is that interpretation wrong?
MR. CARNEY: Stephen, I would just say that the message the President has delivered is not a message tailored for a specific country. We understand that each country is different. The circumstances are different. The states of development can be different. The government arrangements can be different. But the sort of principles that he laid out pertain throughout the region. And obviously we maintain close partnerships with some governments in the region, and it's precisely out of friendship that we are encouraging governments in the region who are our partners to pursue political dialogue and to respond to the legitimate aspirations and grievances of their people, because we believe therein lies the future, the positive future for countries in the region.
Q Thanks, Jay.
MR. CARNEY: Thank you all very much.
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17 From: Screnci, Diane Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:22 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Journal News
OK, I'll tell him that. If he's interviewing someone, he needs to do it Thurs. at the latest.
Diane Screnci .Sr. Public Affairs Officer USNRC, RI 610/337-5330
From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:08 PM To: Screnci, Diane Subject: Re: Journal News
Floodgates? Tsunami more likely. Would like to accomodate greg but let's check thursday AM. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment CF301 415(b)6) 8200 I Sent from my Blackberry
From: Screnci, Diane To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 17:04:08 2011 Subject: Journal News
I told Greg Clary I'd ask whether we could set him up with someone who could talk about the Ramapo Fault and how it was considered during Indian Point licensing.
This would be someone from HQ, although I don't know who it would be. Don't even want to begin figuring out who it might be until I know whether we're going to do it.
He's writing an earthquake story for the weekend. I know this will open the floodgates, but promised him I'd ask.
Diane Screnci Sr. Public Affairs Officer USNRC, RI 610/337-5330
1 (5U/31z, From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:05 PM To: Harrington, Holly; Brenner, Eliot Subject: tnts
Media outlets handled by me include East County magazine in San Diego, New York Times, The Daily, KPIX- TV San Francisco, Connect Savannah, NHK, USA Today, and others. From: Mitlyng, Viktoria Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:01 PM To: Harrington, Holly; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Chandrathil, Prema Subject: Region 3 TNT
JAPAN QUAKE - OPA fielded questions primarily focused on whether the US plants are safe and whether the NRC is going to change its regulations because of the events in Japan. We talked to the Medill News Service, Moline Dispatch, WBBM News Radio (Chicago), Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and WEWS TV (Cleveland); WSJM-Radio, St .Louis Beacon, WHOI, LaSalle News-Tribune, The Vindicator, ABC-Flint, St. Paul Pioneer Press, WTMJ, Columbus Dispatch, did a recorded telephone interview with WEWF TV (Cleveland) and follow- up interviews with Morris Daily Herald and Minnesota Public Radio. We were informed by DC Cook plant that Good Morning America will be taping at the plant tonight for a story about nuclear plants. They will be taping in the turbine building and interview the sit VP. In addition OPA responded to multiple calls from member of the public who expressed concerns about living near nuclear plants - some were looking for reassurance, some just venting.
Some missed clips: http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2011/03/scientists debate likelihood o.html http://www.freep.com/article/20110315/NEWS05/103150365/Michigan-s-4-nuclear-plants-fortified-aqainst- disaster-experts-say http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/1 17980339.html
Viktoria Mitlyng Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III Lisle, IL 60532 Tel 630/829-9662 Fax 630/515-1026 e-mail: viktoria.mitlynga(inrc.gov
1 */1~vfP From: Sheron, Brian Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:55 PM To: Salley, MarkHenry; Uhle, Jennifer; Wiggins, Jim Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Comments on Component Table handed out at OECD meeting on Mar 10.docx
Sounds good until the lights don't come on when they flip theswitch ......
From: Salley, MarkHenry Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:33 PM To: Sheron, Brian; Uhle, Jennifer; Wiggins, Jim Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FW: Comments on Component Table handed out at OECD meeting on Mar 10.docx
FYI - pretty interesting, we had an OECD meeting last week - this is from one of our colleagues in Germany. (see yellow I highlighted below).
MHS
From: R~wekamp, Marina Dr. [mailto: Marina. [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:21 PM To: Hyslop, JS; [email protected]; Wolfgang Werner Cc: Melly, Nicholas; Salley, MarkHenry Subject: AW: Comments on Component Table handed out at OECD meeting on Mar 10.docx
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Kind regards Marina
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Tel.: +49-(0)-221-2068-898 Fax: +49-(0)-221-2068-10898
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Gesellschaft fOr Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrates: Pan. Staatssekret~dn Ursula Heinen-Esser Geschiftsfihrer: Prof. Dr. Frank-Peter Weig, Hans J. Steinhauer Registergericht: Amtsgericht K61n, HRB 7665 Sitz der Gesellschaft: K61n Diese Information ist ausschliefllich fur den Adressaten bestimmt und kann vertrauliche und/oder gesetzlich geschotzte Informationen enthalten. Wenn Sie nicht der bestimmungsgemtife Adressat sind, unterrichten Sie bitte den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Anderen als den bestimmungsgemlRen Adressaten ist es untersagt, diese E-Mail zu speichem, weiterzuleiten oder ihre Inhalt auf welche Weise auch immer zu verwenden . Wir setzen aktuelle Virenschutzprogramme ein. F~ir Schaden, die dem Empffnger gleichwohl durch von uns zugesandte, mit Viren behaftete E-Mails entstehen, schlieIoen wir jegliche Haftung aus.
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Von: Hyslop, IS [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. Mirz 2011 18:53 An: [email protected]; R6wekamp, Marina Dr.; Wolfgang Werner Cc: Melly, Nicholas; Salley, MarkHenry Betreff: FW: Comments on Component Table handed out at OECD meeting on Mar 10.docx
NRC's comments on the results of our discussion on Thursday's OECD FIRE meeting re: component bins.
JI.S.
From: Melly, Nicholas Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:27 PM To: Hyslop, JS Subject: RE: Comments on Component Table handed out at OECD meeting on Mar 10.docx
Here is the file with the adjusted items.
Nick
From: Hyslop, IS Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:48 PM To: Melly, Nicholas Subject: Comments on Component Table handed out at OECD meeting on Mar 10.docx
Do you have anything to add before I send this?
J.S.
2 From: Reddick, Darani Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:51 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Burnell, Scott Subject: FW: "JAPANESE NUCLEAR REACTORS CRISIS"
Eliot,
We're forwarding this to your office for action, as appropriate.
Thanks, Darani
From: Gregory Williams [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:28 PM To: CMRSVINICKI Resource Subject: Fwd: "JAPANESE NUCLEAR REACTORS CRISIS"
FOLLOW-UP TO MY PREVIOUS E-MAIL
NRC MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT: www.wunderground.comlblog/JefflMasters/comment.html
Greg Williams
Begin forwarded message:
From: Gregory Williams
Dear Ms. Svinicki,
My name is Greg Williams, from Germantown Hills, IL. First of all, as an "FYI", I have 30+ years experience in the fields of "occupational health" and "industrial hygiene". I received my M.S. in "Env. Health" from the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine (1978). I was fortunate because all of my professors were "pioneers in industrial hygiene" and almost all of the worked in the past for the "U.S. Public Health Service", which is now called "N1OSH" (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), in the main lab offices in Cincinnati. I am in "retired status" as a "Certified Safety Professional". 1 am also in "retired status" as a "Certified Industrial Hygiene" (that is ..... I was a "Full Diplomat" from 1982-2010). I have been a past member of the "Health Physics Society". To "brush up" on "radiation safety", about ten years ago I took a very intensive course at the "Oak Ridge National Laboratories", named "Health Physics for the Industrial Hygienist".
I have contacted Sen. Durbin. Sen. Kirk, and Rep. Schock, all from Illinois, regarding info that I have found on different websites on the internet. I am smart enough not to trust the Japanese Gov't. I called Sen Durbin's office on Monday, trying to find out what measurements of radiation have been collected, such as from the U.S. Military ------from planes flying over these troubled reactors, and from our naval vessels. I have read the release from NRC No. 11-049, dated March 15th. The American public has a right to know exactly what are the radiation readings throughout this entire area around Japan, and on land in Japan. Sooner or later, the American public will find out what these measurements were!
Professionally I am not concerned about any fallout over the U.S., unless one of these reactors blows up so much that radioactive material is injected into the upper atmosphere. You are probably too young to know, but there are "old-timers like myself' that are aware of "Trans-Pacific Fallout" data, such as was collected and analyzed after the "fifth Chinese Nuclear Test was Detonated on December 28, 1966". It would appear to me that it would take about 3 days to reach my house in Illinois, but that could vary a lot based on so many different weather patterns. I have the appropriate radiation measurement equipment that I am checking the air outside of my house at least once per day. I have also had an appropriate fall-out shelter for several years, along with potassium iodide tablets, etc., etc., etc.
I subscribe to a service on my cell phone, "US Alerts", which has always seemed to be very accurate, and I get information 30 - 60 minutes before I see in on CNN. I just received an alert: "Nuclear Regulatory Commission: it is 'quite possible' fallout from the damaged Japanese reactors will reach America". IS THIS INFO CORRECT?
THANK YOU!
Gregory E. Williams 421 Zook Ct. Germantown Hills, IL 61548 (309) 383-4576 gewill(-amtco.com
2 From: Xie, Yanmei
Thank you!
Yanmei Xie
Associate Editor
Platts Nuclear Publications
Office: (202) 383-2161
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From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:41 PM To: Xie, Yanmei Subject: Re: checking on rule
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2 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:43 PM To: Coggins, Angela; Harrington, Holly Cc: Powell, Amy Subject: Re: a favor...
Sorry for delay. Unsure. They are clearly from a frequent coRrespondent. Will look. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:[ (b)(6) Sent fror my Blackberry
From: Coggins, Angela To: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly Cc: Powell, Amy Sent: Tue Mar 15 14:25:38 2011 Subject: a favor...
I have a big favor to ask... Can you check to see if these attached questions are already included in the questions and answers, and if not, add them to the list and prepare some responses for us? Thanks so much!!
Angela B. Coggins Policy Director Office of Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission .201-41.r;-1828/angela.coggins @nrc.zov
2-C) I From: Chu, Keith
Eliot - Thanks for checking on this. My office number is below, my cell is 541-390-0088.
The transcript omits a few key words of the question, but to me it was clear the question was on pausing nuclear activities.
Senator Reid, do you support there being a pause (inaudible) until the Japanese situation (inaudible). REID: I've had a number of conversations with Greg Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And they're going to do that. I am confident that it will be done.
Keith Chu Associate Editor Platts Inside Energy A McGraw-Hill Publication 202-383-2244 keith chu(Dplatts.com
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Here's the transcript of what Sen. Reid said:
QUESTION: Senator Reid, do you support there being a pause (inaudible) until the Japanese situation (inaudible).
REID: I've had a number of conversations with Greg Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. And they're going to do that. I am confident that it will be done.
Keith Chu Associate Editor Platts Inside Energy A McGraw-Hill Publication 202-383-2244 keith chu•,platts.com
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:05 PM To: Chu, Keith Subject: Re: Reid comments on NRC
Unaware of any conversations. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cf (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
From: Chu, Keith
HI Eliot - In his news conference today Sen. Reid mentioned that he believed short-term pause in nuclear permitting was likely. Did he speak with NRC staff, or can you provide any more details about a possible short-term delay?
Best,
Keith
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Office: (202) 334-6370. Cell: (b)(6)
Thanks.
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:08 PM To: Stephen Stromberg Subject: Re: Japan, etc. -- from Post Ed Board
Thanks. Will try my best. Give me your number. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Cf (b)(6) SentTfrom my Blackberry
From: Stephen Stromberg
Let's do tomorrow. I know you have a hearing to deal with tomorrow, too, so I'll try to be sensitive on time - 20 minutes, maybe 30, depending on what we end up covering? I'd prefer to do it on background, but can go off the record as you please.
Thanks.
From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:03 PM To: Stephen Stromberg Subject: Re: Japan, etc. -- from Post Ed Board
Very hard to do, today but I will try for tomorrow. How much timwe do you need? Background? Off the record? What kind of groundrules? Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs ' US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C:I (b)(6) Setfrom my Bacberry
1 (j~U)2~3 From: Stephen Stromberg
Hi Eliot,
I'd like to talk to someone about what's going on in Japan, and what the implications are for the U.S. Are there lessons to be drawn for American nuclear operators/policymakers? Would you be able to get someone appropriate from the NRC on the line for me either this afternoon or tomorrow?
Thanks.
Steve
2 From: MARK CHEDIAK, BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:
Ok. thanks!
Original----- Message ----- From: Eliot Brenner
Mark: nothing on my end. Try NEI. Sorry. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C7 (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
Original----- Message ----- From: MARK CHEDIAK, BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:
Hi Eliot, Realize you are slammed, but was wondering if you could help with a story I'm working on regarding potential costs to operators if they are required to upgrade their plants to meet new safety/seismic standards. Has the NRC conducted any studies on potential costs for upgrades (at plants such as PG&E's Diablo Canyon or Edison's San Onofre). Are there any estimates or studies out there looking at what it would cost to improve seismic robustness at plants? Any leads would be helpful. Many thanks, Mark
Mark Chediak Energy Reporter, Bloomberg News, San Francisco. (0) 415-617-7233, (c) (b)(6) [email protected]
1U/I? From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:00 PM To: Wald, Matthew Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: KI
Matt - to avoid cut/pasting too much, here's a summary:
Dec 2001 - NRC offered KI to states w/populations w/in 10 mile EPZ of NPPs. Oct 2006 - NRC offered to replace stockpiles that were expiring, on a one-time basis. Some states decided in 2007 to "extend" the shelf life of existing stocks.
Current Status on KI Distribution
Twenty-two state's (Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia) have requested and/or received potassium i~odide tableIt.
Arizona, Delaware, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia have requested and/or received liquid pediatric potassium iodide.
I'll try to get you aggregate numbers of how many doses we've distributed over the years.
My office and cell #'s are below. Our OPS CTR OPA line is 301-815-5107.
Dave
David McIntyre Public Affairs Officer U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (301) 415-8206 (direct) S(b)(6) J(mobile) ProtectingPeople & the Environment
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2 From: Beasley, Benjamin Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:44 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Uhle, Jennifer Subject: Responses to question on GI-199 Attachments: NBC-questions_2.docx
The attached Word document contains questions from an NBC reporter on GI-199 and our answers.
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2- el;l- /ý\) ) 'ý From Bill Dedman, a reporter for NBC News and msnbc.com, He has these questions:
1. I'd like to make sure that I accurately place in layman's terms the seismic hazard estimates. I need to make sure that I'm understanding the nomenclature for expressing the seismic core- damage frequencies. Let's say there's an estimate expressed as "2.5E-06." (I'm looking at Table D-2 of the safety/risk assessment of August 2010.) I believe that this expression means the same as 2.5 x 10A-06, or 0.0000025, or 2.5 divided by one million. In layman's terms, that means an expectation, on average, of 2.5 events every million years, or once every 400,000 years. Similarly, "2.5E-05" would be 2.5 divided by 100,000, or 2.5 events every 100,000 years, on average, or once every 40,000 years. Is this correct?
Al: Yes, at least partly. In the subject documents the frequencies for core damage or ground motion exceedance have been expressed in the form "2.5E-06". As you noted this is equivalent to 2.5x1 0-6, or 0.000025 per year. If, for example, the core damage frequency was estimated as 2.5E-06, this would be equivalent to an expectation of 2.5 divided by a million peryear.It is not really correct to think of these values as "once every 400,000 years," the two numbers are mathematically equivalent but do not convey the same statistical meaning within this context. Rather, you could characterize it as 1 in 400,000 per year of something occurring.
2. These documents give updated probabilistic seismic hazard estimates for existing nuclear power plants in the Central and Eastern U.S. What document has the latest seismic hazard estimates (probabilistic or not) for existing nuclear power plants in the Western U.S.?
A2: At this time the staff has not formally developed updated probabilistic seismic hazard estimates for the existing nuclear power plants in the Western U.S. However, NRC staff during the mid- to late-1 990's reviewed the plants' assessments of potential consequences of severe ground motion from earthquakes beyond the plant design basis as part of the Individual Plant Examination of External Events (IPEEE) program. From this review, the NRC staff determined that the seismic designs of operating plants in the U.S. have adequate safety margin. NRC staff has continued to stay abreast of the latest research on seismic hazards in the Western U.S. and interface with colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey. The focus of Generic Issue 199 has been on the Central and Eastern U.S. (CEUS). However, the Information Notice that summarized the results of the Safety/Risk Assessment was sent to all existing power reactor licensees. The documents that summarize existing hazard estimates for each plant are contained in the IPEEE submittals. GI-199 is NRC activity for addressing updated hazard estimates. It must be noted that following 9/11 the IPEEE documents are no longer publicly available.
3. The documents refer to newer data on the way. Have NRC, USGS et al. released those? I'm referring to this: "New consensus seismic-hazard estimates will become available in late 2010 or early 2011 (these are a product of a joint NRC, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) project). These consensus seismic hazard estimates will supersede the existing EPRI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and USGS hazard estimates used in the GI-199 Safety/Risk Assessment." A3: The new consensus hazard curves are being developed in a cooperative project that has NRC, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) participation. The title is: the CEUS Seismic Source Characterization (CEUS-SSC) project. The project is being conducted following comprehensive standards to ensure quality and regulatory defensibility. It is in its final phase and is expected to be publicly released in the fall of 2011. The project manager is Larry Salamone (Lawrence.salamone(csrs.,ov, 803-645-9195) and the technical lead on the project is Dr. Kevin Coppersmith (925-974-3335, kcoppersmith(cearthlink.net). Additional information on this project can be found at: http://mydocs.epri.com/docs/ANT/2008-04.pdf, and http://my.epri.com/portal/server.pt?open=512&obiI D=319&&PaqelD=218833&mode=2&i n hi userid=2&cached=true.
4. What is the timetable now for consideration of any regulatory changes from this research?
A4: The NRC is working on developing a Generic Letter (GL) to request information from affected licensees. The GL will likely be issued in a draft form within the next 2 months to stimulate discussions with industry in a public meeting. After that it has to be approved by internal review committees and issued as a draft for formal public comments (60 days). After evaluation of the public comments it can then be finalized for issuance. We expect to issue the GL by the end of this calendar year, as the new consensus seismic hazard estimates become available. It will likely require 3 to 6 months for licensees to prepare and submit their information. Staffs review will commence after receiving licensees' responses. Staff will prepare evaluation based on the licensee information and will then make appropriate regulatory decisions. From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:39 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Matt
Do you have his phone #?
Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:49 PM To: McIntyre, David Subject: Re: EPA
Yes. Thanks. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry
---- Original Message ----- From: McIntyre, David To: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tue Mar 15 14:14:50 2011 Subject: EPA
Eliot - did you handle this or would you like me to?
Dave
Original----- Message ----- From: LIA04 Hoc Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:09 PM To: McIntyre, David Subject: FW: ASAP: PLEASE CALL Importance: High
Dave - see below sent at 1:21; She and I had played phone tag
---- Original Message ----- From: LIA04 Hoc Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:21 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: McIntyre, David Subject: FW: ASAP: PLEASE CALL Importance: High Eliot - Just got off the phone with Adora Andy; I had returned her call earlier, but she's been busy; said she needed to talk with HIGH LEVEL person she and Deputy EPA Administrator can talk to with regard to statement EPA plans to make shortly wrt communications on Air Monitoring Activities - will have NRC piece and want to clear it.
If she doesn't answer - EMAIL HER - SHE WILL SEE IT!!
---- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:35 PM To: LIA04 Hoc Subject: RE: ASAP: PLEASE CALL call you back shortly. Adora Andy Deputy Associate Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education 202-564-2715 [email protected]
From: LIA04 Hoc
Adora - Just tried to call you - what can I do to help?
Rosetta Virgilio State Liaison NRC Operations Center 301-816-5193 [email protected]
--- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:23 PM To: Browder, Rachel; LIA04 Hoc; Virgilio, Rosetta; Turtil, Richard Subject: Re: ASAP: PLEASE CALL
Sorry. Multi-tasking and sent too soon. I'm with EPA! Thanks! Adora Andy
2 Deputy Associate Administrator EPA Office of External Affairs T
----Original - Message --- From: Adora Andy Sent: 03/15/2011 12:22 PM EDT To: "Browder, Rachel"
3 From: Bradford, Anna Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:32 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Loyd, Susan Subject: FW: Updated information for the Chairman Attachments: image0O0.jpg; Talking Points for Chairman 300 pm 3-15-11.doc; USNRC Earthquake- Tsunami Update.031511.1330EDT.docx
See attached, per Susan's request.
Anna Bradford Policy Advisor for Nuclear Materials Office of Chairman Jaczko U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-1827
From: LIA07 Hoc Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:04 PM To: Jaczko, Gregory Cc: Batkin, Joshua; Pace, Patti; Bradford, Anna; Mroz (Sahm), Sara Subject: RE: Updated information for the Chairman
Sir,
In reference to numbers 1 and 2 below, please find attached the latest talking points and Status Update. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you,
Jim Anderson Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response US Nuclear Regulatory Commission james.anderson(i~nrc.gov [email protected] (Operations Center)
From: HOO Hoc Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:08 AM To: PMT01 Hoc; RST01 Hoc; LIA01 Hoc; LIA02 Hoc; LIA04 Hoc; LIA07 Hoc; LIA11 Hoc; LIA12 Hoc; Gott, William; Marshall, Jane; McDermott, Brian; Morris, Scott; Thorp, John Subject: FW: Updated information for the Chairman
Headquarters Operations Officer U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Phone: 301-816-5100 Fax: 301-816-5151 email: hoo.hoc(@nrc.gov secure e-mail: hoo~nrc.sgov.gov From: Bradford, Anna Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:05 AM To: HOO Hoc; ET07 Hoc Cc: Pace, Patti Subject: Updated information for the Chairman Hello, The Chairman requests that the most up-to-date information be provided to him later today (times noted below) for the following three items: 1. The attached talking points (as of 3:00 pm today). Please email it directly to him at that time, with a cc: to Josh Batkin, Patti Pace, and myself. 2. The latest SitRep report (as of 3:00 pm today). Please email it directly to him at that time, with a cc: to Josh Batkin, Patti Pace, and myself. 3. Two hardcopies of the briefing book that is here in the Chairman's office. Please come and update the copies in the Chairman's office by 2:00 pm today. Please confirm. Let me know if you have questions. Thanks. Anna Bradford Policy Advisor for Nuclear Materials Office of Chairman Jaczko U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-1827 2 -flFFICIAI I I£F ONLY FEDEPR.AL A,,D FORElG,4 GOVERNMvENT ICO ROLLED Iii'rurEIIMAION -i NRC Talkingi Points- Current as of 3/15/11, 3:00 PM EDT * The NRC believes the Japanese response and protective actions are comparable to how the NRC would respond. o We advise Americans in Japan to follow the guidance of Japanese officials. * 6.1 Aftershock near Hamaoka: no damage to reactors o 5 reactors: 2 are decommissioned; 1 shutdown; 2 operating Reactor Status * Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 - 6 Unit 1 * Core damage from insufficient cooling water caused by loss of offsite power and onsite diesel generators following tsunami " Sea water being injected * Hydrogen explosion from overheated fuel-water reaction damaged reactor building * Containment described as "functional" * Stable core cooling * Spent fuel pool level unknown * High radiation levels reduced to 600 microsieverts/hr (60 millirem/ hr)at 2:30 am EDT (March 15) at site gate Unit 2 * Core damage from insufficient cooling water caused by loss of offsite power and onsite diesel generators following tsunami * Sea water being injected * Core cooling not stable * Loud sound near containment building caused concern that containment integrity is not assured o As of 7:30 AM EDT, March 15, all indication is that containment is intact * Pressure reports of RPV 0.6 MPA o Power: IAEA as of 0900 UTC on March 15 * Spent fuel pool level unknown * High radiation levels reduced to 600 microsieverts/hr (60 millirem/ hr)at 2:30 am EDT (March 15) at site gate * 7:30 AM EDT (March 15), Unit 2 thought to be in better shape than previously thought Unit 3 . Core damage from insufficient cooling water caused by loss of offsite power and onsite diesel generators following tsunami 0 Sea water being injected. * Hydrogen explosion from overheated fuel-water reaction damaged reactor building * Containment described as "functional" 0 Core cooling believed to be stable * No spent fuel pool information 0 High radiation levels reduced to 600 microsieverts/hr (60 millirem/hr) at 2:30 am EDT (March 15) at site gate Unit 4 o Generator lube oil fire in reactor building; IAEA reports that fire out at 2200 EDT, March 14 o Hi radiation dose rates (40R/hr; 40 cSv/ hr) measured between Units 3 and 4, source may be Unit 4 spent fuel pool o Possible water loss from pool o High radiation levels reduced to 600 microsieverts/hr (60 Mr/hr)at 2:30 am EDT (March 15) at site gate * Units 5- 6 stable * Reactor spent fuel pool level unknown * Other Japanese Nuclear Sites: o Fukushima Daini Units 1 - 4: As of 7:15 am on March 15 (Japan), Tepco press release reports reactors in cold shutdown and offsite power available. o Onagawa Units 1 - 3: shutdown, stable, turbine building basement fire extinguished. o Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (Advanced Reactors): Units 1, 5, 6, 7: normal operation I Units 2 to 4: regular outage * Forecast meteorological data for the 24 hour period indicates wind shifting offshore. General Talking Points * Tepco and US Forces in Japan (USFJ) are working together to allocate firefighting and heavy equipment capable of pumping seawater from the ocean into containment. o A list of additional equipment to provide for accident mitigation has been developed by NRC and provided to USAID. * Disaster Assistance Response Team arrived Sunday: o Two NRC team members are in Tokyo working with Ambassador Roos and getting direct information from Japanese officials. o Nine additional NRC experts were dispatched to support the Ambassador and Japanese government. • NRC continues coordination with other Federal agencies and outreach to Congress and States. * Press releases with message for US citizens: No harmful levels of radiation expected to reach US. Japanese protective action recommendations consistent with US. US citizens in Japan should follow Japanese government directions. * NRC continues to develop projections of the accident's progression, dose estimates and Q&As, including those addressing the safety of reactors in operation in the US. - FFiCiAL USE ONLY- FEDERAL AND FORE OVRtNIvIti T 'JUi,,TROLLED lNFORMAiviAi From: Google Alerts News I new result for DOE nuclear loan guarantees Understanding Japan's Disaster Wall Street Pit Whether they really are is a matter for debate, since they require massive loan guarantees to be built, along with liability caps. Since nuclear power is a very high fixed cost/low variable cost endeavor, the economics of it are largely a question of... See all stories on this topic » Tip: Use a minus sign (-) in front of terms in your query that you want to exclude. Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. 1 $ul/33 0 From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. 4 (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:09 PM To: '[email protected]'; Brenner, Eliot Cc: '[email protected]'; McIntyre, David; '[email protected]'; Reynolds; Tom Subject: Re: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE Great, fixing a few typos and the reordering a bit again. Will send final back in a few mins and we are finally done on this Original----- Message ----- From: [email protected] Much appreciated Sir. I've spoken with your staff and they were prompt in assisting me. The issue has been resolved. Many thanks! Best, Adora Adora Andy Deputy Associate Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education 202-564-2715 [email protected] From: "Brenner, Eliot" (b)(5) Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry --- -O rig in a l M e s s a g e -.... From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. (b)(6) To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. (b)(6) [email protected] (b)(5) ----Original Message ----- From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:24 PM To: '[email protected]'; 'Mueller, Stephanie'; 'Leistikow, Dan'; Reynolds, Tom Subject: RE: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE (b)(5) ---- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:20 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Subject: Re: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE Please see below. The LA Times says she's been bounced around and since I can't give her anyone to speak to on the record they are threatening to write a story about the government being unresponsive. ---- Forwarded by Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US on 03/15/2011 02:18 PM- ---- From: "Hennessy-Fiske, Molly" Greetings. I am a reporter at The L.A. Times looking for someone who I can speak with today about US monitoring of nuclear radiation released in Japan and potential impacts here in the west. Thanks. I'm on deadline for today. I was 2 referred to you by DOE and NRC, so please don't send me back to them, as they have so far been unresponsive. I am looking for a live person to talk to, not a web site or report. Molly Hennessy-Fiske 213-237-7107 office (b)(6) cell From: "Shapiro, Nicholas S." < (b)(6) To: "Shapiro, Nicholas S." < (b)(6) Date: 03/15/2011 01:49 PM Subject: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE 3 Good afternoon, (b)(5) 4 [attachment "11-14R Amb Roos Message March 16.docx" deleted by Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US] [attachment "NRC Press Release REVISED RADIATION UPDATE 11-04XX.docx" deleted by Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US] 5 From: Google Alerts News I new result for jaczko Obamna administration stands by nuclear power 10 Connects I The comments echo statements made by Gregory Jaczko, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who told 1 White House reporters Monday that "nuclear power plants in this country operate safety and securely." Notably, 10 Connects however, Jaczko declined to... See all stories on this topic >ý Tip: Use site restrict in your query to search within a site (site:nytimes.com or site:.edu). Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Managie your alerts. From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:02 PM To: Ruland, William Cc: Brenner, Eliot; McIntyre, David Subject: FW: Checking in Bill; Your number's busy, are you in your office? Thanks. Scott From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:16 PM To: McIntyre, David; Burnell, Scott Subject: Fw: Checking in Bill ruland said he could talk briefly. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 4158200 C: (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry From: Xie, Yanmei I understand that you guys are super swamped, and I do feel bad for bugging you. Steve Dolley here said he has contacted you about us talking with a BWR expert at NRC. I'm assigned to write the story, so want to check with you about the status of that inquiry. My deadline is 5pm, but as you can imagine, I do need time to digest and write this very technical story, so if you could respond as soon as possible, I'll appreciate it greatly! I have very specific technical questions. I was told: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has analyzed the Mark I containment design in great detail. The NRC analysis found that the BWR Mark I risk was dominated by two scenarios: station blackout and anticipated transient without scram. The NRC subsequently promulgated regulations for both of these sequences as well as other actions to reduce the probability. So I want to know exactly what the NRC analysis found and what regulations NRC installed to mitigate the risk as a result of the analysis. I will be in a meeting in the next half an hour or so, so could you call me at my cell phone 202-701-0025 during that period? I1v / Thank you so much! Yanmei Xie Associate Editor Platts Nuclear Publications Office: (202) 383-2161 Mobile:I (b)(6) www.platts.com The information contained in this message is intended only for the recipient, and may be a confidential attorney-client communication or may otherwise be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please be aware that any dissemination or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. reserves the right, subject to applicable local law, to monitor and review the content of any electronic message or information sent to or from McGraw-Hill employee e-mail addresses without informing the sender or recipient of the message. 2 W o From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 201i 2:59 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: ACTION: STATEMENT You mean overtime pay? ;-) Note that Stars and Stripes story on the map even has Fred von Hippel agreeing with me! That's two difficult alignments in one day! Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:58 PM To: '[email protected]'; McIntyre, David Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: ACTION: STATEMENT Dave; there will be a little something extra in your pay packet friday. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 Ci (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry Original----- Message ----- From: [email protected] You're the best! Thanks so much! From: "McIntyre, David" Adora - NRC is fine with this wording. Thanks! I'm cc-ing my boss, Eliot Brenner, Director of Public Affairs, on this message. My contact info is: David McIntyre 301-415-8200 (general OPA office for all of us) 301-415-8206 (my direct line) (b)(6) I (mobile) Our Operations Center number (where you reached me) is 301-816-5107; we're staffing it 24/7 for the time being, but you can also reach us during extended normal hours (whatever that means) through the 8200 number. Original----- Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:44 PM To: McIntyre, David Cc: [email protected] Subject: ACTION: STATEMENT As the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said, we do not expect to see radiation at harmful levels reaching the U.S. from damaged Japanese Nuclear Power Plants. As part of the federal government's continuing effort to make our activities and science transparent and available to the public, EPA will continue to keep all RadNet data available in the current online database. In addition, EPA plans to work with its federal partners to deploy additional monitoring capabilities to parts of the western U.S. and U.S. territories. As always, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is utilizing its existing nationwide radiation monitoring system, RadNet, which continuously monitors the nation's air and regularly monitors drinking water, milk and precipitation for environmental radiation. The RadNet online searchable database contains historical data of environmental radiation monitoring data from all fifty states and U.S. territories. Adora Andy Deputy Associate Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education 202-564-2715 [email protected] 2 From: OPA Resource Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:56 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Burnell, Scott; Couret, Ivonne; Harrington, Holly; Hayden, Elizabeth; Janbergs, Holly; McIntyre, David Subject: FW: From the Feedback & Share Page - ABNORMAL OCCURRENCE EVENTS REPORTING Original----- Message ----- From: Communications Site [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:01 PM To: Bonaccorso, Amy; Pulaski, Jordan; Virgilio, Rosetta; Ryan, Michelle; Culp, Lisa; Jasinski, Robert; Steger (Tucci), Christine; Wright, Lisa (Gibney); Mroz (Sahm), Sara; Powell, Amy; Croston, Sean; OPA Resource; Bonaccorso, Amy; Barkley, Richard; Woodruff, Gena; Heck, Jared; Farnholtz, Thomas; Powell, Amy; OPA Resource; Tomon, John Subject: From the Feedback & Share Page - ABNORMAL OCCURRENCE EVENTS REPORTING Topic: ABNORMAL OCCURRENCE EVENTS REPORTING John J. Tomon of RES has used the Communication Tool Feedback and Share page to share a tool. This tool can be found in ADAMS under ML110180210. This tool has been coordinated with ADM,FSM E,NMSS, NRO, NRR, NSIR,OCAOGC,OI,OPA,RES, Region I,Region ll,Region Ill,Region IV. This is a revised tool. Special Instructions: This plan is ready to post to the "Active Communication Plans" webpage. Sensitivity: Non-sensitive If you have any questions, the lead can be reach at (301) 251-7904. From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. <1 (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Leistikow, Dan; Brenner, Eliot; Mueller, Stephanie; Reynolds, Tom Subject: RE: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE Eliot please reach out to her and talk to her if you would be so kind. Poneman will talk to her as well. And when epa works out the other issue, we will send the statement out. Good? ---- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:48 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Cc: Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Mueller, Stephanie; Reynolds, Tom Subject: RE: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE Her questions here... EPA's statement will assist with her questions below. thanks --- Forwarded by Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US on 03/15/2011 02:45 PM ----- From: "Hennessy-Fiske, Molly" Thanks for your help. I am a reporter at The Los Angeles Times working on a story for today about the potential risks of radiation releases in Japan to residents in the U.S. and particularly California. I am looking for a live person to talk to about this, not a web or press release, please. My questions are: -What does the activation of NARAC involve? We already know the information below, but they and NRC have not released any information about what it means. Is there monitoring going on there? If so, what? What are the computer models they are making? "The U.S. government mobilized emergency resources to help Japan grapple with the developing nuclear crisis, dispatching a team of Nuclear Regulatory Commission experts late Monday, activating an atmospheric radioactivity monitoring center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Bay Area 1 1 ) b The U.S. Department of Energy activated the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center at Livermore to create sophisticated computer models of how the radioactive releases from Fukushima No. 1 would disburse into the atmosphere. The center, which was created to deal with contamination in the event of a nuclear war, played a key role in predicting contamination patterns during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear crisis." -Has EPA increased air or other monitoring in California this week to detect potential radioactive particles? If so, how, where and what has been found so far? -Do radioactive releases in Japan pose a health or environmental threat to California? To the western U.S. or US as a whole? Why or why not? What do the latest monitoring results from Tuesday show? -How confident are federal officials that Japanese officials are releasing accurate information about the scope of radioactive releases to date? What risk do those releases pose to the health and environment of those immediately surrounding the Fukushima plant, in Japan and the Pacific region? Thanks again for your help. Molly Hennessy-Fiske 213-237-1707 office (b)(6) cell From: "Shapiro, Nicholas S." (b)(6) To: "Reynolds, Tom" Im fine with that, do it on background. Don't announce anything new whatsoever ---- Original Message ----- From: Reynolds, Tom [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:34 PM To: '[email protected]'; Shapiro, Nicholas S. Cc: Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Mueller, Stephanie Subject: RE: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE What is we got Poneman on with her? He can speak to DOE efforts at least. ---- Original Message---- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:33 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Cc: Leistikow, Dan; [email protected]; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Mueller, Stephanie; Reynolds, Tom 2 Subject: RE: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE I told her to send me her questions. She said she would consider it. She said "no one will speak to us." She said she doesn't want any more websites or emailed answers. She wants to speak with someone because "we're the LA Times for God sakes!" (b)(5) I From: "Shapiro, Nicholas S." (b)(6) To: "Shapiro, Nicholas S." I Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, "Mueller, Stephanie" Original----- Message ----- From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:24 PM To: '[email protected]'; 'Mueller, Stephanie'; 'Leistikow, Dan'; Reynolds, Tom Subject: RE: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE (b)(5) Original----- Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:Andy.Adora @epamail.epa.gov] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:20 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Subject: Re: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE Please see below. The LA Times says she's been bounced around and since I can't give her anyone to speak to on the record they are threatening to write a story about the government being unresponsive. Forwarded----- by Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US on 03/15/2011 02:18 PM ----- From: "Hennessy-Fiske, Molly" 3 Date: 03/15/2011 01:50 PM Subject: immediate contact Greetings. I am a reporter at The L.A. Times looking for someone who I can speak with today about US monitoring of nuclear radiation released in Japan and potential impacts here in the west. Thanks. I'm on deadline for today. I was referred to you by DOE and NRC, so please don't send me back to them, as they have so far been unresponsive. I am looking for a live person to talk to, not a web site or report. Molly Hennessy-Fiske 213-237-7107 office S(b)(6) cell From: "Shapiro, Nicholas S." (b)(6) I To: "Shapiro, Nicholas S." (b)(6) 4 (b)(6) Date: 03/15/2011 01:49 PM Subject: JAPAN NUKE RESPONSE Good afternoon, A few things for folks to all be aware of, below is what Jay Carney will read at the top of his briefing happening at 2pm eastern. Also, attached are recent statements just put out by the State Dept and the NRC. First I'd like to give you a short update on the response to the situation in Japan: The United States is continuing to do everything in its power to help Japan and American citizens who were there at the time of these tragic events. USAID is coordinating the overall U.S. government efforts in support of the Japanese government's response and are currently directing individuals to www.usaid.gov for information about response donations. The President is being kept up to date and is constantly being briefed by his national security staff. The National Security staff in the White House is also coordinating a large interagency response with experts meeting around the clock to monitor the latest information coming out of Japan. We have offered our Japanese friends includes disaster response experts, search and rescue teams, technical advisers with nuclear expertise and logistical support from the United States military. Secretary Chu announced earlier today that DOE offered and Japan accepted an Aerial Measuring System capability, including detectors and analytical equipment used to provide assessments of contamination on the ground. In total, the DOE team includes 34 people. To support our citizens there, the Embassy is working around the clock, we have our consular services available 24 hours a day to determine the whereabouts and well-being of all U.S. citizens in Japan. A short while ago, the NRC and the State Department each issued an update to the ongoing situation at the nuclear plant. The guidance once again was that after a careful analysis of data, 5 radiation levels, and damage assessments of all units at the plant, our independent experts at the NRC are in agreement with the response and measures taken by Japanese technicians, including their recommended 20kms radius for evacuation and additional shelter-in-place recommendations out to 30kms. Both the NRC and the State Department are continuing to ask the American citizens in Japan to listen to the local Japanese officials for the very latest. [attachment "11-14R Amb Roos Message March 16.docx" deleted by Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US] [attachment "NRC Press Release REVISED RADIATION UPDATE 11-04XX.docx" deleted by Adora Andy/DC/USEPA/US] 6 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:47 PM To: Herr, Linda Cc: Bozin, Sunny Subject: Re: Why are you silent? Thanks I thinki I am hoarse from being silent. As to the previous message, they forgot to add "world peace" Eliot Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:J (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry Original----- Message ----- From: Herr, Linda To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Bozin, Sunny Sent: Tue Mar 15 13:50:00 2011 Subject: FW: Why are you silent? Hi Eliot: Email #2 1 spoke of in my previous email entitled, "Fallout." Thanks, Linda Original----- Message---- From: CMROSTENDORFF Resource Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:29 PM To: Herr, Linda Subject: FW: Why are you silent? ---- Original Message ----- From: Roger Mattson [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:43 PM To: CMRAPOSTOLAKIS Resource; CMRSVINICKI Resource; CMRMAGWOOD Resource; CMROSTENDORFF Resource; CMRJACZKO@ nrc.gov Cc: OPA Resource Subject: Why are you silent? Dear NRC Commissioners, Having lived through the accident and the public relations nightmare of TMI, I have a special empathy for your current situation. However, I am writing to tell you that you are making a tragic mistake with respect to Fukushima. Americans from coast to coast are concerned for the events unfolding there. Many of them write and call me asking for answers. However, I can speak to only a few of them and even then I have no reliable information. Meanwhile the media are full of wannabe experts operating on too little information. Confusion reigns and you remain silent. That is the mistake of which I speak. I am sure that you too have a dearth of information, but you have more than the rest of us. And you can, if you choose, tell us what is really going on. In addition, sketchy information is beginning to leak out that causes more questions than it provides answers. For example, where is the fuel handling crane that we see missing from the satellite photos after the hydrogen explosion in Unit 3? Are all three reactor vessels at high pressure discharging steam through the SRVs to the torus or are they all at lower pressure discharging steam through the MSIVs to the turbines? Why isn't the sea water getting into the reactor vessels? If plant radiation is being detected 100 miles off shore, why have the IAEA and the Japanese classified this as a local event? I could go on, but you get the picture. Once upon a time, in the heat of the moment, I asked NRC Chairman Hendrie who he was protecting by not ordering a precautionary evacuation at TMI. That simple question got us off the dime and we at least moved children and pregnant women away from the plant. I ask you now: who are you protecting by remaining silent? If it is the industry, then you are on the wrong course. The industry is way ahead of you in informing the public to the best of its ability. Marvin Fertel, NEI's president, is a hero in my book for going on "Meet the Press" yesterday, but I wager that his information is more sketchy than yours. If it is your reputation, then you run a great risk. Your reputation and the respect that the American people have long held for the NRC are eroding hour by hour as this tragedy unfolds. If it is our relations with the Japanese, then tell them that you must speak now to fulfill your obligations to Americans and then offer any aid with the accident and its aftermath that you can possibly provide. Meanwhile, other federal agencies are doing their best to keep us informed, e.g., NOAA, NASA, and USGS. But you are the keepers of nuclear safety wisdom. We look to you for that, more than anyone else. One of you should hold a news conference yet today and tell us what you know and what you do not know. Speak! Please. Roger 2 From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:38 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: 11-049.docx Attachments: 11-049.docx Mike - Eliot asked me to send this to you. It's our latest and greatest. ,6U I I ý,g 'ieu NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION CIl Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: opa.resourcenanrc.gov Site: www.nrc.gov Blog: http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov No. 11-049 March 15, 2011 NRC ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SUPPORT JAPAN'S PROTECTIVE ACTIONS NRC analysts overnight continued their review of radiation data related to the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors. The analysts continue to conclude the steps recommend by Japanese authorities parallel those the United States would suggest in a similar situation. The Japanese authorities Monday recommended evacuation to 20 kilometers around the affected reactors and said that persons out to 30 kilometers should shelter in place. Those recommendations parallel the protective actions the United States would suggest should dose limits reach I rem to the entire body and 5 rem for the thyroid, an organ particularly susceptible to radiation uptake. The currently reported Japanese radiation measurements are well below these guidelines. A rem is a measure of radiation dose. The average American is exposed to approximately 620 millirems, or 0.62 rem, of radiation each year from natural and manmade sources. News releases are available through a free listserv subscription at the following Web address: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/listserver.html. The NRC homepage at www.nrc.gov also offers a SUBSCRIBE link. E-mail notifications are sent to subscribers when news releases are posted to NRC's website. From: Harrington, Holly Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:37 PM To: McIntyre, David; Brenner, Eliot; Uselding, Lara; Sheehan, Neil Subject: RE: Nice piece on the bogus rad map Be sure to include in your tnt to me From: McIntyre, David Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:23 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly; Uselding, Lara; Sheehan, Neil Subject: Nice piece on the bogus rad map FYI From: Schogol, Jeffrey [mailto: [ (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 T1T:10M To: OPA Resource Subject: For David McIntyre Here is the story: h.ttp:/17wwwstripes1com/bogs/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor- 4348/is-radiation-from-4apan-heading-to-the-u- s-1.137815 Thank you for all of your help! Jeff Schogol 1 ej3,U339 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:11 PM To: Batkin, Joshua Subject: Fw: NRC and State Dept Statements were sent out Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C:I (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. <1 (b)(6) l TOt - (b)(6) I (b)(6) Sent: Tue Mar 15 13:57:19 2011 Subject: NRC and State Dept Statements were sent out NRC Release: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2011/11-048R.pdf State Dept Release: http://iapan.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-20110316-01.html Thanks Mike and Eliot and everyone else. Here is what Jay will be reading at the briefing, which starts in 5 mins. First I'd like to give you a short update on the response to the situation in Japan: * The United States is continuing to do everything in its power to help Japan and American citizens who were there at the time of these tragic events. " USAID is coordinating the overall U.S. government efforts in support of the Japanese government's response and are currently directing individuals to www.usaid.gov for information about response donations. " The President is being kept up to date and is constantly being briefed by his national security staff. The National Security staff in the White House is also coordinating a large interagency response with experts meeting around the clock to monitor the latest information coming out of Japan. * We have offered our Japanese friends includes disaster response experts, search and rescue teams, technical advisers with nuclear expertise and logistical support from the United States military. 10 * Secretary Chu announced earlier today that DOE offered and Japan accepted an Aerial Measuring System capability, including detectors and analytical equipment used to provide assessments of contamination on the ground. In total, the DOE team includes 34 people. * To support our citizens there, the Embassy is working around the clock, we have our consular services available 24 hours a day to determine the whereabouts and well-being of all U.S. citizens in Japan. * A short while ago, the NRC and the State Department each issued an update to the ongoing situation at the nuclear plant. The guidance once again was that after a careful analysis of data, radiation levels, and damage assessments of all units at the plant, our independent experts at the NRC are in agreement with the response and measures taken by Japanese technicians, including their recommended 20kms radius for evacuation and additional shelter-in-place recommendations out to 30kms. * Both the NRC and the State Department are continuing to ask the American citizens in Japan to listen to the local Japanese officials for the very latest. As for the longer list of assistance we are providing to support the Japanese response: * USAID set up a Response Management Team in DC and sent a Disaster Assistance Response Team to Tokyo, which includes people with nuclear expertise from the Departments of Energy and Health and Human Services as well the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC members are experts in boiling water nuclear reactors and are available to assist their Japanese counterparts. * Two Urban Search and Rescue Teams (LA County and Fairfax County teams) which total 144 members plus 12 search and rescue canines and up to 45 metric tons of rescue equipment have begun searching for survivors. " The Department of Defense has the USS Reagan on station off the coast of Japan and is currently using an air facility in Misawa as a forward operating base. " The American Red Cross (ARC) International Services team is supporting the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) to assess the impact, determine response efforts, and assist the people of Japan. " USAID is hosting a daily conference call with Congressional staff, including participation from DoD, DoS, NRC, DoE, and HHS. The U.S. officials will continue to provide a brief overview of each agency's efforts in the response to Japan and respond to questions from the Congressional staff regarding humanitarian assistance, military assistance, and the nuclear plant situation. * Currently nearly 5300 US military members are supporting the disaster relief efforts. There are 8 ships, including the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, transport aircraft and more than 100 military helos are being repositioned to northern Japan to support the efforts. " The US military has flown reconnaissance flights and provided the Japanese government with images of the areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami. Search and rescue flights and missions along the coast continue, relief operations including delivery of food, water and other relief supplies also continue. " Yokota Air Base is serving as a humanitarian relief operations staging area and Misawa Air Base is serving as both a logistical hub for humanitarian relief and rescue workers as well as an operating base for U.S., Japanese and other international helos and aircraft. 2 From: Google Alerts News 5 new results for jaczko More US Relief Crews Exposed To Radiation In Japan NPR by AP Enlarge AP White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, brief reporters regarding nuclear concerns following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, at the White House in See all stories on this topic > Japan's Nuclear Crisis Renews Safety Debate Voice of America Appearing at a White House news briefing, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said that due to the distance involved, there is little chance that harmful radiation from Japan's damaged reactors will reach Hawaii or the US mainland. See all stories on this topic )) US Nuclear Stance Unchanged for Now Despite Japan Crisis I. . Africa IBTimes Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Greg Jaczko said on Tuesday that nuclear plants in the US continue to be designed to a very high standard for seismic and tsunami-type events, but efforts might be made to explore the Africa IBTimes differences between Japanese See all stories on this topic •) Fears mounting over US nuclear plantsCNNI CNN At a White House press briefing, NRC chairman Greg Jaczko did not directly answer a question on whether the nation's 104 existing nuclear reactors could withstand the magnitude of the quake that struck Japan. "We have a strong safety program in place ... See all stories on this topic )> SENTINEL EDITORIAL: There is a lesson for Americans in the Japanese nuclear crisis The Keene Sentinel "This is the final step in the NRC's detailed technical and legal process of examining whether it's appropriate to issue a renewed license," explained NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko in a press release. "Since there are other approval processes outside the ... See all stories on this topic > Tip: Use site restrict in your query to search within a site (site:nytimes.com or site:.edu). Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. 1 1"3u I From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:09 PM To: Batkin, Joshua Subject: Re: Can you Will try from downtown. I am in car. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 3014158200 C: (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry Original----- Message ----- From: Batkin, Joshua To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly Sent: Tue Mar 15 13:54:44 2011 Subject: Can you Monitor carney's briefing? I think it may be soon? Joshua C. Batkin Chief of Staff Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko (301) 415-1820 1 eý v / lf " From: Pace, Patti Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:05 PM To: Kuckro, Rod; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Invitation for Chairman Jaczko from the National Press Cliub Dear Rod, Thank you very much for this invitation. I will share this with the Chairman and our team. Apologies in advance if it takes us a little longer than normal to get back to you. Thanks again, Patti Pace Assistant to Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-1820 (office) 301-415-3504 (fax) From: Kuckro, Rod [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:58 PM To: Pace, Patti; Brenner, Eliot Subject: Invitation for Chairman Jaczko from the National Press Cliub Patti and Eliot, One of our reporters, Steve Dolley, gave me your names. I am a member of the National Press Club Speakers Committee and would like to se if Chairman Jaczko would be interested in the opportunity to address concerns about the future of the US nuclear industry in the wake of the Fukushima accident at a National Press Club luncheon in the coming weeks. All of our luncheons are broadcast either live or on delay by C-SPAN and generally draw reporters from around the world. I can discuss the format if you are not familiar with it and possible dates. 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From: Herr, Linda Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:49 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Bozin, Sunny Subject: FW: Fallout Attachments: image0Ol.jpg Eliot: You may have already rec'd this email but if not, here goes... Thanks! Linda p.s. am sending another email under separate cover re: "Why are you Silent?" From: CMROSTENDORFF Resource Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:08 AM To: Herr, Linda Subject: FW: Fallout From: (b)(6) Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:05 AM To: CMROSTENDORFF Resource Subject: Fallout Dear Bill In the aftermath of the largest quake to hit Japan, 300,000 have been evacuated within 12 and 6 miles of 10 reactors at both Fukushima 1 and 2 nuclear stations. Operators have not been able to cool down the reactor core containing enormous amounts of radioactivity because of failed back-up diesel generators required for emergency cooling. The Japanese military flew in 9 emergency generators and the US Air Force provided cooling water. The plant was operating at full power when the quake hit and even though control rods were automatically inserted to halt the nuclear reaction, the reactor core remains very hot. Even with a fully functioning emergency core cooling system, it would take several hours for the reactor core to cool and stabilize. If emergency cooling isn't restored, the risks of a core meltdown, and release of radioactivity is significantly increased. Piping and electrical distribution systems may have been damaged, which may interfere with reactor cooling. Japan has lost control of 5 reactors and 160 people have been exposed where outside radiations are 8 times normal. Because reactors remains at a very high temperature, radiation levels are rising on the turbine building, forcing operators to vent radioactive steam into the air, which could be carried by the jet stream and reach America. ,Potential fallout scenario Japanese quake where its outcome concerned about the devastating We the people are very change with radioactive iodine. here in America and winds of could generate a political tsunami the quakes in Japan remind Chernobyl approaches next month, As the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident things go seriously wrong. The of the risks of nuclear power when 100,000 residents us and cleanup workers. More than 1 million emergency responders contamination, and an required evacuated because of radioactive from 187 settlements were permanently the containment structure rendered uninhabitable. In 1979, equal to half of New Jersey was after the area of a catastrophic amount of radioactivity Mile Island did prevent the escape venting to at Three levels of radiation and deliberate people were exposed to higher 7, and core melted, but Three Mile is 5, Chernobyl is a-nuclear safety scale of 1 to 7, stabilize the reactor. On power accident, quake or shouldn't need another major nuclear Japan is 4 and rising. We much safer ways to generate to the fact that there are better, tsunami to wake up policymakers power. coast, it could have ripped ravaged Japan hit off the California Had the violent 9.0 quake that across America. The two and sent a lethal cloud of radiation apart at least four coastal reactors for quakes up to 7.5. and Diablo Canyon are only designed huge reactors each at San Onofre low to the coast and are to major faults and located relatively All four are extremely close Angeles. A radioactive sits between San Diego and Los vulnerable to tsunamis. San Onofre damage to either or both reactors there would do incalculable cloud spewing from one or both 2 urban areas before carrying over the rest of southern and central California. Since California is the most populous and richest state in the union, this would have major national consequences. Diablo Canyon is at Avila Beach, on the coast just west of San Luis Obispo, between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A radioactive eruption there would pour into central California and, depending on the winds, up to the Bay Area or southeast into Santa Barbara and then to Los Angeles. The cloud would permanently destroy much of the agricultural region where most Americans get their winter supply of fresh vegetables. By the Price-Anderson Act of 1957, the owners of the reactors---including Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison--- would be covered by insurance of only up to $11 billion, a tiny fraction of the trillions of dollars worth of damage that would be done. The rest would become the responsibility of the federal government and fallout victims. Virtually all homeowner insurance policies in the US exempt insurers from liability from a reactor disaster. The death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster is only 985,000 because it irradiated a remote rural area. The nearest city, Kiev, is 80 kilometers away. But San Luis Obispo is 10 miles directly downwind from Diablo Canyon. The region around San Onofre has become heavily populated. Heavy radioactive fallout spread from Chernobyl blanketed all of Europe within a matter of days and covered an area far larger than the US. Fallout did hit the jet stream and then the coast of California, thousands of miles away, within ten days. It then carried all the way across the northern tier of the US. Chernobyl #4 was of comparable size to the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, and somewhat larger than San Onofre. But it was very new when it exploded whereas California's four coastal reactors have been operating since the 1980s and their accumulated internal radioactive burdens could exceed what was spewed at Chernobyl. Japanese officials say all affected reactors automatically shut, with no radiation releases, but the reactors may not be reliable where in 2007 a smaller earthquake rocked the seven-reactor Kashiwazaki site and forced its lengthy shutdown. In 1986 the Perry nuclear plant, east of Cleveland, was rocked by a 5.5 quake, many orders of magnitude weaker. That quake broke pipes and other key equipment and took out nearby roads and bridges. Thankfully, Perry had not yet opened. An official Ohio commission later warned that evacuation during such a quake would be impossible. Numerous other American reactors sit on or near earthquake faults. Obama is asking Congress for $36 billion in new loan guarantees to build more commercial reactors. The US has not reached a level of preparedness that we need 10 years after 911 and 5 years after Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans. Billions of dollars have been spent but progress has been slow and spotty. In the wake of the Japanese disaster, we the people urge the Pentagon to: 1. Lead an interagency task force with Energy, FEMA and all relevant agencies to reveal emergency response and evacuation plans to the public for dealing with a major reactor disaster. Since people's lives are involved and what happened in Japan can easily happen here, there must be full transparency and accountability from all US officials. The army, navy, marines, air force, and coast guard must play a vital role to help or evacuate people who live near their bases. Now is the time for public diplomacy and not hide behind secrecy. Now is the time to 3 heed the voice of the people, and do something good for the people whom you serve while you are still in office. 2. The Pentagon must exercise leadership and create an office of disaster response that reports directly to the OSD and JCS to improve bureaucratic coordination where a multiplicity of federal, state and local agencies have a major influence on planning, from decisions about priorities to levels of dedicated funding. This is the root cause of all problems in disaster response. The people needs help delivered fast and furious, and having too many cooks can spoil the broth. 3. A meltdown is equivalent to a dirty bomb, tactical nuke, cobalt 60 or other WMD, so this has major national security implications where rogue states, rogue intel agencies, rogue syndicates, vengeful nations, criminals or terrorists can wreck havoc on our soil like in Japan. The Pentagon must force Japan to come clean with a true assessment of the situation, as this could be a Chernobyl and harm people in America and all over the world. The Pentagon must wargame and study this scenario and dedicate all resources for such a radioactive contingency. 4. The Japan quake, like New Zealand, Haiti, Chile, China and elsewhere, may have been caused by top secret weather modification, scalar or electromagnetic weapons and not an act of God, so the Pentagon must seize control of rogue WMD underground bases in Nevada, New Mexico, Alaska, Greenland or wherever they are. We the people are fearful that what the US may have done to others will come back and haunt us, we do not approve such illegal, immoral and criminal acts of war and terror, and the American people refuse to pay for the crimes of a few. 5. The US has a treaty obligation to defend Japan against all enemies, and if this quake is man- made, then the Pentagon must arrest all rogues and criminals who gave the orders for such a horrific crime. Those arrested must be tried in a military tribunal and executed for terror, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Whoever has the balls to do this should be president and world leader because 1.he listens to the voice of the people 2. he aims high and possesses the ethos of duty, honor, country. 3. he is semper fidelis, or always faithful, not to self but country. 6. Identify the cash and human capital needed to cover the death and destruction from a reactor meltdown. 7. Address the disaster-readiness needs of our most vulnerable citizens, particularly children, who are 25% of the population. Seek inputs from the National Commission on Children and Disasters and make sure that other groups, including the elderly, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and economically disenfranchised individuals, are fully accounted for in disaster planning. 8. Impose strict earthquake-resistant standards to building codes, build tsunami early-warning systems along the East, West, and Gulf coasts, and raise a high level of awareness with respect to emergency planning and disaster response among the people, local and state governments. 4 9. Upgrade all of our hospitals and health networks, infrastructure, and response systems. 10. Declare a moratorium on new reactors in seismic areas until there is a comprehensive analysis of their earthquake and tsunami resiliency, emergency response, and evacuation plans. This may be extended elsewhere as quakes are known to have occurred on previously undiscovered fault lines. 11. Shore up concrete containment at reactors in earthquake-prone zones and study whether design flaws were part of the problem in Japan. There are 23 US nuclear power plants, including Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee, with the same containment design. 12. Conduct a review to see if backup power and reactor coolant systems are adequate to deal with long power outages that could occur from earthquakes, terrorism, tsunamis, war or other disasters. 13. Distribute free potassium iodine (KI 130mg) tablets for millions of people who may be affected to prevent thyroid cancer and radiation illness. Create a national KI stockpile in the 50 states and all cities. 14. Push Congress to enact new laws that would increase the mandated insurance to at least $100 billion for the owners of the reactors, and force all insurers to provide radiation coverage for all homeowners, commerce and industry. 15. NRC to require all new reactors to be designed to withstand a 9.0 quake, and if near coastal areas, have tsunami-proof backup power and cooling systems. 16. Upgrade current reactors to survive a 9.0 quake, and NRC to revoke operating licenses for operators who fail to comply. 17. Phase out nuclear power to develop alternative energy or even free electromagnetic energy from the vacuum of space, as there are over 6000 suppressed technologies that must be commercialized. 18. Study the effects and mitigation for hydrogen explosions that may occur in reactors. 19. The American people are extraordinarily underprepared for disasters where few of us have the food, water, medicine and supplies we'd need if we were caught up in a disaster or know how we'd keep ourselves and our families safe. The Pentagon must therefore procure all needed items at below wholesale prices and store them across the nation. 20. Motivating people to prepare for any kind of disaster, from earthquakes and hurricanes to pandemics and terrorism, has been unsuccessful over the past decade and this must change with a Pentagon nationwide psyop. -5 21. Conduct disaster response exercises annually and at state and local levels like we do military exercises so that our people are always at the ready. We can learn a lot from Japan and China in this area. 22. Cut $10 billion from the wars overseas or find more fraud, waste and mismanagement at the Pentagon to pay for a nationwide disaster response, because there is plenty of money out there. For the first time ever, do something good to benefit the American people. When the Pentagon musters enough courage to arrest all crooks and criminals and take over America, it should tax the top 1% who control $19 trillion of wealth and levy a 1% tax on all Wall Street transactions, as this would solve all of our problems and rebuild our nation to face superpower China. Every major disaster is invariably labeled a wakeup call. Media coverage is intense, rescue efforts rise to the occasion and we are fully focused-until we're not. The predictable pattern is attention and concern followed by a drift back to complacency. The Pentagon and other agencies have much work to do to make America as permanently disaster-ready as it must be. Our health systems and hospitals are woefully underprepared, our infrastructure is dangerously fragile, and our disaster response systems poorly coordinated. What worries the American people is that in this time of serious economic distress, we have a general lack of capacity to make critical long-term investments for anything, including doing what's needed to prepare America for the inevitable disasters of the future. We The People Eddy Nguyen Titan Capital 6 From: Google Alerts News 2 new results for DOE nuclear loan guarantees What does Japan Nuclear Crisis Mean for Nuclear Industry? AIlMediaNY In his State of the Union address, Obama proposed expansion of nuclear energy technology and called for $36 billion in loan guarantees from the Department of Energy for the construction of up to 20 nuclear power plants. The aftermath of the Japanese See all stories on this topic > Secretary Chu Outlines DOE Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request Gov Monitor The budget supports loan guarantees for renewable and energy efficiency technologies. Nuclear energy also has an important role to play in our energy portfolio. The budget requests up to $36 billion in loan guarantee authority to help deploy a new ... See all stories on this topic > Tip: Use quotes ("like this") around a set of words in your query to match them exactly. Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Managce your alerts. 1 eý013ýý- S, From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:44 PM To: '[email protected]'; (b)(6) 'bassallasi@stategov'; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: OK -- CORRECTED NRC RELEASE My guys caught a tiny nit and will repost. I dropped a bit of context to show small dose size. Too tired while reconstructing bad file. Can't take me anywhetre. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 C[ (b)(6) Sent from my Blackberry From: Hammer, Michael A No hold-ups that I know of, calling to Tokyo now This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:04 PM To: 'Eliot. [email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Hammer, Michael A; 'Dan. [email protected]' Subject: Re: OK -- CORRECTED NRC RELEASE Thanks. Jay briefs at 130 please make sure both are out and public by then. Hammer, any hold ups? Are these going out now? From: Brenner, Eliot IS ATTACHED. MAXIMUM MEA CULPA AND THANKS TO DAN FOR THE CATCH. ELIOT oie-- NRC NEWS • 0 (1Z:U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 0 Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 ***4 E-mail: opa.resource(hnrc.gov Site: www.nrc.gov Blog: http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov No. 11-04?? March 15, 2011 NRC ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SUPPORT JAPAN'S PROTECTIVE ACTIONS NRC analysts overnight continued their review of radiation data related to the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors. The analysts continue to conclude the steps recommend by Japanese authorities parallel those the United States would suggest in a similar situation. The Japanese authorities Monday recommended evacuation to 20 kilometers around the affected reactors and said that persons out to 30 kilometers should shelter in place. Those recommendations parallel the protective actions the United States would suggest should dose limits reach 1 rem to the entire body and 5 rem for the thyroid, an organ particularly susceptible to radiation uptake. A rem is a measure of radiation dose. The average American is exposed to approximately 620 millirems, or 0.62 rem, of radiation each year from natural and manmade sources. News releases are available through a free listserv subscription at the following Web address: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/listserver.html. The NRC homepage at www.nrc.gov also offers a SUBSCRIBE link. E-mail notifications are sent to subscribers when news releases are posted to NRC's website. From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:41 PM To: McIntyre, David; Harrington, Holly Subject: Fw: RELEASED: Final version of Amb Roos statement to use in Press Release/Warden message/Notice to Embassy personnel Attachments: 11-14R Amb Roos Message March 16.docx Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment 301 415 8200 cl (b) bent from my blackberry From: Kelley, Karen D (IO/Tokyo) This has been issued as a press release approximately 20 minutes ago. Karen This email is UNCLASSIFIED. e-8 V13 ý .7-- PRESS RELEASE . *J'k{•" R PRESS OFFICE, U.S. EMBASSY, TOKYO TEL. 3224-5264 / 5265 I 5266 FAX. 3586-3282 http://japan.usembassy.gov 11-14R March 16,2011 A Message to American Citizensfrom Ambassador John V Roos Today our hearts remain with our Japanese friends who, after suffering this devastating tragedy just four days ago, have to undertake recovery and reconstruction and address the ongoing nuclear emergency. We understand that many of you are anxious and have questions in the shadow of the Fukushima emergency, since we are in the midst of a complex, constantly changing, and unpredictable situation. In this fluid situation, our commitment to our citizens is to accumulate accurate information and assess it sufficiently in order to make important judgments. Since the first reports of trouble with the reactors, American nuclear experts have worked around the clock to analyze data, monitor developments, and provide clear assessments on the potential dangers. While at times we have had only limited access to information, I am personally committed to assuring that our experts have as much access and information as possible, and the necessary resources to understand the situation. I have personally been deeply engaged in these efforts. After a careful analysis of data, radiation levels, and damage assessments of all units at Fukushima, our experts are in agreement with the response and measures taken by Japanese technicians, including their recommended 20kms radius for evacuation and additional shelter-in-place recommendations out to 30kms. Let me also address reports of very low levels of radiation outside the evacuation area detected by U.S. and Japanese sensitive instrumentation. This bears very careful monitoring, which we are doing. If we assess that the radiation poses a threat to public health, we will share that information and provide relevant guidance immediately. The United States will continue to work around the clock to provide precise and up-to-date information supported by expert analysis to ensure the safety and security of our citizens and to help Japan in its time of great need. U.S. citizens in need of emergency assistance should send an e-mail to JapanEmergencyUSC6ýstate.gov with detailed information about their location and contact information, and monitor the U.S. Department of State website at travel.state.gov. From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:34 PM To: SIMON LOMAX, BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM: Cc: Burnell, Scott Subject: RE: (BN) Germany Will Halt 25% of Nuclear Capacity for Safety To the first question, no. To the second question, I would refer you to what the chairman said at the white house yesterday (check the transcript) which roughly translates to the agency always looks to learn from experience throughout the world to help us in determining any improvements that might be necessary. eliot ---- Original Message ----- From: SIMON LOMAX, BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM: [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:58 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Cc: Burnell, Scott Subject: (BN) Germany Will Halt 25% of Nuclear Capacity for Safety Hi Eliot (cc Scott): Hope you are both well. I have a question regarding this story out of Germany on halting some existing nuclear plants for safety reviews. Has NRC issued any orders for nuclear plants to halt operations and if not, is it weighing such action? My deadline is ASAP. (FYI, I'll have another some relicensing questions to you shortly about Vermont Yankee and other plants but wanted to get your comment on the Germany story ASAP.) Thanks to you both, Simon Lomax Bloomberg News 202-654-4305 (w) (b)(6) (c) [email protected] ------+--- Germany Will Halt 25% of Nuclear Capacity for Safety Review (2) 2011-03-15 13:29:26.202 GMT (Updates capacity figure from first paragraph.) By Tony Czuczka and Nicholas Comfort March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Germany will halt nuclear reactors accounting for 25 percent of its atomic energy capacity as part of a safety review after explosions at reactors in Japan. The country will keep its seven oldest nuclear reactors offline as part of a nationwide safety review to run through June, Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Berlin today. Two of the seven are currently offline, while the remainder totals 5.2 gigawatts of the 20.7 gigawatts installed over Germany's 17 reactors. Germany, which relies on reactors for 23 percent of its power, is the first European country to take such measures after explosions at Japan's Fukushima plant sparked safety concerns. German electricity, a European benchmark, rose on the outlook for lower supply while European Union carbon dioxide permits gained as utilities may burn more fossil fuels to meet demand. "A general re-think on nuclear power is on the cards," UniCredit SpA analysts including Lueder Schumacher wrote in a note today. The Japanese incident has "country-specific aspects that are unlikely to apply to Europe, but the nuclear debate, especially in Germany, is not governed by reason." The federal government and premiers of the German states where nuclear-power stations are located have agreed that facilities "that began operation before the end of 1980 are being stopped for the duration of the moratorium," Merkel said after a meeting in Berlin today. Prices Surge The seven reactors are E.ON AG's Isar 1 and Unterweser, RWE AG's Biblis A and B, EnBW Energie Baden- Wuerttemberg AG's Phlippsburg 1 and Neckarwestheim 1 as well as Brunsbuettel, which is co-owned by E.ON and Vattenfall AB. Biblis B is already offline for maintenance, while Brunsbuettel has been shut since June 2007 following a short circuit in a nearby power network. E.ON has begun preparations to halt Isar-1, the Dusseldorf- based company said. EnBW said it will voluntarily shut down Neckarwestheim I on a temporary basis. RWE said it will halt Biblis A. The companies commented in separate e- mailed statements today. Baseload electricity for next quarter in Germany rose to the highest price since November 2008, surging as much as 16 percent to 62.50 euros ($86.80) a megawatt-hour. The next-year contract, a European benchmark, rose as much as 4.8 percent to 58.40 euros a megawatt-hour, its highest since October 2009. European Union carbon dioxide allowances rose to the highest intraday price since May 2009. Permits for December rose 4.3 percent to 17.32 euros a metric ton on the ICE Futures Europe exchange as of 1:41 p.m. Frankfurt time today. Nuclear-Free Europe? Germany's move raises the prospect of a nuclear-free Europe, said Guenther Oettinger, the European Union energy commissioner, in an interview with ARD television today. "It has to raise the question of whether we in Europe, in the foreseeable future, can secure our energy needs without nuclear power," he said before a meeting with European energy ministers, company executives and regulators in Brussels to discuss reactor safety. Merkel faces March 27 elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg, a state that's home to four of the country's 17 reactors and has been controlled by her Christian Democratic Union for five decades. Eighty percent of Germans oppose Merkel's decision last year to extend the use of nuclear power by an average of 12 years past the previous phase-out date of about 2022, according to an Infratest poll for ARD television released late yesterday. The chancellor said the government will use the three-month moratorium on the extension of the life of German nuclear plants, which she announced yesterday, to review whether the country can speed up the introduction of renewable energy. For Related News and Information: Top German stories: TOP --Editors: John Buckley, Todd White 2 To contact the reporters on this story: Tony Czuczka in Berlin at +49-30-70010-6227 or [email protected]; Nicholas Comfort in Frankfurt at +49-69- 92041-213 or [email protected]. To contact the editor responsible for this story: James Hertling at +33-1-5365-5075 or [email protected] 3 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:13 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Subject: our release is going out within about 10-15 minutes You can speak of it in the past tense. 113'ý , From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:12 PM To: McIntyre, David Subject: FW: Ok - do we have a final? Attachments: NRC Press Release RADIATION UPDATE 11-04XX.docx From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:40 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Subject: RE: Ok - do we have a final? Mine is good to go. You can print it out and put it in Jay's binder. From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:38 PM To: Hammer, Michael A; Holdren, John P.; McDonough, Denis R.; Roos, John; Steinberg, James B; [email protected]; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; Jaczko, Gregory; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Ok - do we have a final? Cant imagine why would have any other concerns. Good that state, nrc and doe all approved, thanks hammer and eliot, let me know when its out and please send me the finals as I want jay to have them and refer to them when he briefs at 130pm From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:35 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Holdren, John P.; McDonough, Denis R.; Roos, John; Steinberg, James B; [email protected]; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; [email protected]; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; [email protected] Subject: Ok - do we have a final? Amb Roos, State, NRC and DOE (with minor edits highlighted below) have cleared. NSS brethren are you good - we plan to transmit to Embassy Tokyo for release on your go sign. Emb Tokyo will then advise NRC when they have released and theirs will follow. Cool? State Dept Statement (b)(5) 1° (b)(5) NRC Statement: NRC ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SUPPORT JAPAN'S PROTECTIVE ACTIONS NRC analysts overnight continued their review of radiation data related to the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors. The analysts continue to conclude the steps recommend by Japanese authorities parallel those the United States the NRC would suggest in a similar situation. The Japanese authorities Monday recommended evacuation 20 kilometers around the affected reactors and that persons out to 30 kilometers shelter in place. Attached to this message are the data used by the NRC scientists to support their conclusion. (DATA RUNS WILL BE ATTACHED AS A PDF) This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtot (b)(6) 7 Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:27 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Holdren, John P.; McDonough, Denis R.; Roos, John; Steinberg, James B; [email protected]; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; [email protected]; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; [email protected] Subject: RE: to solidify what we agreed And Mike below are the two statements, right? one from NRC and State dept below that 2 NRC Statement: NRC ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SUPPORT JAPAN'S PROTECTIVE ACTIONS NRC analysts overnight continued their review of radiation data related to the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors. The analysts continue to conclude the steps recommend by Japanese authorities parallel those the United States the NRC would suggest in a similar situation. The Japanese authorities Monday recommended evacuation 20 kilometers around the affected reactors and that persons out to 30 kilometers shelter in place. Attached to this message are the data used by the NRC scientists to support their conclusion. (DATA RUNS WILL BE ATTACHED AS A PDF) State Dept Statement Tonight our hearts remain with our Japanese friends who, after suffering this devastating tragedy just four days ago, do not have the luxury of focusing every effort on recovery and reconstruction due to the ongoing nuclear emergency. We understand that many of you are anxious and have questions in the shadow of the Fukushima emergency, since we are in the midst of a complex, constantly changing, and unpredictable situation. In this fluid situation, our commitment to our citizens is to accumulate accurate information and assess it sufficiently in order to make important judgments. Throughout the last three days, American nuclear experts have worked furiously to analyze data, monitor developments, and provide clear assessments on the potential dangers. While at times we have had only limited access to information, I am personally committed to assuring that our experts have as much access and information as possible, and the necessary resources to understand the situation. I have personally been deeply engaged in these efforts. After a careful analysis of data, radiation levels, and damage assessments of all units at Fukushima, our experts are currently in agreement with the response and measures taken by Japanese technicians, including their recommended 20kms radius for evacuation and additional shelter-in-place recommendations out to 30kms. Let me also address reports of very low levels of radiation outside the evacuation area detected by U.S. and Japanese sensitive instrumentation. This bears very careful monitoring, which we are doing. If we assess that the radiation poses a threat to public health, we will share that information. Though the situation tonight in Japan is filled with uncertainty, anxiety, and speculation, the United States will continue to work around the clock to provide precise and up-to7date information supported by expert analysis to ensure the safety and security of our citizens and to help Japan in its time of great need. From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:25 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Holdren, John P.; McDonough, Denis R.; Roos, John; Steinberg, James B; [email protected]; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; [email protected]; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; [email protected] Subject: RE:[ (b)(5) I State: Steinberg (if experts concur)/Kennedy clear. Standing by for coordinating release from Embassy Tokyo in synch with NRC. 3 This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Hammer, Michael A Sent: Tuesdav. March 15. 2011 3:06 AM To: (b)(6) (b)(6) Subject: RI (b)(5) (b)(5) From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto:I (b)(6) TSent: :(b)(6) Tuesday, March 15, 2011 03:00 AM (b)(6) Subject: Re:I (b)(5) Hammer is having trouble sending emails, so I'm relaying what he told me. (b)(5) From: Holdren, John P. To: McDonough, Denis R.; '[email protected]' (b)(5) JOHN P. HOLDREN Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President of the United States 4 email (b)(6) direct phone (b)(6) assistant Karrie Pitzer (b)(6) From: McDonough, Denis R. Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:17 AM To: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Holdren, John P.; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; '[email protected]'; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; '[email protected]'; 'Eliot. [email protected]' Subjectý (b)(5) I (b)(5) Thanks, Denis FINAL DRAFT STATEMENT In response to the serious worsening of the situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant that was briefed to the public by Japanese PM Kan, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy have reviewed the limited information made available by the Japanese government and other resources in Japan. Under our guidelines for public safety that would apply if this situation were occurring in the United States, residents would be advised as a precaution to evacuate to a distance of 50 miles (80.4km) from the affected reactors. We are recommending that American citizens who live within 50 miles (80.4km) of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant evacuate the area immediately. We want to underscore that there are numerous factors including weather, wind direction and speed, and the nature of the reactor problem that affect the risk of radioactive contamination within this 50 mile (80.4km) radius or the possibility of lower-level radioactive materials reaching greater distances. In addition, the fast moving situation at the Fukushima reactor site means that the level or risk and the affected areas may change. U.S. citizens in need of emergency assistance should send an e-mail to JapanEmergencyUSCostate.gov with detailed information about their location and contact information, and monitor the U.S. Department of State website at travel.state.gov. 5 FtxREG~.,r j 1NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 0 Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 z•. •. .E-mail:t opa.resourcenanrc.gov Site: www.nrc.gov Blog: http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov No. 11-04?? March 15, 2011 (b)(5) News releases are available through a free listserv subscription at the following Web address: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/listserver.html. The NRC homepage at www.nrc.gov also offers a SUBSCRIBE link. E-mail notifications are sent to subscribers when news releases are posted to NRC's website. From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:51 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Leistikow, Dan Subject: URGEN --HOLD NRC RELEASE --SENT WRONG DOCUMENT GHAVE TO RECONSTRUCT IT. MEA CULPA. THANKS DAN. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, Md. 0: 301-415-8200 C: (b)(6) From: Leistikow, Dan Thoughts on this? From: Aoki, Steven To: Leistikow, Dan; Connery, Joyce; DAgostino, Thomas; Miller, Neile; NITOPS; Poneman, Daniel; Mustin, Tracy; LaVera, Damien Sent: Tue Mar 15 12:37:03 2011 Subject: RE: data from NRC Dan L, I'm sorry but I'm a bit confused. The draft attachedi (b)(5)I (b)(5) Steve From: Leistikow, Dan Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:25 PM To: Connery, Joyce; DAgostino, Thomas; Miller, Neile; NITOPS; Aoki, Steven; Poneman, Daniel; Mustin, Tracy; LaVera, Damien Subject: data from NRC Per Steve Aoki's request From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:03 PM To: Leistikow, Dan; 'Hammer, Michael A' Subject: RE: (b)(5) Eliot 3U / 362 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:47 PM To: Janbergs, Holly Subject: RE: Thanks. you are making a great contribution to the cause. From: Janbergs, Holly Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:10 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Been going over press release posting with Brenda as well. I'll start on media updates & continue with calls. From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:24 AM To: Janbergs, Holly Subject: RE: Media updates. Help Ivonne with the lower level requests for TV appearances (respectfully decline but thank them and get their names and numbers down for us). I may start having you work some public citizen calls to offer reassuring talking points. eliot From: Janbergs, Holly Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:07 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Back from OCA; don't think they'll need me again. It's (relatively) quiet here. Do you want me to focus on phones, or is there something else I can do as well to help, as in media updates? Beth Janbergs Public Affairs Assistant 301-415-8211 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:37 PM To: Hannah, Roger; Ledford, Joey Cc: Harrington, Holly Subject: RE: longer term staffing Attachments: imageOOl.png Ok .... nobody change their plans. From: Hannah, Roger Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:29 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Ledford, Joey Cc: Harrington, Holly Subject: RE: longer term staffing Joey has long-standing plans to be away this weekend so it is unlikely he would be able to do it - I would need to change plans for Saturday, that while difficult, would not be impossible. The other wild card is that I am still scheduled to go to Crystal River Monday-Wednesday although there will be a news release later today from Progress Energy that will likely cause us to postpone the restart meeting on Tuesday and also postpone my trip to Florida. Roger Hannah, APR Senior Public Affairs Officer Region II -- Atlanta, Ga. Office - 404-997-4417 Cell ] (b)(6) roqer.hannah(&~nrc.gpov CU.SNRC United .Strat Nucdhar Rcgulatory Corm ission From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:50 AM To: Hannah, Roger; Ledford, Joey Cc: Harrington, Holly Subject: longer term staffing Starting Saturday ... what is the availability of one of you to be up here for several days? Just trying to understand the logistics that might be involved in staffing this place over the longer term. It is possible we will be able to pull in some flacks from outside, like Holly's FEMA buddies, but it would help to have some pros who can answer questions instead of taking calls for others to return. Eliot From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:36 PM To: Screnci, Diane Subject: FW: REQUEST TO CALL REPORTER RE JAPANESE EVENTS Over to you. From: Bubar, Patrice Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:16 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Hayden, Elizabeth Subject: FW: REQUEST TO CALL REPORTER RE JAPANESE EVENTS Eliot and Beth - another call we are referring to you. Patty Bubar Chief of Staff Office of Commissioner William D. Magwood U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-1895 From: Crawford, Carrie Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:58 AM To: Bubar, Patrice Subject: REQUEST TO CALL REPORTER RE JAPANESE EVENTS REPORTER SUSAN PHILLIPS CALLED: RADIO STATION IN PHILADELHIA - WHYY NEWS 215-351-2013 sihilliis(•whw.orq I 1ýol 3 (ý' From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:37 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Subject: RE: please call my cell Can hold for a bit. From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto:l (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:36 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: please call my cell Briefing jay right now. is it urgent? From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:35 PM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Subject: please call my cell (b)(6) " Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, Md. 0: 301-415-8200 C:I (b)(6) I e-bk) / From: Sosa, Belkys Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:16 PM To: Blake, Kathleen; Brenner, Eliot Cc: Davis, Roger Subject: Re: phone call re interview w Clean Channel for Adelphia in Philadelphia, PA Kathleen, please forward all press interview requests to OPA. Thks Sent from an NRC Blackberry Belkys Sosa E (b)(6) From: Blake, Kathleen To: Sosa, Belkys Cc: Davis, Roger Sent: Tue Mar 15 11:43:43 2011 Subject: phone call re interview w Clean Channel for Adelphia in Philadelphia, PA Belkys: I received a call from Sunny Dang (610) 235-6487 from Clean Channel for Adelphia in Philadelphia, PA wanting an interview with you (since Cmr is out) re the affect of natural disasters and the devastation in Japan. (b)(5) Please advise. kb Kathleen M. Blake Administrative Assistant to Commissioner Apostolakis U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852 301-415-1810 1iu s; From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:06 PM To: Tavangar, Sayeh Subject: RE: Interview Request: Chairman Jaczko I doubt it. Wish I could be more definitive. From: Tavangar, Sayeh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:06 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Interview Request: Chairman Jaczko Hi Eliot, Any chance you can tell me if the Chairman is even available on Friday? I just need to plan for the show. 1IV10 Sayeh Tavangar 2 Producer 3 Platts Energy Week 4 lwww.iplattsener~vvweektv.com 5 Office: 202-383-2271 6 Mobile: (b)(6) I From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:23 PM To: Tavangar, Sayeh Subject: RE: Interview Request: Chairman Jaczko Don't know. Check me Thursday. Way to early to think about that far out. From: Tavangar, Sayeh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:22 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Interview Request: Chairman Jaczko Hi Eliot, I'm a Producer with Platts Energy Week TV and wanted to see if Chairman Jaczko was available this Friday to come on our show to talk whether the crisis at the Japanese nuclear reactors will lead to questions about U.S nuclear safety. We can do the interview anytime between 9-11 am at our studios in D.C., and the interview will be approximately 7 minutes. 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From: Basalla, Suzanne I Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:56 AM To: 'Brenner, Eliot'; Hammer, Michael A; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Campbell, Kurt M Cc: Donovan, Joseph R; Cherry, Ronald C;1 (b)(6) I Crowe, William B BGen USMC USFJ J01; Zumwalt, James P; Roos, John; Fuller, Matthew G; Pommersheim, John M; Ryan, Emmett Jerome; Whitney, Thomas C; Russel, Daniel R.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Kelley, Karen D (IO/Tokyo); Fitzgerald, Paul M; Quade, Christopher P; Jaczko, Gregory; Snider, Marc A Subject: RE: Final version of Amb Roos statement to use in Press Release/Warden message/Notice to Embassy personnel Mike, Just discussed this with NRC. I understand their point, but we agreed to keep the original language in this portion. With that, and your earlier edits, I think we are ready to go. We'll wait for your final go. Suzanne SBU This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:04 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Basalla, Suzanne I; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Campbell, Kurt M Cc: Donovan, Joseph R; Cherry, Ronald C; [ 7 (b)(6) Crowe, William B BGen USMC USFJ J01; Zumwalt, James P; Roos, John; Fuller, Matthew G; Pommersheim, John M; Ryan, Emmett Jerome; Whitney, Thomas C; Russel, Daniel R.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Kelley, Karen D (IO/Tokyo); Fitzgerald, Paul M; Quade, Christopher P; Jaczko, Gregory; Snider, Marc A 1 603ýq Subject: RE: Final version of Amb Roos statement to use in Press Release/Warden message/Notice to Embassy personnel Importance: High Apologies... Late nuance suggestions from NRC. (b)(5) From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:51 AM To: Basalla, Suzanne I; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Campbell, Kurt M Cc: Donovan, Joseph R; Cherry, Ronald C;I (b)(6) Crowe, William B BGen USMC USFJ 301; Zumwalt, James P; Roos, John; Fuller, Matthew G; Pommersheim, John M; Ryan, Emmett Jerome; Whitney, Thomas C; Russel, Daniel R.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Kelley, Karen D (IO/Tokyo); Fitzgerald, Paul M; Quade, Christopher P; Jaczko, Gregory; Brenner, Eliot; Snider, Marc A Subject: RE: Final version of Amb Roos statement to use in Press Release/Warden message/Notice to Embassy personnel Got it - am honchoing edits and as soon as DOE Poneman clears I will send a final for final NSS chop. SBU This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Basalla, Suzanne I Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:50 AM To: 'Shapiro, Nicholas S.'; Campbell, Kurt M; Hammer, Michael A Cc: Donovan, Joseph R; Cherry,1 (b)(6) . Crowe, William B BGen USMC USFJ J01; Zumwalt, James P; Roos, John; Fuller, Matthew G; Pommersheim, John M; Ryan, Emmett Jerome; Whitney, Thomas C; Russel, Daniel R.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Kelley, Karen D (IO/Tokyo); Fitzgerald, Paul M; Quade, Christopher P; Jaczko, Gregory; Brenner, Eliot; Snider, Marc A Subject: Final version of Amb Roos statement to use in Press Release/Warden message/Notice to Embassy personnel Thank you, Nick. A/S Campbell has cleared with an edit (shown in track changes, attached). The final version is below (unless other clearances/comments are forthcoming). I will stand by for your final coordination on the timing of the release of the statements pending NRC being prepared to send out a simultaneous release. Please keep Christopher Quade and Karen Kelley in the loop as they will do the release for Embassy Tokyo. V/r, Suzanne 2 (b)(5) SBU This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:59 PM To: Basalla, Suzanne 1; Campbell, Kurt M; Hammer, Michael A Cc: Donovan, Joseph R; Cherry, (b)(6) _; Crowe, William B BGen USMC USFJ 301; Zumwalt, James P; Roos, John; Fuller, Matthew G; Pommersheim, John M; Ryan, Emmett Jerome; Whitney, Thomas C; Russel, Daniel R.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Kelley, Karen D (I0/Tokyo); Fitzgerald, Paul M; Quade, Christopher P; Jaczko, Gregory; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Draft statement to use in Press Release/Warden message/Notice to Embassy personnel Thanks. adding Eliot at NRC, as they too will need a quick statement. Hammer and Eliot will coordinate with me on the timing of when the two statements go out but it should be very soon From: Basalla, Suzanne I [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:54 AM To: Campbell, Kurt M; Hammer, Michael A; Shapiro, Nicholas S. Cc: Donovan, Joseph R; Cherry,I (b)(6) ICrowe, William B BGen USMC USFJ JOl; Zumwalt, James P; Roos, John; Fuller, Matthew G; Pommersheim, John M; Ryan, Emmett Jerome; Whitney, Thomas C; Russel, 3 Daniel R.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Kelley, Karen D (IO/Tokyo); Fitzgerald, Paul M; Quade, Christopher P; Jaczko, Gregory Subject: Draft statement to use in Press Release/Warden message/Notice to Embassy personnel All, As Amb Roos mentioned in today's DC, the attached is our statement we would like to have cleared through Washington for release first here as a press release, then as a warden message and note to the Embassy. We appreciate the offer to work this through clearances quickly in DC. Suzanne Suzanne I. Basalla Senior Advisor to Ambassador John V. Roos American Embassy - Tokyo f IPlease follow Ambassador Roos on Twitter.com/AmbassadorRoos Tel: 081-3-3224-5023 Fax: 081-3-3224-5312 [email protected] SBU This email is UNCLASSIFIED. 4 (b)(5) (b)(5) From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:53 AM To: Cappiello, Dina Subject: RE: Questions on NRC team going to Japan We put out a news release last night with all the details. Chuck Casto is the guy's name. Eliot Original----- Message----- From: Cappiello, Dina [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:52 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: Questions on NRC team going to Japan Who is guy in charge of group? No sense of what they plan to do? Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:42 AM To: Cappiello, Dina; [email protected] They are largely still enroute. You think I have enough staff to send with these folks? You overestimate the size of mystaff. To my personal dismay there is no media contact traveling with them. AP Tokyo will have to work through the Embassy press operation. There is a guy who is in charge of the group, and he won't get there for some time yet. I will be in touch with them to coordinate any media that we do. Eliot ---- Original Message ----- From: Cappiello, Dina [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:35 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; [email protected] Subject: Questions on NRC team going to Japan Hey guys, Our international folks would like to know when NRC team will arrive in Japan, what their meeting schedule is, and whether - and when - they will visit trouble nuclear plant. They also want to know media contact who will be traveling with group. Thanks, Dina The information contained in this communication is intended for the use of the designated recipients named above. 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Of course, the reporter did ID Vika as a FirstEnergy spokeswoman so the NRC views don't seem too overwhelming. From: Bradford, Anna Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:35 AM To: Burnell, Scott Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Latest Q&A and talking points Thanks Scott. Anna Bradford Policy Advisor for Nuclear Materials Office of Chairman Jaczko U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-1827 From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:32 AM To: Bradford, Anna Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Latest Q&A and talking points Anna; Attached are the documents provided to the EDO and OCA for upcoming briefings for the Chairman's office to share with the rest of the Commission if desired - OIP still working on question of Japanese backup power requirements - fallback answer is that we can only speak to issues under our jurisdiction. Documents are also on WebEOC. Thanks. Scott 1 ^11 IP L)/ 3 63 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:28 AM To: Taylor, Robert Subject: FW: TV Inter Please decline, kindly. Thanks. From: Shannon, Valerie Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:28 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; Burnell, Scott Cc: Couret, Ivonne Subject: TV Inter Jacqueline Eckmann is requesting an on-camera interview with the Chairman this afternoon. Phone Number: 202-466-8793 Org: Dutch Public TV E-Mail: [email protected] Thanks, Val '6vp 0 From: Google Alerts News 1 new result for jaczko US nuclear agency chief leaves reporters with more questions than answers CBS News White House Press Secretary Jay Carney brought a special guest to the briefing room today - Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Gregory Jaczko. He was asked repeatedly about the safety of US nuclear power plants, but his answers did little to ... See all stories on this topic ) This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google. Remove this alert. Create another alert. ManaQe your alerts. ~e-)1 I From: Couret, Ivonne Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:07 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; Sheehan, Neil Subject: FW: FYI - forward from ANS - FW: Talking Points on Implications of Fukushima Accident to U.S. Nuclear Plants Attachments: ANS Talking Points - 2011-03-13 Rl_2.pdf From: Steger (Tucci), Christine Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:10 AM To: Couret, Ivonne; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; McIntyre, David Subject: FYI - forward from ANS - FW: Talking Points on Implications of Fukushima Accident to U.S. Nuclear Plants FYI - if you haven't already seen these. Christine From: Wong, Albert Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:04 AM To: Steger (Tucci), Christine Subject: FYI_FW: Talking Points on Implications of Fukushima Accident to U.S. Nuclear Plants Unsure whether the FO has seen this one or not. From: ANS DCSection [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:58 AM To: ans.dcsection Subject: Talking Points on Implications of Fukushima Accident to U.S. Nuclear Plants FYI. The below email is from National ANS. Original----- Message ----- From: Joe Colvin [mailto:president(aans.org] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:46 AM To: Witt, Kevin Subject: Talking Points on Implications of Fukushima Accident to U.S. Nuclear Plants Dear ANS Members: Over the last two days, the ANS Crisis Communications team has been very proactive and has handled a multitude of media and press calls. ANS spokespersons have participated in national television, radio and press interviews providing the views of the nuclear science and technology experts within the Society. We are particularly grateful to Dr. Dale Klein who has given tremendous support to the Society and the public in response to the events at Fukushima. We have begun fielding media inquiries about the implications of the problems at Fukushima on the US program. We have prepared the attached talking points to assist responders to this line of questions. The I talking points are consistent with the talking points prepared by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) on the same subject. Thank you all for your strong support! Joe 2 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:11 AM To: Batkin, Joshua Subject: CHOP ON THIS REAL QUICK Attachments: NRC Press Release RADIATION UPDATE 11-04XX.docx 1 1ý0 36u .NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION •, Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 C Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: opa.resourcenanrc.gov Site: www.nrc.gov Blog: http://public-blog.nrc-gatewav.gov No. 11-04?? March 15, 2011 (b)(5) From: Brenner, Eliot Sent Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:05 AM To: Taylor, Robert Subject: FW: Media Request - Background Information From: Couret, Ivonne Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:54 AM To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot Subject: Media Request - Background Information Mary Thompson from CNBC would like to discuss the progress that has been made in the last forty years in the technology that goes into building nuclear reactors, in light of the situation in Japan. 201-735-3138 Office of Public Affairs US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-8200 opa.resourceC~nrc.gov 1 /8 L)/ 3 6"3- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:58 AM To: Couret, Ivonne; Burnell, Scott Subject: RE: REVEIW/Comment WEB STUFF - New image and caption suggestion Fine by me. From: Couret, Ivonne Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:56 AM To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot Subject: REVEIW/Comment WEB STUFF - New image and caption suggestion The NRC continues to monitor the Japanese reactor events via its Headquarters. Operations Center in Rockville, Md., on a 24-hour-a-day basis. The NRC has dispatched the experts to Tokyo to provide assistance as requested by the Japanese government as part of a U.S. Agency for International Development assistance team. MORE link to new press release From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:57 AM To: Batkin, Joshua Subject: raw data issue PMT folks balking at raw data dump. I am pushing them for a paragraph or two of specifics to demonstrate our confidence. Should have in a few minutes ... If you really want the raw data, just say the word and I'll force it out ... or be delighted to leak the hell out of it. Eliot 1 11ýul 30 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:54 AM To: Dolley, Steven Subject: RE: schematic Your squeaky wheel assures at least some salve. From: Dolley, Steven [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:52 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: schematic When the gag order's lifted, we definitely want to be in the queue. Don't want to come in one day and read interviews in other outlets ifwe didn't get a shot too. Thanks for what you can do. From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:48 AM To: Dolley, Steven Subject: RE: schematic Answer is no. they would face death by press release if they did. From: Dolley, Steven [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:37 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: schematic I know you are. I'm glad to call people directly, question is whether they're allowed to speak to press? From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:29 AM To: Dolley, Steven Subject: RE: schematic Will try. Running like crazy. No guarantee. From: Dolley, Steven [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:42 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: schematic Thanks Eliot, I appreciate your passing this on. We still very much want to speak with an expert at the agency who can address technical issues related to GE BWRs with Mark I containments. Not necessarily someone familiar with the Japanese units, but with the 23 of 104 US units with this design. Thanks for any help you can provide. Steve From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:07 AM 31 To: Dolley, Steven Subject: schematic The information contained in this message is intended only for the recipient, and may be a confidential attorney-client communication or may otherwise be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. 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Incorporate graphics and photographs to tell your storyl hftt://www.nrc..ov/readinc-rm/photo-_allery/ 2010-2011 Information Digest - Where you can find NRC Facts at a Glance hftp://www.nrc.gov/readinq-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1350/ NRC Employees can read Interesting insight on the OPA Blog httD://portal.nrc.qov/OCM/opa/blog/default.aspx A Please consider the environmental impact before printing this email. 1 3-71 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:51 AM To: Wald, Matthew Subject: RE: potassium iodide Will see what I can do for you. My pro is home asleep after being up all night. May have to call out the second team. I managed to get about an hour of sleep on my couch. Darn energy saving light sensor kept kicking the lights on as I tossed and turned! So much for progress. From: Wald, Matthew [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:26 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: potassium iodide Eliot, after 10 stories on this over 20 years, I've lost track of where we stand. Could I talk this afternoon to somebody on your staff about where we came out on.stockpiles? I have a colleague (Andy Pollack) talking to FDA and I spoke to Anbex yesterday. Thanks. --- Matt Matthew L. Wald The New York Times Washington Bureau 1627 Eye Street NW Washington, DC 20006 202-862-0363 cell: (b)(6) fax: 202-318-0057 http://www.nytimes.com/info/nuclear-energy/ twitter: mattwaldnyt From: Hammer, Michael A Sorry meant DOE - don't think Dan wants another Dept... This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Hammer, Michael A Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:48 AM To: 'Brenner, Eliot'; Leistikow, Dan; Poneman, Daniel Subject: RE: 1 (b)(5) Great -just waiting on DoD. This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:48 AM To: Leistikow, Dan; Hammer, Michael A; Poneman, Daniel Subject: RE (b)(5) NRC is cool. From: Leistikow, Dan [mailto: Dan. [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:45 AM To: 'Hammer, Michael A'; Poneman, Daniel; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE:I (b)(5) Will do From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:36 AM To: Poneman, Daniel; [email protected] Cc: Leistikow, Dan Subject: REL (b)(5) Team can you please clear State statement below pretty pls. This email is UNCLASSIFIED. 136 From: Steinberg, James B Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:29 AM To:I (b)(6) I ~(b)(6)I Subject: Re:I (b)(5) I <(b)(5) From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. <[ (b)(6) J> ______Tol (b)(6) (b)(6) Sent: Tue Mar 15 10:27:18 2011 Subject: RE[ (b)(5) And Mike below are the two statements, right? one from NRC and State dept below that NRC Statement: NRC ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SUPPORT JAPAN'S PROTECTIVE ACTIONS NRC analysts overnight continued their review of radiation data related to the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors. The analysts continue to conclude the steps recommend by Japanese authorities parallel those the United States the NRC would suggest in a similar situation. The Japanese authorities Monday recommended evacuation 20 kilometers around the affected reactors and that persons out to 30 kilometers shelter in place. Attached to this message are the data used by the NRC scientists to support their conclusion. (DATA RUNS WILL BE ATFACHED AS A PDF) State Dept Statement Tonight our hearts remain with our Japanese friends who, after suffering this devastating tragedy just four days ago, do not have the luxury of focusing every effort on recovery and reconstruction due to the ongoing nuclear emergency. We understand that many of you are anxious and have questions in the shadow of the Fukushima emergency, since we are in the midst of a complex, constantly changing, and unpredictable situation. In this fluid situation, our commitment to our citizens is to accumulate accurate information and assess it sufficiently in order to make important judgments. Throughout the last three days, American nuclear experts have worked furiously to analyze data, monitor developments, and provide clear assessments on the potential dangers. While at times we have had only limited access to information, I am personally committed to assuring that our experts have as much access and information as possible, and the necessary resources to understand the situation. I have personally been deeply engaged in these efforts. 2 After a careful analysis of data, radiation levels, and damage assessments of all units at Fukushima, our experts are currently in agreement with the response and measures taken by Japanese technicians, including their recommended 20kms radius for evacuation and additional shelter-in-place recommendations out to 30kms. Let me also address reports of very low levels of radiation outside the evacuation area detected by U.S. and Japanese sensitive instrumentation. This bears very careful monitoring, which we are doing. If we assess that the radiation poses a threat to public health, we will share that information. Though the situation tonight in Japan is filled with uncertainty, anxiety, and speculation, the United States will continue to work around the clock to provide precise and up-to-date information supported by expert analysis to ensure the safety and security of our citizens and to help Japan in its time of great need. From: Hammer, Michael A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:25 AM To: Hammer, Michael A; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Holdren, John P.; McDonough, Denis R.; Roos, John; Steinberg, James B; [email protected]; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; [email protected]; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; [email protected] Subject: RE:F (b)(5) State: Steinberg (if experts concur)/Kennedy clear. Standing by for coordinating release from Embassy Tokyo in synch with NRC. This email is UNCLASSIFIED. From: Hammer, Michael A Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:06 AM Tot (b)(6) (b)(6) Subject: Re: (b)(5) (b)(5) From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 03WU= AM To: (b)(6) (b)(6) Subject: Re: " (b)(5) Hammer is having trouble sending emails, so I'm relaying what he told me. 3 (b)(5) From: Holdren, John P. To: McDonough, Denis R.; '[email protected]' (b)(5) JOHN P. HOLDREN Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President of the United States email (b)(6)W direct phone I (b)(6) assistant Karrie Pitzer[ (b)(6) From: McDonough, Denis R. Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:17 AM To: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; 'Daniel. [email protected]'; Holdren, John P.; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; '[email protected]'; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; '[email protected]'; 'Eliot. [email protected]' Subject: F(b)(5)I (b)(5) Thanks, Denis FINAL DRAFT STATEMENT In response to the serious worsening of the situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant that was briefed to the public by Japanese PM Kan, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy have reviewed the limited information made available by 4 the Japanese government and other resources in Japan. Under our guidelines for public safety that would apply if this situation were occurring in the United States, residents would be advised as a precaution to evacuate to a distance of 50 miles (80.4km) from the affected reactors. We are recommending that American citizens who live within 50 miles (80.4km) of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant evacuate the area immediately. We want to underscore that there are numerous factors including weather, wind direction and speed, and the nature of the reactor problem that affect the risk of radioactive contamination within this 50 mile (80.4km) radius or the possibility of lower-level radioactive materials reaching greater distances. In addition, the fast moving situation at the Fukushima reactor site means that the level or risk and the affected areas may change. U.S. citizens in need of emergency assistance should send an e-mail to JapanEmergencyUSC(@state.gov with detailed information about their location and contact information, and monitor the U.S. Department of State website at travel.state.gov. 5 From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. ý (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:40 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE:jaczko is exhausted -- can we pass on today at the briefing room? Yes sir. thanks for everything last night and this morning my man. please do keep me posted on what press if any you guys are doing From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: Eliot. [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:39 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Subject: jaczko is exhausted -- can we pass on today at the briefing room? Importance: High BU 1,314 From: Case, Michael Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:36 AM To: Carpenter, Gene; Brenner, Eliot; Burnell, Scott; Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Gavrilas, Mirela Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at CSPO - Monday, March 21, 6PM I'd stay away from this one as well. Original----- Message ----- From: Carpenter, Gene Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:39 PM To: Brenner, Eliot; Burnell, Scott; Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Case, Michael; Gavrilas, Mirela Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at CSPO - Monday, March 21, 6PM That was certainly my first inclination, but thought I'd throw it up the chain in case someone else at higher paygrade had a differing opinion. From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:35 PM To: Carpenter, Gene; Burnell, Scott; Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Case, Michael; Gavrilas, Mirela Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at CSPO - Monday, March 21, 6PM Don't think we should be participating at this early stage. Certainly not delivering a 45 minute lecture on an unfolding situation. Original----- Message ----- From: Carpenter, Gene Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:34 PM To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot; Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Case, Michael; Gavrilas, Mirela Subject: FW: Invitation to speak at CSPO - Monday, March 21, 6PM FYI (b)(6) Would the NRC like to Support Mahmud? Gene From: Mahmud Farooque [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:10 PM To: Carpenter, Gene Subject: Invitation to speak at CSPO - Monday, March 21, 6PM Hello Gene, Hope you are doing well. This request comes with an apology for the extremely short notice. I had a last minute cancellation and I am scrambling to find a speaker for our seminar series scheduled for Monday, March 21st at 6PM. Treating the setback as an opportunity to change the topic, I am writing to explore if you or anyone from NRC would be interested in talking about nuclear safety, regulation, proliferation or S&T policy issues in the U.S. in light of the unfolding crisis in Japan. These seminars are designed to offer CSPO's students, postdocs and faculty located in Arizona an opportunity to learn about a contemporary policy issue directly from an expert in the nation's capitol. We use our video conferencing facility in our Washington DC office to bring the seminar to CSPO's Tempe community. The talk is about 45 minutes with 15 minutes of discussion and Q&A. In addition to Tempe, we expect a small audience in our DC office as well. Kindly let me know so we can proceed with our planning and publicity with the little time we have in hand. Thanks for your time and consideration. I do apologize for the short lead time. Best Wishes, Mahmud Mahmud Farooque, Ph.D. Associate Director, DC Office Consortium for Science, Policy, & Outcomes (CSPO) Arizona State University, DC Center 1834 Connecticut Ave, NW Washington, DC 20009 off-campus: (202) 446-0397 on-campus: x 20397 [email protected] 2 From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:27 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FAA statement We are actively coordinating with the Japanese civil aviation authority and the other U.S. Government agencies working on this issue to identify any potential hazards to civil aviation posed by the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The Japanese civil aviation authority has established flight restrictions keeping civil aviation flights well away from the Fukushima facility. U.S. carriers have indicated that they are complying with these restrictions. There is no credible information available at this point indicating the need for further restrictions. If the situation at Fukushima worsens and we see credible indications that radiological hazards to civil aviation exist beyond the flight restriction areas already established by the Japanese civil aviation authority, the FAA is prepared to take air traffic management measures, including the rerouting of air traffic, in consultation with our Japanese counterparts to protect affected civil aviation. If this scenario were to occur, we anticipate that the U.S. carriers and other operators flying in the affected airspace would revise their flight schedules. Laura J.Brown Deputy Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs 202-267-3455 W (b)(6) C I ý77 ý From: Bubar, Patrice Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:29 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Request from Member of Public Thank you Eliot. Patty Bubar Chief of Staff Office of Commissioner William D. Magwood U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-1895 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:23 AM To: Bubar, Patrice Subject: RE: Request from Member of Public Just left what I hope is a reassuring voice mail From: Bubar, Patrice Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:18 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; Hayden, Elizabeth Subject: FW: Request from Member of Public Eliot and Beth - how are we handling calls and requests from general citizens? Is OPA the focal point for these requests also? Patty Bubar Chief of Staff Office of Commissioner William D. Magwood U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-1895 From: Crawford, Carrie Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:52 AM To: Bubar, Patrice Cc: Magwood, William Subject: Request from Member of Public Call from Member of Public from Edgewater, New Jersey 9:30 a.m. , March 15h 84 year old Veteran of Korean War Mr. Heanue would like a description/explanation of what the U.S. (and who) is doing to counteract the probable emission of radiation contaminants as a result of hydrogen explosions and nuclear mismanagements that may be going on in Japan. He is especially concerned about plutonium leakage. He says that the fact that winds from Japan move to U.S. was proven in history when Japan sent bombs in balloons to U.S. during World War II. During that time, it was ordered that any results not be reported - so 37 Japanese would conclude the mission unsuccessful - it worked. He says that the people today have a right to know what is going on and should be alerted to the extent of any radiation pollution moving into the U.S. - and should be directed as to what they need to do to protect themselves. At best they should be informed, he says. Please respond to him to answer his concerns. Mr. Michael Heanue (b)(6) Thanks, Carrie 2 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:19 AM To: [email protected]; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; Batkin, Joshua Subject: NRC DRAFT STATEMENT Attachments: NRC Press Release RADIATION UPDATE 11-04XX.docx This is draft but short and sweet.. Chairman's office copied on this. Currently awaiting PDF of data run to attach raw numbers. When I have that, it will take me a little while to get it staged for a coordinated transmission. Eliot NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 '• •. ¢t "• "E-mail: opa.resourcermnrc.gov Site: www.nrc.pov Blog: http://public-blog.nrc-gatewav.gov No. 11-04?? March 15, 2011 (b)(5) News releases are available through a free listserv subscription at the following Web address: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/listserver.html. The NRC homepage at www.nrc.gov also offers a SUBSCRIBE link. E-mail notifications are sent to subscribers when news releases are posted to NRC's website. From: Batkin, Joshua Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:05 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: (b)(5) 1 eV~ /3 7q' From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:06 AM To: Batkin, Joshua Subject: FW: Need to work up 2 new statements asap fyi Original----- Message---- From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:02 AM To: 'Shapiro, Nicholas S.'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Need to work up 2 new statements asap Nick: working on ours now. It will be short. (b)(5) eliot ---- Original Message -.... From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:56 AM To: '[email protected]'; Brenner, Eliot Subject: Need to work up 2 new statements asap I1ý U ) 1 From: Couret, Ivonne Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:55 AM To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot Subject: MEDIA REQUEST - FW: CNN Washington - time sensitive Attachments: image001.jpg From: Akstulewicz, Brenda Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:54 AM To: Couret, Ivonne Subject: CNN Washington - time sensitive Alan Silverlei CNN Washington 202-898-7931 Other countries have "ranked" the events in Japan, i.e. Japan has said level 4, France, level 6 Has the US "ranked" the event? Brenda Akstulewicz Administrative Assistant Office of Public Affairs 301-415-8209 brenda.akstufavicz@nrcmgov /3191 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:48 AM To: Salley, MarkHenry Subject: RE: Japan NPP crisis short information resorces Thanks. Yes, a little busy here. Original----- Message ----- From: Salley, MarkHenry Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:44 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FW: Japan NPP crisis short information resorces Eliot, I see you are a busy boy in OPA with all that is unfolding in Japan. I got this email from a colleague of mine that works for JNES (Japan's version of RES) - it has the listing of the news agencies reporting & links. Thought it might be of help to you. MHS Original----- Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:43 AM Subject: Japan NPP crisis short information resorces Dear colleagues, Please find h erewith Japan NPP crisis short information list. Best regards, Susumu TSUCHINO JNES 2011.11.15 Japan earthquake disaster short information resource NISA http://www.niisa.meti-go.ip/english/index.html Tokyo Electric Power Company http://www.tepco.co.ip/en/index-e.html TEPCO home page (BWR image) http://www.tepco.co.ip/nu/knowledge/svstem/index-i.html NHK world News (mass media) http://www3.nhk.or.ip/dailv/english/ The daily mainichi news (mass media) http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110315p2g00m0dm001000c.html From: Dan Yurman <1 (b)(6) 1> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:23 AM To: (b)(6) Subject: ANS Nuclear Cafe Information for March 15, 2011 - please circulate widely ANS Nuclear Caf6 - March 15, 2011 (Twitter link for this notice: http:/ltinvurl.com/anscafe) An 9.0 magnitude earthquake, and Tsunami, has damaged nuclear power stations in Japan. ANS Nuclear Cafe, a blog published by the American Nuclear Society, began at I 0800 12011 03 11 1a media clip service on breaking news about the status of nuclear energy facilities in Japan. The news reports are in descending order based on time/date stamps where available or when posted. Web Page: http://ansnuclearcafe.wordpress.com Twitter feed .Ddivsrv Fixed Links * IAEA Tsunami & Earthquake updates Alert Lopq & Twitter feed & Facebook & web pagqes * Tokyo Electric Power - press release updates • Japan Atomic Industrial Forum - status updates * World Nuclear News - several updates daily (use Facebook if server too busy) * Nuclear Energy Institute - updates on Japan's reactors Reuters - continuous live updates * BBC - continuous live news * NHK Japan TV in English - continuous updates on earthquake & tsunami tragedies plus nuclear news " Noriyuki Shikata, Director of Global Communications at Prime Minister's Office of Japan - Twitter Feed * USGS model of Japan earthquake with graphics * CDC radiation measurements fact sheet ------_ __ Updated News & Links Starting today March 15th updates to the blog will take place twice a day, once mid-morning, and again late afternoon Chicago time. Check for breaking news at the news links above or at Google News. The reason is the situation in Japan is evolving so quickly that it we think it will be more effective to do two summary level reports daily rather than overwhelm readers with too much information. Contacts Laura Scheele Outreach Department American Nuclear Society Ofc Tel: 708-579-8224 email: Ischeele~cans.org Dan Yurman Mobile Tel: (b)(6) Email: (b)(6) 2 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:06 AM To: Klein, Dale Subject: RE: anything you need from me? Running on about 1 hour sleep since yesterday. In a sick sense,lI am having fun .... But perhaps too much fun. Thanks for taking the interviews you have done. It's very difficult here with such small staff and so many people tied up for us to get out. Been talking my head off on the phone. eliot From: Klein, Dale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:16 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: anything you need from me? (b)(6) From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto: [email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:40 PM To: ([email protected]) Subject: anything you need from me? I e3u / -ýT ý From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:00 AM To: Howell, Linda Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: FW: Palo Verde drill? Importance: High Linda; Just wanted you to know that I'd brought Lara into contact with DHS. Thanks. Scott From: Burnell, Scott Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:59 AM To: 'Fiore, Craig'; Uselding, Lara Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Palo Verde drill? Importance: High Lara; Craig's the DHS media rep for the FEMA Reception and Care Center drill today at Palo Verde - please coordinate with him on division of responsibilities for answering questions, because I have very little doubt this is going to be misinterpreted the farther away from Palo Verde we get. Thanks. Scott From: Fiore, Craig [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:43 AM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Palo Verde drill? I am currently out of the office on official business and not scheduled to return until Monday, March 21, 2011. However, I will still be reasonably accessible because all email will be forwarded to my BlackBerry. Also, if you need to discuss something with me immediately, please feel free to call me on my BBerry at (202) 280-9303. Thank you and have a nice day. -Craig 1 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:07 AM To: Steven Dolley Subject: schematic Attachments: BWR Containment Bldg.pdf 1 $ L)/ 319 ý Typical BWR Mark I Containment From: Sheehan, Neil Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:02 AM To: Burnell, Scott Cc: Brenner, Eliot Subject: DO NOT RELEASE UNLESS AUTHORIZED: Press release on 50-mile evacuation Attachments: 50MilesPressRelease.11-048.pdf (b)(5) I $ ~/1~' From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, Marc:h 15, 2011 7:36 AM To: Shapiro, Niche)las S.; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Holdren, John P.; McDonough, Denis R.; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; Jaczko, Gregory; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Dar •iel R.; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: UPDATE -f (b)(5) (b)(5) Eliot From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailto (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:18 AM To: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Holdren, John P.; McDonough, Denis R.; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; Jaczko, Gregory; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: UPDATE "t (b)(5) (b)(5) From: Roos, John Allk-attached is the revised assessment by the NRC team referred to below. John John V. Roos U.S. Ambassador to Japan Tel: +81.(0)3.3224-5000 Email: [email protected] From: Roos, John Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:18 PM To: (b)(6) (b)(6) Subject: RE: UPDATE (b)(5) Please see below email, which I just sent, as to status of this situation. (b)(5) John John V. Roos U.S. Ambassador to Japan Tel: +81.(0)3.3224-5000 Email: [email protected] From: Hammer, Michael A PM Sent: TuesdaMarch 15, 2011 4:52 Tor (b)(6) (b)(6) Subject: Re: UPDATE I (b)(5) I + Jake for his SA From: Hammer, Michael A Sent: Ti,,dav March 1- ?n11 n:n AM To:l• (b)(6) (b)(6) Subject: Re:I (b)(5) 2 From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 03:00 AM To: (b)(6) (b)(6) Subject: Re: (b)(5) Hammer is having trouble sending emails, so I'm relaying what he told me. (b)(5) From: Holdren, John P. To: McDonough, Denis R.; '[email protected]' (b)(5) JOHN P. HOLDREN Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President of the United States emaill (b)(6) direct phonel (b)(6) assistant Karrie Pitze (b)(6) From: McDonough, Denis R. Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:17 AM To: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; 'Daniel. [email protected]'; Holdren, John P.; Brennan, John 0.; Donilon, Thomas E.; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; '[email protected]'; Reed, Richard A.; Bader, Jeffrey A.; Russel, Daniel R.; '[email protected]'; 'Eliot. [email protected]' Subject: (b)(5) (b)(5) 3 1) 2) 3) (b)(5) Thanks, Denis FINAL DRAFT STATEMENT In response to the serious worsening of the situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant that was briefed to the public by Japanese PM Kan, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy have reviewed the limited information made available by the Japanese government and other resources in Japan. Under our guidelines for public safety that would apply if this situation were occurring in the United States, residents would be advised as a precaution to evacuate to a distance of 50 miles (80.4km) from the affected reactors. We are recommending that American citizens who live within 50 miles (80.4km) of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant evacuate the area immediately. We want to underscore that there are numerous factors including weather, wind direction and speed, and the nature of the reactor problem that affect the risk of radioactive contamination within this 50 mile (80.4km) radius or the possibility of lower-level radioactive materials reaching greater distances. In addition, the fast moving situation at the Fukushima reactor site means that the level or risk and the affected areas may change. U.S. citizens in need of emergency assistance should send an e-mail to JapanEmergencyUSC(state.gov with detailed information about their location and contact information, and monitor the U.S. Department of State website at travel.state.gov. 4 From: EnergyGuardian Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Here are your energy and environment headlines for the morning of Tuesday, March 15, 2011: Analysis: Japanese crisis threatens U.S. nuclear expansion Newsmaker: Hastings says drilling, not reserves, key to gas prices Radiation levels rise as Japan fears full nuclear catastrophe Pepsi unveils soda bottle made from plants. Questions and Answers About the Japanese Nuclear Crisis House Democrats want to force GOP on record about climate science Alexander urges nuclear industry not to retreat after Japan catastrophe Reid urges oil companies to tap oil on currently leased lands Radiation leaks in Japan could persist for months Duke Energy offers Democrats $10 million line of credit for 2012 convention Gallup: Number of Americans worried about climate change falls to 1998 levels Number of 'green' buildings grows, LA tops EPA list Oil prices slide to $99 as concerns grow about Japan U.S. dealers worry about supply of hybrid Priuses Developing nations plow forward with nuclear expansion Chevron to pursue new drilling Buffett buys chemical firm for $9 billion 1 0(ý ý GOP accused of misleading on greenhouse rules, gas prices Daybook: Upcoming events Analysis: Japanese crisis threatens U.S. nuclear expansion By Edward Felker The expansion of nuclear power, until Friday, was the one clean energy solution that attracted bipartisan support. The pro-nuclear coalition, though never completely solid, includes President Barack Obama and a number of moderate Republicans and Democrats. That group was to be the core of any political breakthrough on a clean energy standard. Now that coalition, and the hoped-for United States "nuclear renaissance," is on the ropes. With the escalating nuclear disaster in Japan, Democrats who saw nuclear power as a way to address global warming now have to answer to liberals and environmental groups that have been skeptical about its safety. Meanwhile, Republicans who have called for dozens of new reactors must defend both nuclear's shaky economics and calm fears of a catastrophic accident that could affect the health of millions of people. It was easy enough to see the Chernobyl failure as the fault of the Soviet Union's lax safety. But the Japanese reactors, while old, are similar to 25 in the United States, and run by one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world. The Obama administration Monday carefully sidestepped calls for a moratorium on new nuclear power, stressing its aid to Japan in taming the crisis. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko certainly did not do much to vouch for any expansion. He said U.S. plants are designed to withstand earthquakes and tsunami waves, but presumably, so was the Fukushima Daiichi station. Energy Department Deputy Secretary Dan Poneman said Obama continues to support nuclear, but only to the extent it can be done safely-now an open question. Nuclear power was already facing a difficult road ahead in competing with low- priced natural gas, which is not as low-carbon as nuclear but still offers a greenhouse gas benefit compared to coal. Like the Deepwater Horizon blowout, the argument that disasters can be anticipated and prevented through technology no longer applies to nuclear. That can only translate to less public support and an even higher hurdle for the 2 industry to surmount if it wants to build new plants. Newsmaker: Hastings says drilling, not reserves, key to gas prices By Edward Felker House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings, R-Wash., tells EnergyGuardian that current oil market conditions don't warrant tapping the nation's reserves and that the best solution to rising gas prices is expanding domestic drilling. Hastings also said the United States needs to create the "gold standard for drilling safety," something he is confident can be done even if new areas like the Arctic are opened to exploration. And he signaled a willingness to consider more federal funds to hire safety inspectors if the Interior Department can show it will spend the money to speed permit approvals. "I don't doubt that additional funds will be needed to hire more inspectors, but we need to make certain that this money will be used to actually improve safety and resume offshore drilling. The goal should be to make this agency better and faster, not bigger and slower," he said in emailed answers to questions submitted by EnergyGuardian. Here is the full Q&A: EnergyGuardian: What's the best immediate action the Obama administration could take to address high gasoline prices? Should the president sell Strategic Petroleum Reserve stocks? Hastings: With gasoline prices rapidly rising to $4 per gallon, we must act now to increase production of our own American energy resources. This will lower prices and create American jobs. Unfortunately, since taking office, President Obama has repeatedly blocked access to our domestic resources. One of the most immediately steps that can be taken is to end the de facto moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, allow drilling to resume and put thousands of people back to work. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was created for national security emergencies, major supply shut-downs, cut-offs or disasters. That is not the situation we're currently in - Libya oil controls approximately 2 percent of world oil. Tapping the SPR may provide political relief. Instead, we should create jobs and lower prices by developing untapped reserves in the Gulf, Alaska, the Outer Continental Shelf and our public lands. EnergyGuardian: How satisfied are you that Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling can get back to pre-Macondo spill exploration levels without risking another uncontrolled blowout? Hastings: We need to ensure that U.S. offshore energy drilling is the safest in 3 the world. Without a doubt, we should be a gold standard for drilling safety. The Natural Resources Committee is hold hearings and examining what reforms have been made to ensure safety, put people back to work and allow responsible offshore drilling to resume. The oil spill was a terrible tragedy, but it should not be used as an excuse to further reduce America's access to our energy resources. I believe in American ingenuity and I know we can get this right. I have full confidence that America can drill safer than anyone else in the world and have robust offshore energy production to create American jobs and increase our energy security. EnergyGuardian: The Interior Department says it cannot speed up permit approvals without more money from the industry. Is that a fair argument, and if so, where should the money come from? If not, why? Hastings: The Obama Administration must end its de facto drilling moratorium in the Gulf and begin immediately issuing permits that will put people back to work. I don't doubt that additional funds will be needed to hire more inspectors, but we need to make certain that this money will be used to actually improve safety and resume offshore drilling. The goal should be to make this agency better and faster, not bigger and slower. I don't believe increased funding should be paid for by taxing American energy. This will cost jobs and increase prices. If you increase the cost of producing gasoline, you raise the price of gasoline at the pump. The last thing families and businesses need right now is for gasoline prices to climb even higher. EnergyGuardian: There is a lot of criticism about the Interior Department's "wild lands" policy. What is the biggest problem with the policy and what can Congress do? The Wilderness Act of 1964 gave Congress - and only Congress - the statutory authority to designate lands as Wilderness Areas. The Interior Department's new "Wild Lands" Order is an attempt to circumvent Congress and create de facto Wilderness. Wilderness is the most restrictive public lands designation and could limit or completely block recreational opportunities, ranching, farming, American energy development and other economic activities. This will cost jobs and harm our economy. It's deeply troubling that the Administration announced this order two days before Christmas last year without consulting Congress or local communities that would be impacted. The Natural Resources Committee has already held an oversight hearing on the policy, with testimony from Western Governors, county commissioners and the Administration. Incredibly, during that hearing, BLM Director Bob Abbey actually admitted that he lacked statutory authority to carry out the "wild lands" policy. This was just the first of several hearings that we plan to hold on this issue. Finally, H.R. 1, the House passed Continuing Resolution for Fiscal Year 2011, contained a provision that prohibited funds from going to BLM to implement the "wild lands" policy. EnergyGuardian: Interior has taken most offshore areas off the table in its next five year drilling plan. Would you expect the committee to act to reverse that approach when it gets the opportunity to review that plan? 4 Hastings: In 2008, when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, the public demanded increased American energy production. Both Congress and the President responded by lifting the offshore drilling moratorium. However, President Obama has systematically reinstated this ban - placing the entire Atlantic coast, the entire Pacific coast, the Eastern Gulf and part of Alaska off-limits to new energy production. Republicans are actively working on a number of legislative proposals that will be introduced very soon. One of the focuses will be increasing offshore energy production. Radiation levels rise as Japan fears full nuclear catastrophe By Eric Talmedge and Shina Yuaso SOMA, Japan (AP) - Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tuesday after an explosion and a fire dramatically escalated the crisis spawned by a deadly tsunami. In a nationally televised statement, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said radiation has spread from the four stricken reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant along Japan's northeastern coast. The region was shattered by Friday's 9.o-magnitude earthquake and the ensuing tsunami that is believed to have killed more than 1O,OOO people, plunged millions into misery and pummeled the world's third-largest economy. Japanese officials told the International Atomic Energy Agency that the reactor fire was in a storage pond and that "radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere." Long after the fire was extinguished, a Japanese official said the pool, where used nuclear fuel is kept cool, might be boiling. "We cannot deny the possibility of water boiling" in the pool, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with the economy ministry, which oversees nuclear safety. That reactor, Unit 4, had been shut down before the quake for maintenance. If the water boils, it could evaporate, exposing the rods. The fuel rods are encased in safety containers meant to prevent them from resuming nuclear reactions, nuclear officials said, downplaying the risk of that happening. But they acknowledged that there could have been damage to the containers. They also confirmed that the walls of the storage pool building were damaged. Though Kan and other officials urged calm, Tuesday's developments fueled a growing panic in Japan and around the world amid widespread uncertainty over what would happen next. In the worst case scenario, one or more of the reactor cores would completely melt down, a disaster that could spew large amounts of 5 radioactivity into the atmosphere. "I worry a lot about fallout," said Yuta Tadano, a 20-year-old pump technician at the Fukushima plant, who said he was in the complex when quake hit. "If we could see it we could escape, but we can't," he said, cradling his 4-month- old baby, Shoma, at an evacuation center. The radiation fears added to the catastrophe that has been unfolding in Japan, where at least lo,ooo people are believed to have been killed and millions of people have spent four nights with little food, water or heating in near-freezing temperatures as they dealt with the loss of homes and loved ones. Up to 450,000 people are in temporary shelters. Pepsi unveils soda bottle made from plants The Associated Press Remember the Cola Wars? Get ready for the Bottle Wars. PepsiCo Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a bottle made entirely of plant material, which it says bests the technology of competitor Coca-Cola and reduces its potential carbon footprint. The bottle is made from switch grass, pine bark, corn husks and other materials. Ultimately, Pepsi plans to also use orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps and other leftovers from its food business. The new bottle looks, feels and protects the drink inside exactly the same as its current bottles, Papalia said. "It's indistinguishable." PepsiCo says it is the world's first bottle of a common type of plastic called PET made entirely of plant-based materials. Coca-Cola Co. currently produces a bottle using 30 percent plant-based materials and recently estimated it would be several years before it has a loo percent plant bottle that's commercially viable. "We've cracked the code," said Rocco Papalia, senior vice president of advanced research of PepsiCo. The discovery potentially changes the industry standard for plastic packaging. Traditional. plastic, called PET, is used in beverage bottles, food pouches, coatings and other common products. The plastic is the go-to because it's lightweight and shatter-resistant, its safety is well-researched and it doesn't affect flavors. It is not biodegradable or compostable. But it is fully recyclable, a characteristic both companies maintain 6 in their new creations. Traditional PET plastic is made using fossil fuels, like petroleum, a limited resource that's rising in price. By using plant material instead, companies reduce their environmental impact. Pepsi says the new plastic will cost about the same as traditional plastic. Questions and Answers About the Japanese Nuclear Crisis By The Associated Press The nuclear crisis in Japan has developed rapidly on many fronts, making it difficult to track the threads. What are the dangers? Will the situation improve? Can the reactors be cooled? The crisis began Friday when a magnitude-8.9 earthquake and tsunami cut off regular electricity to the oldest unit at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, 170 miles (270 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo. Since then more reactors - at more nuclear sites - have lost at least some cooling ability, increasing concerns about possible meltdowns. Some questions and answers about the crisis in Japan: Q: What is the status of nuclear reactors as of Monday? A: There are nine units under states of emergency - three at Fukushima Dai- ichi, three at Fukushima Daini and three at Onagawa. All are north-northeast of Tokyo, along the eastern coast, and all are boiling water reactors. The other three reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., were shut before the earthquake. A fourth reactor at Tokyo Electric's Daini site appears fine. There are only three units at the Onagawa facility, owned by Tohoku Electric Power Co. Most concern has been directed at Dai-ichi units 1, 2 and 3. Q: What are the worries? A: At Unit 1, which began operating in 1971, workers are trying to prevent a meltdown, complicated by the fact that a need to release a pressure buildup in the reactor vessel led to a hydrogen explosion that blew off the roof and walls of the containment building. Officials say the reactor vessel is intact, but worry about the overheated uranium fuel. In a desperate move, officials have piped large amounts of seawater into the reactor vessel to try cooling the severely overheated uranium core. On Monday, a hydrogen explosion also hit Unit 3. It was not immediately clear how much, if any, radiation was released. Officials were using seawater to cool 7 the unit, where they believe there has been a partial meltdown. Shortly after Monday's explosion, Tokyo Electric warned it had lost the ability to cool Fukushima Dai-ichi's Unit 2. Hours later, the company said fuel rods in that reactor were fully exposed, at least twice. As with the other troubled reactors, the key is to cool the nuclear fuel by circulating new cool water around the fuel rods. If the rods are fully exposed, that increases the temperature of the rods and could hasten the path to complete meltdown. The company was trying to channel sea water into the reactor to cover the rods, cool them down and prevent another explosion at the stricken plant. Q: What is the significance of using seawater? A: With so many equipment failures, plant operators face challenges using mobile generators powered by batteries. They also need a dependable high- volume water source. The Pacific Ocean solves the supply problem. But using it assures that these very expensive reactors will never be used again to generate power. The salty sea water, accompanied by a boron mix, is very corrosive. Q: What is the situation at the nearby Fukushima Daini facility? A: Japanese officials say units 1, 2 and 4 retained offsite power after the earthquake and tsunami, but were experiencing increased pressure inside their containment vessels and equipment failures. As a result, plant operators vented steam at each unit and were considering additional venting to alleviate pressure increases. Q: And now there are concerns about a third complex? A: Yes, as of late Sunday, there are states of emergency at each of the three reactors at the Onagawa nuclear site. Officials have said only they've detected higher than permitted radiation levels there. Q: Has radiation already escaped from any of the other reactor sites? A: An official from Japan's Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency said Saturday that a small amount of radioactive cesium was detected outside Fukushima Dai- ichi Unit 1 the day before. That would have been before the containment building explosion, but after some venting of steam had occurred. The official said the presence of cesium did not necessarily indicate a partial meltdown; he said it could have been from a mechanical failure. Q: Any indications of radiation exposure to humans yet? A: Of the more than 18o,ooo people evacuated from around the two Fukushima complexes, up to 16o may have been exposed. And at one point, officials said 8 the radiation detected outside the Dai-ichi Unit 1 in a one-hour period represented the allowed rate for an entire year. Q: Exactly what is a meltdown, and why is it potentially dangerous? A: A meltdown occurs when a reactor's radioactive core, which holds its uranium fuel, gets so hot that it begins to melt. A complete meltdown can breach a reactor's steel pressure vessel and other protective barriers - and spread radioactive byproducts like iodine and cesium into the surroundings. That endangers the environment and nearby residents. However, a reactor will not explode like an atomic bomb. Q: What steps can be taken to prevent a meltdown? A: The immediate key is reducing temperatures in all the reactor vessels. Another critical goal would be restoring regular electrical power. Q: Why did the containment building at Dai-ichi Unit 1 explode? A: When officials decided to vent steam from the reactor vessel to reduce the pressure, the hydrogen in the steam interacted with available oxygen. They knew it could cause a blast, but felt they had no choice. If the pressure kept building, the reactor vessel could have exploded, likely starting a meltdown scenario. Q: How likely is it that one or more total meltdowns will occur? A: That is very difficult to predict without detailed real-time measurements from inside the nuclear facilities. But admissions from Japanese officials that a partial meltdown may have already occurred are troubling. Q: Why was the official announcement made late Sunday about something that occurred Friday? A: Officials in Japan have been slow to provide information about the status of the nuclear plants. (There are 55 reactors on 17 sites throughout the country. Japan gets one-third of its electricity from nuclear plants.) The belated disclosures are often clouded in generalities. At times, new information has been available sooner from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The UN organization posts updates at www.facebook.com/iaea.org Q: How long will the crisis last? A: One expert said cooling down all the reactors will "take days, not hours." But even if circumstances improve, conditions can still turn negative again. Q: How about personal health danger? A: Exposure to radioactive iodine released in a nuclear power accident can 9 cause thyroid cancer. Q: Is there a way to protect against the effects of radiation exposure? A: Potassium iodide pills can help prevent thyroid cancer. Q: So what is the worst-case scenario? A: The attempts to cool the reactors fail, resulting in meltdowns and widespread radioactive contamination. If that occurs, everyone will be hoping the wind blows east, into the Pacific, as it usually does. Q: The best-case? A: Officials gain complete control of the temperature and pressure at the troubled reactors; then conditions will need to improve enough so it will be safe for workers to get close to assess the damage and restore normalcy. House Democrats want to force GOP on record about climate science House Democrats want to put Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans on the record about whether they believe in human-induced global warming as part of the vote on blocking federal regulation of greenhouse gases, The Hill reports. Read more Alexander urges nuclear industry not to retreat after Japan catastrophe Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said Monday said the U.S. should not abandon the use of nuclear power in the wake of the tragedy in Japan, and instead should incorporate the safety lessons learned from the crisis, The Hill reports. Read more Reid urges oil companies to tap oil on currently leased lands Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday urged oil companies seeking 10 expanded offshore drilling to first tap oil on the 60 million acres of land where they have lease rights but no exploration ongoing. "The U.S. oil industry has access to more than 60 million acres of federal land and water that they have not taken action to put into production," Reid's office said in a statement. Read more Radiation leaks in Japan could persist for months Experts tell The New York Times that radiation releases from the crippled nuclear plants in Japan could go on for weeks or months. Read more Duke Energy offers Democrats $10 million line of credit for 2012 convention Duke Energy, which is leading fundraising efforts for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., is also guaranteeing the party a $10 million line of credit, Politico reports. Read more Gallup: Number of Americans worried about climate change falls to 1998 levels A new Gallup poll finds that the number of Americans who are worried about global warming has fallen to nearly the historic low reached in 1998, AFP reports. Read more Number of 'green' buildings grows, LA tops EPA list More than 12,600 commercial properties in the United States now meet the Environmental Protection Agency's standards as Energy Star buildings, and for a third consecutive year Los Angeles tops the agency's list of cities with the most 11 energy efficient building, GreenBiz.com reports. Read more Oil prices slide to $99 as concerns grow about Japan Oil prices slid to near $99 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as traders fled risky investments after a third explosion in three days at an earthquake-damaged Japanese nuclear plant triggered a radiation leak, The Associated Press reports. Read more U.S. dealers worry about supply of hybrid Priuses Toyota dealers in the United States are growing concerned about the tight supply of Prius hybrids and the auto maker's ability to produce the popular cars in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week, The Wall Street Journal reports. Read more Developing nations plow forward with nuclear expansion For now, big developing nations like India and China are signaling they will continue to invest in nuclear power even as Japan suffers from the world's worst nuclear accident in a quarter century, The New York Times reports. Read more Chevron to pursue new drilling Chevron plans to increase drilling for unconventional gas and oil reserves in the U.S. and elsewhere, raising total production about one percent in 2o11, The Wall Street Journal reports. Read more 12 Buffett buys chemical firm for $9 billion Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is spending about $9 billion to add specialty chemical maker Lubrizol to its mix of businesses, The Associated Press reports. Read more GOP accused of misleading on greenhouse rules, gas prices Politifact, the Pulitzer-winning truth-watching service, concludes that Republican Reps. Fred Upton and Ed Whitfield misled the public when they claimed their bill to thwart greenhouse gas regulations would prevent gas prices from increasing. 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See all stories on this topic • This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. 1 U)q From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:17 AM To: Batkin, Joshua Subject: call my cell, not urgent v/i '3C From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:32 AM To: Burnell, Scott; Sheehan, Neil; Brenner, Eliot Subject: need a press release correction This is a minor thing. We had 2 people on the ground in Tokyo. Our release said we sent 8 more for a total of 10 on Monday. I MADE A MISTAKE and did not count John Moninger in there. We need to correct the release to say there was a ninth individual among the group that traveled on Monday, making the total NRC presence in Japan, once all arrive, 11 rather than 10. Eliot Brenner Director, Office of Public Affairs Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, Md. 0: 301-415-8200 C:1 (b)(6) I 5 0 1 3eAl'- From: Couret, Ivonne Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:20 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]'; Uselding, Lara Subject: Re: License renewals Vy this week next actual issuance palo verde april 20ish non in between. Sent from an NRC BlackBerry Ivonne L. Couret (b)(6) 7 Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot To: [email protected] I had that handy yesterday. But in the crisis it has been misplaced. Ivonne???? Can you help? ---- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:55 PM To: Uselding, Lara; Brenner, Eliot Subject: Fw: License renewals I got Victor's out of office message. Any insight into our query? Thanks Terry Original----- Message ----- From: Young, Terry E Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 08:46 PM To: '[email protected]' Victor Do you know who is next in line for the granting of a license renewal approval? Our schedule is calling for an official decision in mid-April. Is there anyone in the cue ahead of us? Just trying to anticipate the media coverage that will likely ensue around whoever is next up. The situation in Japan continues to degrade. I never thought I would see this in my career. It's obviously a defining moment in our industry's history. Thanks Terry 2 From: Google Alerts News I new result for jaczko Hawaii radiation levels normal; feds say threat here low Honolulu Star-Advertiser Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Greg Jaczko said in a briefing at the White House today that there is a low probability of harmful radiation making its way to Hawaii based on the nature of the Japanese reactors and the large distances involved. See all stories on this topic ) Tip: Use a minus sign (-) in front of terms in your query that you want to exclude. Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. 1 eb2u13 q / I From: Google Alerts News 2 new results for DOE nuclear loan guarantees Japan Disaster Raises US Nuclear Question Bond Buyer MEAG also has been granted $1.8 billion in federal loan guarantees for the project from the US Department of Energy. The project is the first nuclear project to get the go-ahead in the US since the 1980s, when large cost overruns plagued the industry. See all stories on this topic > Japan quake causes nations to reconsider nuclear power plants The Tennessean He also noted that the Obana administration, which has proposed $36 billion in loan guarantees for utilities to build nuclear reactors, wasn't wavering in its support. TVA has been leading the way nationally in an effort to build more nuclear reactors... See all stories on this topic > Tip: Use a minus sign (-) in front of terms in your query that you want to exclude. Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Mana.ge your alerts. eýull 3 9 S_ 1 From: Google Alerts News 2 new results for jaczko At Japanese nuclear plant, a battle to contain radiation USA Today At the White House on Monday, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Greg Jaczko said, "We see a very low likelihood that there's any possibility of harmful radiation levels in the United States or in Hawaii." The commission sent two reactor experts to ... See all stories on this topic » Fermi like 1 stricken Japan plant Toledo Blade The agency said its only comments about the Japan crisis Monday would be some remarks NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko made to the White House press corps during an afternoon briefing. According to the transcript, Mr. Jaczko acknowledged Japan is dealing ... See all stories on this topic >» Tip: Use site restrict in your query to search within a site (site:nytimes.com or site:.edu). Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manaqge your alerts. 1 /3,%J) 3 q IV From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:02 AM To: Sheehan, Neil Subject: Draft press release Attachments: 11-049-50 MILES.docx 1 1,3 v13 qT From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:56 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; [email protected]; Shapiro, Nicholas S.; [email protected] Subject: RE: draft NRC press release I will change the headline. Sorry forgot to do that. From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:54 AM To: '[email protected]'; 'Shapiro, Nicholas S.'; '[email protected]' Subject: draft NRC press release Is attached. When you are ready to pull the trigger, call 301-816-5107. I may not be at the desk .... but NRC staffer Neil Sheehan will be here and prepared to order our material released. Eliot 4ee ./P NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-000 1 E-mail: opa.resourceenrc.gov Site: www.nrc.p.ov Blog: http://]ublic-blog.nrc-gateway.gov No. 11-049 March 14, 2011 DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT (b)(5) News releases are available through a free listserv subscription at the following Web address: htt2://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/listserver.html. The NRC homepage at www.nrc.gov also offers a SUBSCRIBE link. E-mail notifications are sent to subscribers when news releases are posted to NRC's website. From: Google Alerts Blogs 1 new result for "eliot brenner" NRC Chairman Addresses Media Today < U.S. NRC Blog By Moderator One plume model in particular is especially egregious and totally bogus. We urge you to continue to seek information from credible sources, including the NRC and other federal agencies. Eliot Brenner. Public Affairs Director ... U.S. NRC Blog - htnp:/!public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/ Tip: Use quotes ("like this") around a set of words in your query to match them exactly. Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. 1 eeo-U / ý'i q From: Hayden, Elizabeth Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:39 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: important info for you Give me the word and I will come home whenever you say to. From: Brenner, Eliot To: Hayden, Elizabeth Sent: Tue Mar 15 01:54:03 2011 Subject: important info for you (b)(5) Eliot From: Hayden, Elizabeth Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:26 AM To: Brenner, Eliot; Harrington, Holly; Burnell, Scott; McIntyre, David Subject: Fw: EXAMPLE OF REQUEST: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant Just saw this e-mail re JMeserve's request. It may be too late for her report but it is useful for future inquiries. From: Stutzke, Martin To: Ake, Jon; Kammerer, Annie; Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Bumell, Scott; Manoly, Kamal; Munson, Clifford; Chokshi, Nilesh Sent: Mon Mar 14 15:20:33 2011 Subject: RE: EXAMPLE OF REQUEST: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant It's misleading to say that the GI-1 99 Safety/Risk Assessment determined which plants were OK and which were not. The purpose of the assessment was to determine, on a generic basis, if the risk associated with increased seismic hazard estimates in the Central and Eastern US (CEUS) warrants further investigation for potential imposition of cost-justified backfits. We determined that the seismic core-damage frequencies for 27 plants had increased by 1E-5/y or more, relative to what we thought upon conclusion of the Individual Plant Examination of External Events (Generic Letter 88-20, Supplement 4). This finding is the basis for continuing GI-199 and transitioning it to NRR for development of a generic letter that will request information needed to identify potential plant-specific backfits. We presented a map that showed the locations of the 27 plants in the G1-199 "continue zone" during a public meeting held October 6, 2010 (see Slide #25 in ML102770665). The GI-199 Safety/Risk Assessment (ML100270582) is also publically available. It does not specifically identify the 27 plants, but contains information in appendices that could be used to figure out which CEUS plants are in the "continue zone." Marty From: Ake, Jon Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:08 PM To: Kammerer, Annie; Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Burnell, Scott; Manoly, Kamal; Munson, Clifford; Stutzke, Martin; Chokshi, Nilesh Subject: RE: EXAMPLE OF REQUEST: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant As Annie has pointed out, all 96 operating reactors in the Central and Eastern U.S. were evaluated as part of the GI-199 assessment. Currently a Generic Letter is being prepared requesting additional seismic and plant- specific information, that letter will be sent to all NPP licensees in the CEUS. It is important to note that the Generic Letter has not yet been finalized, the specific information requests are being developed and reviewed internally. So, at this time we are unable to state exactly what path (analysis, back-fit etc.) a particular plant may follow as a result of the Generic Letter. Kamal, Marty, Cliff- Is this an accurate representation of our current path? From: Kammerer, Annie Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:53 AM To: Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Burnell, Scott; Ake, Jon Subject: RE: EXAMPLE OF REQUEST: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant The list that was analyzed was basically everything in the CEUS. I don't think we made the list of which plants were OK and which not public due to too much uncertainty. Jon Ake would know. Jon, can you answer? Did we make the list of plant names and which screened in public? From: Hayden, Elizabeth Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:48 PM To: Kammerer, Annie Cc: Burnell, Scott Subject: RE: EXAMPLE OF REQUEST: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant Is the list of plants that were analyzed and those found problematic public? Beth Hayden Senior Advisor Office of Public Affairs U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - ProtectingPeople and the Environment 301-415-8202 [email protected] From: Kammerer, Annie Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:24 PM To: Hayden, Elizabeth Cc: Burnell, Scott Subject: RE: EXAMPLE OF REQUEST: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant Yes. Wolf Creek was analyzed as part of GI-199. It was not one of the plants that the NRC identified as problematic (i.e. staff believes this plant still has adequate margin given the latest ground shaking 2 estimates). However, due to uncertainties in the data available to our staff, we will be sending a letter to all US plants in the central and eastern US. I hope this helps. From: Hayden, Elizabeth Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:18 PM To: Kammerer, Annie Cc: Burnell, Scott Subject: FW: EXAMPLE OF REQUEST: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant Annie, Can you help with this question we received from a reporter? Also, can you verify whether Wolf Creek is one of the plants evaluated in GSI-1 99? Beth Hayden Senior Advisor Office of Public Affairs U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- ProtectingPeople and the Environment 301.-415-8202 [email protected] From: Uselding, Lara Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:10 PM To: Hayden, Elizabeth; Screnci, Diane Subject: EXAMPLE OF REQUEST: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:08 PM To: Uselding, Lara Subject: Earthquake plans/reports/risk analysis for San Onofre nuclear power plant Lara, I am trying to track down any documents on file with the NRC concerning the risk of earthquakes occurring near the San Onofre nuclear plant north of San Diego. I am particularly interested in emergency plans, analysis of the risks faced by the plant from earthquakes and predictions of the types of damage and dangers that could be created by earthquake damage to the plant. I'm also interested in documents looking at the risk and dangers posed by tsunamis to the plant. Can you tell me if these types of documents exist and when I might be able to get them? I am trying to turn a story around on this topic for tomorrow's (Tuesday's) edition of the paper. Thanks, Keith Keith Darck Biotechnology writer The San Diego Union-Tribune [email protected] 619.293.1020 www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotechI Follow me on Twitter at KeithDarce 3 From: Google Alerts News 2 new results for DOE nuclear loan guarantees Japan's disaster chills plan for Texas nuclear plant Houston Chronicle Loan guarantees had moved forward within the Department of Energy. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's environmental review found no impacts that would preclude it from issuing a license for construction and operation. Talks with CPS spurred hope that ... See all stories on this topic >> Japan's nuke threat 'a wake-up call' for the US USA Today Southern CEO Tom Fanning said Monday that his company does not expect any delays in the project, which would rely on $8 billion in federal loan guarantees backed by the Obama administration. Officials at the Nuclear Regulatory USA Today Commission,... See all stories on this topic » This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manacge your alerts. 1 Zý k)Af 6 1 From: McDonough, Denis R. <1 (b)(6)> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:09 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Jaczko, Gregory; Brenner, Eliot; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Timing of statements + ZUMWALT Guys, I am turning in. Will be back on line in about 3 hours. And always reachable through Sit Room. Hang in. Denis. Original----- Message---- From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:07 AM To: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' Cc: McDonough, Denis R. Subject: Re: Timing of statements With eliot too Original----- Message ----- From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. To: '[email protected]' (b)(5) 1 From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:31 AM To: Digest Recipients Subject: [DH] Digest for [email protected] - 25 Messages in 17 Topics Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/downhold/topics * computer [4 Updates] * state of the art. or something [I Update] * Japan nuke situation growing worse [1 Update] * Arab call for no-fly zone... [1 Update] * hand signal [1 Update] * Amazing photos from Japan [2 Updates] • Barbara Frye recalled in TA [2 Updates] * Barbara Frye [I Update] * Fw: Breaking News: Arab League endorses Libyan no-fly zone [1 Update] * Roger Tatarian, George Southworth [3 Updates] • Susan, Pye and the iguanas [1 Update] * UPI March [1 Update] * AP Mobile News story - Calif. port town attracts tsunamis: 34 since '34 [1 Update] * Fw: [DH] UPI March [1 Update] * Henry Minott background [2 Updates] * sing [1 Update] * Rape story criticism [1 Update] Topic: computer "Dave Rosso" (b)(6) Mar 14 08:23PM -0700 A Allan Papkin, Having strange computer problems. Mouse stops working. Not wireless; hooked up by USB. Can't check to see if keyboard operates during this outage because I can't move anything to get to a blank screen to try the keyboard. Then the keyboard will go out. Mouse works, but keyboard just quits. Keyboard is wireless. In both cases, if I turn the computer off and leave it off for a few minutes and then turn it back on, both mouse and keyboard resume operating. When the mouse quit last time, I noticed that the clock in the comer continued to keep time. Therefore, I do not think it is a computer freeze as suggested by our computer tech from whom we bought the computer. I 3/4o Any ideas? Rosso-wa Kearney Bothwell (b)(6) Mar 14 08:32PM -0700 A Mac or Windows computer? On Mar 14, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Dave Rosso wrote: "Dave Rosso" (b)(6) Mar 14 09:04PM -0700 A Windows From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kearney Bothwell Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DH] computer Mac or Windows computer? On Mar 14, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Dave Rosso wrote: Allan Papkin, Having strange computer problems. Mouse stops working. Not wireless; hooked up by USB. Can't check to see if keyboard operates during this outage because I can't move anything to get to a blank screen to try the keyboard. Then the keyboard will go out. Mouse works, but keyboard just quits. Keyboard is wireless. In both cases, if I turn the computer off and leave it off for a few minutes 2 and then turn it back on, both mouse and keyboard resume operating. When the mouse quit last time, I noticed that the clock in the comer continued to keep time. Therefore, I do not think it is a computer freeze as suggested by our computer tech from whom we bought the computer. Any ideas? Rosso-wa Kearney Bothwell (b)(6) Mar 14 10:26PM -0700 A Sorry, can't help. If it were a Mac it would be a problem with the USB bus best solved by unplugging the USB printer. On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:04 PM, Dave Rosso wrote: Topic: state of the art. or somethingq "Dave Rosso" _ (b)(6) Mar 14 09:12PM -0700 A I have just read this report and taken notes for a speech I am giving on the 26th about the future of the media and news gathering. I am going to try to have a sit-down with our publisher to get some numbers on how much it costs to put out a newspaper - printing press operation and maintenance, oil, electricity, crew, paper, bundlers, trucks, gas, oil, tires, drivers, deliverers, etc etc etc - as opposed to a tech sitting in an office and pushing a button to send the day's news on a computer to all of our subscribers to their computers, laptops, twitters, ipods, whatevers. This report has some very interesting numbers and I will use them at the conclusion of my speech, which will deal with how we did things at UPI with a big staff all around the world. Would love some input from my former colleagus. Rosso-wa BC-US--State of Journalism,0148 Report: Internet usage transforming news industry Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated. NEW YORK (AP) - A new report says the rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the Internet the destination of choice for consumers looking for news. The Project for Excellence in Journalism said Monday that local, network and cable television news, newspapers, radio and magazines all lost audience in 2010. But in its eight annual State of the News Media survey, the project says news consumption online 3 increased 17 percent last year over the year before. The percentage of people who say they get news online at least three times a week surpassed newspapers for the first time. Project director Tom Rosenstiel says only local TV news was a more popular news platform. The report says the percentage of people who say they got most of their national and international news on the Internet in December was more than double what it was the year before. (Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) Topic: Japan nuke situation .qrowincq worse Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 14 10:27PM -0400 A watched the PM on NHK.. extending the evac zone Breaking News Alert The New York Times Mon, March 14, 2011 -- 10:11 PMET Japan Faces Prospect of Nuclear Catastrophe as Employees Leave Plant Japan faced the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear accident Tuesday morning, as an explosion at the most crippled of three reactors at the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station damaged its crucial steel containment structure, emergency workers were withdrawn from the plant, and much larger emissions of radioactive materials appeared imminent, according to official statements and industry executives informed about the developments. Prime Minsiter Naoto Kan of Japan was preparing to make a televised address to the nation at 11 a.m. Tokyo time. The sharp deterioration came after government officials said the containment structure of the No. 2 reactor, the most seriously damaged of three reactors at the Daichi plant, had suffered damage during an explosion shorly after 6 a.m. on Tuesday. Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/asia/I 5nuclear.html?emc=na 4 About This E-Mail You received this message because you are signed up to receive breaking news alerts from NYTimes.com. To unsubscribe, change your e-mail address or to sign up for daily headlines or other newsletters, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/email NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Ave. New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2011 The New York Times Company tf .. via wireless Sidekick tf .. via wireless Sidekick Topic: Arab call for no-fly zone.. . "R. E. Stannard Jr." (b)(6) Mar 14 07:01PM -0700 A Who better than the current military rilers of Egypt, surfing the Tahrir tide, and in need of popular credibility as agents of modem change. According to Wikipedia,* The Egyptian Air Force or EAF (planes and pilot training) is considered to be the strongest in Africa and one of the strongest in the Middle East. Currently,it reports, the backbone of the EAF is the F-16. The Mirage 2000 is the other modem interceptor used by the EA. The Egyptian Air Force has 216 F- 16s (plus 20 on order) making it the 4th largest operator of the F- 16 in the World -- after the United States, Israel, and Pakistan. It has about 579 combat aircraft and 149 armed helicopters as it continues to fly extensively upgraded MiG-21 s, F-7 Skybolts, F-4 Phantoms, Dassault Mirage Vs, and the C-130 Hercules among other planes. The United States of America provides annual military assistance to Egypt which amounted to US$1.3 billion in 2009 (inflation adjusted US$ 1.33 billion in 2011).] This level is second only to Israel. [*htt:/en.wikipedia.or~wiki/Eavptian Armed Forces#Foreign military assistancel Let us note too that Egypt has the longest common land border with Libya,some very large armed forces, and is admirably positioned to launder any arms aid to the anti-Moamar Libyans from powers 5 abroad. Moreover Amr Mohammed Moussa, 74, who resigned as Arab League Secretary-General last month (served 2001-2011), and served before that as foreign minister 1991-2001 and Egyptian UN representative 1990-1991, is now among leading prospective candidates for president of Egypt. Egypt, more than any other Arab power, could back the Libyan revolution without risking Arab standing, and it would likely be popular with current Egyptian sentiment. Of course the Saudis have no love for the political tsunami generated by the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, but don't believe they care much for the Libyan tinpot either. I defer to better analysts of Middle East politics than I will ever be, but if Egypt wants to establish its capacity to lead in the Middle East, picking up the Arab League rallying cry seems to offer notable potential advantages. tedstannard/UP15969sxasiaun Topic: hand signal Susan DeLong "7 (b)(6) Mar 15 12:12PM +1100 A .I FYI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand signals Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia From (b)(6) To: downnoiaggoogtegroups.com Subject: [DH] hand signal Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:00:14 +0000 was driving home this morning and there was a red pontiac in front of me. the driver had his arm hanging out the window and i thought he smoking and didn't want to stink up the interior, as we neared an intersection he raised his arm and pointed left. at first i wondered what the hell he was doing until it dawned on me: he was signaling a left turn! 6 there he was, the rare driver who knows his brake lights and turn signals don't work and was compensating to avoid being rear-ended (he wouldn't have been because i don't tail-gate). hadn't seen a manual turn signal in 60 years. Jeffrey C. Reynolds Topic: Amazing .photos from Japan gary haynes from ghaynes - check this out. Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:00pm AEDT Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses. Hover over each satellite photo to view the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami. >> upon each other; move your mouse over each image from side to side >> and prepare for a shock. >> http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/iapan-quake-2011 i/beforeafter.htm Development: Andrew Kesper Source: Google Susan DeLong (b)(6) Mar 15 12:03PM +1100 A God! The awesome poser of nature. Hope they learn from this not to rebuild where they risk flooding from tsunamis. You see what an affluent society was wiped out. Sea views, swimming pools, large houses with gardens. Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia Topic: Barbara Frye recalled in TA Jeffrey Reynolds MarM(b)(6) 14 07:46PM A ron - you're right, of course. i had an advantage when i joined UPI because when i worked at the (south 7 florida) sun-sentinel the courier who took. our copy from pompano beach to the desk in fort lauderdale quit at 5p and after that we had to pinky-punch on the teletype to the desk. with no editor watching it was easy to slip into the habit of tape-writing so you could home, or wherever, faster. but as a mh staffer pulling his hair out waiting to get wire time on the south leg, barb could be maddening. she never took a note she didn't use. her routine xgr stories ran at least 500 words. that was a lot of words in those days. billc would probably agree that barb was a born marketing person. she would quote every lawmaker on any subject as long as he - there weren't too many xgr women then - had a upi client in his district - florida had a lot of clients then - even if the quote was inane, non-germane or otherwise just plain dumb. it is also one reason her stories were so long. but she was a nice lady and a real pro. Jeffrey C. Reynolds I loved Barbara Frye ... she deserved every accolade ever thrown her way. But in the Google item Foty referred us to she was lionized for composing her stories right on the teletype machine, and I would be willing to bet that skill was duplicated many times over among her fellow Unipressers -- especially those of us who populated the one-person bureaux! Ron "Toby Smith" Original----- Message ----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Reynolds Sent: Monday, March 14, 20113:46 PM To: downhold Subject: RE: [DH] Barbara Frye recalled in TA ron - you're right, of course. i had an advantage when i joined UPI because 8 when i worked at the (south florida) sun-sentinel the courier who took our copy from pompano beach to the desk in fort lauderdale quit at 5p and after that we had to pinky-punch on the teletype to the desk. with no editor watching it was easy to slip into the habit of tape-writing so you could home, or wherever, faster. but as a mh staffer pulling his hair out waiting to get wire time on the south leg, barb could be maddening. she never took a note she didn't use. her routine xgr stories ran at least 500 words. that was a lot of words in those days. Topic: Barbara Frye (b)(6) Mar 14 08:53PM -0400 A Ronco I'm the last active reporter in Tallahassee who worked for or with Barbara. Her legend lives on among a dwindling number of retired reporters and lobbyists who knew her. She was totally dedicated to the news and beating the co-op. There were papers in Florida who took the wire only because of Barbara and cancelled when she was forced out by illness (which coincided with UPI's decline in the early 80s anyway). I worked here 1969-74 before going to Atlanta for 10 years. You mention writing stories directly on the TTY keyboard, well, Barbara was a past master. Only she never learned to read tape. I even punched an A-B-C for her, labelled the hole patterns and tacked it up beside the teletype, but she never learned. She'd call me or the other reporter over and say, "Where does it say, 'Gov. Bob Graham said...." and we'd roll back to that point and erase so she could start a paragraph again. Sometimes she'd pause the wire and everybody in Florida could wait while BLF got caught up. When we switched to computers, I was told in Atlanta that they told Barbara about the o. and op priorities and maybe the m. priority, but nothing higher, because they were afraid she'd hiball everything out with an mp or urgent priority, if she knew those priorities would bump her stories ahead in the queue. One of the TA staffers told me she was very hurt when she found out there were priorities higher than m. I got used to answering the phone and hearing some former governor or US Senator or other bigshot calling Mrs. Frye. She knew em all when they were rookies. One time, UPI did a two-page magazine promo in E&P with Barbara sitting on a park bench in front of the Fla Capitol and Merriman Smith on a bench in I guess Lafayette Park with the WH in the background, copy talked about our experienced folks. In the 1972 presidential primary, Barbara told me she was undecided between George Wallace and Shirley Chisholm. She admired Wallace's kick-ass attitude but couldn't forgive his "segregation forever" speech. She liked Chisholm for saying she had experienced more discrimination for being a woman than for being black. I think she wound up voting for Hubert Humphrey and then probably Nixon in November. One last BLF story. She could be demanding. One time we had a laconic Texan who was kind of like Gary Cooper and for some reason he went and got circumcised at about the age of 35. I drove him from the doctor's office and he was walking kind of gingerly at work that day. Barbara kept goading him, as it was a busy day, and she'd say, "What's the matter with you Lowell, you move like an old man." Finally, mid-afternoon, he came over to me and calmly said, "You know, Willie, if that woman asks me one more time why I'm movin' so slow, I'm gonna whip it out and show her." 9 Which didn't happen. bc/ta Topic: Fw: Breaking News: Arab League endorses Libyan no-fly zone Susan DeLong I (b)(6) Mar 15 11:50AM +1100 -" Sometimes it is too confusing. Are the protesters good young people who have the right to freedom of expression and all the other freedoms we enjoy in the west. Or once they depose, if indeed they can depose the hated rulers, will they revert to being fundamentalist Muslims west haters who will deny the west a drop of oil? The Arabs must be lazy bastards because they haven't lifted a finger to help their brethren in Kosovo. They seem to prefer that others do their fighting and all the heavy lifting. No way the Saudis want to see protesters winning. Just saw they sent 1000 troops to Bahrain. Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:03:38 -0700 From:[ (b)(6) Subject: RE: [DH] Fw: Breaking News: Arab League endorses Libyan no-fly zone To: [email protected] Yeah! Others swire are a bit more skeptical, cynical about such a prospect. But what the hell! If I can't wish, what CAN I do?! 73 tony/nix .... On Sun, 3/13/11, Susan DeLong (b)(6) wrote: From: Susan DeLong (b)(6) Subject: RE: [DH] Fw: Breaking News: Arab League endorses Libyan no-fly zone To: "downhold downhold" From your lips/keyboard, to King/sultan whatever, the rich guys wearing the sheets, ears. Susan Bray DeLong Mudgee NSW Australia 10 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:43:07 -0700 From: (b)(6) Subject: [DH] Fw: Breaking News: Arab League endorses Libyan no-fly zone To: [email protected] Topic: Roger Tatarian, George Southworth (b)(6) Mar 14 02:22PM -0700 A Not long ago a couple DH'ers mentioned George Southworth, their professor. I'd like to exchange stories with them, having "gone back" with George to the mid-'50s. Also, I never see any mentions of Roger Tatarian--did I just come in too late to DH for those? I met him once only, at BUP London circa '60, but I have friends who all but revered him and say I missed knowing a terrific individual. # victor laszlo (b)(6) Mar 14 03:09PM -0700 A Bob: Roger Tatarian, the legendary editor of UPI, was a prince. He met me at his office in New York, a kid just out of college. A few months later I got a job in West Virginia. And that was the start of a beautiful friendship with UPI that lasted 22 years. FrankCsongos Jeffrey Reynolds (b)(6) Mar 15 12:39AM A bob - if you mean the george southworth that worked at the miami herald, i knew him and liked him. first met him when he was an adjunct journalism prof at the univ. of miami. think he taught a reporting course but at the same time he was latin american editor at the mh herald, he disappeared from class for a while to go with veep richard nixon on the infamous trip to latin america. was it venezuela where the big dust-up happened? i forget, but it would have been in the mid '50s. i don't remember him saying much about it when he returned to class, if i had to guess, i'd say '57. flash forward 7-8 years and after bouncing around south fla. nupes - and a year in arizona - i was at the (defunct) nih news. worked the re-write three days a week and two days in the rnh cop shop, competing against henry reno (daughter jane was state's atty and later attorney general under clinton). henry was good people must have been 100 years old (i jest) when we met but still a helluva reporter and he finally retired to a camp he had in the everglades. it got him away from his wife - she wouldn't go there - but died soon after of a blood clot, i think. 11 anyway, the herald ran several people through the cop shop for a few months and one day i showed up and lo and behold there was george southworth (i joined upi in feb. '67 so this would have been late '66). we recognized each other right away and after our initial conversation i think george was a bit embarrassed at being there. the cop shop is not where you expect to end up after 20-30 years in the trade and having been a foreign correspondent. i stayed around mh for a couple of years with upi - the bureau was in the herald building - and concluded in several wink-and-nod conversations with herald folks that george perhaps had a drinking problem and the herald had sent him to the pox beat cuz it didn't know what else to do with him and didn't want to fire him. i was an over-age student - 29 at graduation - and george would have been perhaps a decade older so i don't know if he is still alive, have not heard a word about him since i left mh for rv in '68. bill cotterell was with the herald in the '50s and may know more about him. where did you know him? Jeffrey C. Reynolds Topic: Susan, Pye and the igiuanas ...... Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 14 08:22PM -0400 A Susan - here's Pye's version. I'm pretty sure the year was 1980 ... and the occasion the Iowa caucuses. That's the only reason he and Gibbons would have been in Iowa at the same time. Gene's telling had him more than a little puzzled; non-plussed would be a bit more like it. Reading the exchange with Moonbeam, sounds like you should have stayed with the iguanas ... Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:39:43 -0400 From: Pye Chamberlayne Subject: [DH] My night of the iguanas Tom Foty suggested that I explain my recent reference to attack iguanas and Susan Bray.... I ran into Susan while I was covering a political story in Iowa a long time ago. Back in the seventies, I think. Susan and I got to drinking in a bar in that nice hotel the Democrats like. Susan was a talk show host on WHO, which was a UPI Radion Network or UPI Audio client at the time and I was going to do the show the next morning as I occasionally did when I was in Des Moines. For reasons that I cannot remember I made up a story about how my home in Alexandria, Virginia was protected by a pair of 12 a four-foot tall iguanas which I had trained to walk erect on their hind legs and to attack strangers. I assumed that Susan would realize that I was kidding. To my horror, the next morning, she introduced me on the radio as a man whose home was protected by gigantic killer iguanas. By good luck we soon got Presidential Candidate Jerry Brown on the air with us and I shifted the conversation away from Iguanas by asking him what he thought about the demonetization of the US Dollar. He said that would be impossible and I said something to the effect of I guess that means you are opposed to it? How about the RE monetization of gold? He was not for that either and went on to describe what he WOULD do about what ever was perceived at the time as the big economic issue of the day. The conversation got into organic food and either the perceived shortage of oil or excess of cars. Gene Gibbons heard all this. He was in Iowa covering the same story with me and driving a car fifty miles or so away but he said the WHO signal came through clearly, though he was a little puzzled by the show's content. chrs, pye Topic: UPI March Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 14 06:48PM -0400 A I've re-posted my old webpage about this march at http://downhold.orWgUPMarch! or linked from the homepage.. http://downhold.org This page was updated after the Ron Cohen-inspired 2003 Gridiron Club rendition .. and includes mp3 audio of two versions of the march. They can be played from the page above, or downloaded from there. Both versions are quite superior in audio quality to the YouTube version referenced here earlier. - tf Topic: AP Mobile News story - Calif. port town attracts tsunamis: 34 since '34 "Larry" Headlines: http://m.apnews.com/ap/db 8586/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=P5EJSLbu 13 Get news on the go with the Mobile News Network. Visit http://www.apnews.com to learn how to get it for your phone. Sent from my 'Berry Topic: Fw: [DH1 UPI March "jmilne mcttelecom.com" Thanks, Loyd, for the enlightenment. > *write a new work for the occasion. Sousa responded with the * > *Washington Post March.* John Milne [email protected] Topic: Henry Minott background China (b)(6) Mar 14 01:29AM -0700 A About the legendary Henry Minott I found a Downhold post from me on March 25, 2009, which I have re-written below: Henry Minott was founder of the Boston Bureau and for many years held the title of New England news editor of UP and then UPI. Although one official list of UPI call letters gives Boston's "BH" as originating with the Boston Herald, the story I was told when I first came to the Boston Bureau in the late 50s... was that they named Boston BH for Boston-Henry in his honor when he founded the bureau. Everyone in the bureau at that time believed the H in BH was for Henry .... I still think of Boston in my mind as BH, Boston-Henry. Apparently there already was a BO, for Boise or who knows what and maybe a BS so.... Henry Minot who was still there in the bureau as a sort of honorary eminence, had a tiny office at the other end of the newsroom from Stan Berens glassed-wall cubicle. I didn't know of his existence until I had been there for a while. Every now and then he would come out and hang around. Sometimes Stan conferred with him. Henry was a bit of a scholar and certainly a historian and absolutely an authority on the history and mores of New England. He was always well groomed and dressed, a bit dapper, and had beautiful manners. Henry occasionally told stories during the rare times it was quiet. One time when we were all much involved in covering a visit to New England by President Eisenhower ... Henry said something to the effect that it was ludicrous for the president to be going here, there and everywhere and for everyone to be making such a fuss about it. He 14 said he remembered when Calvin Coolidge as president spent the summer in western Massachusetts. Henry said there were two, maybe three, stories about the president the entire summer. Henry thought that was much more seemly. What a telling fact to think about!PP!P Does anyone know when the Boston bureau began? I couldn't find it on Google. But I did find this fascinating quote, below: In the May, 1933, issue of Fortune Magazine, the author Stephen Vincent Benet wrote: "UP is neither a charity nor a philanthropy. It is a business concern and its members work for profit. But there is another motive that drives them quite as strongly. You can call it pride of profession or professional zest or enthusiasm or self-hypnosis. But, whatever you call it, it is as common to the stockholding executives to the lunch- money copy boy --- it is indeed the strongest of bonds that hold UP together. And what it boils down to, when the sentiment and the wisecracks are both skimmed off, is an actual and genuine love of the game." Tom Foty (b)(6) Mar 14 04:5 1AM -0400 A tnx much, China. Great stuff. tf .. via wireless Sidekick Topic: sinq China (b)(6) Mar 14 12:45AM -0700 A I just loved this post -- China Topic: Rape story criticism China (b)(6) Mar 14 12:39AM -0700 A Thanks for the enlightening response. I'm still wondering about this story. What if everything about this story were the same except the person being raped was age 25? Do you think there would still have been concern about the life results for the men? I can't get my mind around sympathy for the 19 men. Nineteen !!!! Does the sympathy for them somehow come from the fact of an added sense of depravity because 15 of the age of the girl? How does that work? What if the girl had been nine? Or five? What if there had been 40 or 55 men? I just don't get it. Maybe it's a gender thing in my case. In my view any men taking part in a gang rape -- victim aged 12 months to 95 -- have chosen to enter into a world that would make their lives indisputably different from that time onwards -- even if they had never been caught. Stepping far far aside I can find sympathy in my heart for lots of "criminals," damaged and often mentally ill. But can 19 men become mentally ill or deranged or whatever at the same moment at the sight of an 11-year-old girl? How do you find 19 persons with not one to say: "Hey, wait a minute."? There obviously did exist in the community sympathy and confusion in relation to the 19 rapists, that's why there was a story in the first place. But basically I agree, I do not understand the thinking and feeling among the relay of reporter(s) and the editors -- as you relate -- who passed this story along and published it in the version we saw. There can exist in any community all sorts of strange and destructive viewpoints -- does that mean the reporter can write something like: "The people in Nowhereville are concerned that no one has killed the pastor's wife"... then give a lot of their quotes and drop it? Made me think of an old song from my childhood: This world is not my home.. .I'm only passing through.... 16 From: Jaczko, Gregory Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:04 AM To: Shapiro, Nicholas S.; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Holdren, John P. Cc: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: Draft statement on 50 mile evac notice for immediate review (b)(5) Original----- Message ----- From: Shapiro, Nicholas S. [mailtol (b)(6) Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:53 AM To: Jaczko, Gregory; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Holdren, John P. Cc: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; Brenner, Eliot Subject: Draft statement on 50 mile evac notice for immediate review Importance: High (b)(5) From: Google Alerts News 3 new results for jaczko Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, Nuclear Regulatory Commission ... FavStocks Because we knew that you would have a lot of questions about the situation in Japan, especially with regard to nuclear issues, I brought with me today, asked to come today, Greg JACZKO, who is the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. See all stories on this topic >» Washington Extra - Sticky situations Reuters Africa Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Greg Jaczko saw a "very low probability" of any hannful radiation levels reaching the United States from Japan. On the other side of the world, Saudi Arabia grew alarmed by anti-government protests in neighboring ... See all stories on this topic >> Quake-Prone Pacific Rim Atomic Plants May Hold Keys to US Nuclear Plans Bloomberg The Nuclear Regulatory Commission remains confident that plants operating in the US are safe, Gregory Jaczko, the NRC chairman, said at the same briefing. The agency sets safety rules for the industry and must approve new-plant construction. See all stories on this topic» Tip: Use site restrict in your query to search within a site (site:nytimes.com or site:.edu). Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. 1 3U/o From: Google Alerts Blogs I new result for Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC Sees No Radiation at Harmful Levels Reaching U.S. from Damaged ... The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is coordinating with the Department of Energy and other federal agencies in providing whatever assistance the Japanese government requests as they respond to conditions at several nuclear power ... YubaNet.com - http:/!/ubanet.com/ Tip: Use a plus sign (+) to match a term in your query exactly as is. Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. e3 U/ ýO 6 1 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:29 PM To: (b)(6) I Subject: staying at hotel tonight Using a room that my overnight person has rented across the street. (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) eliot 1 From: Google Alerts News 1 new result for DOE nuclear loan guarantees US Sen. Lamar Alexander urges support for nuclear power despite Japan disaster Memphis Commercial Appeal Last month, the Obama Department of Energy and the Southern Company announced a conditional commitment for $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of the country's first nuclear power plants in more than 30 years. The Georgia Power plants See all stories on this tonic n This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manaqe your alerts. e-ý 0) Z-/ 69 I From: Google Alerts News 1 new result for jaczko The perils of speculation CBS News When the White House press corps sought more specific and detailed information about both fallout and nuclear plant safety, the chairman, Gregory Jaczko, would not offer any. Instead he said he wouldn't want to speculate about either one. See all stories on this topic )> Tip: Use quotes ("like this") around a set of words in your query to match them exactly. Learn more. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manacle your alerts. 1 ,.-B V/ý 6 9 I I From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:32 PM To: Kanneth, Poison Subject: RE: ABC News Sorry. I've got to let them do their job. Until there are reinforcements in there I won't take them away. Original----- Message ----- From: Kanneth, Poison [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:31 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: ABC News Even if it's ten minutes in a room monitoring the situation? ---- Original Message ---- From: Brenner, Eliot Not yet. Sorry. The two guys there are busting their butts, although we have reinforcements on the way. Keep checking. ---- Original Message ----- From: Kanneth, Poison [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:28 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: ABC News Hey Eliot, Diane is en route to Tokyo as we speak. Anyway to talk to members of the NRC team? -Poison ---- Original Message ---- From: Kanneth, Poison To: Brenner, Eliot Thanks so much. Still interest on our end. ---- Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:03 AM To: Kanneth, Poison Subject: RE: ABC News Understood. I will keep you guys in mind. Original----- Message ----- From: Kanneth, Poison [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:02 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: ABC News Completely understand. Just want to reiterate Diane's request and hope to chat nonetheless ---- Original Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:01 AM To: Kanneth, Poison Subject: RE: ABC News Yes, but I have nothing for you. I might have something in a day or two. We are trying to get additional folks over there and the staff we have is fully involved in assisting with the crisis. We cannot break them away. --- Original Message---- From: Kanneth, Poison [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:56 AM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: RE: ABC News Can I call you? Poison Kanneth ABC World News with Diane Sawyer http://abcnews.com/World News Direct: 202-222-6497 Mobileý (b)(6) - ---- Original Message-- From: Brenner, Eliot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:08 PM To: Kanneth, Poison Subject: RE: ABC News Yeah....just need to let the dust settle a little. I think it would be a longshot, but I will raise it with the powers that be. ---- Original Message---- From: Kanneth, Poison [mailto:[email protected]] 2 Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 4:52 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: Re: ABC News Completely understand. Can we revisit over the next few days? Original----- Message ----- From: Brenner, Eliot I can't make them available now, sorry. But I will keep you in mind. Original----- Message---- From: Kanneth, Poison [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 4:46 PM To: Brenner, Eliot Subject: ABC News Good Afternoon Eliot, My name is Poison Kanneth and I'm Diane Sawyer's Producer at ABC News. I saw that two NRC Officials were on the USAID flight this morning. Diane is en route to Japan and I wanted to see if the two officials would be available to talk to her on the ground in Japan? I know you're busy but would love to talk when you have a moment. -Poison Poison Kanneth ABC World News with Diane Sawyer http://abcnews.com/World News Direct: 202-222-6497 Mobile (b)(6) 3 From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:25 PM To: Wald, Matthew Subject: what number did you call me from My fone rebooted and lost the reference I '-ý U/ý / / From: Brenner, Eliot Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:54 PM To: Burnell, Scott Subject: RE: Questions on disaster preparedness These are my thoughts. I will let you finalize the answers: (b)(5) I (b)(5) I (b)(5) From: Xie, Yanmei [mailto:yanmei [email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:33 PM To: Burnell, Scott; Brenner, Eliot Cc: [email protected] [D Subject: Questions on disaster preparedness Hi, Scott and Eliot, I'm emailing both of you, because I figure you guys might work in shifts given the situation. Could you help me confirm/answer the following questions? My deadline is 5pm Tuesday, March 15. 1. What are US nuclear power plants required to do in a situation where they lose both offsite power and EDGs? 2. I was told that the batteries for the reactor core isolation cooling at most US plants are required to last 4 hours, instead of 8, is that correct? 3. I was also told that all nuclear power plants are designed to survive an earthquake or a tsunami, but not the double whammy. Is that correct? 4. What level of earthquakes are US plants required to withstand? Thank you so much! 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