Archive for December 2010
NRC acts on request to reopen Callaway investigation
When Lawrence Criscione asked a Nuclear Regulatory Commission review board last week to reopen an investigation of an incident at AmerenUE’s Callaway nuclear power plant in Missouri, the nuclear engineer expressed no hope that the federal agency would honor his request.
“I believe the decision has already been made that this petition will be bureaucratically [limited] to the investigations already performed … in spite of the fact that significant questions concerning the honesty and integrity of the uppermost management of a commercial nuclear power plant are still unanswered.” Criscione said. Read the rest of this entry »
Winter 2010-2011 edition is now available
J.J. Maloney was facing life behind the walls of the Missouri Penitentiary, sentenced for the murder of a 74-year-old businessman during a botched robbery. Remarkably, Maloney wrote his way to freedom — some of his work found its way to the pages of this magazine — and he kept writing, becoming one of the Midwest’s most intrepid journalists.
C.D. Stelzer tells Maloney’s remarkable story in the current edition, now available for free at Scribd.com (http://scr.bi/hs7o5w) and Issuu.com (http://bit.ly/ggY9G9).
In addition to Stelzer, contributors include Franchot Ballinger, Andrew Dillon, Dave Etter, Joe Hennessy, Jacqueline Jackson, Conrad Knickerbocker, Lola Lucas, Felicia Olin, Robert Joe Stout, Alan Toltzis, Karen Walsh and Daniel Waugh.
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