A nuclear tightrope

Unlearned Lessons from Year-plus Reactor Outages

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) seems to be following the script of the movie Groundhog Day, reliving the same bad event again and again. This event—an outage at a nuclear power plant that lasts more than a year—has happened 51 times at 41 different reactors around the United States and shows no signs of stopping.

Each such occurrence results from a violation of federal regulations that require plant owners to find and fix safety ... Full Story »

Posted by Fabrice Florin
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Sep 21, 2006 - 1:27 AM PDT
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Edited by: Ezra Fox - Sep 21, 2006 - 5:13 AM PDT

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Informative report. Strong focus on factual evidence. Be sure to download the Full report PDF, which this review is based on (not just the web overview).

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Marius Chitosca
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by Marius Chitosca - Oct. 1, 2008

This article is practically an intro for a report summing the results of a thorough research performed by the Union of Concerned Scientists on the nuclear rectors of America. It is shown with plenty of data the dangers that the reactors' outages pose to the people's safety, not to mention the temporal and financial resources they consume in order to be "brought back to life" in minimum safety limits. By this report, UCS hopes to sensitize NRC and the U.S. Congress behind it for a better appliance of CAPs. The last, but not the least and also of critical importance, this report aims to make the public opinion more aware of the great risks coming from walking a nuclear tightrope, as this report is suggestively named.

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