Flashback!
Here is another important flashback (inspired by a reader):
– Dr. Helen Caldicott On The Japan Nuclear Disaster – The Truth MSM Won’t Tell You! (Video)
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Radioactive Waste Leaks At South Carolina Nuclear Plant
– Radioactive waste leaks at nuclear plant (The State, July 12, 2011):
Officials say no threat posed, but federal safety team continues to investigate
Federal nuclear safety inspectors are investigating a radioactive waste leak at SCE&G’s atomic power plant in Fairfield County.
An estimated 100 gallons of liquid waste spilled at the utility’s V.C. Summer plant, apparently from a pipe that leaked, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The discovery was made late last week.
State, federal and SCE&G officials say they have found no signs the material left the SCE&G nuclear plant or posed any threat to the public, but they are continuing to investigate.
Read moreRadioactive Waste Leaks At South Carolina Nuclear Plant
NRC In 2010: Floods Above 1010 Feet Had A 100 Percent Chance Of Core Meltdown At Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant – Now: Missouri River Reaches Height Of Nearly 1,007 Feet
– A Nuclear Plant’s Flood Defenses Trigger a Yearlong Regulatory Confrontation (New York Times, June 24, 2011):
Pictures of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb., show it encircled by the swollen waters of the Missouri River, which reached a height of nearly 1,007 feet above sea level at the plant yesterday.
The plant’s defenses include new steel gates and other hard barriers protecting an auxiliary building with vital reactor controls, and a water-filled berm 8 feet tall that encircles other parts of the plant. Both systems are designed to hold back floodwaters reaching 1,014 feet above sea level. Additional concrete barriers and permanent berms, more sandbags and another power line into the plant have been added. The plant was shut down in April for refueling and will remain so until the flood threat is passed.
“Today the plant is well positioned to ride out the current extreme Missouri River flooding while keeping the public safe,” Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Victor Dricks said on an agency blog this week.
But a year ago, those new defenses were not in place, and the plant’s hard barriers could have failed against a 1,010-foot flood, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission contends in a yearlong inspection and enforcement action against the plant’s operator, the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD).
– The NRC in Action at Fort Calhoun (Monthly Review, June 27, 2011):
The Union of Concerned Scientists often complains about Nuclear Regulatory Commission inaction — the agency’s failure to enforce its regulations prohibiting unmonitored and uncontrolled releases of radioactively contaminated water, the agency’s tolerance of four dozen reactors operating in violation of fire protection regulations, and so on.
Today, we commend the NRC in action.
Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: White House & NRC Recommend 50 Mile Fukushima Evacuation, Yet Insist US Safe With Only 10 (Video)
Added: 05.06.2011
Fairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen emphasizes the need to enlarge evacuation zones around US nuclear plants to 50 miles. Reducing US evacuation zones to only 10 miles during a nuclear power accident compromises public safety.
Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: NRC ‘Afraid That The Reactor Bottom Will Break, Literally Just Break Right Out And Dump Everything’ … ‘The ENTIRE CORE Could Fall Out Suddenly’
Arnie Gundersen:
“Now, Unit 3 has another problem and the NRC mentioned it yesterday for the first time and it gets back to that saltwater and the effect on iron. They are afraid that the reactor bottom will break, literally just break right out and dump everything. Because it’s now hot and it’s got salt on it and it’s got the ideal conditions for corrosion. So the big fear on Unit 3 is that it will break at the bottom and whatever else remains in it, which could be the entire core, could fall out suddenly.”
NRC: Limerick Nuclear Generator ‘Scrams’ For Second Time In 36 Hours
– NRC: Limerick nuclear generator ‘scrams’ for second time in 36 hours (Montgomery News, June 03, 2011):
The same nuclear reactor at Exelon’s Limerick Generating Station that shut down unexpectedly early Sunday morning did so again Monday, according to an official at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the NRC office in King of Prussia, wrote in an e-mail that “Limerick Unit 2 experienced another scram Monday.”
Read moreNRC: Limerick Nuclear Generator ‘Scrams’ For Second Time In 36 Hours
NRC Recommended US Residents In Japan To Stay 80 Km Away From Fukushima Plant, Far Beyond Japan’s Recommendation To Evacuate Within A 20Km Radius
– Tepco disclosure said lacking from get-go – NRC quickly aware (Japan Times/Kyodo May 28, 2011):
New York — A senior nuclear regulatory official in the United States said Thursday he believed there was a “strong likelihood” of serious core damage and core melt at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in the days immediately after the crisis began.
“There were numerous indications of high radiation levels that can only come from damaged fuel at those kinds of levels,” said Bill Borchardt, executive director for operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “So we felt pretty confident that there was significant fuel damage at the site a few days into the event.”
The NRC also had “suspicions” about the conditions of the spent fuel pools, Borchardt said after a speech at the Japan Society in New York.
Based on that assumption, he said, the NRC recommended that U.S. residents in Japan stay 80 km away from the crippled power plant, which was far beyond the Japanese government’s recommendation for residents within a 20-km radius to evacuate.
EPIC FAIL: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Gave Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen Only 5 Minutes To Speak About Nuclear Safety And Fukushima, Presentation Was Interrrupted Continuously (05/28/2011)
5 minutes???
WTF!
The NRC does not want to know, or better ‘they’ don’t want you to know what is really going on.
Maybe it would have been much better to create another video and send the YouTube link to those NRC idiots.
I hope Mr. Gundersen will post his letter to the NRC on the Fairewinds website.
Dutchsinse:
Because the NRC are such jerks.. we all are left wondering what exactly is going on….
Because of the NRC, people like myself have to go around the country taking measurements for radiation that came from a reactor that should have never been allowed to function in the FIRST PLACE!!!