Aging Nukes - The solution will take more than wrinkle cream
Jeff Donn, Associated Press reporter wrote a four part series called "Aging Nukes". Here, for non-readers, is a June 24, 2011 interview with him on DemocracyNow, it's quite an eye-opener.
DemocracyNow.org - Three U.S. Senators have called for a Congressional probe on safety issues at the nation's aging nuclear plants following a pair of new exposés. In a special series called "Aging Nukes," the Associated Press revealed that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the nuclear power industry have been working in tandem to weaken safety standards to keep aging reactors within the rules. Just last year, the NRC weakened the safety margin for acceptable radiation damage to reactor vessels. The AP report also revealed radioactive tritium has leaked from 48 of the 65 U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping. Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard — sometimes at hundreds of times the limit. Democracy Now! interviews AP investigative journalist Jeff Donn.
Associated Press 1 Year Investigation of the Nuclear Industry
Hundreds of times the limit? It is insanity to continue to create these bringers of death. That's how I see them. Nuclear plants look like a skull and cross bones to me now. And to think they refer to this as "clean energy". Keep it up, Annie!
Hundreds of times the limit? It is insanity to continue to create these bringers of death. That's how I see them. Nuclear plants look like a skull and cross bones to me now. And to think they refer to this as "clean energy". Keep it up, Annie!
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