The NRC, under pressure from the indie journalists at Portland, Oregon based Cascadia Times, have just released a heavily censored report about inadequate flood protection at dozens of US Nuke plants. The article, with a link to the NRC report, is here: http://times.org/… The NRC report admits that regulators initially improperly calculated the likely levels of …
Duke Power’s Oconee Nuclear Plant is nestled in the flood plain below Duke’s deteriorating Jocassee Dam in South Carolina. If the Duke dam fails, a 16-foot-high wall of water could smash into the nuclear plant like a tsunami, overwhelming the 4-foot-high flood wall and potentially destroying critical equipment and vessels, according to disgruntled Nuclear Regulatory …
When Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) opened a new lumber mill across the road from Steve Wycoff’s metal shop in Aberdeen, Washington, Steve hoped the new jobs might help turn the local economy around. But instead SPI turned Steve’s cozy metal shop, where he’d worked for 15 years, nestled under 100-foot tall fir trees, into a …