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Fukushima, South Carolina. The nuke below the failing dam

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 …

March 1, 2012 – 1:33 pm | By john.williams | Posted in nuclear power, nuclear power. fukushima, nuclear power. fukushima | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

REDACTED: The safety report that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission doesn’t want you to see

A quarter of the 104 nuclear power reactors in the United States may be at risk to a newly identified safety hazard. It’s a concern has generated eerie comparisons with the tsunami that crippled reactors at Fukushima, Japan. The issue is whether the crumbling conditions at many of the nation’s dams pose unacceptably high risks …

February 25, 2012 – 12:29 pm | By paul.koberstein | Posted in nuclear power | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)