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 …
As the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident approaches, flood waters from the giant tsunami of March 2011 have long receded, But the lessons of Fukushima continue to shake the nuclear power industry around the world, especially in the United States. One thing we learned from Fukushima was that while nuclear power plants need …
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 …
It’s been a slow summer here at Cascadia Times. We published a summary of our work on the Columbia River Crossing and Portland’s poor air quality in the Portland Tribune, “More concrete won’t cure congestion.” At the same time we began work on a book on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Stay tuned for more news …