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Questions over the safety of USA’s spent nuclear fuel cooling ponds

President Barack Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of U.S. nuclear plant safety.

Martha Coakley asks feds to re-examine nuclear storage – BostonHerald.com, March 21, 2011 BOSTON – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is urging federal energy officials to re-examine the safety of the wet storage of spent fuel at nuclear power plants, including the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth.In a letter sent Monday to Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko, Coakley said federal regulators need to take another look at the wet storage protocol, which is also used at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant near the Massachusetts border.

It was also used at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi plan in Japan……..

“Despite our continuous advocacy for the NRC to consider alternative storage at these plants, the NRC has refused to do so, saying the risk of breach or fire is ’insignificant,’” Coakley wrote. “The event in Japan shows that such a breach can occur, and we are asking the NRC to revisit that assessment.”…..

President Barack Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of U.S. nuclear plant safety.

Martha Coakley asks feds to re-examine nuclear storage – BostonHerald.com

March 22, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA, wastes