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Move to legislate for safety regulation regarding Indian Point nuclear plant

REP. NADLER SEEKS TO PROTECT NEW YORKERS FROM DISASTER AT INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT    Power Engineering, WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. (8th CD), issued the following press release: Today on the House Floor, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the senior Northeastern Member of the Judiciary and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees, offered an amendment to help prevent a potential catastrophic meltdown at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in Upstate New York or other nuclear reactors. His amendment to H.R. 3010, the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2011, would exempt from this counter-productive legislation any proposed regulations made by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). With the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in Japan fresh on our minds, it is critical to preempt regulatory failure when it comes to ensuring the safe operation of nuclear reactors.

“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission must have the ability and flexibility to quickly impose new regulations to safeguard the health and well-being of all Americans,” said Nadler. “Impeding the NRC’s ability to regulate will not save one job but might cost millions of lives….Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant lies less than 40 miles away from my New York City district, and there are 20 million people living within a 50-mile radius of the plant – the same radius used by the NRC as the basis for the evacuation zone recommended after the Fukushima disaster. Indian Point also sits near two fault lines and, according to the NRC, is the most likely nuclear power plant in the country to experience core damage due to an earthquake.”…. http://www.power-eng.com/news/2011/12/1554779024/rep-nadler-seeks-to-protect-new-yorkers-from-disaster-at-indian-point-nuclear-power-plant.html

December 5, 2011 Posted by | safety, USA | Leave a comment

Rising public opposition to India’s secretive nuclear organisations

End this secrecy about India’s nuclear programme, Dec 3, 2011,  Mumbai | Agency: DNA India’s nuclear establishment has a problem. It is a problem of credibility. And it is a problem of its own making. ….the Department of Atomic Energy and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India are running into a rising wall of public opposition…..For too long has the country’s nuclear establishment functioned behind a curtain of secrecy.

December 5, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

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