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Lack of preparation for the next nuclear power disaster

No Big Deal But We’re Not Ready for The Next Nuclear Disaster http://gawker.com/no-big-deal-but-were-not-ready-for-the-next-nuclear-dis-1610776894 Hamilton Nolan 126 July 14 Hey, what’s up, good morning to you. In the news today is sports, weather, and nuclear disaster (potentially).

There is nothing wrong our nation’s nuclear power plants, right now. They’re all functioning well! This could change under certain circumstances, though. A report out yesterday from the National Academy of Sciences says that the nuclear power industry’s disaster planning and safety regulations “are clearly inadequate for preventing core-melt accidents and mitigating their consequences.”

Heck.

The LA Times reports:

The U.S. nuclear industry should prepare for unlikely, worst-case scenarios when designing, building and regulating plants, the report recommends.

That is the big lesson the industry should take away from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan, the report says. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, solar storms and situations that seem rare are precisely the events that triggered the world’s three major nuclear disasters: Fukushima, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

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Fortunately, this monstrosity, a 40 year blight on one of the most exquisite stretches of pristine beachfront in California, has been decommissioned and will soon be history.

July 26, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general