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One of the US NRC’s tricks for ignoring risks seems to be saying that reactor pressure vessel (RPV) fracture and the subsequent catastrophic release of radioactive materials into the environment is a “beyond design basis accident”. They then sneak these changes through in a laundry list of what they call “Non-Significant Hazards”. This change for Brown’s Ferry Nuclear Power Station is found below Cybersecurity changes on the same page, suggesting that it is intentionally hidden.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) sites owned by the US Federal government

Brown’s Ferry Nuclear Power station was the site of what was considered a major fire and near miss for nuclear disaster, which was widely reported, in 1975. It seems that cable fires have become fairly routine in the aging “fleets” of nuclear reactors world-wide.

It was a manager at Brown’s Ferry who took a bribe or kickback on behalf of Kris Singh of Holtec…