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Nuclear authorities make reassuring noises about Hurricane Florence, and don’t mention radioactive waste dumps

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Six nuclear power plants are in Hurricane Florence’s path, officials say, CNN, By Ellie Kaufman, Gregory Wallace and Rene Marsh, CNN  September 13, 2018 “……..The six nuclear power plants in North and South Carolina sit directly in the storm’s projected path, according to Mary Catherine Green, spokeswoman for Duke Energy, which owns all six.

Duke’s Brunswick Nuclear Plant and its Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant near Raleigh, both in North Carolina, are the closest to where the hurricane is forecast to make landfall, Green said.
In a press briefing, Jeff Byard, associate administrator for the FEMA Office of Response and Recovery, said the agency was not concerned about the power plants in the storm’s path “at this time.”……
However, The Union of Concerned Scientists, a science-oriented public policy organization, is concerned about the Brunswick plant’s ability to withstand the storm, because of what the group says is a lack of publicly available information about the plant’s readiness. According to the group, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not released public information validating that the plant has been properly updated to protect against flooding.
In 2012, Duke Energy reported to the NRC that there were hundreds of “missing or degraded flood barriers” at the plant. The follow-up report sent to the NRC by Duke Energy in 2015 was not made publicly available, according to The Union of Concerned Scientists.
NRC spokesman Roger Hannah said if the report wasn’t made public it may have been because the report contained security-related information, but he wasn’t aware of the 2015 report’s status. ……….https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/12/us/nuclear-plants-hurricane/index.html

September 13, 2018 - Posted by | safety, USA

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