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, NRC response to Congress on the agency’s suppression of the National Academy of Science’s redacted summary of its report to Congress on reactor fuel pool vulnerability to terrorism as headlined in a front page story of the Washington Post, March 28, 2005, “Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel Criticized.” (940Kb)
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Report presenting facts and legal conclusions drawn by the intervening party NIRS-Public Citizen, based on the recent hearing on “environmental” contentions (involving water impacts, need for the facility, and waste disposal questions) held in Hobbs, New Mexico. The ASLB is scheduled to rule on these contentions in June.
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NIRS presentation to the U.S. NRC Regulatory Information Conference workshop on “Pro-active Management of Material Degradation” in nuclear power stations which focuses on the incidence of failed and leaking fuel in operating reactors.
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Anywhere from 25% to 33% of the nation’s nuclear power stations are operating with failed and leaking nuclear fuel in the reactor core. NIRS and Union of Concerned Scientists jointly wrote the Commission on 02/28/2005 questioning the adequacy of NRC enforcement policy in light of a rising trend in nuclear fuel cladding failures in U.S. reactors.
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When the electrical grid fails due to adverse weather or mechanical failure all too often emergency notification systems around nuclear power stations simultaneously lose all power. Electrical grid failure is potentially an initiating event for a nuclear accident and most probably the opening of an attack by terrorists on a nuke. On NIRS in coalition with 16 organizations and several county governments petitioned the NRC to take emergency enforcement action to require nuclear power station operators to provide emergency backup power sources, preferably through photovoltaic panels, for emergency notification siren systems nationwide.
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