Our NRC is dysfunctional! [View All]

I just attended a lecture about the current state of our NRC.

http://energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=8755

The scientists who have to provide a basis for safety decisions are in an uproar. The commission chairman has taken over the decision making process and is making storage safety decisions based on politics rather than safety. Spent fuel rods need to be safety contained for up to one million years. We've seen how well on-site water-tank storage works in an earthquake (Fukushima) and we've seen how earthquake design criteria can be inadequate (the North Anna build criteria was well below the recent quake) ... in Virginia. If we can't keep politics out of containment, we need to shut down all nuclear power plants now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/21/dominion-says-north-anna-ready_n_1024055.html