When the COVID-19 Pandemic began in late February, atomic reactor operators and owner corporations begged the NRC for special exemptions from regulatory requirements to implement critical safety and security inspections for up to two years! And, in an extreme example of regulatory capture, the NRC has approved all the corporate requested safety inspection delays, handing them out like candy to eager Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween! We know you have heard this before from the Crew at Fairewinds Energy Education, however, let us emphasize again that the federal laws that authorize the NRC, chartered it to protect ‘public health and safety’. You can read more about that letter and the increased safety hazards here. Along with 86 other organizations from all over the U.S., Fairewinds Energy Education nonprofit cosigned a letter to Vice President Pence and the COVID-19 Task Force detailing significant safety risks that must be addressed. You may remember, that in early May, Maggie wrote extensively about the numerous safety risks to all of us if the nuclear industry continued operating these reactors during the COVID-19 Pandemic without implementing critical safety protocols and procedures. During these outages, used-up nuclear fuel is replaced, and critical safety inspections are performed. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) defines this rather temporary closing as an outage. Meltdowns & Disasters What is a Meltdown Fukushima Three Mile Island Chernobyl Government Cover-Upsįirst off, we would like to preface this by saying that the world simply cannot afford a meltdown or nuclear disaster on top of the already traumatic times wrought by Pandemic 2020.ĭid you know that nuclear plants close for scheduled refueling every 18-months, meaning that 1/3 of the operating reactors are off-line each spring and fall? For the record, more than three dozen reactors had planned to do so in Spring 2020.Nuclear 101 What is Nuclear Power? Uranium Mining and Fuel Design and Construction Waste and Spent Fuel Decommissioning and Rubbilization Nuclear Reactor Sites Thorium & Molten Salt Reactors.Featured Smokescreen Woolsey Fire Updates Vogtle Updates Book Reviews Power Struggle Film.
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