Progress fined for nuke plant violation (click here)
Raleigh's Progress Energy is being fined $65,000 by federal regulators after an investigation turned up evidence that supervisors at Wake County's Shearon Harris nuclear power plant gave three contract security officers answers to a requalification test....
...Eight of the whistleblowers' 19 claims have been substantiated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, though only one of those substantiations, the one dealing with the security officers, led to any regulatory action. The NRC declined to take action against Progress on the other claims after the company promised to clean up its act internally....
I'll be darn. It could be more than a 1000 metric tons.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Isn't there any national registry of the nuclear fuel produced, when it is considered spent fuel, when it is off loaded from the reactor, what pool it is in and when it leave the pool?
No?
Really?
I think the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has too much interest in the facilities that provide 90% of their funding and not nearly enough about the people actually paying for their electricity. I seems that way to me.
N.C. brims with nuclear waste (click here)
Published: May 25, 2011
— Staff Writer
North Carolina, which relies on nuclear power for nearly half of its electricity, is home to some of the nation's highest concentrations of radioactive waste.
The state ranks fourth in the nation for accumulated nuclear waste, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning advocacy group in Washington....
