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Monday, May 6, 2013

NUCLEAR NEWS -


S. CAROLINA NUCLEAR REACTORS RISK MELTDOWN

 

 


South Carolina Oconee Nuclear Power Plant's three reactors are only a river dam failure away from meltdown. - Residents were given potassion pills as precaution.

Three aged nuclear reactors 30 miles from Greenville, SC, are at risk of a meltdown should an upstream dam fail,  according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) documents obtained by Greenpeace.
 
If that were to happen, a meltdown of all three reactors on the scale of the Fukushima meltdowns and subsequent containment failure are virtual certainties according to the documents. This suggests that the NRC has misled the public for years about the severity of the threat.
 
"The redacted information shows that the NRC is lying to the American public about the safety of U.S. reactors," said David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer and safety advocate with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
 
In the meantime residents of 13 counties surrounding the South Carolina nuclear plants have been given potassium pills provided by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Potassium provides some protection for the thyroid gland in case of radiation exposure.

Read more:
http://ecowatch.com/2013/echoes-fukushima-duke-energy-nuclear-meltdown/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/nuclear-plant-flood-threat-leak_n_1983005.html

Potassium Pills in S. Carolina:
http://thetandd.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/4a4fdc60-b10c-11e2-8b1c-0019bb2963f4.html

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