Sandia Labs: Similarities between
Fukushima Dai-Ichi and reactors like Nebraska’s Cooper nuke plant pose
significant problem — Loss of electricity could cause meltdown
NPPD: Nuke Plant Could Be Shut Down “In Three Seconds”, Critics Still Worry, Missouri News Horizon, June 21, 2011:
[... T]he Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) insists
the 37-year-old Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, which sits on the
raging Missouri River, is as secure as they come.
On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the safest, Alan Dostal who is
NPPD’s nuclear expert says, ”We are an absolutely safe plant, that’s a
10.”
Dostal’s comments came during an interview with Nebraska Watchdog on
March 29, five days before three workers at Cooper were exposed to
radiation. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a fuel
rod accident triggered alarms that are worn by the workers. NPPD says
the incident which is still under investigation did not cause any
apparent injuries but was “unacceptable.” The NRC wants “to understand
why normal work practices were not followed.” [...]
[T]he federal government’s own Sandia National Laboratories has
concluded that similarities between the Dai-Ichi plant and reactors like
Cooper pose a significant problem: specifically that a lengthy loss of
electrical power could cause a nuclear meltdown. [...]
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