Posted on 05/12/2008 2:33:45 PM PDT by mondoreb
With news today that the United States Nuclear Watchdog, Dale Klein, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is set to visit the Turkey Point Nuclear Reactor Power Plant in South Miami-Dade Florida we thought we’d look at just how safe our nuclear reactors are from a surprise terrorist attack.
A 1982 study by Sandia National Laboratories found that a core meltdown and radiological release at one of the two operating Indian Point reactors could cause 50,000 near-term deaths from acute radiation syndrome and 14,000 long-term deaths from cancer. When these results were originally disclosed to the press, an NRC official tried to reassure the public by saying that the kind of accident the study considered would be less likely than “a jumbo jet crashing into a football stadium during the Superbowl.” Source - UCSUSA
Klein’s visit is being called a “tour” and not a safety inspection even though the plant was recently fined after it was discovered that security guards were found asleep on the job and had removed firing pins from their weapons. There were also reports of “excessive” overtime for plant operators, with some working 70 t0 80 hour work weeks.
The NRC’s Director of Public Affairs says there will be “discussions” about the number of issues related to security and plant management.
We wondered in matters of Homeland Security just how safe nuclear power plants are in the face of a potential terrorist attack.
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We are safe if Homer is at the controls.
I can tell you this.
The Co. I work with does business with Shearon Harris nuke plant near Raleigh.
Our workers are ‘escorted’ by armed guards (M-16s) everywhere they go, including the bathroom.
The guards never let our techs out of their sight, never.
We’re all gonna die!
Security is my only real concern if we ever go with more nuclear power plants. Can you imagine illegal immigrant security gaurds?
When Hussein becomes president, you can guarantee that with his new “positive diversity employment” that at least a third of “security guards” at the nuke plants will be Muslims.
I would be interesting to see if they could pass the psych, BI and drug tests.
More people have died in Ted Kennedy’s car than in all the nuclear mishaps in the U.S.!
Which greatly saddens the left.
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