Posted on 01/16/2007 5:17:18 PM PST by kerryusama04
WASHINGTON Future nuclear power plants should include design improvements to better protect against a terrorist attack by large aircraft, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday.
The chairman, Dale Klein, said the commission soon will give guidance to reactor manufacturers on "what we believe the reactors should be designed to withstand," including the possibility of a terrorist crashing a plane into the reactor.
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The NRC is gearing up for a rush of applications for new power reactors, the first such applications since the 1970s before the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.
Klein said four or five firm applications for new reactors are expected to be received this year with another eight likely in 2008. Most, if not all, of the new reactors are expected to be built on the sites of existing nuclear power plants.
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New nuke plants? Energy independence? Is this really going to happen?
And by hot-air balloon, and by zeppelin, and by ornithopter, and by Icarus wings....
Waste of time. Too many dopes in this country are against nuke plants. They're the same ones who want electric cars.
For a minute there, I thought it said "by Plame." Scooter on the brain.
They also know we're scanning ship containers.
But the land borders remain open.
So they need "licensing specialists" and 95 million dollars just to process a handful of nuclear power plant applications??? Only in government...
Forty-two months??? We'll all be speaking Spanish by the time new power plants are up and running!
Future nuke reactors are totally protected from attack of any kind simply by not being built. We are perfectly safe; every at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can go home.
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