The Exelon Corporation had initially requested a 20-year extension for both units of the Limerick facility, but they now find themselves amongst a growing list of nuclear facilities facing legal action.
Following last month's appellate court ruling, which called into question the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's claim that spent fuel-rods could be stored safely up to 60 years after a plant shuts down, The National Resources Defense Council has filed a motion with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board which seeks to put a halt to the license renewal process for both reactors at the Limerick Generating Station. The Exelon Corporation had initially requested a 20-year extension for both units of the Limerick facility during June of 2011, but they now find themselves amongst a growing list of nuclear facilities facing legal action in the wake of the court's decision. "There are other similar challenges being brought against other plants, for …
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Lorraine Ruppe
8:44 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012
The clowns are back again!-So let's just keep living in fear of another meltdown by the fear mongering Exelon corporation and let us 2 million plus people from here to Philadelphia continue drinking and bathing in contaminated, radiated mine pit water and breathing toxic air pollution 24/7 that comes from the towers while Exelon fattens their exploding pockets, and my families and friends and … more ›