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Nuclear Regulatory Commission speaks to public on nuke plant's safety record
Plant receives high marks in report; local residents speak out at Limerick meeting
Nuclear Regulatory Commission representatives hosted a well-attended town hall at the Limerick Township building on Wednesday night to report on the Exelon Limerick Generating Station's 2010 performance. Branch chief Paul Krohn, senior resident inspector Gene DiPaolo and resident inspector Nicole Sieller were on the panel to deliver the report and answer audience questions. They also briefly spoke about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan. Krohn said that the Limerick plant was in the top tier of grading on the commission's “action matrix”, a scale that delineates degrees of regulatory response to inspection reports. Violations are identified as green, white, yellow or red, with green indicating that the violation has …
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Rick Krementz
11:47 am on Saturday, May 21, 2011
The second huge double klaxon is that the emergency generators can only keep four of the six spent fuel pools cool. There is much more radioactive material ("spent fuel") in cooling pools than in the reactor itself. Since the US has no long term radioactive storage facility, all spent fuel is stored locally at the reactor. Reactors are well-built with two levels of concrete and steel containment… more ›