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Poll: Few Confident US Ready for Nuclear Emergency
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (AP) - Most Americans doubt the U.S. government is prepared to respond to a nuclear emergency like the one in Japan, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. But it also shows few Americans believe such an emergency would occur. Nevertheless, the disaster has turned more Americans against new nuclear power plants. The poll found that 60 percent of Americans oppose building more nuclear power plants. That's up from 48 percent who opposed it in an AP-Stanford University Poll in November 2009. The Associated Press-GfK poll comes as Japan continues to struggle with a nuclear crisis ...
Amid Safety Reviews, Nuclear Future in Question [VIDEO]
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Despite Protests, NRC Renews License for Vermont Nuclear Plant
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsDespite opposition by key state officials and worldwide fears over safety risks in the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted a new 20-year operating license for the Vermont Yankee atomic power plant. Monday's approval, which capped a five-year review process, allows the plant to run from 2012 to 2032. But whether the plant will be open for another two decades remains to be seen. Vermont is the only state with authority to keep a plant from operating. When it bought the plant in 2002, Entergy agreed to obtain a certificate of public good from ...
NRC: Japan's Nuclear Crisis Doesn't Warrant US Changes
By not in system - AOL NewsROCKVILLE, Md. -- The nuclear crisis is Japan, while severe, does not warrant any immediate changes in the U.S, a top U.S. nuclear official said Monday. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's executive director for operations, Bill Borchardt, said officials have "a high degree of confidence" that operations at the 104 nuclear reactors in 31 states are safe. He said inspectors at each of the plants have redoubled efforts to guard against any safety breaches. Borchardt gave NRC commissioners a detailed look at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plan, damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the ...
Three Mile Island: A Day Like No Other -- Until Now
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News"The world has never known a day quite like today," the somber network news anchor said. "It faced the considerable uncertainties and dangers of the worst nuclear power plant accident of the atomic age." This was not Japan. It was not Chernobyl. It was Walter Cronkite in March 1979 telling the nation about Three Mile Island. The most trusted newsman in America sounded alarmed about what he knew and wary about what he was being told. This pretty much summed up the feelings many us had about what was happening on a long, narrow island in the middle of the Susquehanna River near Middletown, ...
NRC: Containment at 3 Reactors in Japan Currently Intact
By not in system - AOL NewsROCKVILLE, Md. -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday that containment at three reactors at Japan's crippled nuclear complex is currently intact and the situation at the plant appears to be stabilizing. The commission met to get an update from staff on the ongoing crisis in Japan and devise a plan to meet President Barack Obama's call for a comprehensive safety review at the 104 U.S. nuclear reactors. Bill Borchardt, the commission's executive director for operations, said that units 1, 2 and 3 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant have some core damage but that containment for those ...
Nuclear Crisis May Affect Placement of US Reactors
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu suggested Sunday that Japan's nuclear crisis might make it less likely that new nuclear reactors are built near large American cities, just one of many safety changes that could be forthcoming as U.S. officials review reactor safety. "Certainly where you site reactors and where we site reactors going forward will be different than where we might have sited them in the past," Chu said in response to questions about the Indian Point nuclear plant near New York City. "Any time there is a serious accident, we have to learn from those accidents and go ...
Obama Says U.S. Safe From Japan Radiation, Orders Review of U.S. Nuclear Plants
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPresident Obama reassured Americans Thursday that radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plants poses no threat to this country, but added that he has ordered safety reviews of U.S. nuclear facilities. "We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the United States, whether it's the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska, or U.S. territories in the Pacific," Obama said in an address from the Rose Garden. "That is the judgment of our Nuclear Regulatory Commission and many other experts." Americans do not need to take any precautions against radiation contamination "beyond staying informed" of ...
Gregory Jaczko: 5 Facts on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsGregory Jaczko is spending more time in the public eye than usual. As the aftermath of Japan's latest earthquake and tsunami continues to unfold, Jaczko, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has been called on to assess the destruction and to assure U.S. senators that a nuclear disaster such as the one facing Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant won't occur on American soil. Jaczko, who went toe to toe with Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., on Wednesday at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, told senators that he was awaiting "good facts" on the Japanese ...
When Nuke Planning for the Worst Is Not Enough
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsNEWS ANALYSIS As hopes dim for controlling the explosive self-destruction of six decomposing nuclear plants on Japan's northeast coast, safety experts around the world want to know what was missing in the tens of thousands of pages of repeatedly tested emergency drills crafted to cover every eventuality. Japanese and U.S. safety officials say the emergency plans for almost every plant, everywhere, precisely detail every possible response after an earthquake, flood or tsunami and explosion. But as the past five days have shown, these disaster plans seemed fine until reality reared back and ...
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