Guest guest Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Illinois nuke-power operator criticized for leaks and " incidents " Quantity doesn't equal quality with Chicago-based Exelon Corp., which runs all six nuclear plants and 11 nuclear reactors in Illinois. There were at least four " incidents " at Exelon plants last week, including a false alarm at one generating station that initiated the first " site-area emergency " at a U.S. nuclear plant in 15 years. These came on the heels of disclosures that there were eight radioactive leaks and spills at Exelon plants since 1996 that went unreported to the public. One spill of roughly 3 million gallons of tritium-laced water in 1998 wasn't completely cleaned up eight years later. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) plans to introduce legislation this week requiring nuclear facilities to notify state and local officials of unintended or accidental radioactive leaks -- or face possible loss of their operating licenses. straight to the source: Chicago Tribune, Robert Manor, 25 Feb 2006 straight to the source: Time.com, Eric Ferkenhoff, 23 Feb 2006 straight to the source: Morris Daily Herald, Jo Ann Hustis, 23 Feb 2006 " NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 The false alarm was fun to hear about on the news that day. They say that if at least 3 (not 1) pistons do not close properly it sets off an alarm, which it did. Thing is, no sirens went off, no one was warned, no one near the reactors even knew about it until the news told them. What if it wasn't a false alarm? Supposedly it was a computer malfunction. As if that will calm anyones fears. It was all that near me, but near enough. Nikki , fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote: > > Illinois nuke-power operator criticized for leaks and " incidents " > > Quantity doesn't equal quality with Chicago-based Exelon Corp., which runs all six nuclear plants and 11 nuclear reactors in Illinois. There were at least four " incidents " at Exelon plants last week, including a false alarm at one generating station that initiated the first " site-area emergency " at a U.S. nuclear plant in 15 years. These came on the heels of disclosures that there were eight radioactive leaks and spills at Exelon plants since 1996 that went unreported to the public. One spill of roughly 3 million gallons of tritium-laced water in 1998 wasn't completely cleaned up eight years later. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) plans to introduce legislation this week requiring nuclear facilities to notify state and local officials of unintended or accidental radioactive leaks -- or face possible loss of their operating licenses. > > > straight to the source: Chicago Tribune, Robert Manor, 25 Feb 2006 > > > straight to the source: Time.com, Eric Ferkenhoff, 23 Feb 2006 > > > straight to the source: Morris Daily Herald, Jo Ann Hustis, 23 Feb 2006 > > " NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President. " > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 one i get from the story is... wait...you mean they don't have to tell folks there's a leak....! sweet..i want a job at the nuclear reg. committee....cuz obviously they just play shuffle board all day >earthstrm <earthstorm >Feb 28, 2006 3:32 AM > > Re: a glowing report > >The false alarm was fun to hear about on the news that day. They say >that if at least 3 (not 1) pistons do not close properly it sets off >an alarm, which it did. > >Thing is, no sirens went off, no one was warned, no one near the >reactors even knew about it until the news told them. What if it >wasn't a false alarm? Supposedly it was a computer malfunction. As >if that will calm anyones fears. > >It was all that near me, but near enough. > >Nikki > > > , fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote: >> >> Illinois nuke-power operator criticized for leaks and " incidents " >> >> Quantity doesn't equal quality with Chicago-based Exelon Corp., >which runs all six nuclear plants and 11 nuclear reactors in >Illinois. There were at least four " incidents " at Exelon plants last >week, including a false alarm at one generating station that >initiated the first " site-area emergency " at a U.S. nuclear plant in >15 years. These came on the heels of disclosures that there were >eight radioactive leaks and spills at Exelon plants since 1996 that >went unreported to the public. One spill of roughly 3 million >gallons of tritium-laced water in 1998 wasn't completely cleaned up >eight years later. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) plans to introduce >legislation this week requiring nuclear facilities to notify state >and local officials of unintended or accidental radioactive leaks -- >or face possible loss of their operating licenses. >> >> >> straight to the source: Chicago Tribune, Robert Manor, 25 Feb 2006 >> >> >> straight to the source: Time.com, Eric Ferkenhoff, 23 Feb 2006 >> >> >> straight to the source: Morris Daily Herald, Jo Ann Hustis, 23 Feb >2006 >> >> " NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National >Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, >or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative >oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the >impeachment of the current President. " >> > > > > > > >To send an email to - > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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