[ RadSafe ] Any comment on David Lochbaum's warning reprodued by a columnist in The Guardian

Steven Dapra sjd at swcp.com
Fri Nov 2 23:46:54 CDT 2012


Nov. 2

         Can you provide a citation or a link to the Guardian article?

Steven Dapra



At 03:38 AM 11/2/2012, you wrote:
>Friends,
>
>Do you have any comment on the following warning by David Lochbaum 
>reprodeced in The Guardian?
>
>Is there any reliable analysis done on the issue referred to in his article?
>David Lochbaum warns:
>"I'm most concerned about the NRC's practice of allowing unsafe 
>reactors to operate. UCS's Nuclear Power Information Tracker shows 
>47 reactors that NRC knows to violate fire protection regulations 
>and 27 reactors with seismic protection known to be less than the 
>seismic hazards they face. These pre-existing vulnerabilities mean 
>that the American public is protected more by luck than by skill."
> >
> >
> >Regards
> >Parthasarathy




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