U.S. nuclear plant safety checks system under fire (CSM)

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0208/p02s01-usgn.html

The federal relicensing system used to ensure that America's 1970s-era nuclear plants are safe for future decades is coming under fire following an audit that found key safety evaluations lacked critical documentation.

Without the documentation, regulators cannot be sure how carefully – or even if – the plants' key safety systems had been checked.

In filings last month, New York and Vermont regulators called for an overhaul of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission relicensing program before the NRC allows a plant in each of their states to operate for 20 more years.

Congress is eager to look at the relicensing question, too – as well as at other concerns such as the video showing guards asleep at a nuclear plant last year. Hearings are expected this month or next, says a staffer with the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

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[winter999]

1. Still, Nuclear Energy is safer than flying.

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2. Of course fundie anti-nukes have doubts about nuclear safety.

None of them are scientists, none of them know any science and there is NOT ONE of them who cares about science.

If any of them did care about science at the "Eastern Environmental Law Center in Newark, N.J" they would have become scientists rather than lawyers.

But on the other hand, if they had scientific training, they would stop demonstrating that they couldn't care less about dangerous fossil fuel safety, which is, by the way, effectively nonexistent.

More links from the vast circle jerk of illiterate fundie anti-nukes.

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3. Freepers hate environmentalists

http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/clinics_environment.html

Public Interest Environmental Law in New Jersey

The Clinic has been the sole public interest law firm for New Jersey's environmental community since 1985. Since the Clinic's founding, more than 500 Rutgers law students have helped successfully resolve hundreds of cases. The Clinic works with the Eastern Environmental Law Center, a public interest law firm located on Rutgers' campus in Newark, New Jersey. Students provide thousands of hours of pro bono legal assistance each year.

As a result, the Clinic has litigated many of the most important environmental cases in the State on topics as varied as land use/sprawl, transportation, clean water, clean air, environmental justice, endangered species, hazardous waste site remediation, public access to beaches and other public lands, open space, parkland preservation and energy policy. The Clinic's cases are frequently litigated before the New Jersey Appellate Division and Supreme Court, as well as Federal court, municipal planning boards, and municipal zoning boards. The Clinic also provides ongoing advice and counsel to environmental and community organizations.