NRC Miscalculated Nuke Plant Risk

[dArKeR]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission miscalculated the risk to the public of letting an Ohio nuclear power plant continue to run in 2001 with suspected reactor leaks, congressional auditors said Tuesday.

The General Accounting Office said in a report that government inspectors should have recognized warning signs years earlier that an unsafe amount of corrosive boric acid was accumulating on the reactor head at the Davis-Besse plant near Toledo.

"NRC should have but did not identify or prevent the corrosion at Davis-Besse because its oversight did not generate accurate information on plant conditions," the GAO said. A copy of the GAO report was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/18/tech/main618148.shtml

[napi21]

1. HOw many of you remember Three Mile Island?

I do! I lived in PA. at the time.

Doesn't ANYBODY do their job anymore!

[Don_G]

2. The NRC's Record Isn't Exactly Sterling

Stronium 90 leaked over a road in Oak Ridge, TN and they'll have to replace a large part of it. They have no idea who rolled through the leak in the meantime.