Saturday, March 2, 2013
Exelon Corporation will be installing new sirens with battery back-up capability for Oyster Creek Generating Station by June 1
Exelon Corporation will be installing new sirens with battery back-up capability for Oyster Creek Generating Station by June 1, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) response to Sen. Robert Menendez’s concerns raised following Superstorm Sandy. In January, Menendez questioned the integrity of the plant, following a special inspection report released by the NRC. The report indicated several areas in need of improvement, including heightened awareness of emergency declaration thresholds, clearer documentation in control room records and ensuring reliable back-up power for the plant’s emergency operations facility, he said. “This report raised some important issues, even if there were no cited violations,” Menendez said. “In …
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Fukushima is a "low probability event," NRC says
Oyster Creek critics expressed a sense of urgency at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s second public meeting on the oversight of the Forked River based nuclear plant. Just more than a year after the Fukushima disaster, citizens continue to show concern over the NRC’s lack of immediate action to improve the safety of nuclear plants in the United States. In March, the federal agency issued its first orders following the nuclear disaster but plant’s have until 2016 to comply. “Why is this urgency that we’re now all supposed to be feeling after Fukushima is not reflected in the work of the NRC,” said New Jersey Environmental Federation’s (NJEF) Peggi Sturmfels, who considers the post Fukushima requirements “patchwork.” “We need to get this …
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Petition calls for a 50-mile emergency evacuation zone surrounding U.S. nuclear reactors, including Oyster Creek Generating Station
Jersey Shore advocates joined thirty-seven clean energy groups in submitting a formal petition for rulemaking to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) seeking the adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors, including Oyster Creek Generating Station. “Pretending that radiation from an accident at Oyster Creek would not go beyond the 10-mile evacuation zone is a fantasy placing millions of people at risk,” said Janet Tauro, a member of Grandmothers, Mothers and More for Energy Safety (GRAMMES), a grassroots organization who fought the relicensing of Oyster Creek and signed the petition. The petition calls for: Currently utilities do not have to prove…
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