Beyond Nuclear - Home - Coalition alleges safety rollbacks at Entergy Palisades, cites risk of vessel fracture, calls for permanent shutdown Snip: The coalition cites the risk of catastrophic release of hazardous radioactivity to the environment due to Pressurized Thermal Shock (PTS) fracturing the embrittled RPV, causing a Loss-of-Coolant-Accident (LOCA), core meltdown, and containment failure. See the coalitions intervention filing here, including legal and technical arguments, as well as numerous examples of PTS regulatory rollbacks over the decades. See expert witness Arnie Gundersens declaration and CV here. See eyewitness affidavits re: NRCs refusal to require metal samples to be analyzed here. See an extensive (yet still far from complete) compilation of Palisades PTS-related documents here. See the coalitions press release here. See also a statement by Gail Snyder, President of the Board of Nuclear Energy Information Service of IL, and a local landowner near Palisades who has intervened against the LAR.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:46:33 +0000
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