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March 20, 2012 - Beloit Daily News - ‘Protection for nuclear safety’ - This past week marked a year since the devastating events in Fukushima, Japan. The tragic accident that ensued at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a lasting legacy of nuclear power. More will suffer long-lasting health effects. There will be continuing environmental and economic consequences. What happened in Japan can happen here. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission which is the federal agency responsible for making sure we are safe and preventing a Fukushima-type disaster from happening, along with Congress, are not addressing critical safety issues at our aging plants. The NRC must address storage of spent fuel. A better way is to store spent fuel in dry casks once it is cooled. Recently the Byron plant had an "unusual event". One of the reactors shut down. There was a concern early on that fire was involved. More than 45 plants in the US do not comply with fire protection regulations. The NRC needs to reexamine regulations for natural disasters and possible terrorist attacks and revise its emergency planning requirements which are currently based on a 10-mile planning zone. It is critical for our governor and state legislators to speak up and demand protection for all of us.

 

March 20, 2012 - Nuclear Street - Regional Government to Allow Indian Nuclear Plant Completion - Construction on what will become the largest nuclear plant in India was allowed to resume after a regional government concluded the reactors are safe. Two units at the Koodankulam plant in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu are nearly complete, but their commissioning had been stalled by public protests. On Monday the BBC reported the state’s cabinet, reassured by further safety reports, decided the reactors could be completed. Both units are VVER-1000 reactors built by Russia's Atomstroyexport under a $3 billion contract. Russia is also supplying fuel for the plant, the first shipment of which arrived in 2008, according to the World Nuclear Association. Commercial operation of the units was scheduled to commence in March and June of this year but has been delayed by mass protests by local groups opposed to nuclear energy. A total of eight 1,000-megawatt reactors are planned for the first phase of the Koodankulam plant, with the Indian and Russian governments signing an agreement in 2007 to build four more in a second phase. India has set a goal of generating 20,000 megawatts from nuclear by 2020 and of supplying 25 percent of its electricity from reactors by 2050.