| Nuclear experts are sounding the alarm on the potential of a Fukushima-like disaster happening in the U.S. 16 nuclear reactors are in the potential path of Hurricane Sandy, the powerful storm bearing down on the East Coast of the United States, according to Reuters. "There are more than a dozen nuclear plants near Hurricane Sandy's path in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut, providing power to millions of customers in the region," the news outlet reported.
News website Common Dreams notes that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is "dispatching additional inspectors to provide "enhanced oversight' at 8 reactors." Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen was on Democracy Now! this morning and discussed how the storm might impact nuclear power plants. He pinpointed one plant, the Oyster Creek plant in New Jersey, as posing particularly worrisome |
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