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    Nuclear Plants Face System-Wide     Earthquake Safety Review
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Sep 2, 2011
    • 6 min

    Nuclear Plants Face System-Wide Earthquake Safety Review

    By Roger Witherspoon The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may force the nation’s nuclear power plants to reevaluate their earthquake detection and safety systems and the manner in which they calculate their resistance to earthquakes as a result of unexpected damage to American and foreign reactor complexes caused by recent earthquakes. The agency has been studying the need to upgrade earthquake protections and evaluations since 2005, in partial recognition of the inadequacy of n
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Sep 2, 2011
    • 4 min

    America’s Quake-Proof Nukes

    By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article As the Japanese struggle to prevent a widening disaster in its nuclear fleet from adding to the natural disaster facing that country, America’s nuclear proponents are struggling to show that such a calamity could not happen here. One Gannett newspaper trumpeted that the local, Indian Point nuclear power plant was designed to withstand earthquakes and would not suffer the same fate as the Fukushima Daiichi plants. The implicat
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