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    Former NRC Chair: Emergency Plans Won’t Protect Residents from Radiation, And Indian Point Should Be
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Oct 7, 2013
    • 9 min

    Former NRC Chair: Emergency Plans Won’t Protect Residents from Radiation, And Indian Point Should Be

    Gregory Jaczko: Shut Indian Point down By Roger Witherspoon The former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday that emergency plans for a catastrophic event at the Indian Point nuclear power plant are not designed to ensure that residents will escape unhealthy doses of radiation and it would be best if the plant closes down. Gregory Jaczko, who led the five-member Commission during the triple meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima  Daiichi  nuclear station and resigne
    NRC Probes Oyster Creek’s Hurricane Sandy Response
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Nov 15, 2012
    • 4 min

    NRC Probes Oyster Creek’s Hurricane Sandy Response

    By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Federal regulators have launched a special probe to determine if officials at the Oyster Creek nuclear power violated rules and waited too long to declare an emergency alert as rising waters threatened critical reactors systems. Three inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission began a “special inspection” Tuesday into the alert called by plant officials as waters driven by the storm rose to 7.4 feet in the plant’s inta
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