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    NRC Halts New Nuclear Licenses: Existing Licenses in Doubt
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Aug 9, 2012
    • 7 min

    NRC Halts New Nuclear Licenses: Existing Licenses in Doubt

    By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article In an unprecedented move, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has bowed to a court order  and imposed a temporary halt in relicensing nuclear power plants until it thoroughly examines the impact of runaway meltdowns at the plants’ spent fuel pools. That action affects the relicensing evaluations of some 33 facilities at 19 sites, including Indian Point 2 and 3 on the Hudson River opposite Bear Mountain.  And it leaves in limbo
    Feds Rate Region’s Nuclear Fleet “Safe”   But Japanese Problems Fuel Skepticism
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Mar 30, 2011
    • 6 min

    Feds Rate Region’s Nuclear Fleet “Safe” But Japanese Problems Fuel Skepticism

    By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article All six nuclear reactors in the New York/ New Jersey metropolitan area are operating “in a manner that preserved public health and safety” and therefore will receive the minimal oversight during the coming year, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission declared in its annual assessment. In separate reviews, the NRC concluded that New Jersey’s Hope Creek, Oyster Creek, and twin Salem Generating Station plants and the two Indian Point
    Entergy Leaving Gotham Behind
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Dec 5, 2010
    • 6 min

    Entergy Leaving Gotham Behind

    By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Entergy Nuclear has dropped its share of electricity supporting New York City and Westchester County to about 4 percent of the area’s power needs while selling increasing portions of its juice in an open market stretching from Maine to Delaware. The company is spending millions of dollars on an extensive campaign to convince the public that the region would suffer if the nuclear plants at Indian Point were shut and its 2,100
    Graceless Ageing at Salem
    Roger Witherspoon
    • Sep 5, 2010
    • 5 min

    Graceless Ageing at Salem

    By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article A series of wide ranging, federal inspections of the twin Salem nuclear power plants has found extensive decay and cracks as long as six feet in the concrete containment buildings, corrosion of the buildings’ steel liners by decades of leaks from radioactive and acidic water, and “aggressive” groundwater penetration throughout the power complex. In addition, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found that PSEG Nu
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