St. Lucie’s Safety Rating Among Nation’s Worst
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Continuing problems with critical safety systems at the St. Lucie nuclear power plant has resulted in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission downgrading the site’s status to among the worst run facilities in the nation. The NRC dropped the plant’s designation in its color coded rating system from green – which is given to the best run plants – to yellow, the second lowest designation, asserting that the problems at the plant “have