But Dave Lochbaum, the
director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), said in a statement that the draft doesn't do enough to address the safety of waste already stored at reactors around the nation.
I asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide some details on what's been found, and then asked for a reaction from David A. Lochbaum, director
of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant last spring cast the issue
of nuclear safety in stark relief.
«You always worry about what you haven't analysed,» says Chip Lagdon,
chief of nuclear safety with the US Department of Energy.
Cannons of nuclear safety, infused in Holtec International's global workforce as a part of a continuous improvement program, are also embraced and reinforced by HGS» leadership in all aspects of HGS» activities.
In fact, it was those who were most viciously attacking «deniers» who denied the
science of nuclear safety and started attacking us.
If this is correct, then the Japanese nuclear safety culture is fundamentally flawed which means, because the same nuclear safety rules, limits and conditions are almost universally adopted internationally, that the demonstration and
regulation of nuclear safety worldwide is equally and, perhaps, irrevocably flawed».
I recently asked David Lochbaum, the
director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists (and a longtime nuclear engineer), to examine the scenario Wasserman warned of (read it in his post) and the need for some takeover of the operation.
Many of these studies were based on safety requirements in the US, where Iraq's director
of nuclear safety was trained.
Lochbaum, the director
of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group, said the challenge of replacing Indian Point had more to do with transmission of existing power than generating power.
[What follows was written by Dave Lochbaum, Director
of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists]