Nuclear Power Plant Oyster Creek Declares Alert

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-...jerseys-oyster-creek-declares-alert-following

Video discussion:-
http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2012/10/29/nuclear_plants_from_virginia_to_vermont

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen:-
"Oyster Creek is the same design, but even older than Fukushima Daiichi unit 1. It’s in a refueling outage. That means that all the nuclear fuel is not in the nuclear reactor, but it’s over in the spent fuel pool. And in that condition, there’s no backup power for the spent fuel pools. So, if Oyster Creek were to lose its offsite power — and, frankly, that’s really likely — there would be no way cool that nuclear fuel that’s in the fuel pool until they get the power reestablished. ... The most important lesson we can take out of the Fukushima Daiichi and climate change, and especially with Hurricane Sandy, is that we can’t expect to cool these fueling pools."

 

More from Bloomberg,"Nuclear Plant in N.J. on Alert as Sandy Tests Industry":-
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ched-to-nuclear-reactors-in-sandy-s-path.html

Exelon Corp said last night there was “no challenge to plant safety equipment and no threat to the public health or safety”.

 

I am actually beginning to believe we should phase out or close down old nuclear reactors.

 

Come on guys, surely climate change and aging nuclear reactors can get along...ebony and ivory and such

As long as we don't get zombies, we're good

 

A USA nuclear plant, somewhere, is a disaster waiting to happen.

 

Yes they can still cool it. They have backup generators, and they can flood it with water. Not that big of a deal.

I wonder if they would still publish this if a thunderstorm knocked out power in the area.

Fukushima did not hurt anyone. I wonder how many people know that!!!!

 

Are you a fucking idiot?

 

http://asiancorrespondent.com/53036/the-fukushima-death-toll/

All of the souls died because of the wave not the plant.

 

You said "hurt", genius. Not "died". PLENTY of people were hurt by radioactive exposure.

"Died" comes later after cancer sets in.

 

Nobody was hurt by the reactor either. This was an earthquake.

I'm not advocating nuclear- only just pointing out that many people's emotional responses with nuclear are wrong, even if nuclear is not the best choice.