Power Plant Cases

The 5.9 magnitude earthquake that hit the East Coast from Virginia to New Hampshire reinforces the fact that if someone tells you what happened at Fukushima can’t happen here, they’re not telling the truth. If you move the earthquake that just occurred about 200 miles north and increase its intensity only slightly, it would be over the limit of what Indian Point can handle.

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Not only should the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) slow down reactor licensing and relicensing in order to address a wide range of post-Fukushima health and safety concerns, but the reality is that the NRC is required to apply the brakes in order to comply with existing federal law, according to 19 separate legal challenges filed today by a total of 26 public interest groups and several individuals.

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the Sierra Club released a new report detailing the damage from outdated once-through cooling systems used by power plants in the Gulf of Mexico; the Mississippi River; the Hudson River, New York Harbor and Long Island Sound; the California Coast; the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay.

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