Last weekend, one of the nuclear power reactors at the Indian Point Energy Center in New York state was taken offline due to problems with the control rods. The power reactor was shut down by the control room operators around 5 o'clock EST on Saturday, December 5th.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is charged with licensing, inspecting and regulating nuclear power reactors operating in the U.S. The NRC has been using the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) for the past fifteen years. The ROP is used to assess the performance of a nuclear power plant over seven different factors in the operation of the facility.
45 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 detected from farm soil in Chiba prefecture in Japan. fukushima-diary.com
I have been posting a lot lately about nuclear war. Today, I am blogging about Poland which shares a border with Russia. With the Russian seizure of nearby Crimea, the Polish are very worried about Russian aggression in Eastern Europe.
I have posted several blogs about the decades long hostility between Pakistan and India.
Countries that use nuclear power to generate electricity store spent nuclear fuel in cooling pools, dry casks above ground or in vaults lined with concrete and steel.
I have blogged before about problems with disposal of radioactive filters that look like big socks used to trap radioactive particles coming out of fracking well operation.
