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Government Report Exposes Lack of Preparedness for Nuclear Emergency
2013-04-10 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report finding that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not adequately understand the shadow evacuation phenomenon at nuclear reactors, and that its emergency planning regulations do not adequately account for the strong likelihood that far more people would evacuate, from much further distances than NRC plans, in a real nuclear emergency. The report did not cover another crucial and little-known flaw in current U.S....
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Category:Electronics and Electrical