Word: nrc
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...under construction since 1972 and now 97% completed, may not begin operating for three more years, if it ever does. Its long and sometimes tumultuous development has been marked by runaway costs, faulty construction, mismanagement by the utilities that own it, and inadequate supervision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Earlier this month the three owners-Cincinnati Gas & Electric, Dayton Power & Light, and Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric-began to consider their options. Among them was the sobering possibility of abandoning the project. Such a move would turn Zimmer into nuclear America's biggest white elephant to date...
Ever since the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been under intense public pressure to make sure that workable plans exist for evacuating the people who live near one of the 83 American nuclear power plants in case of another emergency. Last week the NRC showed by two tough decisions that it really takes its watchdog role seriously. In a unanimous ruling, the five-member agency voted to shut down by June 9 two troubled reactors that serve metropolitan New York City unless local authorities quickly agree on acceptable evacuation procedures...
...York case will be closely watched by both friends and foes of nuclear power. If the NRC carries out the threat, it will be the first time that an operating nuclear facility has been ordered closed for lack of an evacuation plan. Said Commissioner John F. Ahearne, a former NRC chairman and a physicist by training: "If we didn't [take action] here, people wouldn't believe we would do it anywhere...
...NRC's deadline for putting these procedures into place passed two years ago, yet only 16 of the 53 American nuclear installations have approved plans. In the other cases the intense debates over the feasibility of the programs have delayed any action...
...overlook the Hudson River, 35 miles north of Manhattan. In Rockland County, across the river from Indian Point, authorities have refused to take part in any talks on evacuation procedures because they believe it would be impossible to get people out of the area in a crisis. Thus the NRC's action is, at least in part, a form of pressure on New York State to get its balky counties in line on the nuclear safety issue...