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...Whatever form the next attack takes, all evidence suggests that the nation is still largely unprepared. That's beginning to change. The NRC has plans to beef up already heightened security at power plants, and public health officials are beginning to get serious about staving off biological assaults. Last year, for example, the CDC authorized a private company to cook up 40 million additional doses of smallpox vaccine to add to the U.S. stockpile--a job that will take several years. "We also need to develop new drugs and vaccines against other organisms that might be a threat," says...
...look more like cash cows. The Vermont battle, in fact, is just the latest stop on an industrywide shopping spree that is fueling a nuclear resurgence. By the end of the decade, new nuclear power plants could be sprouting up right here at home: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has already approved the next generation of supposedly cheaper, safer plant designs...
...look more like cash cows. The Vermont battle, in fact, is just the latest stop on an industrywide shopping spree that is fueling a nuclear resurgence. By the end of the decade, new nuclear power plants could be sprouting up right here at home: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has already approved the next generation of supposedly cheaper, safer plant designs...
...Indian Point 2 plant, part of a trio of upstate New York reactors Entergy recently bought for around $1 billion, was temporarily closed down after radioactive water leaked from a ruptured steam tube. Just as the plants are getting older and more prone to problems, critics assert, the nrc is letting operators police themselves...
...designer at Northeast Utilities' Millstone 3 plant in Waterford, Connecticut, which is currently shut down and on the NRC's watch list, I can tell you firsthand that Pooley's suggestion that a clandestine atmosphere and oppressive management tactics were prevalent at Millstone is simply not true. His article sounded more like the review of a sequel to the movie China Syndrome than an accurate report on the progress of the NRC and Northeast Utilities. BRIAN BOHMBACH Niantic, Connecticut...