Now that the NRC is back up, we can see all the nukes that
went down during the government shutdown: nine of them.
If they’re not safe to run without NRC looking over their shoulder,
are they safe to run at all?
And two came back up.
Was that a prudent thing to do?
Meanwhile, solar panels don’t need an NRC.
Entergy’s chronically faulty Pilgrim 1 was the last to fall during the shutdown, while Southern’s defect-shipped Farley 1 was one of the first:
| 30 Sep 2013 | Saint Lucie 1, Farley 1, and Beaver Valley 1 |
| 2 Oct 2013 | D.C. Cook 2 |
| 5 Oct 2013 | Palo Verde 3 |
| 8 Oct 2013 | Clinton |
| 12 Oct 2013 | Oconee 2 and Hope Creek 1 |
| 14 Oct 2013 | Sequoyah 1 |
| 15 Oct 2013 | Pilgrim 1 |
Back up: Exelon’s Braidwood 1 in Illinois and Wolf Creek 1 Wolf Creek Nuclear’s in Kansas.
My solar panels worked that whole time.
-jsq
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