{"id":5034,"date":"2013-08-07T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:35:04","slug":"palisades-nuke-down-11-times-since-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/palisades-nuke-down-11-times-since-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Palisades nuke down 11 times since 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nDecrepit nuke leaked radioactive water into Lake Michigan\r\nin May 2013, and “The same tank sprang a leak in 2012.”\r\nThat reactor has been down so many times the reporter couldn’t count\r\nthem all.\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nWhen will we realize what Korea and now Japan has:\r\nthe nuclear industry colludes to hide its mistakes from the public,\r\nand the public needs to do something about it.\r\n

\r\nDavid N. Goodman wrote for AP 6 May 2013,\r\n\r\nNuclear Regulatory Commission: ‘Very slightly radioactive water’ enters Lake Michigan<\/a>,\r\n

\r\n

\r\nEarly Sunday morning, the tank was ruled inoperable and the nuclear power plant began powering down. This is\r\n\r\nreportedly the ninth time<\/a> that the facility has been shut down since 2011.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\nNope, ten times<\/a>; count ’em:\r\n

>\r\n\r\n\"Palisades<\/a>\r\n

\r\nAnd it stayed down from May 6th to June 17th 2013.\r\nPlus who knows what it’s leaking now that they didn’t bother to take it down for?\r\n

\r\n

\r\nThe public can generally count on the NRC’s risk assessments and its\r\nwillingness to get tough with operators of nuclear plants that have\r\nrecurring problems, said Alan Jackson, a radiation health physicist\r\nat Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nYeah, that’s what Californians counted on about San Onofre,\r\nonly to discover NRC wouldn’t even show the public\r\nSouthern California Edison’s documents that were their excuse\r\nfor trying to restart it because “it’s\r\nnever been a practice”<\/a> to show licensing documents to the public for any reactor.\r\n\r\nSan Onofre is shut down<\/a> because of\r\n\r\nnon-governmental activists<\/a>\r\nwith a little help from the California Public Utilities Commission.\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe Japanese people depended on their nuclear officials to oversee\r\nTEPCO about Fukushima, but that didn’t happen for two years\r\n\r\nwhile Fukushima leaked into the air and the ocean<\/a>\r\nand it continues to do so.\r\n

\r\nMeanwhile, stateside, the EPA wants to\r\n\r\nraise radiation limits<\/a> even after tuna have been caught off California\r\nwith radioactive isotopes from Fukushima.\r\n

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\r\nWhat should be of concern to regulators and the public, Jackson\r\nsaid, is whether any nuclear power plant has enough of a culture of\r\nsafety in place. That’s especially important because of the intense\r\npressures in the electrical power industry to keep costs low.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe Korean government is finally concerned about\r\n\r\nthe Korean nuclear mafia of power companies, vendors, and testers<\/a>.\r\nMaybe we should get concerned about that, too, and not just in Korea or Japan.\r\nWill we wait until the Savannah River is more radioactive than it already is?\r\nWill we wait until the Altamaha River is radioactive and the Floridan Aquifer\r\nis contaminated?\r\nWill we let Southern Company suck up more resources for those new nukes\r\nthat could go to building wind offshore and solar inland?\r\nOr will we do something about it?\r\n

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