Nukes to America: ‘We don’t need no stinking fire protection’

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http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/2116


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Investigations by the New York Daily News and others show Indian Point’s fire detection and suppression systems to be woefully inadequate. “Indian Point’s ongoing failure to comply with federal fire safety requirements is both reckless and unacceptable,” says Eric Schneiderman, New York’s Attorney-General.

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In 2006, it told Entergy to justify why it should keep operating without meeting fire protection standards.

Three years later Entergy submitted a plan which is still pending. Meanwhile Entergy seeks a 20-year extension of operating licenses due to expire in 2013 and 2015.

Schneiderman says that “for years the NRC has looked the other way as Indian Point ignores the most basic safety stands. . . . With nearly 20 million people living and working within 50 miles. . . . that’s a risk we simply cannot afford.”

-snip about nuke industry thumbing nose at NRC for yrs., etc.-
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[Arctic Dave]

1. It's not just the nuke industry, the problem is everywhere.

Fire protection is one of those things that gets ignored until something blows up or burns down.