Ohio's Perry Nuclear Power Plant near Cleveland evacuated because of high radiation levels Read mor

[babsbunny]

Ohio's Perry Nuclear Power Plant near Cleveland evacuated because of high radiation levels

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/04/27/2011-04-27_ohios_perry_nuclear_power_plant_near_cleveland_evacuated_because_of_high_radiati.html#ixzz1Kr1CZnfj


BY Lukas I. Alpert
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, April 27th 2011, 3:11 PM

Officials evacuated an Ohio nuclear power plant after alarmingly high radiation levels were detected there, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday.

The episode at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant outside of Cleveland on April 22 has prompted a special inspection by federal regulators.

No one was hurt, and officials say none of the four workers at the plant then were exposed to radiation levels "in excess of NRC limits."

The radiation readings spiked while the plant was shutting down for refueling, and workers removed a monitor that measures nuclear reactions during start-up and shutdown.

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[damntexdem]

1. And how long before this headline needs to be shortened to:

"Cleveland evacuated because of high radiation levels"?

[RC]

2. How long? A very long time.

Ain't gonna happen.

[PufPuf23]

3. Regarding Nuke power I have four concerns that have caused me pause:

1) The design and age of installed capacity and how containment will decay and pollute the environment.

2) The problem of wastes and the persistency in the environment over spans longer than modern human history.

3) The susceptability of nuclear facilites to natural disasters or hostile attack.

4) What happens to a region and the planet when a facility goes code 7 and there are resultant dead zones? Many locations of existing nuclear plants are problematic.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Where is it in relation to Cleveland? nt

[OhioChick]

5. Perry is located 40 miles northeast of Cleveland in North Perry. n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Thanks, my dear OhioChick! n/t

[Enthusiast]

7. Rather than plan to build more nuclear power plants,

we should be reviewing safety procedures and facilities in hopes of preventing the very big nuclear accident that is surely in our future.