Nuclear Power: Know Your Nuclear Power Plants: San Onofre Plant Can Survive 7.0 Quake
The Los Angeles Times reports that the San Onofre nuclear power plant (pictured) in northern San Diego County could withstand a 7.0 earthquake, and also has a 25-foot sea wall to fend off a tsunami. When the plant was…
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Letters: Nuclear power
Nuclear power is insanely risky
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Nuclear power problems in Japan clouding Iowa legislation
Problems besetting nuclear reactors in earthquake-battered Japan are forming a cloud of uncertainty over plans in Iowa to construct a second nuclear power plant. Legislative committees in the House and Senate currently are considering legislation that would help address hurdles that might impede MidAmerican Energy’s exploratory effort aimed at building a nuclear-powered facility in Iowa […]
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Nuclear official: Spent fuel storage pool may boil
Conditions at a crippled nuclear power plant deteriorated further Tuesday, with a Japanese nuclear safety official saying that the water inside the waste fuel storage pool for a damaged reactor may be boiling.
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