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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Thanks to Fukushima, Light Shed on US Nuclear Facility Located on a Volcano

Thanks to Fukushima, Light Shed on US Nuclear Facility Located on a Volcano
Russ Wellen, Foreign Policy in Focus: "The light shining on the safety of nuclear energy as a result of the Japanese nuclear crisis has been of such powerful wattage that it's even flushing safety issues with nuclear weapons labs and manufacturing facilities out of hiding. Roger Snodgrass reports for the Santa Fe New Mexican. 'On Friday, President Barack Obama asked the independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review the safety of American nuclear power plants.... At Los Alamos National Laboratory, nuclear safety issues have been complicated with seismic concerns, as geological studies have uncovered an increasingly precarious underground structure.'"
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