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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

NRC report downsizes estimates of deaths from nuclear plant meltdown

NRC report downsizes estimates of deaths from nuclear plant meltdown

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories has been working on a report to update and revise estimates of the number of people that would be killed or harmed as a result of a nuclear core meltdown at a plant in the United States. While currently still unavailable to the public, a copy of the report was obtained by the Union for Concerned Scientists, under the Freedom of Information Act; the group then gave a copy to the New York Times, which then ran a story on its findings.
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