Tests Show 32 U.S. Nuclear Reactors Pose Threat

Published on Friday, May 13, 2011 by The Boston Globe

Problems Cited With Nuclear Backup Power
Tests Show 32 U.S. Nuclear Reactors Pose Threat
by Beth Daley

Problems cited with nuclear backup power
Report comes as panel deems US sites safe


Nuclear plant emergency generators like those that failed in Japan following the March earthquake and tsunami also failed during tests at the Seabrook Station in New Hampshire and 32 other US plants in the past eight years, according to a report by US Representative Edward J. Markey’s office.

Tweet 5 people Tweeted this.ShareThis .The report was issued yesterday by the Malden Democrat’s office as a federal task force vouched for the safety of the nation’s nuclear plants in the aftermath of the Japanese crisis, triggered in part by the failure of backup generators at one plant.

The Seabrook incident, according to the report, took place in August 2006, when the plant shut down because of “inoperable emergency diesel generators.’’ The generators were inoperable for one day.


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But 32 of them in the U.S. have been found to pose a bigger threat.