Saturday, January 12, 2013

A Nuclear Post-Mortem for Sandy

New York Times: The operators of the Oyster Creek nuclear plant, the reactor that declared an "alert" during Hurricane Sandy, made several small errors, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Friday. But an inspection team has concluded that "performance was acceptable and that emergency action level declarations were timely." The operators kept control room logs in a way that safety inspectors found hard to decipher later, and at one point, they took a wind level reading off the wrong sensor on their meteorological...

URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/a-nuclear-post-mortem-for-sandy/
Enclosure: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/01/11/blogs/oyster/oyster-blog480.jpg

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