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How Safe Are America's Aging Nuclear Power Plants?
America's nuclear power plants are aging. The anticipated lifetime originally was about 40 years, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is allowing them to be re-licensed for 20 more.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readAmerica's nuclear power plants are aging. The anticipated lifetime originally was about 40 years, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is allowing them to be re-licensed for 20 more. Now a year-long investigation by the Associated Press reports that the NRC works with the industry to weaken safety standards, or fail to enforce them, in order to keep the plants running. Accidents at nuclear plants may be extremely rare, but when they happen, they're devastating. Are regulators in the US doing all that it takes to prevent another Fukushima-type incident from happening here?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Karen Radziner
Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?
Dave Lochbaum
Union of Concerned Scientists
Leslie Kass
Nuclear Energy Institute
Dan Hirsch
UC Santa Cruz / Committee to Bridge the Gap
The full episode
4 of 4City of Costa Mesa's Austerity Measures Raise Questions- 0:00Nuclear Power Loosing Support among Californians
- 6:17City of Costa Mesa's Austerity Measures Raise Questions
- 17:54Is Theater Alive and Well in Los Angeles?
- 25:58How Safe Are America's Aging Nuclear Power Plants?You’re reading this