5/19/2011 | Many U.S. Nuclear Plants Ill-Prepared to Handle Simultaneous Threats

The U.S. government finds that many U.S. nuclear plants would fail to face multiple challenges at the same time as happened at Fukushima Daiichi

Source: Scientific American
Date: May 19, 2011
by: Peter Behr and ClimateWire

On April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety "walkdown" of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reactors that were triggered by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan.
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