Several internal documents of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have revealed the doubts among experts about security in some of the 65 operations centers in the United States. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS, for its acronym in English) has released the contents of emails in which asserts that "contingency plans have been reviewed to ensure they can work in the case of severe accidents." The same documents doubt whether the plants are ready to face a "prolonged slump power" to stop without running their refrigeration systems, as occurred in Fukushima reactor.
"If we're going to have to rely on the safety of the plants in the U.S., the nuclear commission and the industry must be open and honest about what they know and do not know," said physicist Edwin Lyman, an expert on nuclear safety the UCS. "What they have done in recent days has been a disservice to the Americans," Lyman claims.
"On the one hand say in public that security measures are effective, and privately expressed doubts as to whether both work." Internal documents that are required through the Freedom of Information Act a month before the accident Fukushima-refer in particular to the Peach Bottom nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania and Surry County, Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
The two plants were chosen for a pilot and secret, known by the acronym SOARCA, "to make a realistic estimate of the severe accident scenarios that can cause the release of radioactive materials into the environment." In one of the emails released this week acknowledged that the "strengthening" of security measures has been to some cases where the arrival of new equipment that have not been tested: "If little is known about the operating conditions after an accident, to assume that successful work purely speculative.
"Peach Bottom The power has precisely boiling water reactor Mark I similar to those of Fuksuhima. According to Edwin Lyman, the plant has an alternative cooling system with batteries that can operate no more than eight hours: "If at that time could not restore power, the result is overheating and melting of the reactor.
In light of the documents, it appears that much of the Additional security measures taken to prevent terrorist attacks after the 11-S (internal jargon known as "half B.5. b.) not been implemented at several plants." The process of being updated very slow, "Lyman reported this week at a hearing in Congress.
"As of today, almost ten years after the 11-S, some plants have not yet completed the requirements of improved security conditions, including the Diablo Canyon, HB Robinson, Shearon Harris and Farley." Nuclear Regulatory Commission has downplayed the documents claiming that it is a mere exchange of opinions between two departments, not a definitive conclusion.
In her testimony on March 30 in Congress, the president of the NRC Jackzo Gregory expressed his confidence in the safety of American power as a result of measures taken after the 11-S. 
"If we're going to have to rely on the safety of the plants in the U.S., the nuclear commission and the industry must be open and honest about what they know and do not know," said physicist Edwin Lyman, an expert on nuclear safety the UCS. "What they have done in recent days has been a disservice to the Americans," Lyman claims.
"On the one hand say in public that security measures are effective, and privately expressed doubts as to whether both work." Internal documents that are required through the Freedom of Information Act a month before the accident Fukushima-refer in particular to the Peach Bottom nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania and Surry County, Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
The two plants were chosen for a pilot and secret, known by the acronym SOARCA, "to make a realistic estimate of the severe accident scenarios that can cause the release of radioactive materials into the environment." In one of the emails released this week acknowledged that the "strengthening" of security measures has been to some cases where the arrival of new equipment that have not been tested: "If little is known about the operating conditions after an accident, to assume that successful work purely speculative.
"Peach Bottom The power has precisely boiling water reactor Mark I similar to those of Fuksuhima. According to Edwin Lyman, the plant has an alternative cooling system with batteries that can operate no more than eight hours: "If at that time could not restore power, the result is overheating and melting of the reactor.
In light of the documents, it appears that much of the Additional security measures taken to prevent terrorist attacks after the 11-S (internal jargon known as "half B.5. b.) not been implemented at several plants." The process of being updated very slow, "Lyman reported this week at a hearing in Congress.
"As of today, almost ten years after the 11-S, some plants have not yet completed the requirements of improved security conditions, including the Diablo Canyon, HB Robinson, Shearon Harris and Farley." Nuclear Regulatory Commission has downplayed the documents claiming that it is a mere exchange of opinions between two departments, not a definitive conclusion.
In her testimony on March 30 in Congress, the president of the NRC Jackzo Gregory expressed his confidence in the safety of American power as a result of measures taken after the 11-S.
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