After review of today's NRC Event reports http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2009/20091006en.html there are 2 more Critical Events to report. 1) Event # 45412, Nine Mile Point, N.Y. Unit 1 Power Reactor: MANUAL SCRAM AND HIGH PRESSURE COOLANT INJECTION FOLLOWING A LOSS OF FEEDWATER LEVEL CONTROL. Reactor is reported to be in mode 3. 2) Event # 45413, PADUCAH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT, URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITY at Paducah, Ky. UNPLANNED CONTAMINATION DURING STARTUP. UF6, Uranium Hexaflouride, the amount of material released has not yet been determined, decontamination is underway.
Remember our nuclear workers, 160,000 claims under the 2000 Energy Workers Compensation Act, over 40,000 claims awarded, 1200 never received any money as they died prior to claims being paid. http://www.wildclearing.com/ice-ages/the-exposed.html
Nuclear Power is not safe, it is not clean, it is not cheap ($8-$9 billion for one nuclear reactor).
Update: As of May of 2009 there have been Nationwide, since the act was implemented in 2001, Department of Labor has paid 51,331 claimants more than $4.8 billion in compensation and medical benefits. Claimants toll-free number: 1-866-481-0411.
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