Fort Calhoun and Indian Point: A tale of two nuclear sites

Fort Calhoun and Indian Point: A tale of two nuclear sites

from Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by David Lochbaum

Last year, Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors discovered design problems at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant in Nebraska and the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York. In the former case, the NRC applied the most serious sanction levied against any reactor in 2010 and required the plant's owner to correct the problem. But at Indian Point, the NRC essentially shrugged and allowed the safety problem to go unsanctioned and uncorrected.