U.S. plans to name nuclear reactors using potentially flawed Areva parts

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Thu Jan 5, 2017 | 6:47pm EST

Exclusive: U.S. plans to name nuclear reactors using potentially flawed Areva parts

By Timothy Gardner and Scott DiSavino | WASHINGTON

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission told French nuclear power company Areva SA (AREVA.PA) it will publish as early as next week the names of U.S. reactors that contain components from its Le Creusot forge that is suspected of falsifying documents despite the company's claim that the information is proprietary.

The written notice, dated Dec. 30 and seen by Reuters on Thursday, underscores rising tension between the U.S. nuclear regulatory body and Areva after French authorities opened an investigation last month into decades of alleged forgery relating to the quality of parts produced at the forge and used in power plants around the world.

The NRC has investigated whether the suspected falsification of documents poses any risks for U.S. nuclear plants, but has said it has found that the plants are safe.

"At this time, there are no indications of any specific safety concerns for U.S. reactors," NRC spokesman David McIntyre said on Thursday.

Still, anti-nuclear power advocates, including Greenpeace, have pushed NRC to reveal which U.S. reactors have the components, saying that there could be risks to the public.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-france-nuclear-idUSKBN14P2NG

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1. Greenpeace never fails to kill people by raising specious complaints about nuclear reactors while...

...air pollution kills seven million people per year.

7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution

Original Data Here: A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

For all the oil and coal and gas that's been burned to push Greenpeace's deadly and dangerous fear mongering rhetoric about nuclear reactors, in more than half a century of commercial nuclear reactor operations the number of lost lives from all these reactors, including Fukushima and Chernobyl, do not equal the loss of lives that will take place from air pollution in the next two days.

Nuclear energy saves lives, and it follows that anti-nuke stupidity costs lives and does so in the worst intellectually bankrupt way, by direct appeal to ignorance.

The case was irrefutably and clearly made in a paper co-authored by the great climate scientist Jim Hansen. I never tire of quoting it whenever I see the kind of specious nonsense to which anti-nukes resort.

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power.

The stupidity of anti-nukes is Trumpian in its dimensions.

Have a nice day tomorrow.