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A good reason why. That last sentence is the underwstatement of the year. We're talking 70,000 uninhabitable sq miles, according to Brookhaven Labs. I assume that's an average.

Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuke Plant

A fire [1] in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant [2] outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said.

The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March. If the cooling water a pool is lost, the used nuclear fuel could catch fire and release radiation.

http://www.propublica.org/article/electrical-fire-knocks-out-spent-fuel-cooling-at-nebraska-nuke-plant




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Germany to phase out nuclear power; US could do same
By: Decomposed in ROUND
Wed, 08 Jun 11 3:38 PM 		Msg. 33307 of 45644

Truly, the inmates are now running the asylum. 

Germany to phase out nuclear power; US could do same
Studies suggest scheme not far-fetched as reliability of alternative energy grows

By Mark Clayton
Staff writer
Christian Science Monitor
updated 6/7/2011 8:11:00 PM ET

In their White House press conference Tuesday, President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood together on topics ranging from the global economy to Libya.

Yet last week, Chancellor Merkel parted ways with the US on what had been a shared vision of how to maintain thriving economies while reducing greenhouse gases. For both nations, part of that plan had been nuclear power. For Germany, it is no longer.

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, Merkel announced that her country would close all of its 17 existing reactors by 2022. Other nations, including Japan, Italy, and Switzerland, have announced plans to pare back nuclear power, but none have gone as far as Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy. Merkel vows to replace nuclear power with alternatives that do not increase greenhouse gases or shackle the economic growth.


Full story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43318496/ns/us_news-christian_science_monitor/

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