Comments on: AP IMPACT: US nuke regulators weaken safety rules via Yahoo Green http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/06/20/ap-impact-us-nuke-regulators-weaken-safety-rules-via-yahoo-green/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The Atomic Age » U.S.: spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake via The Minichi Daily News http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/06/20/ap-impact-us-nuke-regulators-weaken-safety-rules-via-yahoo-green/comment-page-1/#comment-18550 The Atomic Age » U.S.: spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake via The Minichi Daily News Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:17:09 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/?p=4377#comment-18550 [...] Also, related link and comment: AP Impact: US nuke regulators weaken safety rules [...]

]]> By: Norma Field http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2011/06/20/ap-impact-us-nuke-regulators-weaken-safety-rules-via-yahoo-green/comment-page-1/#comment-18460 Norma Field Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:18:13 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/?p=4377#comment-18460 It’s an interesting twist on this story that Gregory Jaczko, the chair of the NRC, was recently under attack for having recommended the (now deemed excessive) 50-mile evacuation zone around Fukushima for US citizens on the basis of the belief that the spent fuel pool at reactor #4 was nearly dry.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkaABjgff79S2kjPbzCGYeY0LUOQ?docId=30c71eeb8d94454f933fa2a2868e3575

But the 50-mile zone seems appropriate regardless of the state of that pool, especially as compared with the Japanese government’s prevarications. Of course, we now know, or should know, that comparative safety can only be defined relatively and temporarily because of changing meteorological conditions as well as nature of the terrain and other factors.

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