Working on New Madrid project, I read DOE reports which indicated no problems for nuclear plants in the shake zone.\u00a0 Scientific reports were one thing and I tend to follow data, but I also like to apply a touch of common sense.\u00a0 An earthquake predicted to effectively cut the country into an east and a west seems capable of doing some interesting things to any man-built structure.<\/p>\n
After the event in Japan and doing a little research into seismic standards in place when the plants were constructed, it became apparent a second look was a prudent activity. I am glad to see this government action. The challenge will be in the NRC actually implementing any enhancements.\u00a0 “… The effort to enact those changes, however, could be hampered by a federal requirement that any costly upgrades be justified by commensurate, tangible improvements in safety. Since earthquakes are hard to predict, that could become contentious<\/a>.”<\/p>\n This should be interesting to follow. Will we mitigate risk? Or, as has been our default action lately, defer it to the next generation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Working on New Madrid project, I read DOE reports which indicated no problems for nuclear plants in the shake zone.\u00a0 Scientific reports were one thing and I tend to follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[11,28,33,36,60,66,68,84,85,100],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-disaster-response","tag-earthquake","tag-emergency-management","tag-japan-reactor-disaster","tag-national-level-exercise","tag-nle-11","tag-public-safety","tag-radiation","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}