"Radioactive Russian roulette" at Davis-Besse atomic reactor
May 31, 2011
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The Davis-Besse hole-in-the-head fiasco of 2002 was the nearest-miss Loss of Coolant Accident since the Three Mile Island meltdown of 1979A YouTube recording of Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps presenting a powerpoint about the proposed 20 year license extension and the problem-plagued Davis-Besse atomic reactor on the Lake Erie shore near Toledo has just become available. If you weren't able to make out the powerpoint slides in the YouTube, here is a PDF of the presentation. The presentation took place at the International Roundtable on Nuclear Threats to the Great Lakes and the Transition to Safe, Clean Energy, sponsored by the Sierra Club Michigan Chapter, Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination, and the Henry Ford Community College renewable energy department in Dearborn, Michigan on May 14, 2011.

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