NRDC challenges SAMA at Limerick license extension proceeding

The Natural Resources Defense Council has challenged Exelon Nuclear's Severe Accident Mitigation Alternatives (SAMA) analysis for its proposed 20-year license extension at the twin unit Limerick Boiling Water Reactors near Pottstown, PA. NRDC issued a press release on Nov. 28, 2011 when it launched the intervention and contention.

Beyond Nuclear has similarly launched a SAMA challenge against the Davis-Besse atomic reactor's proposed license extension. Although the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Atomic Safety (sic) and Licensing Board (ASLB) have largely gutted Beyond Nuclear's SAMA contention, an oral argument pre-hearing will still be held at the Lucas County Courthouse in downtown Toledo on November 5th and 6th, at which Beyond Nuclear will strive to keep its SAMA contentions alive. Beyond Nuclear is deeply indebted to the New England Coalition at Seabrook, NH, and Pilgrim Watch at Pilgrim, MA, upon whose groundbreaking SAMA work it entirely depended.