Tue
Sep 26 2006
10:00 am
NRC emergency hotline to TVA Sequoyah nuclear plant failed
By: R. Neal

Michael Silences has this front page report in today's Knoxville News Sentinel about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission being unable to contact the TVA Sequoyah nuclear plant via the agency's Emergency Notification System hotline for two hours Sunday morning. Do you feel safer?

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rikki's picture

not fair

Submitted by rikki on Tue, 2006/09/26 - 10:27am.

It's totally not fair to do tests like that the morning after a football game.

Still, this is certainly a lie: "This didn't impact in any way the ability to respond to any emergency," Moulton said. What about an emergency where they are calling to warn them of a hijacked plane on a course toward Soddy-Daisy or a rupture in Fort Loudoun Dam?

R. Neal's picture

That's what I was thinking.

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2006/09/26 - 10:30am.

That's what I was thinking. Or, if TVA needed to alert the NRC that nuclear materials had been stolen, or containment had been breached, or...

Andy Axel's picture

Submitted by Andy Axel on Tue, 2006/09/26 - 11:12am.


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redmondkr's picture

It's like dialing 911 in

Submitted by redmondkr on Tue, 2006/09/26 - 11:46am.

It's like dialing 911 in Chattanooga a couple of years ago . . . . . only worse.

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