NEI Nuclear Notes

Since the beginning of the week, we've been busy following the developing story coming out of Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania, where a hidden camera video report by New York's WCBS-TV discovered a group of plant security personnel sleeping in the facility's ready room when they should have been wide awake and ready for action. Since word of the story first leaked out, Exelon , the owner of Peach Bottom, terminated Wackenhut's contract to manage the security force at the plant , as well as banished the officers in the video from getting back into the plant . In the meantime, we've got a bone to pick with WCBS-TV about one of the wilder claims contained in the report . “Experts tell CBS 2 HD radiation from a nuclear fire that starts at Peach Bottom would spread and could kill thousands of people as far away as Washington D.C. and New York City. It could leave 188 square miles uninhabitable.” Then, in the second report ... “Experts tell CBS 2 News th...