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WASHINGTON – The White House has endorsed a plan to relax long-held standards for cleaning up radioactive material released by a nuclear power plant disaster or act of terrorism, a group of federal officials say in a new draft report.

As expected, the recently completed draft report on radiation remediation parts ways with standard U.S. practice and suggests guidelines under which as many as one in 23 people would be expected to develop cancer from long-term radiation exposure. The claim that the White House has agreed to abandon standard protocol in some instances is new.

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CORROSION IN FIRE PROTECTION PIPING DUE TO AIR AND WATER INTERACTION

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Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3 - Request for Additional Information Regarding License Amendment Request for Extended Power Uprate

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Licensee:          Exelon Generation Company, LLC

Facilities:         Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 

Docket Nos:     50-289

Date/Time:        May 7, 2013
                           5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. 

Location:

Londonderry Township Municipal Building 783 South Geyers Church Road Middletown, PA 17057 

Purpose:          

The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will meet with the public to discuss the NRC’s assessment of safety performance at Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 for 2012, as described in the annual assessment letter dated March 4, 2013. The NRC will respond to questions on specific performance issues at the plant and our role in ensuring safe plant operations.

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APPLICABILITY OF THE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FINAL RULE TO THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT 2 DECOMMISSIONING OR DECOMMISSIONED SITE

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Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3 - Transmittal of Draft Safety Evaluation for Proposed Amendment Re: Relocation of Pressure and Temperature Limits Report (TAC Nos. ME8535 and ME8536)

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Epstein to appear this Sunday on live call in show from 11:30 am to 12.30 pm on WIOO in Carlisle

Sunday, March 24, 2013
 
WIOO 1000 am and 1040 am
Garden Talk Radio with Bob Carey

Response to Nuclear Energy Institute Request for Review of Draft Electric Power Research Institute Report, “Seismic Evaluation Guidance : Augmented Approach for the Resolution of Fukushima Near-Term Task Force Recommendation 2.1: Seismic”

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WHAT:    2013 Susquehanna Water Science Forum / www.srbc.net/waterscienceforum/index.htm

WHEN:    October 7-8, 2013

WHERE:  Camp Hill, PA, Radisson Hotel Harrisburg

HOST:      Susquehanna River Basin Commission