Evacuation planning for Lilco's Shoreham plant
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· IEEE Spectrum; (United States)
This article reports that the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, an 820-megawatt boiling-water reactor built by the Long Island Lighting Co., has taken 19 years to build and has so far cost nearly $5 billion. Because no emergency plan for coping with a major accident has been approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the plant has not been issued a Federal license to operate at full power. The cause of this impasse is the refusal of New York State and Suffolk County to participate in any emergency plan, on the ground that the geography of Long Island would make such a plan impossible to execute. The regulatory commission's rules require the operator of a nuclear plant to enlist cooperation from state and local authorities in an emergency plan. Shoreham's supporters charge that state and county are exploiting that requirement to block operation of the politically unpopular plant.
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- IEEE Spectrum; (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Spectrum; (United States) Vol. 24:7; ISSN IEESA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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