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Originally Posted by GoNative
So what has that got to do with the idiots in the US buying up iodine? Nothing whatsoever. Last I heard no reactors in the US regardless of their design had experienced a loss of their coolant systems. As usual though we see the US desire to find someone or something to blame. There's got to be someone hasn't there so a class action can be organised? Gladly I doubt you'll see anything like that here in Japan.
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Again your ability to read minds is amazing.
Whatever you last heard is probably best kept secret.
Since 1957' The US Nuclear Industry has been protected by The Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act which partially indemnify the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents.
A cursory list of US nuclear accidents involving loss of reactor coolant is below.
You might have forgotten The Three Mile Island accident was a partial core meltdown in Unit 2 in 1979. A series of mechanical failures compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident.
February 11, 1981
Eight workers are contaminated when more than 100,000 gallons of radioactive coolant fluid leaks into the contaminant building of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah 1 plant in Tennessee.
October 5, 1966
The core of an experimental reactor near Detroit, Mich., melted partially when a sodium cooling system failed.
In other catagories listed as nuclear mishaps
.....US had 'near-miss' nuke mishaps at Indian Point, 13 other plants
By ANI – Fri, Mar 18, 2011
New York, Mar. 18 (ANI):
Federal inspectors found "near-miss" accidents at Indian Point on the Hudson and 13 other U.S. nuclear power plants last year.
A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, based on Nuclear Regulatory Commission data, claimed that "many of these significant events occurred because reactor owners, and often the NRC, tolerated known safety problems."
According to the New York Daily News, in the inspection of Indian Point about 25 miles from New York City, NRC auditors found that "the liner of a refueling cavity at Unit 2 has been leaking since at least 1993."