Nuclear Quality Assurance Not Assured at Fermi 3 in Michigan w/ Arnie Gundersen 10/30/13
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2013-10-31

Today [Wednesday, October 30, 2013], The Games Began in Monroe Michigan as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (NRC ASLB) started hearings on Detroit Edison's "Fermi 3 Licensing Project". Outgunned? Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen and the seven expert witnesses retained by the NRC staff and Detroit Edison agree that there was no Quality Assurance (QA) program in place for two years as required by federal law, but the seven industry experts say build it anyway! Damn the safety regulations; full speed ahead to the pork-barrel federal loan guarantees to build a one of a kind Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor. Listen as Maggie, Arnie, and host Nathaniel White-Joyal discuss the stacked deck on this week's Fairewinds Energy Education Podcast. Title was "Let the Games Begin"
Original upload here: http://tinyurl.com/lpl93j2

We Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. It was republished in 1984 by Berkley.
It took four years for the reactor to be repaired, and then performance was poor. In 1972, the reactor core was dismantled and the reactor was decommissioned. America's first effort at operating a full-scale breeder had failed
http://tinyurl.com/mm49y55

Here is the press release after the first day of testimony
FERMI COMPLEX
NRC to hear arguments on DTE license for 3rd reactor
https://www.toledoblade.com/Energy/2013/10/31/NRC-to-hear-arguments-on-DTE-license-for-3rd-reactor.html

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The Games Began today in Michigan as the @NRCgov started hearings on @DTE_Energy #Fermi 3 Licensing Project. http://fairewinds.org/podcast/let-games-begin

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