David Lochbaum, a nuclear expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, spoke Tuesday before the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee.For more information on the summit, visit knownukesyallsummit.org
About 100 anti-nuclear activists gathered in Chattanooga on Thursday for a three-day strategy session and to hear “The Dave and Dave Show” at the “Know Nukes Y’all Summit.”
What they learned is that Fukushima can’t happen here because there is no city or county or state named that here.
But something “like” Fukushima can. And almost has, according to the first Dave, Dave Lochbaum, a former TVA nuclear engineer at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant and a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission instructor.
In March of 1990, a truck backed into the grid station at Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Ga., and caused a reactor in shutdown to lose cooling. The emergency diesel generators didn’t start because a part that had been “repaired” dozens of times failed, he said. Other backup systems were not operable because of “routine maintenance.”