At
last year’s
Southern Company Stockholder Meeting,
Southern Company CEO Thomas A. Fanning said
about the U.S. nuclear industry and
Southern Company’s safety performance:
And if you look at our performance, we absolutely meet the standards that our customers expect and frankly deserve. So let’s start there.
Since then SO has
not managed to pour the concrete base correctly at Plant Vogtle
and
not managed to get a reactor vessel from Savannah port to the site.
Also
existing Vogtle Unit 1 had a fire
while Unit 2 was shut down for almost all of March 2013.
The two Plant Hatch reactors, same design as Fukushima,
so far as we know
still have substandard fire protection
and has a chronic problem of
radioactive tritium leaking into groundwater.
Tritium,
even the smallest amounts of which can have negative health effects.
And what gets into the watershed
spreads in the watershed.
The U.S. nuclear industry in general has problems with
alcohol, drugs, and broken equipment.
But
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