The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting Oct. 7 to discuss its finding that there are no environmental impacts to prevent the licensing of two new reactors at Vogtle Electric Generating Plant.
The preliminary findings, contained in a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, will be discussed during the meeting, to be held from 7-10 p.m. at the auditorium of Augusta Technical College's Waynesboro campus, NRC spokesman Roger Hannah said.
There will also be an informal "open house" from 6-7 p.m.
Southern Nuclear has applied for a combined operating license that would authorize the construction and operation of two reactors that could go online in 2016 and 2017 at a cost of about $14.5 billion.
Site work is under way, and company officials have said they expect the license to be issued in late 2011.
In a related matter, the Atomic Safety & Licensing Board has scheduled a pre-hearing conference Friday in Rockville, Md., to discuss a challenge by environmental groups to the company's application for a combined operating license.
Although the board had completed its evaluation of other challenges, the petitioners now contend the design of the reactors is flawed, making it vulnerable to corrosive failures.
A complete copy of the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement is available on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Web site at: www.nrc.gov/reactors/ new-reactors/col/vogtle.html.
Okay now, if then will be any environmental impact why are they holding a meeting to discuss it???
Wow! A crowd of nuclear fans are going to hold a meeting to assure you - according to their findings - a nuclear reactor poses no threat.
Question. If the nuclear business is not dangerous, then why is it so heavy regulated? The size of the regulatory agency itself belies the claim the business is harmless.
If you want to compare regulations, the financial industry is more heavily regulated than the nuclear power industry is.
Little Lamb - God forbid America's nuclear regulatory agency being just as defunct as our financial regulatory agency.
We'll be in a heap of trouble with Three Mile Island and Chernobys all over the place.
I would submit that the government nuclear regulatory agency personnel are equally inept as the government financial regulatory personnel. Fortunately, the nuclear plant workers are more trustworthy than the bankers and stockbrokers and mutual fund managers and hedge fund managers and financial planners and financial consultants and mortgage tycoons and venture capitalists.
Little Lamb - It's not comforting to know that everything will be roses right up to the hour of disaster. The Challenger blows up! Then a large part of Georgia will be just as crapped up as Hiroshima and Bikini Atoll.
Advocate want you to believe they can get the goodie out of Pandora's Box and keep the lid closed. We're getting wonderful electricity coming out the front door and never mind the poo-poo coming out the back door.
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