Overwhelming public interest in Beyond Nuclear meeting with NRC on US Mark I Reactors: Call in volume crashes federal agency telephone line

Beyond Nuclear staffers Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps met with a federal review board of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on June 8, 2011 to supplement its April 13th petition calling for the suspension of the operation of the 23 Fukushima-style General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactors in the US.

Gunter’s presentation focused on evidence that the Fukushima containments have failed along with the experimental vents designed to save them and implications for the US Mark I reactors. Kamps elaborated on the implications of the severe fuel damage in Fukushima’s elevated nuclear waste storage pools and implications for the same vulnerable pools in the US Mark I.

Access via the NRC telephone bridge line attracted such “unprecedented” public interest that the line crashed, delaying the start of the meeting by 30 minutes to install more lines.

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