Regulator has long warned of earthquake risks at Palisades

NRC's file photo of Palisades nuclear power plant on Lake MichiganToday's "unusual event," declared by owner Entergy Nuclear at its Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline, in the wake of the Mineral, Virginia 5.9 tremor 700 miles away, yet again serves as a stark warning about earthquake risks to the high-level radioactive waste dry cask storage facility built on a sand dune just 100 yards from the drinking water supply for millions of people downstream. A retired NRC inspector, Dr. Ross Landsman, has been waving this red flag for 17 years, but his warnings have fallen on deaf ears at NRC, as well as in the federal courts, not to mention Congress and the White House. Beyond Nuclear issued a media release. Eartha Jane Melzer at the Michigan Messenger reported on Dr. Landsman's warnings about earthquakes. The Kalamazoo Gazette reported on media releases by Palisades and D.C. Cook, another, twin reactor nuclear power plant also located in southwest Michigan on the Lake Michigan shore.