Associated Press "hack job" article draws responses

The AP has produced a now widely-disseminated article covering supposed serious failures of the NRC, and implying a highly reduced level of safety of our nuclear generating plants in this country. The article is a masterpiece of shoddy journalism, mentions no names of actual analysts or nuclear experts, and is clearly based on misinterpretation of partial information.

Naturally, the nuclear establishment has a right to respond, and it has.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has responded: See here.

Nuclear Engineering Institute has responded: See here.

Also see the blog roll and link list on this site for various rebuttals of the article.

Given the weight of the response, the AP article falls like a house of cards. As well it should.

6:00 PM Eastern Tuesday June 21, 2011
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