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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (38327)	6/2/2011 9:53:44 AM
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Zero Margin for Error Even with the plentiful backup systems in place at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, disaster prevailed. By Elizabeth Kolbert \| GreenSource Mag \| May 2011 Several years ago, I spent a day at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, in Buchanan, New York. This was not long after September 11, and the possibility of nuclear disaster was very much on people's minds. I spent the morning with the plant's director of emergency programs, whose message, evidently honed over many such meetings, was that Indian Point posed no risk whatsoever to the hundreds of thousands of people who live within 10 miles of it, or to the 20 million who live within 50. After lunch, I went to visit the control room simulator, where trainees are taught how to operate a reactor. I arrived in the middle of an exercise that involved eight simultaneous malfunctions. Two young men were trying to keep the reactor core from overheating as one system failed after another. Even though the crisis was imaginary, the look of panic on their faces struck me as entirely genuine. Cont. greensource.construction.com ------