NRC Proposed Director’s Decision to the Nuclear Security Coalition August 10, 2004 emergency enforcement petition regarding the structural vulnerability of GE Boiling Water Reactor Mark I and II elevated nuclear waste storage ponds.

Supplemental filing of to NRC regarding the August 10, 2004 petition on the vulnerability of GE boiling water reactors as confirmed by findings in the National Academy of Sciences April 2005 public version of its classified report to Congress “The Safety and Security of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage”

The National Academy of Sciences Report on “Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel,”        Title page/Content        Executive Summary        Chapter 1: Introduction and Background        Chapter 2: Terrorist Attack on Spent Fuel Storage        Chapter 3: Spent Fuel Pool Storage        Chapter 4: Dry Cask Storage and Comperative Risks        Chapter 5: Implementation Issues        References        Appendixes

, NRC response to Congress on the agency’s suppression of the National Academy of Science’s redacted summary of its report to Congress on reactor fuel pool vulnerability to terrorism as headlined in a front page story of the Washington Post, March 28, 2005, “Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel Criticized.” (940Kb)

NIRS FACT SHEET, Nuclear waste storage casks at reactor sites demonstrated to be vulnerable to terrorist attack.

NIRS comments on PRM-73-12, Combined Comments of Office of Attorneys General,

This U.S. Government Accountability Office congressional testimony () is critical of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s oversight of revised Design Basis Threat validation of reactor security compliance.

NIRS in concert with a national coalition petitioned NRC for emergency enforcement action on BWR structural  vulnerabilities to terrorism. 32 of the nation’s 104 licensed nuclear power stations are fatally designed and constructed so that irradiated fuel storage ponds are located literally on the roof of the reactor building in structures that NRC has identified in a pre-9/11 study as vulnerable to aircraft penetration. The same study identified that the resulting nuclear waste fire involving hundreds of tons of irradiated nuclear fuel would cause tens of thousands of fatalities out to 500 miles. An international coalition (US and Canada) has filed an emergency enforcement petition to NRC to address the structural vulnerabilities of these reactors or force their closure. Click here for Petition and Annex to the Petition. List of Affected Reactors.

On , Committee To Bridge the Gap (CBG) filed a Petition for Rulemaking to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission focused on revising the Design Basis Threat for nuclear power stations to contemplate and defend against realistic threat levels and to require that nuclear power station operators protect the facilities from attack by aircraft.

State of New Jersey letter () to NRC Region 1 outlining concerns for public safety from perceived vulnerabilities of the Oyster Creek nuclear power station to attack by aircraft and secrecy of federal and industry reports that might otherwise assuage such concerns.