Nuclear power in the age of the
pandemic
Safe Energy
Groups Call Out Lax Nuclear Oversight During Pandemic
Nuclear power plants appear to be sites of COVID-19
super-spreader events, but government regulators are
ignoring the problem. Nuclear Information and Resource
Service, October 20, 2020
"Best Practice” Recommendations for COVID-19 Response at
Nuclear Facilities Discussed:
Transparency and reporting; maintenance response; on-site
COVID response; off-site response; NRC and other agency
response. Nuclear Information and Resource Service,
September 24, 2020
Terrified Atomic Workers Worry That the COVID-19 Pandemic
May Threaten Nuclear Reactor Disaster
Nationwide, with falling demand and soaring prices for
nuke-generated electricity, the pandemic casts a dark shadow
over reactor operations and whether frightened neighbors
will allow them to be refueled and repaired. By Harvey
Wasserman,
Common Dreams,
April 10, 2020
Nuclear Power Safety and the COVID-19 Pandemic
It is largely up to the plant owners themselves to implement
protective measures against COVID-19 to ensure they have a
functioning workforce. Reports about potential
coronavirus cases among
the workforce at Plant Vogtle in Georgia and of
a lack of enforcement of social distancing protocols there
raise concerns about the adequacy of the industry’s response
to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Ed Lyman, Union
of Concerned Scientists, March 26, 2020
