Will the Typhoon Cause Another Fukushima Meltdown?

Thom Hartmann talks with Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog-Beyond Nuclear Website: www.beyondnuclear.org, about possible effects from a massive typhoon near Japan's crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.







EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment. The Agency sets generally applicable environmental standards that limit the amount of radioactivity that can be released into the environment. EPA does not oversee the daily operations of nuclear power plants or nuclear fuel facilities. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has regulatory responsibility for licensing and oversight of nuclear power plants and other commercial facilities that use radioactive materials. NRC implements EPA standards at applicable facilities.

EPA establishes certain generally applicable environmental standards to protect human health and the environment from radioactive materials. Issued in 1977, "Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations" (40 CFR 190) limit the radiation releases and doses to the public from the normal operations of nuclear power plants and other uranium fuel cycle facilities—the facilities involved in the manufacture and use of uranium fuel for generating electrical power.