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Fact checking of claims about nuclear power projects
NBC News Butte, MT, reported there is no basis for claims by a Florida man of NRC approval, nor any involvement of Westinghouse, in plan for 100 MW nuclear power plant in that city The Legacy of Id…
The basis for the skepticism noted in this blog post is an experience reporting more than a decade ago on a penny stock fraud scheme ( pump & dump) in Idaho that led to SEC and IRS criminal charges against the principals of a firm falsely claiming to be building a nuclear power plant there. A review of the paper by this blog and by two SMR developers punched multiple holes in the sources, methods, omissions, conjectures based on models not engineering data, and cherry picking of facts. It is important to understand that as part of the NRC’s policy of transparency to the public, it puts regulatory filings it receives from applicants to licenses, etc., into the ADAMS library which is an online resource that anyone can check via the Internet.
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