国会议员要求调查核管委关于Davis-Besse核电站泄漏的误导及错误公告 Following Leak of Radioactive Coolant at Davis-Besse, NRC Officials Parrot False Claims from Corporate Flaks Kucinich Demands Investigation Washington D.C. (June 8, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called upon the Inspector General (IG) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to immediately investigate misleading and inaccurate statements made to the public by NRC officials. The call comes after radioactive coolant was found to be leaking at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Northern Ohio. An NRC spokesperson was then caught parroting false, industry claims about the radioactive leak. In his letter, Kucinich points out that this is not the first time that NRC officials have repeated as fact inaccurate statements made by FirstEnergy officials who operate the Davis-Besse plant. See a signed copy of the letter here “The Plain Dealer reported yesterday that engineers at the Davis-Besse nuclear reactor had discovered ‘a pinhole coolant leak in a pipe weld Wednesday evening while doing a walk-down inspection of the plant…while the reactor was in ‘hot standby’ mode.’ I intend to monitor this situation carefully as the facts are revealed in the days or weeks to come, but I am concerned about … statements, made by NRC spokespeople and reported in news articles on the subject. Kucinich continued, “I am concerned because this is not the first time that the NRC Region III spokespeople have made misleading and inaccurate statements about problems at Davis-Besse… FirstEnergy has consistently misled the public about the nature and extent of problems at Davis-Besse. We need a Nuclear Regulatory Commission that tells the public the truth, not one that merely repeats the soothing, but misleading, statements of the reactor’s operator. I have full confidence in Chairman Jaczko’s leadership and I support his efforts to make NRC more independent, efficient, open, clear and reliable. I am therefore asking for an independent investigation of the reasons behind the disparity between the public statements made by the NRC and the full truth will prevent further degradation of NRC’s credibility as a regulator capable of objectivity.”