Scriba, New York
Local population: 73,841 (10-mile radius)
Type:
Boiling Water Reactor
Status:
Operating
Licensed to operate from 12/26/74-08/22/29
Owner:
Constellation
Safety Issues:
Elevated Spent Fuel Pool, Fire Protection Problems, Year Plus Outages
Related Links & Documents
09/18/2006 UCS documented the factors leading to the year-plus reactor outage that began in December 1987 in this case study for our Walking a Nuclear Tightrope report. See details | Download the pdf
09/18/2006 UCS documented the factors leading to the year-plus reactor outage that began in March 1982 in this case study for our Walking a Nuclear Tightrope report. See details | Download the pdf
04/1989Fission Stories #7
explains how NRC inspectors watching a local TV news report learned about tens
of thousands of highly radioactive water that had flooded the basement of a
plant building for the past eight years. With the reactor on the NRC’s Watch
List at the time, the inspectors hadn’t noticed.
