Dive Summary:

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff members and Progress Energy Florida experts admitted that they hadn’t performed tests on an area that would be affected by the installation of a nuclear power plant.
• When asked by local regulators why the tests hadn’t been done, Progress expert Jeffrey Lehnen replied, “It seemed like a matter of timing.”
• Progress wants to build the $24 billion plant on a 5,000-acre site in rural Levy County, Florida, but the project is being fiercely opposed by the Ecology Party, which was formed just to combat this particular project.

From the article:

Opponents of the proposed Levy County nuclear plant argue that neither the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff nor Progress Energy Florida adequately studied the project's impact on the environment.

During a hearing Wednesday before the Atomic Safety Licensing Board, the commission's staff and the utility may have proved their opponents right. ...