Hurricane Sandy, the biggest test for nuclear safety since Fukushima
An American plant, Oyster Creek, has been put on alert. A total of nine installations are under enhanced surveillance.
The passage of Hurricane Sandy has caused concern at several nuclear sites in the northeast of the United States, without having caused the closure of any reactor for the time being.
The company Exelon Corp has declared a state of alert for its nuclear power plant at Oyster Creek in New Jersey during the night of Monday 29 to Tuesday 30 October after the sudden rise in water caused by the passage of hurricane, a said the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The agency said an unlikely new water level rise would force the oldest operating plant in the United States to use its emergency water supplies to cool spent uranium fuel rods. .
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) contains nothing but a cumulative mass of 1300 tonnes of water and fuel in equilibrium on a cracked structure in a country highly subject to earthquakes. if it all comes down, the consequences are estimated to be about 10 times Chernobyl. 
