As another update to the ABC News coverage of U.S. nuclear facilities, I’d like to direct your attention to some of the great tracking and reporting that Eric McErlain is doing over at the NEI Nuclear Notes blog. On Monday, he posted about segments that were aired on various ABC programs that seem to completely miss facts that are proven out elsewhere, and Tuesday morning he posted about what was happening on the ABCNews.com message boards. Later that day, he asked why messages - that were not from “trolls,” by most accounts - were being deleted from the forum pages, apparently by moderators. Most were critical of the piece, pointing out information spelled out elsewhere.
This afternoon, McErlain informed me that ABC News was set to run programming on this story later this week, probably during “Primetime” on Thursday night. Checking that show’s site, it appears that the story will go live online today at 5pm Eastern, and be on-air Thursday night at 10pm.
