Nuke regulator chided for safety 'sluggishness'
Source: The Hill
On the four-year anniversary of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, safety advocates are urging U.S. regulators to heed to the lessons learned in Fukushima, Japan.
Public Citizen on Wednesday accused the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of “sluggishness” in improving nuclear reactor safety standards that could have "potentially lethal consequences."
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The NRC "has yet to require nuclear power plant operators to complete implementation of a single one of the post-Fukushima safety upgrades recommended by the agency’s own staff,” Fisher said. “Not a single one."
Furthermore, only four of those recommendations are even on track to be implemented in the coming years, she added, while no action has been taken on many of the other recommendations.
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