NRC Waives Enforcement of Fire Rules at Nuclear Plants

NRC Waives Enforcement of Fire Rules at Nuclear Plants

by John Sullivan, Special to ProPublica May 11, 1:19 p.m.

Editor’s Note on Our Investigation Into Fire Risks at Nuclear Power Plants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is routinely waiving fire rule violations at nearly half the nation's 104 commercial reactors, even though fire presents one of the chief hazards at nuclear plants.
The policy, the result of a series of little-noticed decisions in recent years, is meant to encourage nuclear companies to remedy longstanding fire safety problems. But critics say it is leaving decades-old fire hazards in place as the NRC fails to enforce its own rules.

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