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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

NRC Proposes Orders to Enhance Protection Against Beyond-Design-Basis Events

NRC Proposes Orders to Enhance Protection Against Beyond-Design-Basis Events

The following story originally appeared in NEI’s Nuclear Energy Overview.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reviewing three proposed orders and three requests for additional information on post-Fukushima actions to enhance nuclear plant operators’ emergency response actions to protect against beyond-design-basis external events.
While reaffirming its conclusion that reactor operations and licensing pose no “imminent threat” to safety, the NRC staff said the accident in Japan highlighted the need for reliable containment vents for some nuclear energy facilities, better instrumentation for used fuel pool monitoring, and strategies for mitigating damage from external events that may affect multiple reactors simultaneously.

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