Preventing the Next Nuclear Meltdown by Victor Gilinsky

Preventing the Next Nuclear Meltdown
The Lessons of the Fukushima Disaster for U.S. Nuclear Policy

Summary: 

As Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis shows, older reactors are the most vulnerable to failure. Aging nuclear plants pose a risk in the United States as well, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must enforce up-to-date safety standards more forcefully -- or risk the possibility of a disaster.

VICTOR GILINSKY is a physicist and an energy consultant. He served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1975 to 1979 and was the senior commissioner in charge during the first day of the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.