Safety Concerns Often Amount to Status Quo at U.S. Nuclear Industry's Aging Reactors

Safety Concerns Often Amount to Status Quo at U.S. Nuclear Industry's Aging Reactors

Leaks, burst cooling pipes, faulty controls, misplaced fuel rods and engineers' warnings about design flaws have done little to slow down approvals for continued operation of the nation's aging nuclear plants

By David Biello

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