Staff Tells N.R.C. That U.S. Rules Need Overhaul After Fukushima

Staff Tells N.R.C. That U.S. Rules Need Overhaul After Fukushima

from NYT > Nuclear Energy — Crisis in Japan by By MATTHEW L. WALD

A task force says that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needs to apply a holistic approach to a hodgepodge of requirements that were set when individual reactors were designed, many years apart.