Blog Post: Nuclear Industry Receives New Earthquake Data for Central and Eastern U.S.

Blog Post: Nuclear Industry Receives New Earthquake Data for Central and Eastern U.S.

from Nuclear Power Industry News by Nuclear Street News

The majority of American nuclear plants will draw from a new and extensively revised dataset detailing the earthquake risk across much of the U.S. And although the research began in 2008, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the Central and Eastern United States Seismic Source Characterization Project will inform decisions about plants’ seismic risks under safety changes ordered following the earthquake-triggered Fukushima Daiichi accidents in Japan.