Industry generally supports new safety rules for nuclear plants

Industry generally supports new safety rules for nuclear plants
The U.S. nuclear industry generally supports new safety rules backed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in response to the Fukushima Daiichi incident in Japan, said Tony Pietrangelo, senior vice president and chief nuclear officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute. Under the rules, operators would be required to craft new accident-prevention strategies and improve monitoring of used nuclear fuel. "We learned a lesson right away that we have to be prepared to deal with a multiunit event," Pietrangelo said. The Wall Street Journal