Jaczko urges NRC to reform nuclear plant safety standards

Jaczko urges NRC to reform nuclear plant safety standards
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should reform its safety standards one year after the Fukushima Daiichi incident in Japan to address "high consequence" events, NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko said. The Japanese facility most likely would have met the NRC's safety requirements because the incident's immediate health effects were "very close to nothing," Jaczko said. The mass evacuations and the destruction of reactors, however, were "clearly unacceptable," he added. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)