Boxer: Regulators’ 'heads should roll’ over Diablo nuclear plant

Boxer: Regulators' 'heads should roll' over Diablo nuclear plant, San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2015. "Weeks before Pacific Gas and Electric Co. released a long-awaited seismic report about the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant last year, Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials had already drafted talking points declaring the plant safe from earthquakes, Sen. Barbara Boxer said Wednesday. The California Democrat said an internal commission memo showed that the agency was planning to tell the public that 'the NRC had reviewed the report, and it had concluded Diablo Canyon was seismically safe' — before even seeing the report. 'Heads should roll on this,' Boxer said, during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. 'You don't write talking points before you even get the document.' She used it to illustrate what she called the commission's lax attitude toward seismic safety, even in the wake of the 2011 meltdown of three reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant. 'We need look no further than California's Diablo Canyon Power Plant to see that the NRC has failed to live up to its mission,' Boxer said."http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Boxer-Regulators-heads-should-roll-over-6202735.php?t=2c169beefb&cmpid=twitter-premium