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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Carper, Whitehouse request details on weakening of post-Fukushima rule - News - Sussex Living - Dover, DE

Carper, Whitehouse request details on weakening of post-Fukushima rule - News - Sussex Living - Dover, DE: Sens. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, sent a letter on April 1 to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Kristine Svinicki requesting additional details and documents to shed light on the NRC’s decision to drop mandatory seismic and flood risk testing requirements in their January finalized rule responding to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Svinicki and all NRC commissioners testified April 2 at an EPW oversight hearing examining NRC’s work.
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