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Gregory Jaczko’s Parting Message: Fukushima Was “A Wake-Up Call”

 
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Gregory Jaczko’s Parting Message: Fukushima Was “A Wake-Up Call”
Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, announced his resignation this week, but he is still making pointed comments about the need to strengthen regulations to ensure nuclear power plants are safer.

“I think the Fukushima event was a wake-up call, hopefully for everyone,” Jaczko said in a news conference today, referring to the earthquake- and tsunami-triggered nuclear plant accident in Japan on March 11, 2011,

“I think there were people throughout this industry who had come to the belief that an accident of that magnitude simply was never going to happen, that we had really come to the point at which we’d eliminated that,” Jaczko said. “I’ve always tried to do my job without making that assumption.”

There are hopeful signs for improvement, Jaczko said. After the disaster in Japan, he said, there has been a shift in the industry and within the NRC to “put more focus on safety.”

However improvements have been too slow, he argued. “I think we don’t do a good enough job identifying issues [and] bringing them to resolution in a timely way,” since they sometimes take 10 to 15 years to improve, Jaczko said. “It’s not getting the issues resolved so the public can feel comfortable, it’s not freeing up resources to tackle the next round of issues that will come in front of us. So that’s an area where we need to continue to make progress.”

[link to theenergycollective.com]

I think we can expect more "News" in the next couple of Days!

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Re: Gregory Jaczko’s Parting Message: Fukushima Was “A Wake-Up Call”
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Re: Gregory Jaczko’s Parting Message: Fukushima Was “A Wake-Up Call”
I think we can accept more "News" in the next couple of Days!
 Quoting: the legendary Atom-Boy


I think you mean to say "expect", not "accept."
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I think we can accept more "News" in the next couple of Days!
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I think you mean to say "expect", not "accept."
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