Mar 09 2012
Lessons from Fukushima Not Being Heeded in the US
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This Sunday March 11th marks the 1-year Anniversary of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear catastrophe, the most significant since Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster of 1986. Soon after the Fukushima meltdown, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established a task force to examine possible infrastructural weaknesses that led to the disaster, resulting in a series of recommendations that were meant to strengthen power plant …
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