Matthew Wald, spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, a nuclear trade group, calls the odds of a Fukushima-style nuclear meltdown that affects people outside a power plant’s walls “vanishingly small.” He says those risks got smaller once plants installed Flex emergency equipment after Fukushima. It also eliminated a requirement that plants run Flex drills.
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24 that nuclear plants wouldn’t have to update that equipment to deal with new, higher levels of expected flooding. Not only did the NRC agree with that view, it ruled on Jan. The industry argues that rather than redesign facilities to address increased flood risk, which Jaczko advocates, it’s enough to focus mainly on storing emergency generators, pumps, and other equipment in on-site concrete bunkers, a system they call Flex, for Flexible Mitigation Capability. But Jaczko and others say that the commission’s new leadership, appointed by President Donald Trump, hasn’t done enough to require owners of nuclear power plants to take preventative measures-and that the risks are increasing as climate change worsens. Companies were told to compare those risks with what their plants, many almost a half-century old, were built to withstand, and, where there was a gap, to explain how they would close it.
nuclear power plants to evaluate their current flood risk, using the latest weather modeling technology and accounting for the effects of climate change.
The NRC directed the operators of the 60 or so working U.S. The second question preoccupies him still. The answer to the first question turned out to be no. and whether a similar accident could befall an American plant. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, had to worry about two things: whether radioactive fallout would harm the U.S. In 2011, after an earthquake and tsunami caused a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi power plant, Gregory Jaczko, then the chairman of the U.S.
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