Posts Tagged: nuclear safety

Go to the WSJ for your 24-7 nuclear power coverage

By Ned Hodgman | Jul 21 2011 at 11:39 | Your take

Maybe the Wall Street Journal is trying to set some kind of record.  A couple of days ago it ran four stories about nuclear power, covering issues like earthquake safety at nuke plants, the potential for danger from powerful floods at a Nebraska facility, a push by Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Gregory Jaczko to move quickly to institute new safety standards, and debates and discussions within the Nuclear Regulatory Council about reforms in U.S. nuclear safety practice following the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan. (more…)

Topics: Free Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Chicago nuclear company feels effects of Japan earthquake

By Matthew Blake | Mar 21 2011 at 08:54 | Your take

Steve Daniels of Crain’s Chicago Business writes that the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to impose new rules and requirements on the Chicago-based Exelon nuclear power plant company after Japan’s nuclear crisis. “A quarter of the nuclear power Exelon generates comes from 30-plus-year-old reactors,” Daniels writes, which “like the Japanese plant damaged by a devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, were built by General Electric Co. and are of the same type and vintage.” Exelon is the largest nuclear plant operator in the U.S. and, prior to the crisis in Japan, had planned a $3.8 billion capacity expansion.

Topics: Beltway Outsider, Dept. of Energy, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY), Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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