Before two years after the nuclear crisis in Japan, us regulators said, the U.S. nuclear power is safer than ever before, trouble-free. Watchdog group calls, overly optimistic assessment.
"The performance is also quite good," macfarlane, ellison, President of the U.S. nuclear regulatory commission, said at the Associated Press interviews.
But the five countries of the 104 nuclear reactors at an acceptable level of safety, at the end of 2012, macfarlane said, enumerates the NRC report recently. "You can't do, a lot of reactor, rather than some is difficult," she said.
But the watchdog group, the union of concerned scientists, has issued a scathing report that nearly one 6 of America's nuclear reactor last year experienced in violation of the security, partly due to lack of supervision. The group accused the NRC's "tolerance."
Using the agency's data, scientists say, 14 serious accident, light damage or safety equipment is damaged, water leak, according to the report last year. Report that in the past three years, 40, 104 U.S. reactors experienced one or more of the serious safety accident, by the NRC additional action as needed.
"The nuclear regulatory commission has failed to implement the necessary safety regulations for many times, this group of nuclear safety projects, director of the study's authors wrote:" David lok bo,. "Does not perform the current safety laws and regulations is actually a kind of gambling, life in danger."
NRC officials denied the report, and said there was no report of the incident hurt the workers or the public.
At Monday marked the second anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. U.S. regulators, safety advocates and the industry are debating whether changes in the disaster after the country's 65 nuclear power plant safety.
The NRC stipulated in the new rules need to be installed or improve the exhaust system of factory operators limit core damage serious accidents and sophisticated equipment, to monitor the spent nuclear fuel pool water level.
The factories also have to improve the protection of safety device installed, on September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and make sure they can handle multistage reactor damage at the same time.
Macfarlane said, who took over the NRC chairman last July, and to the safe operation of nuclear power plants in the United States is making progress, in the new rules, and the deadline for completion in 2016 - five years later, the fukushima disaster. "So far, the industry cooperation," she said.
The NRC has close cooperation with plant operators ", to make sure they understand what we need, we understand their situation, as well as, "macfarlane said.
Even so, the industry is facing a series of difficulties. Problems of plants, in Florida and Wisconsin, was nominated as close, and still is in offline state, because the other four reactors safety. Closed reactor consists of two in the siege of the SAN onofre nuclear power plant in southern California, since January 2012, when a tiny radiation leak hundreds of pipe damage caused to the discovery of radioactive water have not to produce electric power.
Macfarlane, said the agency will not let the SAN onofre plant to restart, until regulators have certain safe operation, this may take several months.
The nuclear energy institute, the industry association, vice President of pollock said Joseph, factory operators "positive efforts", in order to meet the schedule of 2016 by the NRC has spent more than $40 million of security work. Pollock said, utilities have bought more than 1500 pieces of equipment, emergency diesel generator set, water pump and satellite phones, and the industry to set up two regional response center in Memphis and phoenix.
Insiders expect to meet the schedule of 2016 "now understand request," said pollock. If required to change or add new laws and regulations, "so it is obvious that we need to review this," he said.
Even under the new rules are fully in place, the NRC is considering a new regulation, on Japan's disaster: need to spend billions of dollars in nuclear power operators in 20 reactor installation filter vent.
The NRC staff Suggestions, in order to prevent the radioactive particles escaping to the atmosphere after the crisis core filters. The filter needs to be in Japan and most of Europe, but American electric power company said that they are unnecessary and expensive.
The nuclear energy institute, said filter may in some cases, but not all. "Performance based approach", allowing the deterministic case, whether filtering is the best way, to protect the public safety and environmental requirements.
"We are not against filtering. How this is done," said Marvin Fertel, the group's President and chief executive.
Filter questions all the debate on Capitol hill. Members of congress issued a duel on both sides for and against the proposal. Twenty-eight, joined more than two dozen house Democrats and republicans in the house of representatives and the senate had sent against hasty and unnecessary demands.
Five dozen democratic senators and members of the house of representatives wrote to support requests, they said, in a Japanese style of accident, ensure public security. A committee of five members vote on this issue is expected in the coming week.
"New rules is a rash and hasty, this is don't have the time, especially when the NRC increased by 40 + security enhancements" after the disaster in Japan, its first request, said senator David victor, R - LA, the senior republican on the senate environment and public works committee.
, senator Barbara boxer of California, who served as chairman of the committee, said the need to filter, in order to protect the 31 reactors in the United States, found that have a similar design in Japan.
The filter reduce the amount of radioactive material released into the "world environment" serious nuclear accident, the boxers signed 11 democratic colleagues wrote in the letter. "The technology has been proven in nuclear power plants all over the world."
The boxers, the committee has held seven times oversight hearings, because Japan's disaster, has asked the island from the security, the NRC report to her implementation of the reform of the organization's progress.
"She said," it is important that the United States completely from the lessons of this disaster in nuclear power plants.
 



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