Report: Nuclear industry's safety measures are 'inadequate' [View all]

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Source: The Hill

The U.S. nuclear industry is not prepared to prevent or handle the catastrophic damage a natural disaster could wreak on a nuclear power plant, according to a new report.

While the industry has made improvements in safety after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that created a melt-down at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, the National Academy of Sciences report warns more must be done.

The problem, according to the report, is U.S. safety regulations are focused on an operator's ability to respond to "specified failures" or "design-basis-events," like equipment failures, loss of power, or the inability to cool the reactor core.

That isn't enough, according to the National Academy of Sciences, which was commissioned to investigate the Fukushima incident.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/213296-report-nuclear-industrys-safety-measures-are-inadequate