Posted by Mason Inman on May 23, 2012
Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, announced his resignation this week, but he is still making pointed comments about the need to strengthen regulations to ensure nuclear power plants are safer.
?I think the Fukushima event was a wake-up call, hopefully for everyone,? Jaczko said in a news conference today, referring to the earthquake- and tsunami-triggered nuclear plant accident in Japan on March 11, 2011.
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?I think there were people throughout this industry who had come to the belief that an accident of that magnitude simply was never going to happen, that we had really come to the point at which we?d eliminated that,? Jaczko said. ?I?ve always tried to do my job without making that assumption.?...
