The May issue of Nuclear Energy Insight is now available online. The cover story features the NEI-sponsored race car and driver Simona de Silvestro, winner of the Atlantic Championship season opener. Other featured articles discuss the construction of new nuclear power plants around the world, plans for small-scale reactors for use in remote locations, the nuclear industry’s strategic role in emergency response and federal grants given to community colleges for energy-related job training.
From NEI’s Japan micro-site: NRC, Industry Concur on Many Post-Fukushima Actions Industry/Regulatory/Political Issues • There is a “great deal of alignment” between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the industry on initial steps to take at America’s nuclear energy facilities in response to the nuclear accident in Japan, Charles Pardee, the chief operating officer of Exelon Generation Co., said at an agency briefing today. The briefing gave stakeholders an opportunity to discuss staff recommendations for near-term actions the agency may take at U.S. facilities. PowerPoint slides from the meeting are on the NRC website. • The International Atomic Energy Agency board has approved a plan that calls for inspectors to evaluate reactor safety at nuclear energy facilities every three years. Governments may opt out of having their country’s facilities inspected. Also approved were plans to maintain a rapid response team of experts ready to assist facility operators recoverin...
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