NEI Nuclear Notes

PSEG President and Chief Operating Officer William Levis does not discount or play down the events in Japan: Levis acknowledged that the events in Japan went beyond what engineers there had planned for and said U.S. companies would have to re-evaluate the "design basis" for their own safety plans. "We'll go back and relook at this too, just to ensure ourselves that we've got this right," he said. But he does not back away, either: Levis said the crisis in Japan shouldn't affect plant license renewals in the U.S. because the renewals here relate to managing aging equipment. "There's nothing that happened in (Japan) that looks like it's related to aging management, so I would think that they would go on," Levis said, referring to license renewals. "But I also recognize that there is some need for caution and some additional questions that need to be asked." --- Neither is Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) ...