The nuclear power industry is pushing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to cut back on inspections at nuclear plants and throttle back what it tells the public about plant problems. The agency, whose board is dominated by Trump appointees, is listening.
group. A"high-priority" ask is to eliminate press releases about lower-level safety issues at plants — meaning the kind of problems that could trigger more inspections and oversight at a plant but not constitute an emergency.
Nuclear plant operators amplified their requests at an annual meeting in the Washington, D.C, area this week. When the NRC makes public the problems found at a plant, utilities get"pretty rapid calls from the press, SEC filings get impacted because of potential financial impact," Halnon said.Trump has said he wants toSo far, it's the more politically influential coal industry that's gotten significant action on the regulatory rollbacks that it sought from the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies.
"We shouldn't regulate to zero risk," said David Wright, a former South Carolina public-utility commissioner appointed to the NRC board last year.Tony Vegel, a Texas-based reactor safety official for the NRC, pushed back when industry executives publicly made their case for fewer NRC inspections.
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