United States: NRC to Ease Regulatory Burdens During Pandemic

As reported by Nuclear Intelligence Weekly (re-posted with permission).

The article quotes Beyond Nuclear:

Activists are concerned the agency's approach to the Covid-19 crisis has left the door wide open for regulatory rollbacks that could compromise the safety of the nation's aging reactor fleet. "It's clear that the NRC is ready to permit whatever rollbacks the industry is willing to request," Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps told Energy Intelligence. "How inspections, repairs and replacements of safety-significant systems, structures and components can go undone, and not increase risk, has not been adequately explained by NRC, nor has the agency addressed the potential impacts of decreased quality of work, or even serious human errors, made by a dwindling number of severely fatigued workers, under the increasing stress of the Covid-19 pandemic."

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