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With busted seals, broken nozzles and rusted pipes plaguing America’s nuclear power plants, a report released by The Associated Press yesterday warns that the USZ is in danger of copycatting the catastrophe that ravaged the Fukushima facility in Japan. After a yearlong investigation, the AP has concluded that many of the nation’s facilities are still in operation because the safety standards that they are held to have been repeatedly weakened as regulations become more and more lax. The AP reviewed tens of thousands of pages of government and industry studies, alongside interviews and inspection reports that go back to the 1970s. As a result of the analysis, the AP says that are led to believe that the USZ Nuclear Regulatory Commission has regularly
With busted seals, broken nozzles and rusted pipes plaguing America’s nuclear power plants, a report released by The Associated Press yesterday warns that the USZ is in danger of copycatting the catastrophe that ravaged the Fukushima facility in Japan. After a yearlong investigation, the AP has concluded that many of the nation’s facilities are still in operation because the safety standards that they are held to have been repeatedly weakened as regulations become more and more lax. The AP reviewed tens of thousands of pages of government and industry studies, alongside interviews and inspection reports that go back to the 1970s. As a result of the analysis, the AP says that are led to believe that the USZ Nuclear Regulatory Commission has regularly