Safety has taken a back seat to cost-cutting at most of the nation's nuclear power plants, sparking fears that America could be facing its own Fukushima disaster.
An investigation by the Associated Press has revealed federal regulators are repeatedly weakening - or simply failing to impose - strict rules.
Officials at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission have frequently decided that original regulations were too strict, arguing that safety margins could be eased without peril.
Failed cables. Cracked concrete, corroded metals and rusty underground pipes — all of these and thousands of other problems linked to aging were uncovered in the AP's year-long investigation.
Yet despite the growing problems linked to aging, not a single official body in government or industry has studied the overall frequency and potential impact on safety of such breakdowns in recent years.
All the while the NRC keeps extending licenses of dozens of reactors.
The Trump administration has said it is immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind farms already...
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said on Friday that an IAEA team...
Two fossil-fuel billionaires with close ties to Donald Trump bought millions of shares in the company...
The Trump administration on Thursday announced new oil and gas drilling off California’s and Florida’s coasts,...
