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New Rules for U.S. Nuclear Disaster Response
2013-04-15 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Two years after the Fukushima nuclear accident in northern Japan, the United States government is using lessons from that disaster to rewrite its plans for responding to radiation contamination, focusing on long-term cleanup instead of emergency response. But the proposals have set off vehement opposition from critics of nuclear power. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency expects to publish in the Federal Register a draft document that would change its long-standing advice to state and...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical