Tepco Nuclear Safety Reformer Says Industry Needs Peer Reviews
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Japan’s nuclear utilities should consider peer safety reviews to raise standards and assuage public concern that the technology is unsafe following the 2011 Fukushima disaster, according to a safety adviser to Japan’s biggest utility.
An industry group is able to assess risks to nuclear plants better than a regulator, Dale Klein, former chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and now head of safety reform at Tokyo Electric Power Co., said in an interview.