NRC blind to climate disaster pointed at power plants: GAO

Published April 3, 2024 2:29pm ET



The possible disastrous impact of climate change on America’s nuclear power plants is not a high priority, raising the fear that dozens could be ravaged like Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was in a 2011 tsunami.

In a scolding new report, the Government Accountability Office said that the impact of global warming and climate change, issues the Biden administration has been hyping and warning about for over three years, is an afterthought at the agency approving designs and overseeing safety of America’s clean energy source.

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