Mitigating strategies still work in progress

Nearly three and a half years later, strategies in this country to mitigate potential damage from the kind of accident and natural disaster that befell Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant remain a work in progress for the United States.  There was a letter last week from the NRC’s Japan Lesson-Learned Division to the vice president of Oconee Nuclear Station.  NRC spokesman Roger Hannah says, “Basically, what that letter does is notifying Duke that their revised flooding analysis for Oconee is acceptable to the staff and that the flood heights that are predicted in that revised analysis can be used in developing their mitigating strategies….”  Hannah described the NRC as taking a careful look at any action that might be needed.  “We didn’t want to do something very quickly that might not be the right kinds of actions…, he said