New Nuclear Watchdog To Dump Reactor Stress Tests
From Japan Times
Japan’s new nuclear watchdog plans to disregard the stress tests used by its predecessor for the reactor reactivation process because it plans to create fresh criteria for the task, Nuclear Regulation Authority chief Shunichi Tanaka said Monday.
“We will not use ”stress tests” as our judgment criteria,” Tanaka said in an interview, referring to the two-stage safety examination that the government slapped together to push through reactor restarts in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in March last year, fearing summer power outages.
