SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (CNS)—Congressman Mike Levin (D-San Juan Capistrano), whose district includes portions of Orange and San Diego counties, has introduced federal legislation that would require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to keep a resident inspector at nuclear power plants being decommissioned until all spent fuel is transferred from spent fuel pools to canisters, his office said.
While the NRC refused to implement a resident inspector at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station during its spent fuel transfer process, Levin’s legislation “builds on the lessons learned by that failure and would ensure that other decommissioning plants have the added safety benefit of a resident inspector,” the office said in a statement.
