CBS says that the worst may not be over from Fukushima because the effects of Fukushima radiation have become much more severe. enenews.com The radiological event at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico in February 2014 resulted from shortcomings within both contractor and federal processes, the accident investigation board has concluded. The release, it said, was preventable. world-nuclear-news.org Latest reliability and safety indicators for US nuclear power plants continue a pattern of consistently high results dating back more than ten years, according to the US Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). world-nuclear-news.org Nuclear can still have a key role to play in Japan’s energy policy, but the restart process for the country’s offline reactor fleet is strict and time-consuming, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum president Takuya Hattori told NucNet. nucnet.org
