SENATORS INTRODUCE NUCLEAR SAFETY BILL

摘要

With the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster approaching, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate last week would require a United States strategic plan for international cooperation on nuclear power safety and increase U.S. efforts in the Convention on Nuclear Safety. The "Furthering International Nuclear Safety Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Thomas Carper (D-Del.), and George Voinovich (R-Ohio), would compel the U.S. representative to the convention to "encourage the use of performance metric tools for countries to assess their own nuclear safety progress," according to a statement from Voinovich.