Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wants the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to move to implement a NRC task force's safety recommendations for U.S. reactors in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi accident in Japan.
Boxer said at a June 4 committee hearing that it was "scandalous" that none of the 12 recommendations the task force issued in July 2011 had been carried out yet at U.S. nuclear powerplants.