One year after the devastating March 11 tsunami and earthquake caused a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan, regulators in the U.S. are working to ensure the country's fleet of nuclear reactors are safe and strong enough to withstand a natural or man-made disaster of similar force.

Progress Energy will be encouraged to repair the multi-million dollar damage at its Crystal River nuclear unit 3 as soon as possible, and terminate its engineering, procurement and construction contract with Shaw and Westinghouse for a new nuclear plant under a global settlement reached by the Florida’s office of Public Counsel, Progress Energy and other parties on Jan. 20.