NRC Members Reject Quick Overhaul for Nuclear Plants

A majority of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rejected Chairman Gregory Jaczko's timeline for deciding whether to endorse regulatory changes in light of Japan's nuclear crisis.

Rep. Ed Markey (D., Mass.), a longtime critic of the NRC, said more staff input would "actively aid and abet the nuclear industry's dilatory efforts to ignore, perhaps indefinitely, the recommendations of the commission's expert and dedicated staff."

[link to online.wsj.com]

- ah...the well-oiled machine.