Fukushima Disaster Left U.S. Agency in Confusion
Relying on information from Japanese officials, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko told Congress that a spent-fuel pool at Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant was dry. It wasn’t true. “I’ve said publicly the pool is dry,” Jaczko told Chuck Casto, the NRC’s lead official in Japan, on a conference call hours after Jaczko’s March 16 testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “Do you think that’s inaccurate?”