Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would
order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Perry has filed a proposed rulemaking that asks the federal regulators (two of which are Trump appointees, with an additional two more pending Senate approval) to approve of the rule in
order to allow power market
operators to establish a new tariff for power
plants that have a 90 - day fuel supply on site — a naked nod to coal and
nuclear plants.