The nuclear industry's 2012 annual conference and supplier expo, Nuclear Energy Assembly (NEA), takes place May 21-23 in Charlotte, N.C. For the latest news and information on the conference, visit NEI's website: http://bit.ly/GRxKJi or follow along on Twitter with hashtag #NEA2012.
In the year since a massive earthquake and tsunami led to the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi, operators of U.S. nuclear energy facilities have taken steps to make safe plants even safer. For more information on the industry's post-Fukushima strategy, visit NEI's website: http://safetyfirst.nei.org/.
Dr. Robert Emery, Vice President for Safety, Health, Environment and Risk Management at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, talks about how the radiation protection community reacted to the incident at Fukushima Daiichi and how those professionals are absorbing the lessons from that incident.