The Obama administration still strongly supports a resurgence in the US nuclear power industry, said Steven Chu, energy secretary, putting the country at odds with others including China, France and Germany, which are changing their policies.
However, Mr Chu said the US might need to re-evaluate the safety of domestic reactors in light of the unfolding disaster in Japan.
He stopped short of endorsing the Japanese response to the nuclear disaster. He told the committee on energy in the House of Representatives that he “can’t really say” whether he was satisfied with the Japanese reaction to the nuclear events because he was receiving “conflicting reports” of events.
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