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Nuclear regulators who are failing to do their jobs need to take notice of Japan: https://nuclear-news.net/2017/10/10/fukushima-district-court-finds-national-government-and-tepco-responsible Just because in most countries the nuclear industry has limitations on civil liability for nuclear disasters doesn’t mean that there won’t be criminal liability, especially for the government regulators who fail to do their jobs. Plenty of evidence for criminal liability based on willful criminal negligence can be found in our blog, alone. And, for lack of time, our blog hasn’t even touched on so many of their crimes. In particular, US NRC Commissioners Svinicki and Burns can expect to be held criminally liable for blocking NRC staff from keeping the public safer (e.g. Blocking (repeated) staff attempts to address the open phase problems, which afflict all but one US nuclear power station, in a more timely manner. The problem has been admittedly known since 2012.) Some staff may be held criminally negligent on…