The Nuclear Energy Institute announced March 6 that the nuclear industry will proceed with the acquisition of additional safety equipment at the country’s nuclear power plants as its top response to last year’s Japanese nuclear crisis. The FLEX program will place additional safety equipment at individual facilities and new regional centers than can be shared, and calls on each plant owner and operator to contract for additional emergency equipment by the end of the month. The plan will cost $1-2 million for each of the 104 commercial plant reactors at 67 sites in 31 states.