TOKYO — Proposed new safety guidelines for Japan's nuclear industry — strict enough that they could keep reactors shuttered for years for emergency upgrades — have set off intense political maneuvering by those who say the regulations will cripple business just as hopes were rising for economic relief.
In Cascadia, many bridges have been retrofitted, major electrical substations hardened, and emergency facilities upgraded to improve resilience.
Second-guessing engulfed the Games until the International Skating Union, in a late-night emergency meeting, upgraded the Canadians' medal -- and suspended a French judge for not coming forward to report that she had been pressured to vote for the Russians.
The needed improvements, mainly an additional staircase to use in emergencies and upgrades to fire safety systems, were initially expected to cost $2.3 million.
He was instrumental in separately securing $22 million for the mine safety agency to upgrade emergency equipment and speed up the appeals process that mine owners disgracefully game to produce huge enforcement backlogs.
And the city's public hospital system is projecting that it will have spent more than $100 million by 2011 to upgrade emergency rooms at six of its 11 hospitals.
The new advertising follows a series of actions undertaken by the line after the Triumph accident, including a $300 million program to upgrade emergency power capabilities, fire safety technology and other systems; outreach to travel agents, an important source of business; and a vacation guarantee program that gives dissatisfied passengers a 110 percent refund.
The money was spent on emergency drills, communication upgrades, training for emergency workers and the purchase of cots and supplies.
In recent years, federal and local emergency agencies have upgraded their radio networks at great cost to permit vastly increased traffic and to allow for communication between different agencies during crises.
Among other things, the act required abortion clinics to meet new building code requirements such as upgrading emergency fire systems and making doors and hallways as wide as an ambulance gurney.
