Its representatives endorsed some changes, including additional portable backup generators, but when an N.R.C. task force, created after Fukushima, recommended upgrading the "patchwork" of regulations that govern American plants, the Nuclear Energy Institute argued against making changes in haste.
But because regulation limited their profits, they had little financial incentive to invest in maintaining and upgrading the system.
Upgrading the traditional thermostat, water pump, and radiator fan with servo-motor driven actuators permit real time computer control to improve temperature regulation and reduce power consumption.
Then, just last month, after a long struggle that included a fight over whether pizza sauce should count as a serving of vegetables (the final verdict was that it does), federal regulations upgraded the quality of food in the school meals to ensure they contain more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and less sodium and saturated fat.
They worked directly with the small manufacturers to help them organize trade associations, navigate government regulations and upgrade the skills of their workers.
The school will invest about $2 million to upgrade the center, which includes a regulation-size high school gym, a 25-yard swimming pool, exercise rooms, locker rooms, saunas and a rooftop space on which two tennis courts will be built.
The Committee recommended upgrading India's regulations and regulatory bodies to meet international standards, to include a National Drug Authority.
It has upgraded the public schools and helped create programs at local colleges in orthopedic regulation and advanced machinist techniques.
President Obama has expressed his support of the proposed regulation, and in March 2009 launched the Food Safety Working Group to advise him on how to upgrade the U.S. food safety system.
She upgraded the shipping.
