"The NRC has repeatedly failed to enforce essential safety regulations, " wrote David Lochbaum, director of the group's Nuclear Safety Project and author of the study.

NPR: Nuclear Chief: US Plants Safer After Japan Crisis

This figure is slightly less than the 18 % obtained in 2000 by the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) in its study "Who Makes the News", in which the group monitored 16, 000 news items published in 70 countries during one day (see table).

UNESCO: Communication and Information