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Safety Dance, Part Two
Is the U.S. nuclear industry writing its own ticket on security? |
Shelley Smithson |
28 Mar 2002 |
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| Over the last 15 years, the nuclear power industry has lobbied the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Congress to weaken security requirements at atomic plants, even as the threat of terrorism has grown. But in reality, as Shelley Smithson shows in Part I of this series, nuclear energy security is already poor. In drills conducted by the NRC over the last decade, guards at nearl ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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