Word: lockbaum
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...Lockbaum acknowledges that the NRC, for its part, has been hit with budget cuts, more nuclear demands and more worries since Sept. 11, and is only now getting the necessary funds to add about 300 positions - a roughly 10 percent increase. He's not the only one concerned. At a Senate committee hearing last May, an official with the Government Accountability Office expressed misgivings about the industry's level of self-policing, saying that the NRC "in effect, relies on [plant operators] and trusts them to a large extent to make sure that their plants are operated safely." Residents...