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Despite that frightening condemnation, the panel failed to take the logical next step--recommending a moratorium on construction of new nuclear plants. It did, however, point to the need for such a ban, concluding that even if President Carter, Congress, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the nuclear industry adopt all of its recommendations, there is still "no guarantee that there will be no serious future nuclear accidents...
...report places the blame so widely on federal regulators, the plant's builders and managers and control room operators that six of the twelve members voted to ask President Carter to ban the construction of any new nuclear plants until suggested reforms could be enacted. This moratorium failed to gain a majority only because Kemeny, who had supported other forms of a ban in preliminary voting, inexplicably abstained on the final ballot...
...Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Interior Committee, said that in the absence of a moratorium "there will be a tendency to use Band-Aids where surgery is required...
Udall had indicated that he opposed a moratorium as recently as last summer, but said he now believes that at least "a conditional moratorium" is needed...
...report levelled a broad indictment at the nuclear industry and its regulators, but stopped short of recommending a moratorium--an issue which sharply divided the Commission...