Word: nrc
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Markey accused the NRC of helping New Hampshire Yankee, Seabrook's builder, win an exemption that would reduce the evacuation zone from 10 to two miles...
...hearing he convened on the plant's evacuation procedure, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) led an attack against NRC officials in a packed Amesbury High School auditorium. Amesbury is one of six Massachusetts communities within a 10-mile radius of the idle New Hampshire power plant...
AMESBURY,--Congressmen opposed to the opening of the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant yesterday warned Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials they would face fierce resistance if they favored a plan to ease emergency evacuation safeguards...
Richard Vollmer, NRC deputy director for nuclear reactor regulation, defended the agency against charges that the utility swayed it to grant a license at the expense of public safety...
...Energy plans to help build demonstration food-irradiation plants in Oklahoma, Iowa, Hawaii, Florida, California and Washington, opponents complain that the resulting spread of radioactive material will increase the chances of mishaps during transport, use and disposal. Nor has the supervision of existing irradiation plants been reassuring. The NRC acknowledges that it may inspect a facility only once in three years. Radiation Technology's license to operate a New Jersey plant was recently suspended for two months after the NRC found that company officials tried to hide a safety violation. Next month International Nutronics goes on trial for, among other...