Word: nrc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worse, the Ginna mishap may be a portent of troubles ahead, since steam lines in many plants around the country are also plagued by corrosion. Indeed, by week's end, reactors in New Jersey and Vermont had been shut down because of leaks in their plumbing, and the NRC reported that plans to restart Three Mile Island's Unit No. 1, closed for refueling at the time of the 1979 accident at its sister plant, would be delayed at least six months because of similar leaks there...
Carnesale, who was nominated last July by President Carter to head the NRC, was unavailable for comment...
Highly critical, however, of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)--"a much maligned agency that has much to be maligned for"--the report blames the NRC for actually exacerbating problems of public safety, cost, and public acceptance...
Allison and Carnesale strongly recommended scrapping the NRC, which has five directors, and replacing it with an executive agency with a single administrative head. They flatly rejected recent proposals to create additional regulatory bodies...
...council voted to send letters protesting a lack of notification about the license to the NRC and also to consider an ordinance that would regulate all shipments of radioactive materials within the city...