Word: nrc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Councilors had grown worried about the possibility of large-scale shipments of radioactive materials this fall after they learned that the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had granted MIT a license to store as much as a million curies worth of radioactivity at the reactor facility...
...scene, things were little better. A bubble of hydrogen formed near the dome of the reactor, and there was general fear that it might explode or expand enough to push away the reactor coolant and expose the core. Everyone worried, but no one knew what to do--as one NRC official said, "We have got every systems engineer we can find... thinking the problem, and they are not coming up with answers... We don't have a solution, but maybe we are coming up with one." And maybe not. As it turned out, the engineers did nothing for a week...
...ordered, in large part for fear of what "it would do to the industry." But Gov. Richard Thornburgh did advise small children and pregnant women to leave, mainly because he worried about the political repercussions of inaction. And all the while, Metropolitan Edison lied to the state, to the NRC and to the press...
...nomination was "held up by the Republicans in anticipation of a Reagan victory, and it looks like their strategy paid off, a source in the NRC, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday. "It looks like Reagan will appoint whomever he deems appropriate," the source said...
Industrial and environmental lobbyists had disagreed over Carnesale's nomination, with some believing Carnesale was too opinionated a choice and others pushing his nomination because they though the NRC, criticized for its handling of the Three Mile Island incident, needed strong guidance immediately...