Word: nrc
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...recent report of the National Research Council (NRC) showing that average Americans do not benefit from restricting cholesterol and fat intake except to maintain normal body weight could be dangerous to the public, according to a Medical School physician...
Donald Berwick, instructor in Pediatrics at the Medical School, responding to the study released last week, said yesterday, "People who liberate their diets to include more cholesterol because of the NRC report could be making a serious error...
...residents say they are actually less worried about nuclear power now than they were before the accident. Both Met-Ed and the NRC have tightened their procedures and improved their machinery in an effort to prevent a recurrence. Middletowners have learned even more. At the time of the accident last year, the town had neither the instruments to monitor radiation levels nor a plan for moving its inhabitants out of danger. Since then, the town has installed radiation detectors on the roof of the borough hall and put together an 80-page program that provides for the evacuation...
...make matters worse, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lost credibility because of the Three Mile Island accident and has yet to get it back. The special commission appointed by the President to investigate the accident called the NRC, in the words of Commission Chairman John Kemeny, "an agency hypnotized by equipment." This faith in technology, charged the investigators, was at least partially to blame for the lax safety procedures and lack of qualified personnel that they felt contributed to the Three Mile Island nightmare...
Required reports were filed on the incident with the NRC, and should have led to a simple warning that would have kept T.M.I.'s operators from misreading the situation two years later. However, that warning was never issued. Now, instead of waiting for such an NRC alert, the industry has set up a new watchdog group, the Nuclear Safety Analysis Center. It will review reports of minor incidents and, if necessary, press for changes in operating practice or equipment design...