Word: nrc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter Agnes, assistant Massachusetts public safety commissioner, stood up while NRC officials were telling commissioners that the Pilgrim plant in Plymouth, Mass., was ready to open after a two-and-one-half-year shutdown even though it did not have an approved emergency evacuation plan...
Agnes, who has been working with local and federal officials to create acceptable evacuation plans for the suburban towns surrounding the plant, was immediately approached by several NRC security guards...
...remedy these problematic attitudes towards mathematical education in America, Gleason has become involved with the Mathematical Science Education Board, a subgroup of the National Research Council (NRC), a Washington-based organization designed to promote the study of math and science in American schools and industry...
Gleason attends NRC conferences several times a year and discusses education policy in the U.S. with other professors and government officials...
...most of the time, employees say, Harvardsupervisors find out about the NRC visits inadvance and clean up the labs. "Everybody alwayslaughs that when the NRC inspects, they see adifferent lab," says the former employee...