Word: nrc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) several years ago shut down several labs in the School of Public Health and at the Biochemistry Laboratories for failing to comply with NRC safety standards...
Heads of the various laboratories on campus say that although lab research can often put technicians in contact with hazardous materials, conditions are carefully monitored and all employees receive proper training. They say that all radioactive materials are disposed of with great care and according to NRC regulations...
...radiation labs are also regularly inspectedby non-Harvard authorities. The NRC is supposed todo secret, on-site visits every year, andinspectors' visits have resulted in lab closures...
Sequoyah has been converting its wastewater into fertilizer since 1973 by chemically removing most of the uranium and heavy metals and adding potash and phosphate during application. The liquid was first tested on small plots of company land. In the early 1980s the NRC, finding "no adverse environmental impacts," authorized more widespread testing. That assessment was circulated to the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and each passed it with no comments...
...just this seemingly lackadaisical review process that concerns critics. According to Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar, who headed an investigation of the 1986 incident, the EPA and other agencies tend to defer to the NRC in matters involving radioactive materials. But the NRC, he says, "fixes almost exclusively on the radioactive, not chemical, hazards," which may be more to the point in this case. State efforts to regulate the spraying have meanwhile been stymied by jurisdictional questions, which were finally resolved last spring, when the Oklahoma water resources board asserted its right to address the possible threat to groundwater. Its decision...