Word: nrc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massachusetts Attorney General James Shannon promised to fight the NRC decision, which he said came as no surprise...
Dukakis said the Seabrook plant was "a white elephant" and that the NRC's action was the equivalent of removing lifeboats on the Titanic...
...Dukakis and New York Governor Mario Cuomo have managed to block the startup of Shoreham and Seabrook because NRC rules adopted in the wake of the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., virtually require state and local cooperation in planning for the evacuation of residents within 10 miles of a reactor in the event of a major accident...
...proposed rules change would entitle the NRC to go ahead and license a plant in the absence of state and local cooperation on emergency plant. In such cases, the utilities themselves would be required to develop evacuation plans on their own, ones which could be reasonably expected to work if local authorities did in fact respond to an emergency, regardless of their pre-license objections...
Cuomo told the NRC Tuesday that the notion of ignoring state objections "suggests a policy that would be unconstitutional, a blatant disregarding of the need for evacuation, a repudiation of the president, a contradiction of the history of this commission...and a further blow to your already diminished credibility...