Word: nrc
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Fueling these worries is a new rule, scheduled to be enacted in June by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that would stretch the legal life-span of many atomic plants to 60 years. Although the NRC says it will ensure that the industry addresses age-related issues, some scientists charge that the agency's safety guidelines are not stringent enough to prevent catastrophic accidents. Forty years ago, "these nuclear plants, after concerted study, were granted a finite number of years to operate," says M.I.T. physicist Henry Kendall, who shared a Nobel Prize last year for discovering subatomic particles called quarks...