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...simply could not sit there any longer, after having worked on this project for two years with state and local officials, and hear the false-hoods, half-truths and misrepresentations that the NRC staff was making about emergency planning. It was absolutely disgraceful. My concern was that we were reaching a decision point and that the commissioners ought to know that at least one public safety official from the common-wealth took exception with what they said," Agnes said...
Dukakis and other state officials have urged the NRC to keep the 670-megawatt reactor shut down until an acceptable emergency evacuation plan is installed and tested. Last year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the previous plan was unacceptable...
...NRC officials, in their briefing to the commissioners, said the original management and equipment problems that triggered the shutdown on April 12, 1986, have been resolved. They added that evacuation planning, while not completed, is greatly improved and should not halt the reopening of the plant...
...commission declined to make an immediate ruling. NRC Chairman Lando W. Zech Jr. said the commission needed time to review testimony presented earlier in the day by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and other state officials as well as the NRC staff's recommendations...
About an hour later, an NRC spokesman said the chairman had already drafted a letter expressing his regrets about the "unfortunate incident," explaining that he did not recognize Agnes...