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...Further complicating the situation was the fact that the Army’s first research reactor had been built at the Arsenal in 1960. Though operations ceased a decade later, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did not formally shut down the reactor until...
...Since the NRC has exclusive jurisdiction over nuclear issues, the EPA and the NRC were each responsible for different sections of the site...
...Even though nearly all of Thailand's 6 million Muslims live in the south, popular support for a separate state is not strong. The region's high voter turnout of more than 70% in the February general election suggests that few southerners want independence, NRC chairman Anand noted last week. Yet this is no cause for complacency, with unidentified militants growing more sophisticated in the planning and execution of their attacks, and perhaps drawing inspiration-if not yet direct support-from the global jihadi movement. A "conspiracy of silence" surrounds the militants, says Zachary Abuza, a terrorism expert with...
...ideological war now rages within the south's Muslim communities. Militants disseminate their radical creed through leaflets hand-scattered at night in villages or stuck to lamp-posts in towns and cities. One found recently outside a mosque in Pattani's Yarang district excoriates the NRC and "Siamese infidels" who corrupt young Muslims with drugs and money. It warns the "people of Pattani state" to reject all efforts of reconciliation by non-Muslims. "A dog is still a dog, even if it befriends a goat," it says. "People read the leaflets and then destroy them," says a Muslim aid worker...
...think about their overpreached principles of democracy without blushing. Alex Crotta Montalto Dora, Italy Securing the Reactors Re "Are These Towers Safe?" [June 20]: Nuclear power plants are the most heavily defended elements of our civilian infrastructure. Their defenses - at the direction of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (nrc) and with a cost of roughly $1 billion to the industry - have been upgraded significantly several times since Sept. 11, 2001. The article unfortunately relies heavily on opinions that do not present an accurate picture of current plant defenses and strategies. The nrc has worked closely with law-enforcement and security...