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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/washington/04nuke.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
After consulting with the industry, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission weakened security regulations it had proposed for reactors, government auditors said in a report to be released on Tuesday.
The auditors said the process "created the appearance that the changes were made based on what the industry considered reasonable and feasible to defend against rather than an assessment of the terrorist threat itself."
The report, by the Government Accountability Office, stopped short of saying that the commission had made changes "based solely on industry views."
The study, requested by Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican who is the chairman of the subcommittee on national security of the House Government Reform Committee, did not draw any broad conclusions about the actual level of security at the plants, except to note that drills had not been held at most of the plants since the new requirements took effect on Oct. 29, 2004.
I feel so much safer with the nuclear industry making its own rules.
NOT.
After consulting with the industry, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission weakened security regulations it had proposed for reactors, government auditors said in a report to be released on Tuesday.
The auditors said the process "created the appearance that the changes were made based on what the industry considered reasonable and feasible to defend against rather than an assessment of the terrorist threat itself."
The report, by the Government Accountability Office, stopped short of saying that the commission had made changes "based solely on industry views."
The study, requested by Representative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican who is the chairman of the subcommittee on national security of the House Government Reform Committee, did not draw any broad conclusions about the actual level of security at the plants, except to note that drills had not been held at most of the plants since the new requirements took effect on Oct. 29, 2004.
I feel so much safer with the nuclear industry making its own rules.
NOT.
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