{"id":194928,"date":"2008-08-07T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/07\/nuclear-regulatory-commission-looks-at-more-public-disclosure\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T04:12:00","slug":"nuclear-regulatory-commission-looks-at-more-public-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/07\/nuclear-regulatory-commission-looks-at-more-public-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Regulatory Commission Looks at More Public Disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the record of the NRC toward disclosure, the idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2008\/08\/nrc_openness.html\">this is a major break with the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Aftergood take on it is that Congress is breathing down their necks because, they were not notified of a major safety event:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>According to David Lochbaum, a nuclear safety engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, the triggering event in this case was congressional outrage at the NRC\u2019s concealment of a major \u201cnuclear safety event\u201d in 2006 at the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, approximately 35 liters of highly enriched uranium solution leaked and spilled, creating the possibility of a criticality accident, i.e. an uncontrolled chain reaction. Yet \u201cNRC failed to notify the public or Congress for 13 months regarding this serious incident,\u201d complained Rep. John Dingell in a July 3, 2007 letter (pdf) to NRC Chairman Dale E. Klein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I were a member of Congress, that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">would<\/span> piss me off.<\/p>\n<p>If I lived near Erwin, Tennessee, I&#8217;d consider putting my house up for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the record of the NRC toward disclosure, the idea that this is a major break with the past. Steven Aftergood take on it is that Congress is breathing down their necks because, they were not notified of a major safety event: According to David Lochbaum, a nuclear safety engineer with the Union of Concerned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1163,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-nuclear-power","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}