Re: FYI: "Our Gang"...

[William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com>]

"We have met the enemy and he is us."  Pogo

The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com

Jim Muckerheide wrote:

> ...that can't shoot straight, strikes again. :-(
>
> Good grief.
>
> Regards, Jim
> muckerheide@mediaone.net
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> NUCLEAR COMMISSION ACCUSED OF LETTING INDUSTRY SHAPE POLICY
>
>  WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2000 (ENS) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
> (NRC) invited a nuclear industry group to help shape policy and later misled a
> congressman about the matter, the U.S. Inspector General's office reports. The
> report reinforces the contention that the NRC does the bidding of the industry
> at the expense of the public, says the consumer group Public Citizen. The
> report, released to the public on Thursday, found that the NRC misled
> Congressman Edward Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, regarding the release of
> an internal commission policy paper to the industry group Nuclear Energy
> Institute (NEI). The NRC shared the paper, which addressed the NRC's policy
> governing generic communications, with the NEI and provided the institute with
> an exclusive opportunity to review and comment on it. The NRC told Markey's
> office that the draft was simultaneously made available to the public when in
> fact it was not, the Inspector General's office said. In fact, the NRC never
> solicited public comment on the document.
>
>  "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has abdicated its regulatory
> responsibility to the nuclear industry and excluded the public from the
> process," said Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass
> Energy Project. "The NRC is supposed to be regulating the nuclear industry,
> not the other way around." Because these policy papers are the primary
> decision-making tool of the commission, Public Citizen believes that it is
> improper for the nuclear industry to have an exclusive opportunity to review
> and alter their contents. Allowing NEI to review and alter NRC's policy papers
> is in direct conflict with at least two of the NRC's "principles of good
> regulation," which include independence and openness, Hauter said. The NRC
> should withdraw the document unless and until all interested parties have an
> opportunity to review it and provide comment, she said. The Inspector
> Generals' report is available at:
> http://www.citizen.org/CMEP/nuclearsafety/misleadingNRC.htm
>
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