RE: Radiation Records Being Investigated

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> The difference is in the lack of regulatory oversight and in the legacy 
> programs' Cold War philosophy, not the "mystically different properties" of 
> radiation.

Phil,

That is why the excerpt of an article I posted on March 16 is so very 
appropriate. While the NRC may on many occasions be overly 
restrictive and reactive, they do a pretty damn good job.:

Bliley Introduces Bill To Strengthen Safety At DOE

WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- House Commerce Committee 
Chairman U.S. Rep. Tom Bliley (R-VA) along with Science Committee 
Chairman U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), and US Reps, Fred 
Upton (R-MI), Joe Barton (R-TX), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Ken Calvert 

(R-CA) late yesterday introduced a bill to establish external 
regulation of safety at all Department of Energy facilities.  Bliley 
today made the following statement:  

"I am introducing today, along with a number of my colleagues from 
the Commerce Committee and the Science Committee, legislation to 
improve the safety throughout the Department of Energy by 
establishing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the external 
regulator of all nuclear safety matters in the Department of Energy 
and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as the external 
regulator for all non-nuclear worker safety matters in the Department 
of Energy. 



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