Re: Lochbaum

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

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From: hughesj@songs.sce.com <hughesj@songs.sce.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, November 06, 2000 6:42 PM
Subject: Lochbaum


>
>Some radsafers will remember Mr. Lochbaum from previous discussions.
>
>--UCS' DAVID LOCHBAUM RESIGNED TODAY (11/3/00) FROM A PANEL THAT IS
>REVIEWING the effectiveness of NRC's revised reactor oversight process,
>which was implemented six months ago. Lochbaum, nuclear safety engineer at
>the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), announced he was quitting the
>15-member interim implementation evaluation panel--about half of whose
>members are NRC staffers--at an industry conference in Rockville, Md. "It
>seems like it's a much more colorful version of the same old NRC
>oversight," he said, referring to the agency's new color coding used to
>determine the level of NRC response. "I can be patronized from my office as
>well as in White Flint [NRC headquarters]....There's been one against 14 on
>too many issues."
>
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