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   Pete Rogan

   November 13, 2013 at 12:30 pm | #

   In 1973, then-Energy Secretary Dixie Lee Ray decided that the two jobs of the old Atomic Energy Commission, promotion of the nuclear industry and maintenance of safety regulations and their enforcement were too much for one agency, and potentially in conflict. She therefore decommissioned the AEC, gave a promotional budget to the nuclear industry to toot their own horn on Uncle Sugar’s dime, and put regulation and enforcement into a smaller Nuclear Regulatory Commission. While she might have thought she had good reasons for so doing, in effect she cut industry ties with the regulators and left them at loggerheads with each other. The NRC wrote and revised regulations for nuclear power plants as soon as they learned new information, and then required plants and builders to conform to the new standards as they were published. Often changes were proposed to regulations just changed but still in the process of being adopted, resulting in a plant needing to retrofit its corrections as it was making the first changes. Confusing, and since the NRC didn’t have the manpower to enforce its dictates save by inspection at the end of a change, they didn’t catch the mistakes and shortcuts and substandard installation and construction until after completion and, sometimes, commissioning of new atomic plants. Like Three Mile Island.

   Also in 1973, Dixie Lee Ray visited my college dorm to talk about these changes in the offing. I didn’t go to her talk. If I knew then what I know now, I would have shown up and punched her in the nose.
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   Anro

   September 8, 2014 at 6:13 pm | #

   Wonder if Perry is silently wirnokg his way up Te list as a possible SP post-Stras ? Sure they’re holding on for CMW to get his act together but Perry’s also on the 40 man and was probably going to be a Sept call-up anyhow.
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   September 9, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

   This was so helpful and easy! Do you have any articles on rehab?