Groups lambaste nuke official for alleged regulatory laxness

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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060721/NEWS06/607210357/-1/NEWS

By TOM HENRY
BLADE STAFF WRITER

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Jim Dyer, a former Midwest region chief for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, apparently has "learned nothing from the Davis-Besse debacle" by letting the nuclear industry continue to voluntarily report leaks of radioactive water at nuclear plants, according to a statement issued yesterday by more than two dozen groups and individuals.

The NRC should immediately demand technical information that could lead to a national assessment of the problem, they said.

The groups said they want to know if recent leaks reported in Illinois, New York, Missouri, Connecticut, Massachussetts, and Arizona were a fluke or a symptom of a bigger problem.

Leaks have not been reported at two plants about 30 miles from Toledo, FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse nuclear plant in Ottawa County, or Detroit Edison's Fermi II nuclear plant in Monroe County...

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1. I'm going to pull a Nadir on this one

When are we going to hear "Groups lambaste coal official for alleged regulatory laxness"?

The coal industry OWNS West Virginia and the corruption of government regulatory agencies and officials is responsible for many of the deaths and injuries to coal workers as well as the general population that lives with the toxic waste from coal mining.