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The Nrc Is The Absent Minded Regulator

The United States is desperately in need ofThe NRC has a history of weak oversight. For
new plants. Every nuclear power plant in theexample, as part of a GAO investigation, a
United States is rapidly approaching its endfake company bought nuclear materials with
of life. While there are many solutions tothe approval of the NRC based on a paper
this problem, the most obvious solution is toapplication which contained a post office box
build more nuclear plants. Nuclear power is aas its listed address. The company was not
proven resource. The United States has aninvestigated in any way by the NRC Bogus
ample supply of uranium. Nuclear power doesCompany Gets Nuke License. While the NRC
not create any carbon-based pollution whichdebated the damage that could have been done,
supposedly contributes to the green housethey updated the policy which left the
effect.responsibility of investigating companies
requesting this particular type of license up
What  is  the  problem?to the individual analyst. If an analyst did
not want to perform the additional task of
The Nuclear Power Industry is regulated byinvestigating a company applying for the
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Theright to purchase nuclear materials license -
NRC has only received one application tothe analyst was not required to do so. The
build a nuclear power plant since the Threepolicy has been changed. Currently, if a
Mile Island accident in 1979. With the 103nuclear power plant fails to meet security
U.S. approaching their end of life, the NRCstandards, there is no fine. The penalty is a
needs a new generation of nuclear plants toterse entry on a website buried amongst
be built in order to stay relevant. Withouthundreds of security results for every other
nuclear power plants, the NRC's other rolesnuclear power plants. In the case of the
of regulating nuclear medicine, nuclearsleeping guards at the Peach Bottom plant in
waste, and nuclear weapons are either handledPennsylvania, the NRC on site representative
by other agencies or could be. The NRC relieswas notified months in advance that guards
on the Nuclear Power Industry for itswere sleeping at critical areas within the
existence.plant. Nothing was done until a video of
guards  sleeping  was  made  public.
When a huge bureaucracy relies on the group
that it regulates for its existence, is theThe question is not whether nuclear power is
bureaucracy effective? Some would say, likethe energy source for the future. The
the Atomic Energy Commission, the NRC is tooquestion is do you feel safe? Do you feel
large to be easily disbanded and withoutsafe with guards sleeping at plants? Do you
Nuclear Power Plants the NRC would stillfeel safe with the level of oversight the NRC
survive. Regardless of whether the NRC wouldis providing? Would you feel safer if the NRC
truly disappear if nuclear power plants thehad to regulate the construction of large
real question remains - is the NRC effectivenumbers of new nuclear plants constructed to
in  their  oversight?meet the energy needs of the United States
for the next twenty years.



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