PSR blasts Congressional proposal to rollback NRC safety regulations
July 19, 2010
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In an op-ed published in The Hill newspaper, Physicians for Social Responsibility's board president, Dr. Jeff Patterson, has compared legislative attempts -- as in the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act discussion draft -- to rollback Nuclear Regulatory Commission safety and licensning regulations for new atomic reactors to the same kinds of mistakes -- speed over safety -- that led to the BP Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe.

Article originally appeared on Beyond Nuclear (https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/).
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