Emerging Threats: Assessing Public Safety and Security Measures at Nuclear Power Facilities : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, March 10, 2003U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - 322 pages |
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... conducted in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences that was due in December . Here we are 3 months later and still no report . Apparently no one in the administration even allocated funding for this report until after it was ...
... conducted in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences that was due in December . Here we are 3 months later and still no report . Apparently no one in the administration even allocated funding for this report until after it was ...
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... IODIDE , DISTRIBUTE IT , AND ADMINISTER IT IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE MANNER POSSIBLE , WE ALSO MANDATED THE REPORT I DESCRIBED , WHICH WAS TO BE CONDUCTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES . AS I SAID , IT 2 8.
... IODIDE , DISTRIBUTE IT , AND ADMINISTER IT IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE MANNER POSSIBLE , WE ALSO MANDATED THE REPORT I DESCRIBED , WHICH WAS TO BE CONDUCTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES . AS I SAID , IT 2 8.
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... CONDUCT IS UNACCEPTABLE . PRESIDENT BUSH PROMISED TO MAKE HOMELAND SECURITY HIS TOP PRIORITY . AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 , WE CAN NO LONGER LEAVE CRITICAL HOMELAND SECURITY ITEMS - - LIKE THE SAFETY OF OUR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS — TO INDUSTRY ...
... CONDUCT IS UNACCEPTABLE . PRESIDENT BUSH PROMISED TO MAKE HOMELAND SECURITY HIS TOP PRIORITY . AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 , WE CAN NO LONGER LEAVE CRITICAL HOMELAND SECURITY ITEMS - - LIKE THE SAFETY OF OUR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS — TO INDUSTRY ...
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... conducted , for the New York Power Authority , an independent assessment of emergency preparedness of the New York communities around the Indian Point Energy Center ( “ Indian Point " ) and the Millstone Nuclear Power Station ...
... conducted , for the New York Power Authority , an independent assessment of emergency preparedness of the New York communities around the Indian Point Energy Center ( “ Indian Point " ) and the Millstone Nuclear Power Station ...
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... officials used procedures developed for the Susquehanna Nuclear Station to conduct a successful warning and night - time evacuation . [ 21 ] Indian Point Emergency Preparedness Independent Expert Task Force Emergency planning Page 9 21.
... officials used procedures developed for the Susquehanna Nuclear Station to conduct a successful warning and night - time evacuation . [ 21 ] Indian Point Emergency Preparedness Independent Expert Task Force Emergency planning Page 9 21.
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