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Pete Domenici: I changed the NRC's priorities in a 1998 meeting with the NRC Chair in which I threatened to cut the agency's budget by…

On the recordMarch 23, 2009
I changed the NRC's priorities in a 1998 meeting with the NRC Chair in which I threatened to cut the agency's budget by one-third if the NRC did not modify its adversarial attitude toward the industry.
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Pete Domenici

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Domenici discusses his influence on NRC's priorities regarding the nuclear industry.

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