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Kirsten Gillibrand: “I am concerned that the NRC's decommissioning rule will potentially set up a process by which the emergency planning…”

On the recordJune 12, 2017
I am concerned that the NRC's decommissioning rule will potentially set up a process by which the emergency planning zone and associated requirements for nuclear plants will be automatically reduced with a plant's shutdown operations while there is still fuel remaining in the spent fuel pool.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

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Gillibrand expresses concern over nuclear safety regulations during decommissioning.

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