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Jim Inhofe: “The accident may have been preventable if an order already required by the NRC... was instituted in Japan.”

On the recordSeptember 11, 2012
The accident may have been preventable if an order already required by the NRC... was instituted in Japan.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe discusses lessons from the Fukushima disaster for U.S. safety.

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