The agency is putting out dozens of rulemakings and will have to review dozens of license applications for new and restarted reactors. And while you shrink the agency's budget, A loss on top of the existing departure of one in 10 NRC employees over the last year and a half. you're shrinking your ability to conduct oversight over the nuclear fleet and your own agency. The budget cuts the Office of the inspector general by 24% and the operating reactors program by nearly one tenth. (00:46–01:00)
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Asserts that 10% of NRC employees have left in the past 18 months.
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