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Edward Markey: “Inspection hours by nearly a half.”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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'That's Just Plain Wrong!': Ed Markey Blasts Reduction Of Independent Nuclear Reactor Inspections

Published | Video Starts at 01:25

The budget cuts the Office of the inspector general by 24% and the operating reactors program by nearly one tenth. Of your reactor oversight process changes cut inspection hours, Inspection hours by nearly a half. Those cuts put a big leash on both internal and external watchdogs. Now, one of those major changes of the NRC's reactor oversight process overhauls how the agency conducts security evaluations. (01:25–01:29)

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Asserts that inspection hours have been cut by nearly 50%.

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