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. 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. (01:08–01:20)
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