“Congress told NRC to stop enforcing existing regulations or we’ll cut your budget 40%,” said David Lochbaum. This happened June 4th, 1998. “That’s the day the NRC even stopped pretending to be an aggressive regulator.” The Senate Appropriations Committee was headed by former Senator Pete Domenici from New Mexico.

Thom Hartmann talks with David Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project in the Union of Concerned Scientists Global Security Program/ Nuclear Engineer and author of the report released 2/28/2012 about concerns over the state of our nuclear power plants. www.ucsusa.org

See also Sen. Pete Domenici: nuclear renaissance man