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• Gregory Jaczko, the US nuclear regulatory commission chairman, added that radiation levels at the site appeared to be falling.
• On average, an American will receive an annual radiation dose of about 620 millirem, or 6,200 microsieverts, a dose that isn't deemed to be harmful, says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Radiation's Effect Depends on Amount
• This is essentially the friendly atom that has now come full circle in Japan and that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will relicense for an additional 20 years at Vermont Yankee and at 30 other Fukushima-type reactors in the United States. Marvin Resnikoff: Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima
• Exposure to any radioactive material is bad: the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission assumes that exposure to anything higher than normal background levels increases health risks.
• He served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1975 to 1979 and was the senior commissioner in charge during the first day of the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.
• However, the rods cannot fully contain the tritium, which is permeating into the reactor cooling system, approaching safety limits set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Robert Alvarez: Future Supply of New Tritium Explosive for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Doubt
• Republicans called for Gregory Jaczko, head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to step down after it was revealed he had "unilaterally" moved to stop work on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump -- a project for a long-term disposal site that has been in the works for decades, but that President Obama vowed in 2009 to end. Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Ethanol Tax Breaks Survive, but Vote May Have "Broken the Dam"
• Aging nuclear plants pose a risk in the United States as well, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must enforce up-to-date safety standards more forcefully -- or risk the possibility of a disaster.
• The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Iowa State's plan to decommission its teaching nuclear reactor.
• Alan Kolaczkowski, a retired nuclear engineer, consulted with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on specific probabilities of accidents at nuclear plants.