NATION IN BRIEF : TEXAS : NRC Opens Special Power Plant Probe
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission opened a special inspection of the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant amid charges that senior agency officials had covered up problems at the $9-billion facility about 40 miles southwest of Ft. Worth. A team of NRC inspectors will spend 11 days at the plant to assess whether it is ready to begin loading uranium fuel for tests before it starts full-scale commercial production. The move followed an Oct. 4 letter to NRC Chairman Kenneth Carr from an anonymous group of agency inspectors. The letter maintained that senior NRC officials had manipulated inspection data from the plant.
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