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Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : U.S. Nuclear Arms Disposal Criticized

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

The Bush Administration has no effective safety policy for dismantling thousands of warheads and shrinking the U.S. atomic weapons complex, two top nuclear safety experts told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman John Ahearne and Harold Lewis, a California physics professor and a member of the NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards since 1979, said the department has “shown no movement” toward adopting many safety recommendations.

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