White House Assures Stakeholders on Nuclear Regulatory Commission Disputes

摘要

As 2011 ended, the White House was assuring the public and nuclear industry stakeholders that disagreements among members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were not affecting the agency's work or jeopardizing safety at the nation's 104 nuclear reactors. President Obama's chief of staff, William Daley, reported the source of the problems was the "strong chairman" structure of the commission, which gives the chairman of the NRC greater powers than the other four commissioners. Daly downplayed the dispute in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California) chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee.