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doohnibor

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Reply to enough (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:41 PM

Aug 2012

NNSA was spun off from DOE to concentrate solely on managing the nuclear weapons stockpile. NRC solely oversees commercial nuclear installations. One has been captured by the military-industrial contractors, the other by the electric power utilities.

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