Congressmen contest NRC's safety standards

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Front Page September 27, 2007

Congressmen contest NRC's safety standards
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer

TOMS RIVER - Two federal legislators concerned about the relicensing of the Oyster Creek nuclear plant want an investigation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) adherence to accepted engineering safety requirements.

Republican New Jersey Congressmen H. James Saxton and Christopher Smith asked the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an NRC advisory board, for the probe in a Sept. 21 letter.

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The two said that according to original testimony presented to the ASLB by Mark Hartzman - a senior mechanical engineer in the NRC's Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation - that the steel barrier encasing the nuclear reactor did not meet the minimum ASME safety requirements.

"We are astounded to learn of the development," Saxton and Smith said in the letter.

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