Watchdog: U.S. regulators do not see full danger of nuclear dirty bomb

Officials in protective gear check for signs of radiation on children who are from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama on March 13, 2011.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

"Few deaths would occur due to the radioactive nature of the event," the report said."However, significant social and economic impacts could result from public panic, decontamination costs, and the denial of access to infrastructure and property for extended periods of time."Daiichi nuclear plant after an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, saying more people died from the evacuation process than from radiation releases or the effects of the natural disasters.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission disagreed with most of the report's findings, saying the GAO's view was based on unlikely scenarios and selected opinions from experts. The GAO report was based in part on a meeting of 18 experts across a range of fields arranged with the NRC and the National Academies of Sciences. But in its letter, the NRC said the GAO had relied on"selected aspects of the panel discussion to form the primary basis for its recommendations" and referred to"statements of one or two panel members to draw overarching conclusions.

2 billion tons of missing nuclear grade missing material missing from Russia when Cold War ended and 1.5 billion missing in States alone. Majority of waste nuclear in Rocky Mountain area

Rick Perry,Texas' answer to Jimbob, a man who oversaw selling nuke tech to Wahhabi yahoos and who's 37 different shades of 'get rid of it' when it comes to anything govt any given day, is the Energy Secretary. & we ask why the Nuclear Regulator isnt doing its job .. oh, tempora.

I wrote this 16 years ago.

More deregulation?

That’s a great big “no shit.”

This is now systems failure. Boeing Borders. Environment. The culture of the admin says nothing really matters silly people. Well it DOES. The lack of respect for systems is now hurting people ie Boeing crashes and environmental swings. We can do so much better

A great way to start would be securing the Mexican border so that terrorists can't smuggle in such a device

ThebUS government is giving Nuclear info to the Saudis. Remember them?, the folks that gave us 9/11 ! The Saudi Govt financed the 9/11 attacks. So don’t be surprised when the next attack is a nuke set off in a year or 2 in Trump tower by a Saudi who got tech from Trump admin.

'...secure high-risk radioactive material,'....... Especially that in the Mid-East ! !

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