World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
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The commission has said time and time again that issues like emergency planning, spent fuel storage and security should be dealt with in the here and now and not in connection with a license renewal.Neil Sheehan
We've reviewed all the information they gathered at the 110 percent power level and have not identified any anomalies or reasons to prevent them from going to the next higher power level.
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We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.
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Among other things, we will be providing full details of how we intend to approach our Special Inspection of the spent fuel pool leakage and inviting the state to observe those efforts, ... Had we seen any evidence that worker or public health and safety was in any way endangered, we would have responded accordingly.
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The risk significance is low in terms of public health and safety, ... We're talking about a small amount of water. We're doing a special investigation because we want to make sure that (Entergy) has their hands around the extent of the cracking, the extent of the leakage, and determine exactly where this moisture originated.
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These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
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