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Nuke flap dogs Dean
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| Contributor | Eddie |
| Last Edited | Eddie Jan 06, 2004 05:22pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, January 6, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says former Gov. Howard Dean and other Vermont officials violated federal law by releasing secret protection plans for its nuclear power plant in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Some of the documents regarding the Vermont Yankee nuke plant include so-called ``safeguards information,'' which is to be released under ``need to know requirements and . . . not publicly releasable,'' said NRC spokesman Scott Burnell.
Burnell said visible warnings on the records weren't heeded by Dean's office, the Vermont secretary of state and the state archivist - making civil or criminal charges a possibility.
The documents are included in files Dean made public - even as he opposes the release of other records on the grounds that they may include similar security or personal information.
The documents undercut Dean's argument that files should remain private and have been used by his competitors, most recently by U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman during a debate in Iowa Sunday.
Officials at the Vermont state archives told the NRC that documents were released only after an OK from Dean's office, according to Burnell. |
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