Nuclear

In 1974 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was founded but it was not founded to promote nuclear power but to regulate. The NRC licenses and regulates the Nation's civilian use of radioactive materials to provide reasonable assurance of adequate protection of public health and safety and to promote the common defense and security and to protect the environment. The current head of the NRC, Christopher Hanson, is representative of the mission of the commission. Hanson earned master's degrees from Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he focused on ethics and natural resource economics. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. This man is not a scientist or engineer and has very little knowledge regarding nuclear power. He is not interested in developing new nuclear technology, things like small nuclear reactors but his interests is in keeping a tight rope in existing nuclear power plants.