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Skipping interview with exposed workers at Columbia Generating Station was ‘judgement call,’ NRC says

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was not required to interview affected workers or record a March 1 public meeting about an incident last year that exposed 22 workers to radiation at a reactor near Richland, Wash., the regulator told one such worker’s lawyer…

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