Trump REDUCES SAFETY at nuclear weapons production sites!

September 22, 2018 GlenAnderson Nuclear Weapons, Our Current Political Crisis (in addition to Trump and Trumpism), Trump and Trumpism (Also see Our Current Political Crisis) 0

The article at the link below summarizes Trump’s TRULY RECKLESS actions!

In the 1980s the public was concerned about inadequate safety at civilian and military nuclear facilities, so in 1988 Congress created the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. This is a small entity responsible for protecting the workers who construct our nation’s nuclear weapons and protecting local communities from radioactive disasters.

Now the Trump regime is colluding with the profit-making businesses that make and store the U.S.’s nuclear bombs to REDUCE THE AUTHORITY AND REACH of that safety board.

The Trump regime’s new rules eliminate the board’s authority to oversee workplace protections for roughly 39,000 nuclear workers and also block its unfettered access to nearly three-quarters of the nuclear weapons-related sites that it can now inspect.

See more information at this article: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/08/30/22191/trump-administration-reins-nuclear-weapons-safety-watchdog

 

 

 

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