Cooling towers at the nuclear reactor facility at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency charged with overseeing safety at the nation’s reactors. Mike Stewart/AP
Mike Stewart/AP
President Trump has fired one of the five members of the independent commission that oversees the nation’s nuclear reactors.
Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Christopher T. Hanson was terminated on Friday, according to a brief email seen by NPR from Trent Morse, the White House Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel. The e-mail said only that Hanson’s “position as Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission