ENVIRONMENT - Starting tomorrow, we’re down 90% of our nuclear safety regulators

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- the agency that watches over the country's 100 nuclear reactors -- announced on Monday that the government shutdown would soon force it to furlough 3,600 employees, or about 90 percent of its staff. The deadline it gave was Thursday. As in, tomorrow.Sure enough, Allison Macfarlane, the agency's chairman, confirmed today in a blog post that the agency is shutting down."Yes, I am worried," Ed Lyman told CNN, nic ...

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