Allison MacFarlane Nominated & Svinicki Renominated To NRC

The Senate Environment & Public Works committee on June 13th held a hearing on the nomination of Allison Macfarlane and re-nomination of Kristine L. Svinicki to be Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -Witnesses testified about their nomination to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Among the issues they addressed were nuclear waste storage, working relations among commissioners, power plant safety, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.