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President Trump fires a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Christopher Hanson was appointed to serve on the commission overseeing the nation's nuclear reactors by President Biden in 2020.
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. In a statement shared with NPR, Hanson said that he was fired "without cause," and that he had devoted his term to "preserving the independence, integrity and bipartisan nature of the world's gold standard nuclear safety institution. Trump signed the orders flanked by smiling industry executives, including one whose company had a reactor design previously rejected by the NRC, because the agency said it had failed to supply information about possible accident scenarios.
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