Can you imagine the USA without a TMI. Denton
understood the dysfunction as the chaos was developing in say 1977 and fixed
the industry and NRC. People, that kind of person is a real hero
- The Office's current Director is William Dean. It has deputy directorates for two areas: (1) Reactor Safety Programs and (2)Engineering and Corporate Support. It has program management, policy development and analysis staff as well as an array of divisions. The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation is responsible for ensuring the public health and safety through licensing and inspection activities at commercial nuclear power plants. However, the actual evaluation of license renewal applications, known as LRA's, is conducted by the Division of License Renewal, a subordinated Division of the multifaceted NRR.
As director, he held a job that allowed him to see a
extremely high granular view of the NRC and the nuclear industry. He was
another failed bureaucrat who came to the request of another failed president. Carter is implicated, as he has special knowledge of the nuclear industry.
- Harold Ray Denton (February 24, 1936 – February 13, 2017) was the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) and is best known for his role as President Jimmy Carter's personal adviser for the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident.
After graduating in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering from North Carolina State University College of Engineering, Denton first worked at DuPont as an engineer for several years, before being hired by the USNRC. After 10 years, he became the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, a position he held until his retirement in 1998
As director, he held a a job that allowed him to see a
extremely high granular view of the NRC and the nuclear industry. He was
another failed bureaucrat who came to the request of another failed president.
Harold Denton, Three Mile Island Hero, Dies at 80
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Harold
Denton, a career federal civil servant who helped prevent panic during the
nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island March 28, 1979 and days after, died
February 13 at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 80. The cause of death was
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease coupled with complications from
Alzheimer’s disease.
Denton
was an obscure bureaucrat at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, head of
the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, when Three Mile Island Unit 2, a
quite new nuclear generating unit, suffered a small loss of coolant accident.
It was deemed improbable and trivial at the time. It became the worst nuclear
accident in U.S. history, as neither the operators nor the regulators grasped
what was happening at the time.
As
the TMI economic catastrophe unfolded, Denton and the newly-created NRC watched
the response of the utility, Metropolitan Edison, to the events at the plant
not far from Pennsylvania’s capital in Harrisburg. The utility was dancing
around the event, offering conflicting and unconvincing explanations about what
had occurred, what they were doing to respond, and the severity of the
accident. As it became clear later, they were uninformed, confused, and, at
several points, just plain lying.
President
Jimmy Carter, a nuclear engineer selected by the legendary nuclear pioneer
Hyman Rickover to staff the nuclear Navy, decided to visit the reactor. The
White House staff asked the NRC to send an expert to accompany Carter. Denton
was the man of the hour.
As director, he held a a job that allowed him to see a extremely high granular TMI view of the NRC and the nuclear industry. He was another failed bureaucrat who came to the request of another failed president.
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