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Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan.

Edwin Lyman

Edwin Lyman is Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, DC. He has been at UCS since 2003. He received a PhD in physics from Cornell University in 1992. He is the co-author (with David Lochbaum and Susan Q. Stranahan) of "Fukushima; The Story of a Nuclear Disaster" (The New Press, 2014). He is the 2018 recipient of the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society.

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