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A、factory that makes uranium fuel for nuclear reactors had a spill so bad it kept the plant closed for seven months last year and became one of only three events in all of 2006 serious enough for the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission to include in an annual report toCongress.After an investigation, the commission changed the terms of the factory’s license and said the public had 20 days to request a hearing on the changes.
But no member of the public ever diD、In fact, no member of the public could find out about the changes. The document describing them, including the notice of hearing rights for anyone who felt adversely affected, was stamped "official use only," meaning that it was not publicly accessible.
The agency would not even have toldCongress which factory was involved were it not for the efforts of GregoryB、Jaczko, one of the five commissioners. Mr. Jaczko identified the company, Nuclear Fuel Services ofErwin, Tenn., in a memorandum that became part of the public recorD、His memorandum said other public documents would allow an informed person to deduce that the factory belonged to Nuclear Fuel Services.
Such secrecy by the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission is now coming under attack by influential members ofCongress. These lawmakers argue that the agency is withholding numerous documents about nuclear facilities in the name of national security, but that many with-held documents are not sensitive. The lawmakers say the agency must rebalance its penchant for secrecy with the public’s right to participate in the licensing process and its right to know about potential hazards. The agency, the congressmen said, "has removed hundreds of innocuous documents relating to the N.F.S. plant from public view."
With a resurgence of nuclear plant construction expected after a 30-year hiatus, agency officials say frequently that they are trying to strike a balance between winning public confidence by regulating openly and protecting sensitive information.
A、commission spokesman, ScottBurnell, said the "official use only" designation was under review.
As laid out by the commission’s report toCongress and other sources, the event at the Nuclear Fuel Service factory was discovered when a supervisor saw a yellow liquid dribbling under a door and into a hallway. Workers had previously described a yellow liquid in a "glove box," a sealed container with gloves built into the sides to allow a technician to manipulate objects inside, but managers had decided it was ordinary uranium. In fact, it was highly enriched uranium that had been declared surplus from the weapons inventory of theEnergyDepartment and sent to the plant to be diluted to a strength appropriate for a civilian reactor. If the material had gone critical, "it is likely that at least one worker would have received an exposure high enough to cause acute health effects or death," the commission saiD、
Generally, the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission does describe nuclear incidents and changes in licenses.But in 2004, according to the committee’s letter, the Office of Naval Reators, part of theEnergyDepartment, reached an agreement with the commission that any correspondence with Nuclear Fuel Services would be marked "official use only.\
The word "innocuous" (last sentence, paragraph 4) is closest in meaning to
A、insensitive.
B．confidential.
C．innocent.
D．harmful