Nuclear power plant safety. II

On January 13, 1976, Robert D. Pollard, a licensing project manager with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), was interviewed by CBS for its "Sixty Minutes" program - which was nationally televised on February 8. Speaking to interviewer Mike Wallace, Mr. Pollard said that he "could not, in conscience, remain silent about the perils associated with the U.S. nuclear power program." Pollard, 36 years old, had been the NRC's representative who coordinated the official safety evaluations of several nuclear plants being built in New York, North Carolina, and Texas.