Former Senior Advisor to the Chair of the NRC
Certified health physicist; former senior adviser to the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; consultant on the security of radioactive sources and radiological emergency-response planning
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Joel Lubenau
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FROM Joel Lubenau
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Bogus Firm Gets Nuclear License in Sting Operation The General Accounting Office launched an uncover operation to see if some agents could buy radioactive materials using forged documents. They succeeded, exposing a major hole in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 's security system. If this is all that stands between Americans and a dirty bomb attack, how safe are we? We hear what went wrong from Kathleen Day of the Washington Post and what the government must do from former NRC physicist Joel Lubenau.
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Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
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