Sequestration. Over 650,000 furloughs begin today for civilian workers. This morning, we want to hear your reaction and your thoughts on sequestrations impact on the military. We have a special phone line open for Defense Department employees. Otherwise, the rest of the numbers arent your screen. Are on your screen. You can also catch up with us and all your favorite social media pages. Or you can email us. A very good monday morning to you. Congress is back in session this week but also today, 650,000 civilian defense workers are set to begin their furloughs. Want to hear from you. We have a line open for dod employees. We want to hear how sequestration is impacting you. Our other phone lines are open but lets start with this story from the Washington Post. We will be covering that story in our first 45 minutes. The phone lines are open to get your thoughts on the matter. Let me read you a bit of the letter that secretary hagel sent to the department of defense staffers at of these fu
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Studies. I want to make sure i understand. Yes, on your on the studies. The Commission Decision has been to not require further work to require any look at transfer. Weve closed that issue. Okay. On the in 2012 the Districts Court remanded nrcs waste confidence rule. When will the revised rule become final . The revised theres a draft rule thats supposed to come to the commission this summer, and we expect the completion of that waste confidence rulemaking in the fall of this year. Okay. Given that spent fuel integrity was an issue raised by the d. C. Circuit in their remand of your waste confidence rule, how do you plan to satisfy the court if the seismic safety or the spent fuel pools remains an open question under the review . Senator, i understand the question. I would just comment that since this involves an adjudication. Yeah. . N response to the d. C. Circuit there are certain things we cant address, but would i just tell you we have a i personally believe in the Commission Deci
So, theyre aware of this incident at this point. They working the phones, literally, to speak to the folks there on the ground in miami to determine if they will officially launch to investigate exactly what caused this bridge to collapse. Again, this bridge installed just on saturday. This is certainly in the jurisdiction of the ntsb. Just a reminder when the bridge collapsed in minnesota, they launched to investigate that. If they do make the determination that this is something that they will investigate, there will be a number of issues that they will be delving into. Specifically, obviously, the structure of this bridge, how it was constructed, how it was built and were there any faulty parts . Was it built in such a way to handle whatever the load factor was on this bridge . All questions that investigators will go in with. But, again, at this hour obviously, this is all unfolding right now. So, a determination as far as whether they will launch has not been reached yet because t
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