Nuclear safety watchdog head fired for ‘lack of leadership’
Resources Minister Gary Lunn said Wednesday that he fired the head of the nuclear safety watchdog for her “lack of leadership” in handling the shutdown of a medical isotope-producing nuclear reactor late last year.
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission president Linda Keen was fired hours before she and Lunn were set to appear before a natural resources committee meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday.
Lunn, in his appearance Wednesday morning, told the committee that the closure of the nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., “threatened a national and international health crisis.”
January 16th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I find this an interesting look into the relationship between government and ‘arms-length’ regulatory bodies.
It is also interesting how health care and nuclear power are in the same story. I get the sense that pro-nuclear lobbyists are behind this somehow.