Employee Meeting - NRC

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bore yourselves by looking at my schedule.
But I think one other additional thought is, you know,
we are empowered with making decisions as Commissioners on a
variety of issues. And so, we have to have the ability to make our own
judgments and be able to determine whether the information that's
being provided to us at any one time from anybody, be it the staff or
licensees or non-governmental organizations or government people,
anybody, is legitimate or not. That's part of what we do.
QUESTIONER: Hi.
CHAIRMAN MACFARLANE: Hi.
QUESTIONER: I'd like to lend some support for the
last questioner, because what I'm perceiving from you guys is that you
are taking that as a personal attack. I think what the questioner was
suggesting -- and I think it's vitally important -- is that there are a lot of
people in this Agency that are very concerned about the credibility of
the Agency. And that's because for most of us in this Agency this is
our home. We live here. We will be here for a very long time. And
so, the credibility of the Agency is terribly important to us, as I'm sure it
is to you, too.
CHAIRMAN MACFARLANE: Uh-hum.
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QUESTIONER:
I think the questioner was merely
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pointing out that, while we're not perceiving what you're doing as
inappropriate, it could be publicly perceived as inappropriate. And I
think that the thread of importance in that question is to ensure that we
all agree and we all are on the same page that the credibility of the
Agency has to be a primary value of this Agency, because the historic