Employee Meeting - NRC

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more time with the staff. We receive staff briefings on a very regular
basis, some of which are very in-depth and take a lot of time. If there
is an imbalance that one would point at, it's simply that perhaps we are
more insular than we should be, that we talk to ourselves a lot. I think
Commissioners spend more time talking to each other, the five of us
here spend more time talking to each other than we do a lot of other
people, a lot of people on the outside.
So, I think that the real risk is that we aren't listening to
what people outside are saying. I think the real risk is that we do so
much group-think that we forget that there's public groups, there's
industry groups, there's academic groups that have different views on
the issues than we do. And if we close ourselves off from that kind of
dialogue, I think we run the risk of becoming an Agency that's deaf and
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dumb to what's happening outside of our walls.
And as
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Commissioners, part of our responsibility is to listen to what others have
to say, including people in the industry.
Like the Chairman, I publish all my meetings on a
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regular basis.
So, anyone can see who I meet with outside the
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Agency, outside the federal government, and they can make their own
judgment.
But I think at the end of the day the true transparency
comes when my votes are read. You know, my votes are all on public
record, and you can see what I decided and you can make your own
judgment as to how I got to those points.
But I think that that's how the system is designed to
work. I am very comfortable with that approach, and I think that it