[Canadian Press, 24 September] Linda Keen has resigned from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, having been removed from the position of president in January this year. The Canadian government removed Keen as president citing a serious erosion of faith in her leadership but said she would remain as a full-time member of the commission. The move followed extended shut down of the NRU isotope-production reactor because of safety concerns, which led to a worldwide shortage of supplies for medicine. Keen has written to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper saying that her demotion to a job that was an "artificial creation" put her in an "untenable position." She wrote, "I believe that actually sitting and making regulatory decisions, as a demoted commission member, when the government questions my competence and claims to have lost confidence in me, and with my legal case pending against the Attorney General of Canada, would be inappropriate."
Keen resigns from demoted CNSC position
[Canadian Press, 24 September] Linda Keen has resigned from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, having been removed from the position of president in January this year. The Canadian government removed Keen as president citing a serious erosion of faith in her leadership but said she would remain as a full-time member of the commission. The move followed extended shut down of the NRU isotope-production reactor because of safety concerns, which led to a worldwide shortage of supplies for medicine. Keen has written to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper saying that her demotion to a job that was an "artificial creation" put her in an "untenable position." She wrote, "I believe that actually sitting and making regulatory decisions, as a demoted commission member, when the government questions my competence and claims to have lost confidence in me, and with my legal case pending against the Attorney General of Canada, would be inappropriate."
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