BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Federal law seeks to protect from retaliatory discharge employees in the nuclear power industry who act as "whistle-blowers." Under 42 U.S.C. § 5851(a)(1) (1982), "[n]o employer ... may discharge any employee ... because the employee ... commenced, caused to be commenced, or is about to commence or cause to be commenced a proceeding under this chapter or the Atomic Energy Act of 1954."
In 1986 petitioner Richard Couty was employed...
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