The General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office or GAO) identified in an report to Congress “Nuclear Safety and Health: Counterfeit Parts and Substandard Products Are a Governmentwide Concern” that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission “is deferring its regulatory responsibility” by failing to take enforcement action against widespread safety violations where nuclear power utilities have installed nonconforming or “fraudulent” products (such as fasteners, pipe fittings, electrical equipment, valves, even bolts) in 64% of the nation’s domestic nuclear power stations.  According to GAO, NRC inspections of 13 nuclear utilities’ quality assurance programs found problems with 12 and cited that the federal nuclear safety oversight agency enforcement actions “seem to conflict with the need for continuous and aggressive oversight of this problem.”