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Jaczko comes out as avowed antinuclear activist

ByRod Adams

…ominations, Reid was able to coerce the Bush Administration to appoint Mr. Jaczko to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Jaczko focused on the non-nuclear topic of fire protection for his first few years on the Commission, but even then, he demonstrated a lack of atomic understanding and a lack of interest in learning anything about the use of nuclear fission to produce reliable electrical power. That is a topic for which theoretical physicists hav…

Platts Energy Week Discusses Jaczko’s odd announcement about reactor safety

ByRod Adams

…Lessons Learned and was organized by Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation. Jaczko’s stink bomb and the nuclear industry’s reaction to it was discussed on a Platts Energy Week episode. Dr. Jaczko declined the invitation to participate in the discussion to more fully explain his sharply critical statements. Bill Loveless, the host of Platts Energy Week and James Acton, a nuclear policy specialist with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace t…

Commercial media, bloggers and congressmen agree – Jaczko abused his position to further patron’s agenda

ByRod Adams

…o years, Reid plans to use his powers as Democratic leader to fight to get Jaczko more time on the commission, Hafen said. Despite the limits on Jaczko’s nomination, the deal on the nomination was still a good one, Hafen said. “It allows Greg to do good work on the NRC and prove that he is fair and objective,” she said. It is not immediately clear just how much opposition Jaczko could mount, even behind the scenes, against the project with limited…

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Gregory Jaczko – Example of Public Hazard of Political Appointments

ByRod Adams

…in Nuclear Engineering at the same school and in the same year as when Dr. Jaczko earned his PhD in particle physics. He never met Jaczko even though they were on the same campus studying supposedly related subjects for half a dozen years. I believe it is unlikely that Jaczko ever stepped foot into a nuclear engineering class or a class on radiation protection, or a class on water chemistry. I am pretty sure that those classes are not offered to s…

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Please sign petition at Change.org to ask President Obama to remove Gregory Jaczko from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

ByRod Adams

…just as he forced Dale Klein out of that role. Unlike Klein, I doubt that Jaczko would resign from the Commission after being forced out. Nevertheless, this won’t matter. In his near seven-year term at the NRC, Jaczko has almost always been the outlier — the lone minority vote — but as a mere Commissioner he was kept in check by the rest of the Commission. It wasn’t until he was appointed to the chairmanship that he was capable of wielding suffic…

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Jaczko must go

ByRod Adams

…honorary member many years ago and I keep paying my dues each year.) Greg Jaczko had been elevated to the position of Chairman just three days before his already scheduled talk. I recorded that speech. Here is a clip that allows him to describe his background and focus areas in his own words. My opposition to Jaczko is not partisan; I am not a registered member of either party, but I lean to the left and have often voted for Democrats, including…

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Greg Jaczko is continuing his career as an international promoter of natural gas

ByRod Adams

…e Klein as the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and promoting Jaczko into the position. Jaczko was, at the time, the only available “Democrat” on the NRC. That commission is supposed to have 5 members — at least 2 from each major political party — but Reid had maneuvered Obama into having no choice but to pick his former staffer. Through several maneuvers during the lengthy 2008 presidential campaign, he created a situation where ther…

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Why was Jaczko asked to resign?

ByRod Adams

…ed to OIG by NRC senior officials during this investigation. (Translation: Jaczko lied to Congress.) Unfortunately, though Chairman Jaczko’s tenure at the NRC is going to end very soon, he has given plenty of hints that he intends to continue trying to impose his jaundiced view of nuclear energy on the rest of us. I suspect that he will be taking over the role that has been played for the past 30 years by former NRC commissioners Bradford and Gill…

Another hurdle that Jaczko is erecting in front of the Nuclear Renaissance

ByRod Adams

…ain a license to continue construction. My educated guess is that Chairman Jaczko would piously announce that his only concern is nuclear safety and that he will not allow the project license to be approved until Westinghouse has proven that its design is safe – to his personal satisfaction. Chairman Jaczko has demonstrated that he is not bound by any rules, laws, or collegial opinions of his fellow commissioners, even in the case of a formal vote…

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Jaczko hearings a depressing example of partisan power politics

ByRod Adams

…perative who berates and intimidates his colleagues and staff. I know that Jaczko has two powerful political patrons who happen to be Democrats. I also understand that Jaczko’s definition of nuclear safety – that it is impossible to spend enough money to be “safe enough” – is the official position of many Democratic Party members. However, that is no reason to accuse four patriotic Americans of essentially lying after they testified – under oath –…

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Open warfare: four NRC commissioners versus Chairman Jaczko

ByRod Adams

…oved Chairman Klein and replaced him with Jaczko. If the President removed Jaczko from the Chairmanship, Jaczko would still serve as a Commissioner unless he resigned or the President determined he should be removed for cause. But if he removes him for cause, Jaczko could take his fight to the courts. That has been litigated before with respect to other independent agencies. As for removal of the other Commissioners for cause, I don’t see how a ca…

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Why did Greg Jaczko hold a press conference on Friday, April 20?

ByRod Adams

…women’ rhetoric turns nuclear power spat radioactive BusinessWeek – NRC’s Jaczko Denies Mistreating Women, Confirms Watchdog Report Like most professional politicians and other media dependent celebrities, I think Chairman Jaczko knows that there is no such thing as bad publicity as long as they spell your name correctly. It certainly would do no harm to his standing as the odds-on favorite to take over the roles of Peter Bradford and Victor Gili…

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