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Jaczko and Issa communications dated May 7, 2012

May 8, 2012 By Rod Adams

Updated (May 9, 2012 05:47 am) This now includes information from Southern California Edison and the California Independent System Operator explaining why they had published an “estimated return to service date” for San Onofre. Original post starts here. Stories that underly other stories can be fascinating topics for discussion. Yesterday morning, a friend sent me […]

Filed Under: Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Congressman Upton to Chairman Jaczko: Should NRC Issue “Chilling Effect Letter” to Itself?

April 29, 2012 By Rod Adams

Another Friday, Another Episode of “As the Chairman of the NRC Turns” On Friday, April 27, 2012, Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, released a letter addressed to Chairman Jaczko of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That letter, cosigned by 23 fellow US Congressmen, asked Chairman […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Making art with radioactive materials – In memory of James Acord

January 29, 2012 By Rod Adams

An alternative title for this piece might be – Seeing the art that already exists in radioactive materials. Until today, I had never heard of James Acord, a sculptor who devoted more than 20 years of his life to sustained efforts to create art from radioactive materials. The first part of that struggle involved 12 […]

Filed Under: Atomic Advocacy, Irradiation, Nuclear Communications, Nuclear regulations, Radiation

Radiation Doses – As Low As UnReasonably Achievable (ALAURA)

December 22, 2011 By Rod Adams

A friend tweeted a link to a terrific satire titled Roentgen Shrugged that was published in the March 2011 issue of Health Physics News. The piece describes what might happen to modern medical care in the foreseeable future if the radiation protection guild keeps ratcheting down allowable radiation dose exposure levels to an ever more […]

Filed Under: Health Effects, LNT, Nuclear regulations, Radiation

Senator Carper advises Chairman Jaczko to follow the golden rule

December 17, 2011 By Rod Adams 3 Comments

Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) is a retired US Navy Commander and a former governor of the state of Delaware. In the below clip taken from the December 15, 2011 hearing held by the Senate committee on Environment and Public Works, he offers some sage advice to the inexperienced and poorly trained Chairman of the Nuclear […]

Filed Under: Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Jaczko apologizes for distraction and implies he has been the victim of a coup

December 16, 2011 By Rod Adams

On December 15, 2011, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing titled “Review of the NRC’s Near-Term Task Force Recommendations for Enhancing Reactor Safety in the 21st Century”. Instead of remaining on that topic, the hearing turned into a story where he said ‘A’, another guy said ‘A’, a woman said ‘A’, and a […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Boxer defends Jaczko’s harassing behavior with classic anecdotal quotes from anonymous women

December 16, 2011 By Rod Adams

As the father of two professional daughters, one of whom has spent the past ten years in the male dominated US Navy, I have been taken aback by the way that the Democratic Party leaders have reacted to testimony from four appointed Commissioners on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. These four experienced, mature professionals took the […]

Filed Under: Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Hearing on Jaczko’s leadership at Nuclear Regulatory Commission

December 15, 2011 By Rod Adams 49 Comments

I have spent the past several hours viewing and clipping highlights from an extraordinary hearing conducted yesterday by the House Oversight Committed on “Leadership at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission”. If you want a similar experience, you can find the complete hearing video – of both panels – at http://youtu.be/qEduKirfpTY. In the next several days, I […]

Filed Under: Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Jaczko must go

December 14, 2011 By Rod Adams 51 Comments

My professional work habits and standards were formed by 33 years in the US naval service, an organization with a proud tradition of developing independent decision makers who could be entrusted with billions of dollars worth of national assets and thousands of lives. Our tradition includes demanding training, strong mentoring programs, regular competitive evaluations and […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Fossil fuel competition, Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

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

December 11, 2011 By Rod Adams

John Wheeler who blogs at This Week in Nuclear started a petition on Change.org titled President Barack Obama: Remove Gregory Jaczko from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Here is the description from the “why this is important” tab on the petition page. Gregory Jaczko, the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has lost the confidence of […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

Examples of regulatory costs for nuclear energy development

December 7, 2011 By Rod Adams

This exchange with Robert Bradley, who is a self-described free market advocate, focuses on my frustration with the inability of his “community” to acknowledge the imposed costs of excessive regulation on nuclear energy projects. Robert blogs at Master Resource, the same place where I have encountered Jerry Taylor, who shares some of the same ideas. […]

Filed Under: Nuclear Cost Data, Nuclear regulations

Audit the NRC

December 7, 2011 By Rod Adams

Businessweek published an article titled Nuclear Reactor License Renewals May Be Slowed, Jaczko Says that made my heart race and made me (silently) string together a whole bunch of 4-letter words that I learned from my sailors. One of my favorite candidates has made a lot of headway in his presidential bid by proposing that […]

Filed Under: Nuclear regulations, Politics of Nuclear Energy

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