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Established media gets an advance look at NRC IG report on Jaczko

ByRod Adams

…report and see what the IG really said. For some odd reason, I think that Jaczko’s version is going to be “inconsistent” with the facts that the report presents. There is one fairly certain thing – I do not believe the new reports that say that Jaczko has not faced any disciplinary action for workplace transgressions that violated US government regulations. Do you believe that he just woke up one day in May and decided to resign from his powerful…

Curious Meeting to Take Place in Vermont on July 14. NRC Chairman Jaczko Invites Some Community Leaders, Excludes Others

ByRod Adams

…by the Vermont Energy Partnership: July 13, 2010 The Honorable Gregory B. Jaczko U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Dear Chairman Jaczko: On behalf of our more than 90 member organizations and community leaders who include, among others, businesses and labor organizations that represent the biggest employers and energy users in the State of Vermont, we are writing to express our concern and disappointment that the U.S. N…

Jaczko decided to halt Yucca review by February 2010, not October 2010

ByRod Adams

…assigned to Yucca work gets reassigned. Here is a video clip with part of Jaczko’s May 4, 2011 testimony in front of a joint hearing conducted by the Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, both of which are part of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In many ways, it is too bad that Chairman Jaczko spent so much of his time studying the low energy behavior of baryons and mesons and the political…

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Senator Carper advises Chairman Jaczko to follow the golden rule

ByRod Adams

…ncerned Scientists and the Vermont Anti Nuclear Group support NRC Chairman Jaczko: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1886385/WAMC.New.England.News/Nuclear.Watchdog.Group.Urges.Vermont.to.Support.NRC.Chairman.During.Agency.Infighting Andrew G. On the experience bit: here is another angle: Does anyone know how Dr. Jaczko‘s executive experience compares to the chief nuclear regulators of other countries with long standi…

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way – Jaczko Needs to Understand What "Promote the Common Defense and Security" Means With Regard to Energy

ByRod Adams

…FO (Blinding Flash of the Obvious) moment. I have figured out why Chairman Jaczko seems to be working at cross purposes to the Secretary of Energy and the President by insisting that his job as an independent regulator of nuclear energy does not include efforts to encourage its growing use. The fundamental problem is that he does not understand energy technology enough to recognize the enormous environmental and economic advantages that nuclear fi…

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Senator Boxer expresses admiration for Chairman Jaczko and disrespect for all other NRC commissioners

ByRod Adams

…SW Since we’re listing the non-engineers of some prominence, throw Gregory Jaczko in the lot as well. I say that knowing full well it risks angering Rod to include him in a group with Jaczko, but I’ll share the mud as well, being initially trained in nuclear physics (experimental, not theoretical), re-trained as an engineer. Kelly @Jason, I agree with you, but I’d like to submit another possibility: “To go out and publicly question the ability of…

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Update on Jaczko Legal Defense Fund

ByRod Adams

…00 to a legal defense fund set up to pay the expenses incurred by Dr. Greg Jaczko while he was serving Reid as the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Of course, there would not be a need for a legal defense fund if the man had not broken the law and violated many of the principles that managers should learn during their formative years. As reported by Politico Pro, the Searchlight Leadership Fund donation was made on July 19. As listed…

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Jaczko explains Yucca shutdown and license applicant discouragement

ByRod Adams

…only “moving on” likely in that case would be to a federal pen. Why aren’t Jaczko and Reid headed there? Brian Mays Reid won reelection last year. (Thank you, Tea Party.) Jaczko is protected by a powerful senator. Rules are for the little people. John Englert I just read similar comment of yours at HuffPo. I can’t decide if people are really that anxious about “hot particles” and if so, how much has Arnie Gundersen contributed that anxiety. It als…

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Greg Jaczko – Lame Duck Press Conference At Nuclear Energy Assembly

ByRod Adams

…sembly held in Charlotte, NC during the period from May 21-23. Dr. Gregory Jaczko submitted his resignation as the Chairman of the NRC on May 21, but he did not change his plans to address the annual nuclear industry gathering on May 23. Following that talk, Dr. Jaczko gave a press conference. I apologize for the shaky quality; I have not yet found a reasonably portable tripod for my iPhone. One of the reasons I finally got around to posting this…

Chairman Jaczko does not like the NRC voting process when he loses

ByRod Adams

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman, Dr. Greg Jaczko, has expressed his frustration with the voting process in effect at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is the same man who defended that process rather vigorously when it allowed him to pocket veto a vote about legal requirement for the NRC to continue its evaluation of the Department of Energy’s application for a long term repository at Yucca Mountain. It is amusing to watch how poli…

NA-YGN Hears from Fertel, Ridenoure, Jaczko, and a Panel of NA-YGN Leaders

ByRod Adams

…and concluded by telling the crowd to keep cool but do not freeze. Gregory Jaczko gave his first public address as the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (I am planning on using the audio of that talk as the basis for a soon to be prepared Atomic Show.) One thing that I cannot help noticing whenever I am around the NA-YGN group is the fact that meeting attendance is more balanced between men and women than many other technically orient…

Dr. Gregory Jaczko – Nuclear Regulation in an Era of Growth and Change

ByRod Adams

…k titled Nuclear Regulation In An Era of Growth And Change. Here is a summary of his chosen topic: With 104 operating nuclear plants in the United States, and dozens more on the drawing boards, who is protecting the public and the environment? Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko will discuss the simultaneous challenges of overseeing the existing fleet of reactors, managing in parallel multiple reactor design certification requ…

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