Search Results for: Jaczko

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

ByRod Adams

…ribe the behavior of the appointed Chairman. They told Mr. Daley that Greg Jaczko has established a chilled work environment, that he prevents the unimpeded flow of information from the professional, technical staff to his fellow commissioners and that he has verbally harassed at least three senior women staff members to the point where one of them began shaking and where one of them was reduced to tears. In this video clip, William Ostendorff, a…

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CNN agrees – Harry Reid violated federal law by killing Yucca Mountain

ByRod Adams

…R talk about Yucca Mt. with the committee members. And why would Reid pick Jaczko as his advisor after Jaczko worked for Markey if Reid didn’t know Jaczko‘s position on nuclear power and specifically Yucca Mt. In other words during the interview, Jaczko was not asked specifically about his time during as an Senate advisor nor was he asked specifically about his discussions with Reid during his time as Reid’s advisor. He framed the answer in his ow…

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Tale of two Chinas – One surging forward, one retreating

ByRod Adams

…ade early in his campaign for Senator Reid’s election support and promoted Jaczko to be the Chairman of the Commission. Jaczko initiated a number of actions during his seven years on the NRC that added both cost and schedule uncertainty to nuclear plant operations, new nuclear plant design and licensing, and new nuclear plant construction. He declared unilateral authority on shaky legal grounds in the wake of the tsunami that wiped out the backup…

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The fix is in – Macfarlane will be confirmed, despite lack of ANY technical or management experience

ByRod Adams

…ent entity that will benefit from forgetting the following facts about the Jaczko era: As a commissioner, Dr. Jaczko led the effort to impose the aircraft impact rule, a requirement that burdens all new construction projects with costs and requirements that were not imposed on current plants. Dr. Jaczko took nearly dictatorial control of the NRC for several months on the pretense of responding to an emergency, even though that emergency did not af…

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NRC Professional Staff Brief – “Very Good News” Unit 4 Pool Never Dry

ByRod Adams

…litical leader or that leader continues to throw them under the bus as has Jaczko. The objective for those employees then becomes one of waiting out said leader since they will still be there after the leader’s term ends. Jaczko has turned the NRC leadership position into a political position, has thrown his staff under the bus and will so incur those consequences. Additionally, Jaczko has basically used every play in his playbook and everyone is…

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Audit the NRC

ByRod Adams

…when I have more time, but, what I know so far has me steamed too. Having Jaczko lead the NRC makes as much sense as having John Hinkley Jr. head up the Secret Service. Jaczko is a Political hack from the Ed Markey camp. Why isn’t it obvious to *everyone* that he is commissioned to stymie the development of new high power density energy systems? Brian Mays Jaczko has friends in high places. If you are going to try to get some accountability out o…

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Strange feeling – I even never liked the Yucca Mountain project

ByRod Adams

…to hold. However, if this line of questioning can increase the pressure on Jaczko then I am all for it. I maintain that Jaczko is using the UCS playbook in doing Reid’s bidding as political payback to both camps. Once Jaczko’s term is finished, I would not be surprised to see him at the UCS or some other anti-nuclear organization similar to what Peter Bradford has done after his time at the NRC. Wayne SW A second site or expanded YM, either has ab…

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NRC Commissioner Candidates Stephen Burns and Jeffery Baran

ByRod Adams

…disagrees with the Emergency Powers opinion provided by Burns to Chairman Jaczko in March 2011 and strongly disagrees with the way that Chairman Jaczko used that opinion to perform actions that were outside its narrow scope of actions related directly to the accident. Here is a quote from page 1 of that letter. Given a situation similar to the incident at Fukushima, I can see no reason to invoke Emergency Powers because nothing in the incident wo…

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Macfarlane is not qualified to be Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

ByRod Adams

…t be refreshing after several years of unilateralism and emergency fiat by Jaczko. She has a brief opportunity to learn and take the advice of the staff and other Commissioners. I’m not going to say anything is an improvement over Jaczko until I see it. Yucca is a done deal. You re not going to change three decades of fact finding and independent research on the issue. You think Yucca is a “done deal,” because a few politicians, eager to appease a…

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Waste Confidence: A Classic Case of Failed Leadership (Part 1 of 2)

ByGuest Author

…gh he was always a public champion of openness and transparency, privately Jaczko blocked every effort to add to the record on this matter of national and international importance. In September of 2009, the NRC was down to only three Commissioners—Jaczko, Klein, and Svinicki. As a three-person commission, all three members must participate to make a quorum. So if any of the three refused to participate, the issue was at a stalemate. Klein and Svin…

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Does the Nuclear Regulatory Commission mission include enabling new reactor construction?

ByRod Adams

…w plant license applications. Apparently, under the leadership of Chairman Jaczko it cannot even prioritize finishing ONE of them. Jaczko’s responses to Senator Alexander’s line of questioning provides ample reason to prevent a situation that allows him to be in charge of a complete overhaul of the regulatory framework. I agree that the existing regulations are a confusing patchwork that adds a substantial burden to the process of designing, build…

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House committee report sharply critical of passive aggressive “decision” on Yucca

ByRod Adams

…he Nuclear Regulatory Commission, I was struck by the attempts by Chairman Jaczko to engage in resistance using what appeared to be legalistic language. Since I have done some research on his career and resume, I am wondering how I missed his attendance at law school. (That is sarcasm. Unlike at least one of his fellow Commissioners who is a full member of the bar, Chairman Jaczko has about as much legal training as he does nuclear training. All o…

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