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Smaller nuclear power plants can be beautiful, despite the opposition of the UCS

ByRod Adams

…plant’s vulnerability to aircraft impact. I personally think that the Greg Jaczko-initiated Aircraft Impact rule should be discarded as being an unnecessary barrier to building new nuclear power stations. Almost every other component of our national infrastructure is more vulnerable to attack by jet airplanes than an above ground nuclear power station. Dr. Lyman correctly points out that going underground raises questions about access in emergenci…

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NRC wavering on AP1000 decision under pressure by FOE

ByRod Adams

…o be completed by sometime in the late summer or early fall. Then Chairman Jaczko decided to exercise his prerogative as the NRC’s primary spokesman to issue a press release indicating that unresolved technical issues remained in the design certification document. That action worried me. On Thursday, June 2, 2011, CNBC published a report that caused me even greater concern. According to that report, the NRC is seriously considering reopening the p…

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Political battles hampering function of important agency

ByRod Adams

…d that release to the more successful, albeit illegal, maneuvers that Greg Jaczko initiated in order to halt the license review process in the first place. Though I was critical of Dr. Macfarlane’s initial appointment based on her lack of management experience and her tangential “nuclear” experience as a geologist interested in final disposal of nuclear material, I’ve been impressed by her ability to create a more productive atmosphere and to repa…

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False media balance – radiation health risks contrasted against climate change

ByRod Adams

…ievable” with the word “reasonable” defined by irrational people like Greg Jaczko, the man who thought it was “reasonable” to evacuate Americans who were within 50 miles of three reactors that had been shut down for four days already. In support of my assertions about the health effects of radiation, I highly recommend a 2010 paper published in Dose-Response, the journal of the International Dose Response Society, by Zbigniew Jaworowski titled OBS…

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Why James Hansen might be underestimating nuclear energy’s growth potential and why Joe Romm is wrong

ByRod Adams

…ork, and that makes you a better person because of it. Folks like Romm and Jaczko never learned these lessons. Rod Adams Both are also New Yorkers. Romm is from NYC suburbs; Jaczko grew up in Albany. It’s entirely possible that they chose to earn their physics PhDs in order to establish credibility for careers in antinuclear policy development. mjd Gmax137, Don’t know what your actual plant construction experience is during that era, but one would…

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Is the NRC the “gold standard” of nuclear regulation or the “DMV standard”?

ByRod Adams

…Dale Klein was the Chairman until President Obama demoted him in favor of Jaczko. http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2009/05/gregory-jaczko-named-nrc-chairman.html Dr. Klein decided to resign rather than serve with the current chairman, though he would probably phrase his decision differently. http://djysrv.blogspot.com/2009/10/dale-klein-to-step-down-from-nrc.html Rod Adams @Daniel The AP1000 will most likely be certified. However, it should ha…

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Cape Wind scrambling to meet deadline to qualify for $780 million taxpayer gift

ByRod Adams

…does not change the facts. If there were no Reid, there would have been no Jaczko. If Gore or Kerry had been elected instead of Bush, Jaczko simply would have been appointed even sooner. You do realize that your complaints of “blame” and “shared responsibility” simply boils down to an argument that the Republicans should fight the Democrats even harder, right? It’s practically a commercial for Tea Party tactics. Just for the record, that is not a…

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NRC leaders must hear from all sides, not just antinuclear activists

ByRod Adams

…iam Tucker. http://yesvy.blogspot.com/2010/07/guest-post-howard-shaffer-on-jaczko.html My post notes that Jaczko hardly got a word in edgewise. http://yesvy.blogspot.com/2010/08/jaczko-retrospective.html Also, Jaczko‘s refusal (in 2010) to meet with Howard or myself or with VTEP (Vermont Energy Partnership, a business group) seems to imply that we don’t represent anybody. Only the “citizen’s groups” against nuclear represent anybody. As you said,…

ANS President's Special Session – Global Opportunities For Right-Sized Reactors. Small Or Medium Power Outputs Are Often Just What Customer Ordered

ByRod Adams

…thing that we can take up. I do know that at the IAEA meeting Commissioner Jaczko said and once again here, that they would facilitate the design review and quality of such reactors, even those that were not currently in the queue for domestic deployment so that is a positive development. I will certainly take this fee issue back and discuss it. Following the session, a long time reader named Steve found me and introduced himself. (That is a side…

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Trump Budget Blueprint For DOE Will Revive Yucca Conflict. Does Little To Enable Nuclear

ByRod Adams

…rdinated effort between Senator Reid, President Obama, Steven Chu and Greg Jaczko, the ashes that remained from the decades worth of effort were spread out as far as possible. The information systems were decommissioned, the power was turned off, the office was eliminated, and the people were reassigned. Reviving Battle And Stoking Conflict There were few political figures who were more polarizing than Harry Reid, so there is a large contingency o…

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Conservative groupthink afflicts US nuclear energy industry

ByRod Adams

…o restart the plant. I will let you know if I have incorrectly interpreted the regulations. (Please remember that the NRC was, at the time of the CAL, led by Dr. Gregory Jaczko, who decided (perhaps with some strong encouragement) to resign more than a year before his term expired.)…

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Reflections on the 69th anniversary of anthropogenic sustained nuclear fission

ByGuest Author

…s a result of the draconian evacuations, or the fear mongering of Chairman Jaczko? What improvement in public safety was implemented from the design changes as a result of TMI? Aside: My wife’s grandfather was on the board of directors for Southern Company during the construction of Vogtle 1&2. I talked with him at length about the impact of the safety measures enacted as a result of TMI. From a utility board of directors point of view, the safety…

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