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Gregory Jaczko appointed to advisory panel on nuclear security

Reid Appoints Besieged Regulator to Nuclear-Weapons Panel National Journal, By Amy Harder April 18 Late in the evening on Wednesday, one of the busiest and most unnerving times Washington has seen in a long while, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid quietly appointed a controversial former nuclear-energy regulator to a key but obscure panel.

Reid appointed Gregory Jaczko, the beleaguered former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to a newly created congressional advisory panel that oversees the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the nation’s nuclear-weapons stockpile and nuclear nonproliferation with about $8 billion taxpayer dollars……..

Jaczko also made waves recently in the wake of multiple interviews, including with the trade publication Nuclear Intelligence Weekly and the New York Times, where he called to phase out all nuclear power plants. “What is needed is a phaseout of all nuclear plants in this country,” Jaczko said, according to a March 29 issue of the Nuclear Intelligence Weekly. “They’re not safe.” http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/reid-appoints-besieged-regulator-to-nuclear-weapons-panel-20130418

April 19, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general