Source: Los Angeles Times
Date:
April 29, 2012
by: Michael Hiltzik
NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko has found himself on the losing side of 4-1 votes that usually end up favoring less stringent regulations for the industry. He's also been the target of a congressman's attacks.
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| Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), left, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Chairman Gregory Jaczko and NRC senior resident inspector Greg Warnock
listen to a safety briefing this month before entering the containment
area of one of the reactors at the San Onofre nuclear plant.
(Lynn Sakamoto, Associated Press / April 6, 2012)
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Reading between the lines, it's probably fair to say that Greg Jaczko may not be someone you'd want to work for.
As chairman of the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
he's been accused of yelling at people, browbeating subordinates and
picking fights with his fellow NRC commissioners when he doesn't get his
way. That's pretty much the totality of the
bill of particulars
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) put out in December in support of a
concerted, albeit unsuccessful, campaign to drive Jaczko from his job.
(Jaczko
has acknowledged that there are strong disagreements within the agency,
but vehemently denies being especially tough on women, another charge
made by Issa.)
What the report on Jaczko issued by Issa's committee on oversight and
government reform didn't delve into too deeply, however, were the policy
issues underlying the personal friction. That's too bad, because the
disagreements concerned Jaczko's efforts to tighten safety and security
regulations for the nation's 104 nuclear power reactors, in the face of
the other commissioners' efforts to slow him down.
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