Ex-regulator: All 104 nuclear reactors in US have a safety problem that can’t be fixed. They should

[unhappycamper]

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/04/09/ex-regulator-all-104-nuclear-reactors-in-us-have-a-safety-problem-that-cant-be-fixed-they-should-be-replaced/

Ex-regulator: All 104 nuclear reactors in US have a safety problem that can’t be fixed. They should be replaced.
Posted on April 9, 2013 at 12:55 pm by GottaLaff

I am a staunch non-fan of nuclear energy. Not only is it dangerous as hell, not only do I live relatively close to two reactors situated in earthquake country, but what really irks me is how we have no safe place to store all that extremely dangerous nuclear waste. Gregory B. Jaczko has a thing or two to say about a nuclear thing or two.

The NYY sez:

All 104 nuclear power reactors now in operation in the United States have a safety problem that cannot be fixed and they should be replaced with newer technology, the former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said on Monday. Shutting them all down at once is not practical, he said, but he supports phasing them out rather than trying to extend their lives.(...)

(I)t is highly unusual for a former head of the nuclear commission to so bluntly criticize an industry whose safety he was previously in charge of ensuring.

Jaczko said he would have spoken up sooner, but he only just came to his conclusions “recently.” One of those conclusions is that we’ve been putting Band-Aids on major problems. Well, there’s that. Follow the link for more.

[matt819]

1. Just became aware - right

He's a coward. Not that anything would have changed had he raised this alarm when he was the NRC. But that's what we've become, so no surprise there.

[wtmusic]

2. Jaczko is a misogynistic, raging nutcase

"In October 2011, all the other four NRC commissioners—two Democrats and two Republicans—sent a letter to the White House expressing "grave concern" about Jaczko's actions at the NRC. On December 14, 2011, Commissioner William Ostendorff, a Republican, told a House oversight committee that Jaczko's "bullying and intimidation... should not and cannot be tolerated." Commissioner William Magwood, a Democrat, testified that Jaczko has humiliated senior female staff in meetings and "reduced (them) to tears in front of colleagues and subordinates". The "most troubling" issue about Jaczko, Magwood said, was his "raging verbal assault" of agency staff, particularly against women."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaczko