Politics & Government
NRC Chief Resigns Under Pressure from Industry
The Huffington Post and other media outlets report that industry-backed commissioners on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission forced out the executive, who had cast himself as a reformer after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The Huffington Post and numerous other media outlets have reported that the NRC Chief has resigned under industry pressure:
Under a withering assault from the industry, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko is stepping down, effective upon the confirmation of his successor, according to a statement from Jaczko.
The resignation follows months of bureaucratic knife-wielding by the four industry-backed members of the five-person panel. Like something out of Dumas, the passionate infighting stretched back decades. The industry effort was spearheaded by Democratic Commissioner Bill Magwood. Magwood, it turned out, had led a strikingly similar coup against his boss at the Department of Energy before taking his spot, a saga first reported by HuffPost late last year as the coup was unfolding.
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