Isbn: 9781476755762 - confessions of a rogue nuclear regulator (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8.25 inches. ix, [1], 196, [2] pages. Appendix: A Peek at the Science of Nuclear Reactors. Notes. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. DJ has some wear, soiling and a few 'dings'. Top of front and back boards show some wear and rubbing. Signed by the author on the title page. Gregory B. Jaczko (born October 29, 1970, Norristown, Pennsylvania) is a physicist who was chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 2005 to 2012. While at the NRC, he voted against the opening of new nuclear plants; an inspector general report found that he sought unilaterally and improperly to block the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project from advancing. Jaczko called for a global ban on nuclear power. Gregory B. Jaczko studied physics and philosophy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; he earned a bachelor in the two disciplines there in 1993. In 1999, he earned a doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jaczko served as a Congressional Science Fellow in the office of U.S. Representative Ed Markey in Washington, D.C. He also worked as an adjunct professor for Physics and Public Policy under Dr. Francis Slakey at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. A report by Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspector General found that Jaczko "strategically" withheld information from his colleagues in an effort to keep plans for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository from advancing. He later advised the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on issues regarding nuclear power. A shocking exposé from the most powerful insider in nuclear regulation about how the nuclear energy industry endangers our lives, and why Congress does nothing to stop it. Gregory Jaczko had never heard of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission when he arrived in Washington like a modern-day Mr. Smith. But, thanks to the determination of a powerful senator, he would soon find himself at the agency's helm. A Birkenstocks-wearing physics Ph.D., Jaczko was unlike any chairman the agency had ever seen: he was driven by a passion for technology and a concern for public safety, with no ties to the industry and no agenda other than to ensure that his agency made the world a safer place. And so Jaczko witnessed what outsiders like him were never meant to see, an agency overpowered by the industry it was meant to regulate and a political system determined to keep it that way. After an emergency trip to Japan to help oversee the frantic response to the horrifying nuclear disaster at Fukushima in 2011, and witnessing the American nuclear industry's refusal to make the changes he considered necessary to prevent an equally catastrophic event from occurring here, Jaczko started saying aloud what no one else had dared. Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator is a wake-up call to the dangers of lobbying, the importance of governmental regulation, and the failures of congressional oversight. But it is also a classic tale of an idealist on a mission whose misadventures in Washington are astounding, absurd, and sometimes even funny, and Jaczko tells the story with humor, self-deprecation, and, yes, occasional bursts of outrage. Above all, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator is a tale of confronting the truth about one of the most pressing public safety and environmental issues of our time: nuclear power will never be safe.…