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Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator (Hardcover)
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Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator (Hardcover)
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A shocking expose 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 PhD, 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.
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