IG says NRC chief ‘wrong’ to mislead colleagues on bid to stop work on proposed nuke dump

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was unprofessional and “wrong” as he repeatedly misled fellow commissioners about his efforts to stop work on a disputed dump for high-level radioactive waste, an agency watchdog said Tuesday.

Inspector General Hubert T. Bell told Congress that NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko manipulated the panel’s four other commissioners by selectively withholding information on a crucial safety review of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. Jaczko’s actions allowed him to shut down the review last year without a vote of the full commission.

Bell told members of the House and Energy Commerce Committee that Jaczko’s conduct was not criminal but, “It’s not an upfront way to do business.”

Several GOP lawmakers said Jaczko appears to have violated a federal law requiring the NRC chair to keep fellow commissioners “fully and currently informed” about important matters before the commission.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-government/ig-says-nrc-chief-wrong-to-mislead-colleagues-on-bid-to-stop-work-on-proposed-nuke-dump/2011/06/14/AGiHzjUH_story.html

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1. “It’s not an upfront way to do business.”

A statement that most members of Congress would recognize!

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2. This is a lie: AP does't cite what Rep. Markey said

Markey told Bell that Jaczko had informed several of the people involved, and they did not object at the time. It was only later that those people said they had not understood the report. Bell could not disagree with that.

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3. PS: Reuters is much more honest than AP

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4. I concur