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Nuclear Commission Gregory Jaczko Calls it Quits

NUCLEAR FALLOUT

After a long campaign to drive the nation’s top nuclear regulator from office, NRC commissioner Gregory Jaczko resigned Monday.

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The tension had been growing for at least six months. So when Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, announced on Monday he’d be stepping down, it ended a long and bitter coup against America’s top nuclear regulator.

Despite his term lasting until next summer, Jaczko said in a...

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