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Post by georges on May 27, 2012 1:12:09 GMT 9.5
From WNN: "Environmental science and policy professor Allison Macfarlane has been nominated by the US President to replace Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) chairman Gregory Jaczko. Macfarlane has focused on environmental policy and international security issues associated with nuclear energy, especially the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle. She served on the White House's Blue Ribbon Commission, established in 2010 to identify a new long-term strategy for managing radioactive waste and used nuclear fuel after President Barack Obama's administration decided to abort the Yucca Mountain repository project." End quote www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Obama_makes_his_regulatory_choice-25051207.htmlIf she is focussed on the back end of the fuel cycle perhaps she is pro IFR as a method for disposing of our nuclear waste.?? |
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Post by Anders on May 27, 2012 1:59:12 GMT 9.5
She recently co-wrote an article with infamous IFR opponent Frank von Hippel where they advocated burying the UK Plutonium and (very purposefully I'm sure) failed to even mention the PRISM option. So in all probability she's in the all-reprocessing-leads-to-global-nuclear-war camp...
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Post by anonposter on May 27, 2012 2:22:35 GMT 9.5
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Post by georges on May 27, 2012 4:03:54 GMT 9.5
She recently co-wrote an article with infamous IFR opponent Frank von Hippel where they advocated burying the UK Plutonium and (very purposefully I'm sure) failed to even mention the PRISM option. So in all probability she's in the all-reprocessing-leads-to-global-nuclear-war camp... Thx for the response The nuclear proliferation issue is really a non issue for me. If someone really wants to make a nuke then they will find a way to do it. So it sounds like you guys are probably correct and this woman is not going to back a big IFR push....too bad. Another thing I have not quite understood is what political bent Jazckos was. So he was in bed w/ the senator from Nevada that wanted the repository shut down. This seems odd to me to be against a repository for nuclear waste if you are an NRC commissioner. (Although I now am against it also in light of IFR) ....but I doubt if Jazckos was a proponent of IFR so what the heck was this guy doing as NRC commissioner. |
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Post by anonposter on May 27, 2012 5:44:44 GMT 9.5
The nuclear proliferation issue is really a non issue for me. If someone really wants to make a nuke then they will find a way to do it. True, the non-proliferation community has a pretty bad record at actually stopping it (though the technical wing of the non-proliferation movement at least isn't actively harmful and does tend to help with detection). So it sounds like you guys are probably correct and this woman is not going to back a big IFR push....too bad. It isn't the commissioner who decides what'll happen but the government, the commissioners are ultimately subservient to the elected government and if they go against what the government wants they get removed (and the government would tend to appoint those who have similar goals to what they want). Another thing I have not quite understood is what political bent Jazckos was. So he was in bed w/ the senator from Nevada that wanted the repository shut down. This seems odd to me to be against a repository for nuclear waste if you are an NRC commissioner. The NRC was pretty much created to strangle the nuclear industry so it shouldn't be a surprise if it ends up being run by someone trying to constipate the industry. (Although I now am against it also in light of IFR) .... Even with IFR or LFTR you'll still have some high level waste which will need disposal (just a lot less per unit of energy produced and with faster decay) and for the US at least Yucca Mountain is probably the best place to put it (even if it's a lot more expensive than it needs to be). but I doubt if Jazckos was a proponent of IFR Wouldn't surprise me if he's never heard of it. so what the heck was this guy doing as NRC commissioner. Politics. |
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Post by georges on May 27, 2012 7:10:58 GMT 9.5
Ah yes Anon. Politics. The answer was so obvious it should have just hit me in the face.
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