"Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission" by Karl Grossman
May 30, 2012 
Investigative journalist, and Beyond Nuclear board of directors member, Karl Grossman (pictured, left), has published an article entitled "Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission" which has appeared at the Huffington Post and elsewhere. In it, Karl reports that U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko, has been pressured to resign over a year early due to withering attacks by the nuclear power industry and its friends within the NRC and on Capitol Hill, due to his safety advocacy. Karl points out that NRC has never, in its nearly 40 years of existence, denied a license to construct or operate a commercial atomic reactor. It has also rubberstamped 73 license extensions for 20 additional years of operation at U.S. atomic reactors, with 13 other license extensions already applied for.
Most US GE BWR Mark Is and IIs have already had their 40-year operating licenses extended to 60 years by NRC. The only ones that haven't are the two Limerick Mark IIs in PA, the Fermi 2 Mark I in MI, and the two LaSalle Mark IIs in IL.