By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Gregory Jaczko resigned as head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Monday, ending months of open warfare with the staff and the other four commissioners over safety issues and a personal style often perceived as imperious. Jaczko’s departure stills the agency’s lone major voice pushing for increased safety measures at the nation’s 104 nuclear power plants despite the its long-standing aversion to imposing costly fixes on th

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article “There’s no reason why technologically we can’t employ nuclear energy in a safe and effective way.  Japan does it and France does it.  And it doesn’t have greenhouse gas emissions, so it would be stupid for us not to do that in a much more effective way.” –President Barak Obama New Orleans, 10/15/09 “That’s going to finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America — legislation that will make the best use of