Open AccessWhite House nominates nuclear commissioner
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2012eo230005
Subject(s) - commission , george (robot) , white (mutation) , political science , law , management , public administration , art history , art , chemistry , economics , biochemistry , gene
Just 3 days after U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Gregory Jaczko announced his intention to resign ( Eos, 93 (22), 211, doi:10.1029/2012EO220005, 2012), President Barack Obama nominated Allison Macfarlane to serve out the remainder of Jaczko's term, through June 2013. The White House announced that upon her appointment, Macfarlane would be designated as chair of the commission. Macfarlane is an associate professor of environmental science and policy at George Mason University. A member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future from March 2010 to January 2012, she is also the author of the 2006 book Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High‐Level Nuclear Waste and is an AGU member.