NRC IG: JACZKO’S RESIGNATION WON’T CHANGE RELEASE DATE ON REPORT

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Inspector General confirmed it will release its report on allegations of mismanagement by Chairman Gregory Jaczko, even after Jaczko yesterday announced he would resign. “When the report is completed we will of course distribute it to the appropriate venues. We are not changing anything with regard to how we would distribute the report,” Joe McMillan, assistant inspector general, told RW Monitor yesterday. The IG report was triggered in October, when Jaczko’s four fellow commissioners sent a letter to the White House saying his managerial style was creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation at the agency. The IG office has said the report will be released within the next 30 days. McMillan said he has met with Congressional staffers to discuss the allegations and scope of the report, “but in a very broad discussion. … We are seeing press accounts of the report being circulated, and that’s just not true. It has not been circulated, no conclusions have been circulated with anyone, nor have we discussed conclusions. We only talked about the allegations, nothing else.”