Gregory B. Jaczko

Wind and solar energy are proving more agile technologies than nuclear energy, but nukes will be with us a long time, or at least the spent fuel rods will. Accidents will happen, says the U.S. regulator in charge during the Fukushima meltdown. Power plant designs never anticipated an earthquake followed by a tsunami. Climate change suggests at least a new round of risk modeling is in order. But energy is still a political choice, and Greg Jaczko lost a political argument during the Obama administration, when scientists ran the Energy Department. Now they don't. What could possibly go wrong?… (meer)