Obama nominates new nuclear regulatory chairman

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Obama nominates new nuclear regulatory chairman
from MarketWatch.com - MarketPulse
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Allison Macfarlane to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Macfarlane was nominated to replace current chair Gregory Jaczko, who earlier this week announced plans to step down. Macfarlane, a professor at George Mason University, authored a book on unresolved technical issues for nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain in 2006.