The Blaa, Blaa Blaa NRC Chairman

You notice all the print space devoted to bureaucratic issues and Fukushime...they never talk about plant problems. This sounds like the language of a captured regulator.

What is the NRC chairman's perspective on the top five problems at the plant level...this guy got a lot of experience.  

Remarks by NRC Chairman Stephen G. Burns to the 2015 Nuclear Energy Assembly May 13,2015 – Washington, D.C.
 Good afternoon. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today at NEI’s annual Nuclear Energy Assembly. I plan to touch on a few topics that I hope will be of interest to the audience here today. I have now served for about four and a half months as Chairman of the NRC, having been designated by President Obama as Chairman on January 1 of this year. As you may know, I had earlier retired from the NRC in 2012 after a nearly 34-year career that culminated in my service as the agency’s General Counsel. To describe the experience as a bit surreal doesn’t do it justice. As a young attorney entering the NRC in 1978, I could never have imagined that someday I would be Chairman of this great organization. Now, returning to the NRC after my three-year hiatus in Paris at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, I have the unique opportunity to experience the agency yet again from an entirely new vantage point...