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Ex-NRC chairman Jaczko

TOKYO, Japan - Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko (R) holds a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 24, 2013.

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Ex-PM Kan shares Fukushima lessons in California

SAN DIEGO, United States - Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) and former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko attend a symposium organized by Friends of the Earth, an environmental lobbying group, in San Diego, California, on June 4, 2013. Kan, who was prime minister at the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, said how the Fukushima disaster changed his view of nuclear power and stressed the importance of a global network for antinuclear activists and renewable energy advocates to share their ideas and experiences.

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U.S. nuclear regulator OKs reactor construction

WASHINGTON, United States - Five commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission attend a hearing at the NRC headquarters in the suburbs of Washington on Feb. 9, 2012. The commission approved the construction of new nuclear reactors for the first time in 34 years, licensing two additional reactors at a plant in Georgia. The decision by a 4-1 vote, with the opposition cast by Chairman Gregory Jaczko (C), authorizes Westinghouse Electric Co., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., to build and operate the new reactors at Georgia's Vogtle nuclear plant.

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DPJ's Hosono, NRC's Jaczko meet

WASHINGTON, United States - Gregory Jaczko (L), chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, talk about cooperation regarding the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the NRC in a suburb of Washington on June 10, 2011. Jaczko briefed Hosono on the NRC's ongoing review of U.S. nuclear plants, while Hosono explained the Japanese government's efforts to deal with the challenges posed by the Fukushima reactors as well as the government's report submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to the joint statement.

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Ex-NRC head Jaczko speaks on nuclear safety in Japanese parliament

Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, speaks about nuclear safety in the Japanese parliament building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, with regard to Japan's plans to restart idled nuclear reactors. Jaczko was active NRC chief when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster occurred in northeastern Japan in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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DPJ's Hosono, NRC's Jaczko meet

WASHINGTON, United States - Gregory Jaczko (L), chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, talk about cooperation regarding the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the NRC in a suburb of Washington on June 10, 2011. Jaczko briefed Hosono on the NRC's ongoing review of U.S. nuclear plants, while Hosono explained the Japanese government's efforts to deal with the challenges posed by the Fukushima reactors as well as the government's report submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to the joint statement. (Kyodo)

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U.S. nuclear regulator OKs reactor construction

WASHINGTON, United States - Five commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission attend a hearing at the NRC headquarters in the suburbs of Washington on Feb. 9, 2012. The commission approved the construction of new nuclear reactors for the first time in 34 years, licensing two additional reactors at a plant in Georgia. The decision by a 4-1 vote, with the opposition cast by Chairman Gregory Jaczko (C), authorizes Westinghouse Electric Co., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp., to build and operate the new reactors at Georgia's Vogtle nuclear plant. (Kyodo)