For decades in the USA there exists a very healthy movement to stop the nuclear mess that has been conducted.
Whistleblowers.
Contaminated environment.
Leaks.
Earthquakes.
Tsunamis.
Flooding.
And yet. There is no reasonable end in sight to a disaster chronically in the making.
The international proliferation of nuclear capacity since the Axis of Evil speech has escalated.
In the USA, the industry is obviously out of control. Ninty percent of the funding for the NRC comes from the facilities it is suppose to regulate. Is that sincerely a good idea? It seems to me to be as bad as the petroleum industry and the old Minerals and Mining bunch.
Is everyone too afraid to ask? To afraid to know the truth? Or is Eisenhower's propaganda still permeating the nuclear culture?
There is a lot wrong here. A lot. Not just a little bit, but, a lot. Even if it were only a little bit wrong, when it comes to nuclear material does it matter? Isn't a little bit wrong equivalent to a lot wrong anyway?
What is completely astounding to me as we are coming up to March 1, 2013 and all those debt cuts are suppose to start; is that no one planned for the impacts. When the Super-committee met there was little to know forethought about what actually is going to result in the USA.
If we are going to reduce the national debt and it is going to impact sensitive programs regarding nuclear material, won't it be better to have the ability to SAFELY remove funding?
Anticipated.
Reductions already instituted before the funding cuts?
Is it too much to ask to have the Republicans GOVERN? Is it?
02/09/13 01:01 AM ET EST
Whistleblowers.
Contaminated environment.
Leaks.
Earthquakes.
Tsunamis.
Flooding.
And yet. There is no reasonable end in sight to a disaster chronically in the making.
The international proliferation of nuclear capacity since the Axis of Evil speech has escalated.
In the USA, the industry is obviously out of control. Ninty percent of the funding for the NRC comes from the facilities it is suppose to regulate. Is that sincerely a good idea? It seems to me to be as bad as the petroleum industry and the old Minerals and Mining bunch.
Is everyone too afraid to ask? To afraid to know the truth? Or is Eisenhower's propaganda still permeating the nuclear culture?
There is a lot wrong here. A lot. Not just a little bit, but, a lot. Even if it were only a little bit wrong, when it comes to nuclear material does it matter? Isn't a little bit wrong equivalent to a lot wrong anyway?
What is completely astounding to me as we are coming up to March 1, 2013 and all those debt cuts are suppose to start; is that no one planned for the impacts. When the Super-committee met there was little to know forethought about what actually is going to result in the USA.
If we are going to reduce the national debt and it is going to impact sensitive programs regarding nuclear material, won't it be better to have the ability to SAFELY remove funding?
Anticipated.
Reductions already instituted before the funding cuts?
Is it too much to ask to have the Republicans GOVERN? Is it?
02/09/13 01:01 AM ET EST
PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (click here) says a power plant in Massachusetts has lost power and shut down during a massive snowstorm.
The NRC says the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth experienced an automatic shutdown at around 9:15 p.m. Friday after losing off-site power. Spokesman Neil Sheehan says the plant has declared an unusual event, which is the lowest level of emergency classification.
Sheehan says that the reactor shut down without any problems and that backup generators are powering plant equipment.
The NRC says there's no threat to public safety.
The shutdown came as a major snowstorm began clobbering the New York-to-Boston corridor, knocking out power to more than 300,000 customers in Massachusetts....
