Reply With QuotePerhaps we should bomb ourselves.
Kudoes to the Obama administration. After thirty years of fear and paranoia spearheaded by various enviro-whacko groups, the govt has finally gotten back on track for building nuclear power stations. For more than 50 years, fewer people have been killed or injured by nuclear power, than by ANY other source, including hydroelectric, geothermal, solar, and windmills.
The Obama administration has done the right thing. For a change. My hat is off to them.
I do wonder about the statement in the article that says the govt encourages use of "pre-approved" designs rather than "custom" designs. Doesn't that mean they will be using OLDER designs, and shutting out modifications that might make the reactors safer in the event of earthquakes, floods, etc.? New designs have been worked on since Japan's Fukushima reactor problems after a big earthquake cause tsunamis that knocked out the reactors and caused major leaks. Does this policy mean that those newer designs will NOT be used?
Still, it's good to see them finally making the (overall) right move. Hopefully the issues of safety will not be discouraged for long.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...ove/53027204/1
U.S. approves 1st nuclear reactors since 1978
by Mary Ann Chastain
Updated 7m ago
WASHINGTON (AP) – The first new U.S. nuclear power plant in a generation won federal approval Thursday.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Southern Co.'s request to build two nuclear reactors in the southern state of Georgia.
The NRC last approved construction of a nuclear plant in 1978, a year before a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania raised fears of a radiation release and brought new reactor orders nearly to a halt.
The NRC approved a new reactor design for the Georgia plant in December. Utility companies in Florida and the Carolinas also plan new reactors that use the same design by Westinghouse Electric Co.
The planned reactors are remnants of a once-anticipated building boom that the power industry dubbed the "nuclear renaissance."
President Obama has offered the Georgia project $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees as part of its pledge to expand nuclear power.
Obama and other proponents say greater use of nuclear power could cut U.S. reliance on fossil fuels and create energy without producing emissions blamed for global warming. A new government permit process strongly encourages utilities to use pre-approved reactor designs rather than building custom models, a strategy intended to make construction easier and less expensive.
"The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them." - Instapundit.com
Perhaps we should bomb ourselves.
Zordar (02-09-2012)
This is good news. I give the OA credit.
As far as "approved designs"...I'm sure this simply means designs that have been subjected to enough rigorous simulation or testing. I'm 100% sure we will be building new high-tech (safer) nuclear plants. It's a good day for America and the environment.
"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything they don't own."
Zordar (02-09-2012)
Go ahead.Originally Posted by 86Dùde
"The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them." - Instapundit.com
86Dùde (02-09-2012)
About frikken time. Let's just hope they fast track it.
The ambassador died, Obama lied.
The thing is that oil being extracted from under the ground causes earthquakes. Earthquakes make nuke plants disaster areas.
Acorn, are you aware that no private insurance firm would insure any nuclear power plant and every plant built in the United States is built with public money?
Interesting that so many conservatives favor public money for nuclear power yet hate using the word socialism.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
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