Via Google Video and the office of Senator Craig:
Though the camera is first focused on Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell at the start of the video, the camera switches to Senator Craig a few seconds in.
For more, here, here and here.
Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy, Used Fuel, Energy, Reprocessing, Technology, Electricity, Yucca Mountain
Though the camera is first focused on Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell at the start of the video, the camera switches to Senator Craig a few seconds in.
For more, here, here and here.
Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy, Used Fuel, Energy, Reprocessing, Technology, Electricity, Yucca Mountain
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While Yucca Mountain was originally scheduled to open in 1998, "Its obvious the 2012 date is now out the window," said Rep. David Hobson.
Funny,you should bring up money---that's exactly what the Will County State's Attorney charges.
"Exelon Corp. and its subsidiaries 'clearly placed their profit margin first with a callous disregard for the health, safety and welfare of the local residents,' Will County State's Atty. James Glasgow said in a prepared statement.
"'Exelon was well aware that tritium increases the risk of cancer, miscarriages and birth defects, and yet they made a conscious decision not to notify the public of the risk of exposure,' Glasgow said. He appeared this morning at a news conference in downtown Chicago with Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan."
(Today's Chicago Tribune/Online)
And there is more to follow... stay tuned...
BTW, let's not forget that it is in fact many of the same corporations operating nuclear units that also operate coal burners... and lobby to prevent more effective scrubbers from being installed on those units...
The most lasting impressions on whether we will expand our nation's nuclear power policy come not from paper designs and more promises of "too-cheap-to-meter" but from the current circumstances and examples that the current fleet exhibit. No waste disposal plan and disregard for local clean environment concerns are just some of your biggest impediments to more nukes.
Paul, NIRS
Paul
Do a google on "tritium" and see how many hits you get and continue to take in the days to come. NEI'd do better to start figuring out how to stop the leaks inside of backend PR damage control.
There in is another economic rub...
There is this emerging no small matter of a problem of how this "harmless" tritium, as a low energy emitter has been breaking down the protective oxide layers on a host of systems, structures, and components inducing and accelerating corrosion.
Better get that task force going, fellas.
And you all thought stress corrosion cracking and embrittlement of materials were problematic?
You might just be reading about it here, first.
What's the next surprise revelation on nuclear power? Stay tuned.
Paul, NIRS