You know, it’s kind of sad that no one is willing to invest in nuclear energy anymore. Wait, what? NuScale Power celebrated the news of its company-saving $30 million investment from Fluor Corp. Thursday morning with a press conference in Washington, D.C. Fluor is a design, engineering and construction company involved with some 20 plants in the 70s and 80s, but it has not held interest in a nuclear energy company until now. Fluor, which has deep roots in the nuclear industry, is betting big on small-scale nuclear energy with its NuScale investment. "It's become a serious contender in the last decade or so," John Hopkins, [Fluor’s group president in charge of new ventures], said. And that brings us to NuScale, which had run into some dark days – maybe not as dark as, say, Solyndra, but dire enough : Earlier this year, the Securities Exchange Commission filed an action against NuScale's lead investor, The Michael Kenwood Group. The firm "misap...
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A. If he/she keeps saying that a reactor is "spewing" out radioactivity.
B. Fukushima is a "nuclear accident" instead of a "tsunami accident" (since people are killed in disasters).
C. Keeps showing crying little kids being swept by Geiger counters.
D. Gives a pro-nuker a five second bite in a three minute nuclear report.
E. Has deep ominous music playing in the background while showing clips of nuke plants under dark cloudy skies.
F. Keeps filming huge looming cooling towers like they ARE the reactors.
Etc...
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Correction for "B" is:
B. Fukushima is a "nuclear disaster" instead of a "tsunami disaster" (since people are killed in disasters).
James Greenidge
Queens NY
* First, such polls are definitely not scientific, and so are likely to be innaccurate - as an example, you have NEI calling on members to vote, and no doubt you probably have anti-nuclear organizations call upon their supporters to vote, and so the results could just reflect what organizations noticed the poll, and which are best organized to get member response quickly to such things.
* Even if you had a formal, official "voted" during an election, the question of whether to shutdown an individual nuclear plant should not be up for majority opinion. The majority can vote on overall policy - I suppose if a majority of Americans wanted to shutdown all nuclear power plants, that would be a legitimate exercise of democracy, but when it comes to individual plants, it should be owners, and regulators (e.g. NRC) who decide on technical and legal grounds whether the plant qualifies to be licensed and operate, not MOB RULE.