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Senator Larry Craig on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

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.

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Anonymous said…
It is interesting to note that while Senator Craig was cheerleading for new nuclear waste generators, DOE's acting director for the Office of Civilian Waste Management Paul Golan, testified before the House Approps energy subcommittee that industry's grab for the Yucca Mt. ring won't come around for at least another decade, if ever.

While Yucca Mountain was originally scheduled to open in 1998, "Its obvious the 2012 date is now out the window," said Rep. David Hobson.
Anonymous said…
There is also the news of the Illinois Office of the Attorney General along with Will County State's Attorney filed a seven count indictment against EXELON and COMMONWEALTH EDISON this afternoon for tritium spills from the Braidwood nuclear power station that go back to at least 1996 and were not disclosed by the nuclear company.
Anonymous said…
Mr. Primavera,

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
Anonymous said…
Well, my closing remark on this blog segment given all the news growing around Palo Verde (today's story of how the State of Arizona's DEQ is absolutely incredulous with Palo Verde's explanation of its tritium leaks), along with the Illinois, New Jersey and New York leakers I think that GNEP has come to more appropriately stand for the "global nuclear emissions problem." Whose next?

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

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