News about Fukushima

[Fuddnik]

6. Nukes are alive and not well.

As long as our political system of campaign bribery is intact, and they can force their customers and the government to keep paying for them, and they can continue to throw safety to the winds, and extract huge profits, who's to stop them?

We've already got one crippled plant on Florida's Gulf Coast, that will cost (rate-payers) billions to repair, but that's not stopping them from trying to build another one, with a customer surcharge to pay for it up front. We'll continue to pay for it until they announce they won't build it (which they might not do), and they get to keep all the upfront charges.

Never believe that good science and common sense will stand between a hare-brained scheme, a corrupt government, and a campaign contribution.