U.S. nuclear lobby fired up and ready to go

[spanone]

"crisis response mode" --- the crisis is not the explosion, it's the bad publicity it will generate


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Until recent days, things had been looking up for the U.S. nuclear industry.

President Obama’s proposed budget for 2012 includes $36 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reviewing 20 applications from companies wanting to build new plants.

But as Politico points out, several members of Congress who had been tilting in favor nuclear energy are expressing doubts in the wake of the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.

The industry’s trade group, the Nuclear Energy Institute, immediately swung into crisis-response mode.

“At this point, I don’t think we’re going to see a major impact on the U.S. nuclear industry.” the group’s spokesman, Mitch Singer, told the Wall Street Journal.

http://news.muckety.com/2011/03/13/us-nuclear-lobby-ready-to-go/31101

[jpak]

1. Get ready for the bullshit tsunami

yup

[spanone]

2. this is what we've become as a nation, as a world..it's all public relations

[ixion]

3. yeah, gee, what's a few earth-changing disasters where profit motive is concerned

:eyes:

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Think again, Mr. Singer.

You pro-nook kooks are done.

[Cleita]

5. If you get your electricity from a nuke plant, how willing

are you to do with less electricity for awhile? I think these plants should be decommissioned sooner rather than later. I live near a nuke plant built practically on top of two earthquake faults, one of them being a very large one, the San Andreas fault. This plant cannot withstand an earthquake larger than 7.5 magnitude. I would be willing to be rationed to four hours a day of electricity even though it would be inconvenient for keeping my refrigerator cold, I could get by. How about you?

[xxqqqzme]

6. 'the group's spokesman'

Now get out there Mitch and sell that damn thing! What a POS job - non-productive 'work' for 250K/yr to start. Yeah, this country is fucked!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. And, the politicians are checking out new Mercedes in anticipation of the payoffs.

After the rubber-stamp "Nuclear Safety Assessment" committee charades.