Japan's Message to US

[QueEx]

Reports suggest that greed within the worldwide nuclear industry,
combined with an insufficient UN watchdog and lax oversight of
Japan's nuclear plants, contributed to the Japan nuclear crisis.​

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia...oversight-greed-preceded-Japan-nuclear-crisis

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Is this not an omen to us all ? ? ?

• <font size="3">Federal records indicate that nearly a quarter of America's nuclear reactors in 13 states share the same design of the ill-fated Japanese reactors.
  
  
  
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• <font size="3">Should we not be calling for an immediate review of the nuclear plants in this country to see if they could withstand the forces which struck Japan's reactors, and more ???</font size>

• <font size="3">What say you "Anti-Regulators" ???
  
  (I don't have to go to the So where are the anti-regulation/anti union now that another mine has exploded? thread to identify you, do I ? ? ?)
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[bigdaddynumbah1]

I'm definitely not an 'anti-regulator', lol. Yes, we need to check our own shit to make sure what we have can't lead us to a similar or worse fate than Japan's problem.

 

[thoughtone]

Did you know that nuclear power plants cannot get insurance from insurance companies. They cannot afford to take the risk. They can only get insurance from the government.

Corporate welfare at it's finest!

Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act

"The main purpose of the Act is to partially indemnify the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents while still ensuring compensation coverage for the general public...."

 

[Cruise]

Did you know that nuclear power plants cannot get insurance from insurance companies. They cannot afford to take the risk. They can only get insurance from the government.

Someone else mentioned this, which is rather disturbing.

And, I look, and there are 3 of these things in my state.

Oh man, can't win for losing.

 

[thoughtone]

Someone else mentioned this, which is rather disturbing.

And, I look, and there are 3 of these things in my state.

Oh man, can't win for losing.

This has been posted on this board at least three time over a number of years in several threads. Libertarians and conservatives bitch about how the government is taking away freedom and is anti American for attempting to have health care for all Americans, yet they are noticeably silent over massive corporate welfare that is the reason for bankrupting America. These people have shown themselves over time to be not so intelligent. I hope others are now recognizing this.

 

[QueEx]

China suspends nuclear building plans for new nuclear power stations following the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant. China is currently building 27 new reactors - about 40% of the total number being built around the world. We will temporarily suspend approval for nuclear power projects, including those that have already begun preliminary work, before nuclear safety regulations are approved," read a statement from the State Council.

"Safety is our top priority in developing nuclear power plants."

It went on to say that China's medium and long-term nuclear plans would be "adjusted and improved". China currently gets only about 2% of its electricity from nuclear power from 13 reactors, but it has launched an ambitious project to drastically increase those figures.

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Germany to speed up nuclear energy exit

The German chancellor said it was
impossible to return to 'business
as usual'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced a "measured exit" from nuclear power in response to the crisis affecting four reactors in Japan.

Defending the temporary closure of Germany's seven oldest reactors, she said the Japanese disaster meant it could no longer be "business as usual".

Mrs Merkel told parliament that the goal was "to reach the age of renewable energy as soon as possible".

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