Is Main Street America Ready For $900 Trillion Nuclear Industry Bailout?

FACT...the last ten Nuclear Reactors built have come in over 300 percent of their original estimated costs. The Nuclear Industry, NEI, NRC and the DOE are wanting loan guarantees and government supplied corporate giveaways to build 200 new reactors here in America, and to build the industry an experimental fuel reprocessing plant (GNEP) that will turn America into the world's nuclear waste dump for all spent reactor fuel. Amount they estimate they are going to need is $3 TRILLION DOLLARS, but that is an open ended figure and could fluctuate upwards as COST OVERRUNS start occurring. Do the math folks, and we are talking a potential NUCLEAR INDUSTRY BAILOUT of $900 TRILLION DOLLARS. Read more at the Green Nuclear Underground.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Cost Over Runs Delay Nuclear Plant...Sound Familiar? Nuclear Renaissance Really Means COST OVER RUNS PAID FOR WITH MAIN STREET TAX DOLLARS

Some things never change, such as the Nuclear Industries inability to bring any project in on time, and on budget. Seems that Taiwan Power has pushed back the start up of their Reactor Number 4 for at least two years while they go to the Government seeking MORE FUNDS. Look back at past history, and the Nuclear Industry has a rich and vibrant history of being 10-50, even 300 times over budget when building reactor projects here in America...lets put that in perspective. They want 100 percent loan guarantees for up to 200 new reactors here in America, as well as financing for GNEP. If you work their math, they want a Taxpayer BAILOUT in the form of loan guarantees and actual cash of between $1.5 and $3 TRILLION DOLLARS. Factor in their standard industry cost overruns, and they want us on the hook for between $30 and $150 or even $900 Trillion Dollars...JUST SAY NO TO NUCLEAR ENERGY which is neither clean or green. Look at how hurt Main Street America is as we cover the $2 Trillion Dollar BAILOUT of Wall Street...are you really ready to TRUST THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY that brought you Hiroshima and Chernobyl?

Taiwan Power Delays New Nuclear Plant Launch, Seeks More Funds

TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Government-owned monopoly utility Taiwan Power Co. has to delay the start of commercial operations at its No. 4 nuclear power plant by two years to 2011 and ask the government for more funds, company spokeswoman Tu Yueh-Yuan said Wednesday.

The plant has been plagued by construction delays, soaring raw material prices, and at one point, a decision by the previous administration to halt construction altogether because of its "nuclear-free homeland" policy.

The budget for the No. 4 plant's two units was originally NT$233.55 billion ( US$6.77 billion), but now Taiwan Power wants to ask the government for about NT$ 40 billion more, said Tu.

"We need more funds mainly because of rising construction costs and the depreciating Taiwan dollar," said Tu.

The figures are not final, as the final new budget must be approved by the government, she said.

Taiwan Power operates three nuclear reactors with a total of six power generating units and a capacity of 5,144 megawatts, or 13.1% of its total installed capacity.

The No. 4 nuclear power plant, built in Lungmen, Taipei County, will operate two units with a planned

Palin Embraces Nuclear Abortion...

Just in from two of Washington Scandal's Sister Blogs...Sarah Palin, the radical right wing pro life Christian Vice Presidential Candidate embraces and endorses Nuclear Abortions!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Pro Life Sarah Palin Embraces Nuclear Abortion Machines

Living within 50 miles of a Nuclear Reactor INCREASES YOUR CHANCES OF GIVING BIRTH TO A STILLBORN CHILD...so please Sarah Palin, explain how you, a Pro Life Christian woman can embrace and endorse the building of 45 new NUCLEAR ABORTION MACHINES?

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Sarah Palin Is Energy Nut Case-Calls For Socialized Energy

CNN just carried Sarah Palin's speech from Toledo Ohio on Energy...the lady is a religious nut case with no firm grasp on the topic of Energy. She touts experience that is not there, and with every word out of her mouth, it becomes obvious that she is without a clue. First, her drill baby drill is offensive, and shows zero respect for the environment. This should not be a surprise as she has filed two law suits objecting to the Federal Government's placement of animals onto the endangered species list...why you might ask...because having. as example. Polar Bears on the list interferes with some of her own pet projects. Putting whales on the endangered species list in Alaska endangers her own SECOND BRIDGE TO NOWHERE, a $600 Million dollar bridge to serve the 7,000 residents of Wasilla, Alaska.

Her beloved pipeline might not even be built, and even if it makes it from the drawing board into reality, it represents a drop in the bucket, not a solution. When you put it into perspective, when you realize we would not see a cubic foot of gas from said pipeline before 2025, she is blowing smoke up our collective asses.

She goes on to say that she and John McCain will see to it that America will build 45 New nuclear reactors by 2030...sorry, but it cannot be done, and even if the obstacles could be overcome, are we prepared for Socialized Energy that rapes the American Taxpayer, and the American energy consumer, while ruining our environment, bringing cancers and birth defects to our doorsteps?

1. There is a horrific manpower shortage in the nuclear industry, and it will take at least one decade to address that shortage. The reality is simple...there are not enough qualified and trained employees to build, manage and operate 45 new reactors by 2030.

2. Even if the manpower issues were resolved, there is not enough manufacturing base to get the necessary parts to meet Sarah Palin's timeline for 45 new reactors. Further, the NEI, the NRC and our government is wrongfully assuming that American Communities will welcome these new reactors with open arms, assumes they can simply force communities already hosting old, outdated and problematic reactors into accepting FURTHER RISKS.

3. Wall Street will not fund 45 new reactors, which is why the nuclear industry wants our tax dollars to build those nuclear reactors, even though they will be owned and operated by private for profit companies. What is wrong with this picture? With our taxes, we build the reactors, but our government gives them over to private companies that will then BILL US FOR OUR ENERGY, energy being supplied because we built the facility...talk about a redistribution of wealth. Additionally, if Nuclear Energy is so SAFE, VITAL and SECURE, end the Price Anderson Act that keeps every American from getting nuclear accident insurance to protect their own assets, their own homes, their own health!

Further, nuclear cannot exist as a viable industry unless it remains always a socialized industry subsidized with our taxes in a never ending bailout. GNEP (the Global Nuclear Energy Program) asks the American Taxpayer to underwrite a $1.5 -$5 Trillion dollar nuclear reprocessing plant that might not even work. Further, and very important...the fuel that would be created if the process does work cannot be used in the 45 AP1000 Nuclear Reactors that John McCain wants to build! Even more deplorable, GNEP makes America the nuclear waste dump for the entire world's nuclear energy programs and reactors. Are you as a citizen prepared to have China, Russia, North Korea and other rogue nations wastes being shipped across the world's oceans to the doorsteps of America? Are you willing to risk your child, your wife, your husband, your mother having CANCER in the name of reprocessing fuel for a country that abuses human rights, oppresses the people of Tibet, imprisons their populations, putting them into forced labor camps, using them in the name of Capitalizing China?

Are you, your children and their children's children prepared to pay the costs that this international socialized Energy Program will bring about? With every new reactor comes more breast cancer, more childhood leukemia, more birth defects, more stillborn children. Nuclear Energy is AN ABORTION MACHINE that every Pro-Life American should be up in arms about. Sarah Palin is a hypocrite to claim she is Pro Life will endorsing a Energy Program that puts the unborn child at a far greater risk than abortion ever has or will. GNEP will make America the world's Nuclear Waste Dump, and with that new global responsibility, we are inviting a Holocaust into America of proportions that will far outstrip those visited upon the Jews with Germany's NAZI Death Camps.

The Great Nuclear Industry Bailout

Greetings Readers...about to head out the door to camp here, and looking forward to taking a break from my blogs. If you have not visited my other blog project started back on December 26th, 2006 I would encourage you to give Green Nuclear Butterfly a read.

On a more serious note, am sharing an article I posted up on that site earlier today over my morning coffee...

I would ask EVERY AMERICAN, every WORLD CITIZEN to give some serious thought to the Wall Street financial tragedy we have all watched over the past few weeks. Fact is, if we do not rein in the Nuclear Industry, if we do not say NO TO THEIR LOAN GUARANTEES, if we do not get the NRC and the IAEA to restrengthen the regulations they have WEAKENED year after year in their quest to keep this industry on LIFE SUPPORT, Wall Streets near collapse will look like a beautiful drive through the fall foliage as the leaves change. Buffett bought into the nuclear industry because he spied a BARGAIN, is a HAWK swooping down and eating the weak for his own financial gain, not because he believes nuclear to be a safe alternative energy source, and if he thinks it is, I'm sadly disappointed at his lack of adequate research of BOTH sides of the issue. He bought a nuclear company that was UNDER CAPITALIZED, a company on the verge of failing...is Entergy or Exelon next?

Simply stated, we as a nation, and as a world are at GRAVE RISK as a result the IAEA and the NRC's lack of oversight, lack of adequate security, and WEAKENED REGULATORY CONTROL. The IAEA is all but bankrupt, the NRC has admitted to a SEVERE shortage of qualified workers for this dying industry, and many regulations meant to protect Human Health and the Environment have been weakened to a point where America's 104 Nuclear Reactors are being run in an extremely unsafe manner, begging a cataclysmic accident that America and the World will never fully recover from.

The industry seeks literally TRILLIONS in the form of a bailout, labeling the taxpayer funded gifts as NECESSARY, claiming every penny will be returned to us...remember the promise of the nuclear industry...ENERGY SO CHEAP IT WILL NOT BE WORTH METERING. 50 years later, the industry cannot stand on its own, the industry has not disposed safely on one singular ounce of their waste streams. Because of the DOE and NRC's inability to figure out the science and technology necessary to build a long term storage facility, 104 nuclear reactor sites in America have become DEFACTO radioactive waste DUMP SITES, yet our government refuses to take action, refuses to be accountable to America's MAIN STREET citizens being forced to live on the edge of impending doom.

Both Presidential candidates (Obama and McCain) have delivered campaign trail rhetoric of new clean, green energy...problem is, nuclear is neither CLEAN, OR GREEN. We have a choice, but only if we make our voices heard. Imagine the giant forward strides that would occur if we took those TRILLIONS of dollars the nuclear industry wanted, and invested them in solar, wind, geo thermal and clean coal technologies, research and implementation. If you are truly green, if you truly want to reverse global warming, if you want to leave this world a better place for your children and grand children, then the time has come to TAKE A STAND...say no to Nuclear Energy, say no to Nuclear Industry Bailouts, and say no too the Rubber Stamping of the NRC's License Renewal Application Process...fact is, by relicensing these aging, dilapidated reactors, the NRC is playing Russian Roulette with our health, safety and financial well being.

If You Think Wall Street Bailout Is Bad, Look At The 1.5-5 TRILLION Dollar Bailout of Nuclear Industry

If you think the bailout of Wall Street, the $700 Billion dollar pork barrel bill to fund it is bad, you should begin looking into the Bailout of the Nuclear Industry under the guise of a Nuclear Renaissance. Between Nuclear 2010, the GNEP Program, guaranteed loans for some 200 new reactors that the industry wants to built, taxpayers are going to be on the hook for anywhere from $1.5 to $5 TRILLION (yes, with a T) dollars! In the mean time, to get there, they are playing Russian Roulette with human health and the environment by RUBBER STAMPING the License Renewal Applications of 104 aging, brittle reactors that could explode because of brittlization of the cores should an incident occur that exposes them to thermal shock...such as having to dump cool water into the reactor in an attempt to halt a core meltdown. I share with you an article from another one of my blogs, The Green Nuclear Butterfly, and would encourage you to visit the site.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Entergy's Doomsday Script For Indian Point

Pre Recorded Indian Point Doomsday Script

“This is the Westchester County Office of Emergency Management”

“Indian Point has suffered a catastrophic accident, the reactor cores of both IP2 and IP3 breeched.”

“Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the damage are not yet known. We will bring you more information as it becomes available, and we ask you to please stay tuned."

Half an hour later:

“We are suggesting that all citizens shelter in place.”

“You may die if you go outside.”

“Keep your family and pets inside.”

“Turn off heaters, air conditioners and any other ventilation systems.”

“Extinguish fires in fireplaces and close dampers.”

“Stay tuned to the Emergency Alert System (EAS) stations.”

“Avoid using telephones, including cell phones, to prevent overloading the system and interfering with emergency use.”

“Again, do not go outside, or you may die.”

“Please stay tuned for additional instructions.”

Half an hour later:

“You will die if you go outside.”

“Remember, there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away.”

“By leaving your houses you will be exposing yourselves to greater danger.”

If you leave your homes you will find yourself without foot, without water, without accommodation and without protection.”

“The public is told to turn off all fuel and gas supplies and to ration food because no fresh food can be expected for two weeks or longer. Water is also to be rationed for essential drinking and cooking needs.”

“People are ordered not to flush their toilets because water will be far too precious for that use.”

"Water means life.”

"Don't waste it."

Far fetched ramblings of a mad man, a fear monger? No, this script, slightly altered is very similar to one recently released by the National Archives, changed to fit the very real danger we all face if Indian Point is re-licensed, allowed to operate for another 20 years. I would encourage all Anti-Nuclear activist to google search this article on the web under both Indian Point and Entergy and click into it from there often...together we can make this the number one post when people do a Google search for either Indian Point or Entergy.

Britain planned taped messages after nuclear war

GREGORY KATZ
Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) -- The doomsday script was never used by the British Broadcasting Corp., but decades later the message remains haunting.

Speaking of Bailouts...Is It Time To STOP NUCLEAR INDUSTRY BAILOUT?

As long as America is focused in on bailouts, angry that our Government is spending hundreds of billions to bailout corporate America, this seems the opportune time to bring up the fact that George Bush, John McCain and Congress want to bail out the nuclear industry to the tune of $500 plus BILLION DOLLARS in incentives and guaranteed loans! Can we as a nation really afford to pick up the tab for a nuclear industry that cannot operate at a profit unless these companies are constantly subsidized THROUGH OUR TAXES? While you are calling up your elected officials to express your ANGER at Corporate Bailouts, you should tell them you are against Federal Funding for the building of 200 new nuclear reactors in America...not counting the guaranteed loans to the Nuclear Industry (over one trillion dollars), the DOE wants us as tax payers to pick up another $500 Billion dollars for GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Program), which amounts to America's middleclass being SADDLED with another $1.5 Trillion dollars in debt, yet recieving NO OWNERSHIP STAKES in the companies recieving this taxpayer corporate welfare!

Repuclican Convention...McCain/Palin's Pack of False Promises

This just in from Green Nuclear Butterfly...Pro Nuclear Butt Munches spread lies and filth on last night of Republican Convention.

Who Are Pro Nuclear Republicans Kidding...McCain-Palin Would be Four More Years of Bush

McCain, Sarah Palin and the PREGNANT ONE.

For shit and giggles, watched the Republican Convention last night, and got a WHOLE LOT of giggles. Who are the McCain's and Palin's trying to fool here? For starters, lets start with Palin...how many know she SMOKED POT up through at least 2006? Don't get me wrong, I think marijuana should be legalized, but for someone claiming to be a BORN AGAIN, HOLIER THAN THOU CHRISTIAN, smoking pot seems just a bit hypocritical...but then, George Bush was Pro-Life dispite rumors that have him paying for his girlfriend's abortion back in his college days.

Next we have Cindy McCain, she of the wonderful video last night about ALL THE GOOD she has done with her wealth...like the $300,000 outfit she was wearing up on stage? I am sure she SO RELATES to the average American! Found it rather odd that she mentioned the charity she started, but failed to mention the FBI investigation of her for STEALING drugs from her own charity and sneaking them (smuggling) back into the country. She also has failed to tell us what strings her Senate husband pulled to have those charges DROPPED. In short, she was not only using drugs, she was a drug addict committing FELONIES to feed her habit...talk about FAMILY VALUES.

Then we have John McCain and his own affairs...after all, he was known as a boozer and a womanizer in the Navy, which is why he never attained the military success his father did. Funny how in the video about him they mention two of his planes crashes while leaving out the other two where he just crashed for NO APPARENT REASON...could it be he'd been flying after an all night BENDER?

Of course, the biggest laugh of the night, and of the convention is the McCain/Palin Energy policy, or the lack thereof. Drilling is not the answer. Even if we started drilling tomorrow we are looking at 5-7 years before seeing anything coming out of the ground in Alaska, and close to that time frame if doing off shore drilling. Where is the HELP right now in that? McCain and Palin are calling for the building of 40 new nuclear reactors by 2030...here is a FACT...that is an unattainable goal even if you do support nuclear power (which I do not). Simply stated, McCain's energy policy is the same failed Pro Oil industry agenda that was carried out under eight years of George W. Bush. Perhaps Sarah Palin can take the turd out of her mouth long enough to explain where she intends to STORE THE WASTE from 40 new nuclear power plants, and McCain can tell us how he intends to find the qualified employees to man those 40 new plants even if he could GET THEM UP AND RUNNING.

Everywhere one looks there seems to be poor judgement, disgusting family values, and criminal activity in the McCain/Palin Republican ticket...is that the best the Republican Party and their ultra conservative, rabidly religious right wing can offer up? If it is, it is no wonder why their party is in such disarray. Don't kid yourself America...when McCain calls us his friends, you need to put your hand over your wallet, and be leary of losing more civil liberties in the name of National Security.