Published: February 9th, 2012 at 1:57 pm ET
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Title: Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion approved 4-1
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Author: By Kristi E. Swartz
Date: February 9, 2012
The first newly approved nuclear reactors in 33 years will be built in Georgia. [...]
Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve the project. NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, who has supported the project throughout the process, dissented, saying he was concerned that the reactors would not meet certain safety requirements put in place since Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi accident. [...]
The last newly permitted nuclear reactors were approved in 1978, the year before a partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania helped grind the industry to a halt. Increased regulatory scrutiny, skyrocketing construction costs and rising interest rates all made the reactors too costly to build.
The project also received $8.3 billion in taxpayer-backed federal loan guarantees. [...]
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Title: NRC Clears Southern Co. New Nuclear Reactor
Source: Fox Business
Date: February 9, 2012
[...] NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko was the lone dissenting vote against issuing the license. He favored a requirement that “safety enhancements” as a result of meltdowns last year at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant be made at the Vogtle plant.
“I cannot support issuing this license as if Fukushima had never happened,” Jaczko said at an NRC meeting Thursday.
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Published: February 9th, 2012 at 1:57 pm ET
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Excellent – at least a reasonable thought process for a change.
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FIGHT BREWING, dont ya think? Let the Fireworks FLY!!!!
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Yeah you’re right too. But I have to applaud any appearance of common sense regarding these beasts. I’m not as much against them as I am against them not knowing what needs to be known to do so safely and respectfully. There is no short-term gain if we lose our long-term life prospects.
I know, preaching to the choir. And yes, if they cannot or WILL NOT learn to master their craft safely then I do agree with your SHUT THEM ALL DOWN.
This utility can be the death of us all.
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I don’t trust that guy for one second.
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We need to learn that we can afford the 8 billion construction aid. They control the rates, so we can be sure the investors will make money. It is the socialized costs of the risk of accident which we cannot afford. Indeed, we have spent 40 years without coming up with a viable storage for spent fuel, or a budget to take care of it for the generations from now on who will be responsible for maintaining it. Remember, you can’t walk away from a bankrupt nuclear industry.
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Sorry Anthony, not yet. Jaczko may have voted no, but the others voted yes, and it looks like they’ll piledrive ahead. The real answer should have been “Hell, no, and I’ll use my position to fight every one of you in any way I can to prevent this travesty.” But Jaczko, while he has power, does not seem to have the courage to do much more than vote and feebly protest. Make no mistake, the pro-nuke forces are ably and clearly winning this fight at nearly every level. The long fight continues.
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Darn it – I know you’re right!
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The pro nukes are losing on every front, and they know it…
List Of Countries/Nations Closing Down ALL Nuclear Power Plants; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/list-of-countries-closing-down-all.html
Don't give them the benefit of thinking about the illusion that they are winning. They are LOSING on all fronts.. people have turned against nuclear power.
It is only on the 1% levels, where the money and temporary political power matters, that they are 'winning' battles.
They have LOST THE WAR. It is over, done, finished.
The tide has turned.
More renewable KWH's are being installed globally than nuclear power.
This will accelerate.
Do not lose heart. Do not give up. You are on the WINNING SIDE.
Even worst case, if they manage to blow up the whole planet, we know who wins, and it is not them and the dark forces they side with.
Stay on the winning team, stay positive and stay in your heart.
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He needs to like wake up completely and join with Greenpeace and other anti-nuke organizations for power to fight the nuclear beast. That is if he actually wants to protect the public. Apparently, he has some soul left that he didn’t sell off. Now, he just needs to break the programming and stand up for himself like you were saying.
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And that’s why they want Jaczko out of the NRC…
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Q&A Video by Mochizuki
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/02/qa/#.TzQY9I_aHmc.twitter
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If Jaczko had truly been as meek as you say there would never have been a coup against him by the nuke industry and their inside people on the NRC. I oppose nukes, period, and while Jaczko is not outright anti-nuke I do recognize that he has been willing to go against the industry when they resist safety improvements. That is pretty brave given the history of people who have had careers ruined or far worse for opposing the nuke industry.
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Jaczko is a sick and twisted ghoul. This is all politics. He controls the radiation information release from the US gov’t (none).
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You are right Bobby1!
One nice, seemingly CARING sentence and no vote,…and most are ready to hop in bed with the dude! All an act! He’s like O’Bummer,…snakeoil salesman!
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Laughing at the thought of people being irradiated from this disaster is not brave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnfGusuy_bE
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I agree I thought at the time that he should be removed just for how callus and craven he appeared in that scene.
Point to his control of the radiation info and the approval of new nukes in America wouldn’t even be possible if they hadnt suppressed the contamination from Fukushima after an improbable but predicatable massive natural disaster. Last year America has seen huge tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and now with a solar maximum at the end of the year and its possibility of knocking out the grid for an extended period of time; point to the need to shut down all nuclear sites and remove the threat they pose not add more nuke plants.
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LetThem, I’ve watched that video twice and I am quite sure that the two men were laughing over their shared reluctance to be the one to answer the question, and at their attempts to each get the other to answer. I don’t think the laughter had anything at all to do with the facts of the question asked, and I think that to pretend to think that it did, simply because that would have been a great anecdote to base false outrage upon, would be very dishonest and disingenuous. We have so many real complaints, proven facts, and actual situations to be outraged about, and I believe the whole argument is tainted by the inclusion of false statements, simulated outrage, and fictional events.
However else Jaczko may or may not have sinned, I have to think he’s innocent of this one.
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I have no doubt it’s a nervous laugh, followed by an answer based upon his agency’s definition of “know”…around October…when FOIA says they “knew” March 11, and still knows and still won’t release the data.
http://enformable.com/2011/09/april-6th-2011-japan-just-said-ther-was-a-zirc-fire-in-unit-4-sfp-did-we-know-this-depends-what-is-meant-by-know/
http://enenews.com/top-25-nrcs-internal-documents-from-fukushima-made-public-by-foia-request-from-enformable-com
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Well, if you have no doubt that it was a nervous laugh, why did you say “Laughing at the thought of people being irradiated from this disaster is not brave.”? That’s what I mean when I say that the whole movement is discredited when arguments that are false are used. Lord knows there are so many true arguments to make, we do not have to resort to disingenuous hysteria.
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You must have one of those new dictionaries.
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You uses the word immediate to often and appears to have no idea what he is talking about re Fukushima.
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I can’t help but think that when he appeared to be laughing, it was a nervous laugh, like when one is caught off-guard and doesn’t know quite how to respond.
Kudos to the Chairman for going against the grain.
Finally, the fog has partially lifted off this suicidal slide into mass extinction.
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Alice and Sandman plus one a piece. Theres seems a plethora of information coming out at us and it seems we need to keep the lines open and not closed. I’m trying.
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Me too.
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..oohhh what a comfortable position..the confidence man…
..a No vote… and the crowd cheers.
..here is what the NRC is learning from Fukushima
http://www.nrc.gov/japan/japan-meeting-briefing.html
..sounds great on paper.
..does it reflect the current condition of Fukushima?
..the NRC are paid shills..approvals will go through with or without Jaczko..and he knows it.
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Time for USA folks to hit the streets…
Placard:
No Nukes!
Jacko (tick)
NRC (cross)
(and sadly) Obama (cross)
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this person has a track record of good ideas
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sounds to me like Jaczko is trying to do the right thing – hence why they tried to destroy him awhile back.
That’s a huge stand for a guy like him to take.
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Especially true when you consider JUST HOW CAPTIVE the NRC is to the nuclear industry!
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Is this perhaps the dems’ (Jaczko) way to float a trial balloon to see if there is any interest in it as an election issue?
The public reaction (if any) may be worth watching.
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I try to look at this ..politics aside..he is not telling the truth about the condition of Fukushima….simple as that….
What the NRC does about the rest.. rather moot point..
This is the game changer…
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Safety changes? Huh?
What safety changes will WORK when all power shuts off for MONTHS, and the 400 nuclear power plants are left to melt down, blow up and cause a life exctinction event?
http://youtu.be/GjgDhbkY8vs?t=4m
National Academy of Sciences and several other federal government studies suggest that this extreme solar activity and emissions may result in complete blackouts for years in some areas of the nation.
Moreover, there may also be disruption of power supply for years, or even decades, as geomagnetic currents attracted by the storm could debilitate the transformers.”
So how do we keep all 400-1000 nuclear power plants and their associated spent fuel pools globally from melting down and blowing up, after the power has been out for days, weeks and/or months?
The next climax of solar storms is going to happen in late 2012, according to this reporter.
Some really neat video and close ups of the sun doing what it does… http://youtu.be/l2RMnmjQynM
NASA has revised their prediction for solar maximum to now occur around mid-May of 2013. sources:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/next-solarstorm.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Ehe77wrV0&feature=related
Solar SuperStorm 1859 — It could happen again
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/solar-cycle/solar-superstorm-1859-it-can-happen…
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10mar_stormwarning/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/01apr_deepsolarmini…
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/29may_noaaprediction/
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Now, does someone want to xplain to this silly old farmer who does not know anything about nuclear energy, how the Carrington Effect will NOT affect nuclear power plants GLOBALLY?
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Dr. Leif Svalgaard, an astrophysicist at Stanford, predicts a Carrington event in the next solar cycle, a few years from now.
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Hi AGreenRoad
Maybe they don’t believe that a Carrington Event will ever happen??
Maybe they will believe it when it happens, and they are caught up in many radiation disasters.
Personally, I don’t know for sure if or when a Carrington Event will happen, but I don’t want Nuclear Power around if it does.
There are safer ways to get energy, and this is what every Country should be tapping into.
I don’t know what it will take to end Nuclear Power, when everyone has seen the dangers it causes to our life line here, our environment.
NO MORE NUCLEAR POWER
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I like this Jacko guy. Seems honest.
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Jacko wants to be paid more.
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I just want more NRC people to vote NO.
Get with a new program of moving forward, into a safer energy for all of us.
Be progressive, ingenious, and environmentally conscious.
Work towards a safer world
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@WSP..that’s it exactly..
The NRC is not learning the lessons of Fukushima..by writing up safety upgrades…(completely ineffectual)
Fukushima shows… nuclear power must end….
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Hi Heart of the Rose
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Maybe it’s time for new entrepreneurs to start new large safe energy corporations that people can tap into? Putting Nuclear business out of business, sounds good to me.
Can’t believe the NRC voted yes, guess who they work for.
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@WSP…Hi there..my best to you and yours as well.
If Jaczko..is so disturbed by the findings of the NRC..he should resign…his leadership is ineffectual,evidently.
The NRC is covering up ..Fukushima…the rest is just spin.
The world needs clean energy..hopefully we think of something..the nuclear industry needs to be shut down…right now…
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If Jakczo or however it’s spelled, is a good and honest man, what is he doing working in a top position at one of the most corrupt and dangerous (and on-the-take) institutions in the world?
Organized crime does not promote good and honest men.
It’s bad for business.
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Seems like that old conscience is pretty slow in rousing itself from its torpor… Hyper-active, it ain’t.
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People in high places doesn’t mean they are good and honest, but I will take his No to Nuclear Power and I thank him for that.
“At this time”, I want anyone on the NRC who votes NO to Nuclear Power.
One battle at a time, ending Nuclear Power is one big battle and we need all the No’s it can get.
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Correction:
we need all the No’s “WE” can get.
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Thank you, Gregory Jaczko!
And to the other four, you’re pouring money down a rat hole. Those reactors will never open. This industry is going to start paying its fallout bills.
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Nuclear Damage Control
What if you were promoting an industry that had the potential to kill and injure enormous numbers of people as well as contaminate large areas of land for tens of thousands of years? What if this industry created vast stockpiles of deadly waste but nevertheless required massive amounts of public funding to keep it going? My guess is that you might want to hide that information.
http://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-damage-control-2012-2
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MARKEY TO NRC: VOGTLE REACTOR VOTE IS AN ABDICATION OF DUTY
02/10/2012
“Today, the NRC abdicated its duty to protect public health and safety, just to make construction faster and cheaper for the nuclear industry,” said Rep. Markey, top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee and a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “While four NRC Commissioners continue to slow-walk the implementation of the Fukushima safety upgrades, today they have fast-tracked the construction of two nuclear reactors whose shield building could “shatter like a glass cup’ if impacted by an earthquake or other natural or man-made impact. Rather than ushering in the so-called nuclear renaissance, today’s vote demonstrates that the NRC is still stuck in the nuclear safety Dark Ages.”
http://www.power-eng.com/news/2012/02/10/markey-to-nrc-vogtle-reactor-vote-is-an-abdication-of-duty.html
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Here, here to Markey!
A man of some Honor after all!
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Since I am not on the internet very often and don’t (never will no matter what lottery I may win) own a TV, I rely on the sparse radio and newspaper coverage for news. Living in Canada I heard nothing on the major talk news channel CKNW except at 1 am today when George Noorey of Coast to Coast announced it. Seems like nothing nuclear is reported here in Vancouver. Is Jaczko honourable or saving his ass?
I don’t know but I am sure that lots and lots of Americans and Canadians are oblivious to this historic story. First nuke plant in over forty years should be a big story worth mentioning.
Its still a good thing that he voted no and gave good reasons that might make one or two people think. Also mentioning Fukushima.
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Damn it! What’s it gonna take! They need to stop building these things!
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