Posted on 09/30/2008 5:43:09 AM PDT by Invisigoth
There is a joke of no known authorship that says, “No good deed shall go unpunished.” So, alas, it has been with nuclear power. The gift was given to the world by the storied Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, which wrote and promoted legislation that gave the public unique access to the licensing procedure for new nuclear plants.
The idea was that this openness would encourage the public to take a greater interest in nuclear science and the civilian uses of nuclear. No other licensing procedure was so open or, as it turned out, so subject to distortion and abuse.
The net effect of the licensing regime established for nuclear was that any member of the public, without technical background and without any identifiable stake-holding in the proposed plant, could have standing and start the process of delaying a technical decision with lay arguments.
Coming out of the turbulence of the 1960s, and the sense in that decade that experts were not to be trusted, nuclear licensing was Heaven-sent for a new breed of angry and articulate activists, whom Irving Kristol dubbed “The New Class.” They were the anti-institutionalists who felt they were betrayed by the institutions.
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the silly and false primase movie; "China Syndrom"
NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard (aka, selfishness and misunderstanding)
the silly and false premise movie; "China Syndrome"
NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard (aka, selfishness and misunderstanding)
Is there ANY issue that Jane Fonda has not been on the wrong side of?
How many people are dead or destitute thanks to that silly woman...?
She peaked at Barbarella
or is it peeked?
Well nuclear power certainly hasn’t “languished” in France!
And “if” America had starting building nuclear power plants back in the 80’s like France had; we wouldn’t be in the royal energy mess we’re in today!
Why is she not in prison for sedition treason etc...?
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