Obama Supports Iranian Nuclear Power, Not Ours

Forbes ^ | 7/1/2009 | Rich Karlgaard

[bruinbirdman]

Last April President Barack Obama said his Administration would "support Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy with rigorous inspections." In June Obama voiced his support for Iran's civilian nuclear program once more, telling the BBC: "Without going into specifics, what I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations."

Here's an idea. Obama should support America's nuclear industry with equal clarity.

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The "complete cessation" of new nuclear plant construction came as a shock to the nuclear physicists and engineers at EPRI. After all, the radiation was almost completely contained at Three Mile Island, just as the plant's design had intended. The Kemeny report concluded that there would be "no detectable" health effects to the general population, and, since there weren't any worker deaths, as industrial accidents go this was minor.

But logic didn't matter. In an irony impossible for EPRI's Ph.D.s to fathom, Jane Fonda, the actress starring in The China Syndrome, won the argument. In one day our civilian nuclear program morphed from building new plants to extending the life of existing plants from 30 years to 50. All of those EPRI Ph.D.s became, in essence, glorified maintenance men.

France never stopped building plants and now derives nearly 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. The U.S. did stop (with 104 plants in operation today) and gets only some 20% of its electricity from nuclear power. We should be at 50% or more--and could easily have reached that milestone. Shame on you, Jane Fonda.

If President Obama keeps supporting Iran's nuclear program with more vigor than our own, our children may one day say: "Shame on you, too, Barack Obama."

[bareford101]

come on people...... where is the surprise?? the obamanation is a communist... and does very little to hide it....

[Diogenesis]

Most Americans are coming rapidly to know that he doesn't care about America FIRST.

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[peeps36]

He's either a gullible fool, a traitor or both. There's no way Iran will comply with rigorous inspections once they obtain nuclear weapons. They will threaten their neighbors and try to take over the entire region through nuclear blackmail. This is the outcome we will get under Berry Hussein Omoron.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

Both.

[Salvation]

"Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists."
~~George W. Bush