Posted on 03/15/2011 8:54:35 AM PDT by Qbert
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration's most vocal advocate for nuclear power says the nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan will eventually help the United States strengthen safety at its 104 reactors.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a House panel Tuesday that Americans should have full confidence that U.S. nuclear power plants are operating safely and responsibly. But Chu also said that the administration is committed to learning from the Japanese incident.
Chu said the Energy Department has assembled a team of 34 people and sent 7,200 pounds of equipment to Japan to help monitor and assess the situation at a Japanese nuclear plant damaged by the earthquake and tsunami.
Chu said he was up early Tuesday morning evaluating atmospheric models produced by his department's national laboratories that predict where radiation could migrate.
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Lets learn to stop using 40 year old plants and build safer more efficient new ones.
Yes, that is the only good thing to come out of all this. There will be a lot learned.
Guild good old Coal Plants. How simple.
This sounds like the best solution to me...and while they are building new coal-fired power plants lets do some big-time drilling.
Let me congratulate the Obama administration on its commitment to the obvious. What inspiring leadership.
I actually think that could be used as political leverage. Let’s make nuke safer by modernizing our facilities.
Right with you,
Inherently safe designs have been on the table since 1980 that are meltdown proof even with a loss of cooling, electrical, and complete loss of physical access.
The fact that we refuse to use these designs is a travesty.
As the Mayor of Chicago once said or was attributed to him: “Don’t let a good crisis go to waste”. This will follow the 0bama administration’s ban on offshore drilling following the oil rig disaster last year. If it furthers their idiotic green agenda, they will find a way to ban or limit nuclear power growth, which has been limited since “The China Syndrome” movie from 1979.
Instead, what the US should be doing is drilling for oil, mining for coal and adding updated nuclear plants outside of tsunami prone areas of coastline.
Lip service only? Show us the money (new power plant plans)!
Learn what? That shit happens?
You know— it wouldn’t surprise me. But whatever of his base remains would disintegrate— no oil, no coal, no nuclear. That would leave solar. How long before he’d ban solar cells because of their toxic ingredients?
The administration approved a loan guarantee for two new reactors. They are in a bind because they still need nuclear power for their green standard:
Congressman? Malarky of Taxachusetts wants to hold up license renewals while he “studies” the “problem”.
Chu has learned from the Japanese experience, and will recommend that the President outlaw electricity.
The Japanese plants held up well, surviving one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history.
It was the tsunami that caused the current problems.
Moral: do NOT build nuclear plants on the seashore. If these plants had been on high ground, they would be producing electricity today.
Thanks. But I won’t hold my breath. I wouldn’t survive the time needed.
No NEW nuclear power plants will be built, or started, while obama is in office. Just one more plank in the “Destroy America” tour that is the obama administration.
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