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Breaking : Obama seeks safety review of US nuclear plants
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Posted on 03/17/2011 1:23:41 PM PDT by Scythian

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is calling for a comprehensive safety review at the 104 nuclear reactors in the U.S. in the wake of the Japanese disaster.

The president is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to examine nuclear plants to ensure they can withstand earthquakes and other disasters. Obama said lessons can be learned from the unfolding nuclear disaster caused by last week's earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

In televised remarks Thursday, The president said U.S. officials do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the West Coast of the continental U.S., Hawaii or Alaska. He repeated the statement for emphasis.

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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoenergy; energy; japanearthquake; jimmyqaeda2; nrc; nuclear; nuclearpower; review
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To: rockvillem

When was the last time someone died from the American Nuclear Power Generating industry?

How many lives has it saved?

How is The Eternal Bamnation going to recharge all of the VOLTS?

How are they going to refine the PREMIUM GRADE gasoline it takes to run the freaking VOLTS?

When is America going to say ENOUGH?


101 posted on 03/17/2011 3:28:33 PM PDT by Shady (Our quest is to rebuild the United States of America as it was founded by the Founders!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Shut down domestic oil drilling.
Shut down domestic nuclear power.
Shut down coal mining.

When Obama gets done his change will make us hopeless.


102 posted on 03/17/2011 3:32:12 PM PDT by Aroostook25
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To: Scythian

To keep things in perspective: Japan has 55 operating nuclear power plants. They just experienced a Richter 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami. Of those 55 plants, one (ONE) is in trouble. Not to minimize the seriousness of the problems at Fukushima Daiichi, but that is a pretty d—n good safety record.


103 posted on 03/17/2011 3:32:56 PM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
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To: Scythian

We need only to look at whose fault it is that most of our nuclear plants are 40 years old!!!! HELLO!!! Just as with everything else, the government screwed up again!


104 posted on 03/17/2011 3:33:42 PM PDT by blondee123 (Japan in MAJOR CRISIS & ZERO PARTIES ON! IMPEACH HIM!)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Post Three Mile Island, no industry has been as strongly regulated as the US commercial nuclear facilities. This is knee jerk, and if Barry goes ‘Merkel’ and REMOVES 20% of the US grid supply...welcome to the 1800s.

ABSOLUTELY! People, get informed before you go patting Barry on the back for this!

105 posted on 03/17/2011 3:35:43 PM PDT by blondee123 (Japan in MAJOR CRISIS & ZERO PARTIES ON! IMPEACH HIM!)
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To: Joe 6-pack
"What do you think the NRC does all year...(?)" If they're like most government agencies, a good bit of their time is spent surfing porn.

Working in the nuclear industry, I can tell you the NRC is on our backs constantly, I mean daily! It's a good thing though!

106 posted on 03/17/2011 3:39:13 PM PDT by blondee123 (Japan in MAJOR CRISIS & ZERO PARTIES ON! IMPEACH HIM!)
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To: blondee123

Upthread I was told ‘rolling blackouts wouldn’t bode well for Obama’s re-election...’ Yet we have conservatives patting BHO on the back, all but giving FR ‘shout outs’ to him that we NEED to do redundant studies, at a co$t of no doubt millions. Its wasteful and NOT needed (and I know this as DH also works in the nuke industry).


107 posted on 03/17/2011 3:44:38 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Newt Gingrich, he would rather sit on a couch with Nancy Pelosi, than stand with Sarah Palin.)
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To: blondee123

obama is not concerned about upgrades and facts,just how can he find a excuse to close nuclear power plants down.


108 posted on 03/17/2011 3:45:47 PM PDT by omegadawn (qualified)
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To: Scythian

He shut down Gulf drilling. Now he wants to find an excuse to end nuke power in the US, to leave us totally dependent upon his foreign masters.


109 posted on 03/17/2011 3:47:41 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: Scythian

Give me a break, the nuke industry is THE MOST REGULATED energy sector in the U.S. Those guys can’t take a crap without having some regulated procedure. Who is going to perform the inspections? The same people that are there all the time.

All this will amount to is additional overtime for government employees.


110 posted on 03/17/2011 3:53:38 PM PDT by mmanager
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To: Scythian

Obama-Come-Lately


111 posted on 03/17/2011 3:55:06 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Aroostook25
Yup.

No nukes
No coal
No oil
No gas

That should produce a robust America when 90 percent of our energy production is done away with. The left in this country are going to kill us all.

Meanwhile, a look at China's Nuclear power plant starts in just the last 3 years:


112 posted on 03/17/2011 3:55:11 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their Moonbats)
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To: Carry_Okie

Exactly.

In Utah,
Kaiparowits = world’s largest supply of clean burn coal. Locked up for Ryadi/Indonesian campaign contributions to Clinton.

San Rafael = uranium. Gone. Now a recreational area (don’t get yellow cake on yer birkenstocks.

Green River formation = oil shale. Wait for it... it’s coming.

Tar Sands... ditto.

Now shale and tar sands are being “reviewed”

You can bet the outhouse that a stake is being prepared to be driven into natural gas’s shale frac heart. Offshore is dead. ANWR? pipe dream.

Nothing in politics is by accident. We have been systematically denied energy independence. The resources and the engineering are there. Our industrial and economic death has been planned for decades. It’s nearly complete.


113 posted on 03/17/2011 3:58:11 PM PDT by glock rocks (I am Dyslexis of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.)
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To: The KG9 Kid
Entirely appropriate course of action.

Entirely stupid course of action. Regulations are already in place for design and operation. You can not regulate a change in reality -we got the designs we got...

This is nothing more than taking advantage of an opportunity to grow government -spend more money, and DO NOTHING!!!!

114 posted on 03/17/2011 3:59:44 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: blondee123

Relax. Halfrican’s only trying to make NRC more TSAish. You know - body cavity searches of all power company employees, etc. It’s for your own safety.


115 posted on 03/17/2011 4:02:08 PM PDT by glock rocks (I am Dyslexis of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

When was the last time the U.S. built a nuclear power plant?

The left has enslaved us to the whims of despotic regimes for our energy needs all the while making America weaker and weaker. It’s called the enemy within. Treason.


116 posted on 03/17/2011 4:05:37 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their Moonbats)
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To: Scythian

What an extreme embarrassment this idiot pretender to the presidency is. But, as always, my thanks to each and every idiot who voted for him.


117 posted on 03/17/2011 4:06:12 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
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To: Scythian
The president said U.S. officials do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the West Coast of the continental U.S., Hawaii or Alaska. He repeated the statement for emphasis.

Someone needs to clue these idiots in the media in some facts.

Radiation requires a source -either a radioactive source or something contaminated by a radioactive source. Each and every item contaminated has a half-life -many measured in hours...

Will the US see radiation -not unless we see contaminated particles that have not decayed...

Americans are in more danger from radon gas (that also sets of radiation detectors) in their basements than they are in danger from Japan...

118 posted on 03/17/2011 4:08:17 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Scythian

Why not just do this in places prone to 9.0 earthquakes and tsunamis? Why everywhere?


119 posted on 03/17/2011 4:13:55 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

“Entirely appropriate course of action.”

I disagree, I think the NRC has plenty of inspections and reviews now. A nuke plant is one of the most regulated and inspected places on Earth. What will be discovered by another review?

I suspect he’ll recommend shutting a few down “temporarily” for “safety concerns” “for the children”.

He felt the need to Do Something because of Japan. He feels better now.


120 posted on 03/17/2011 4:17:05 PM PDT by DBrow
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