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.
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.
Obama-Come-Lately
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.
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...
Why not just do this in places prone to 9.0 earthquakes and tsunamis? Why everywhere?
Wow. I am so comforted that President Know Nothing about Anything Scientific is assuring US that we’re ok. I may ask my daughter to steal some of her science teacher’s potassium iodide. Just in case.
“examine nuclear plants to ensure they can withstand earthquakes and other disasters. “
This is done during the design process. There are scads of standards that must be followed.
IEEE_323 requires testing of all the components of a plant, right down to lightbulbs and toilets, to assure they will survive a worst-case quake at end-of-life for that component. This is why a simple industrial control switch costs $98 if put on a CNC machine but $2245 if put in a nuke control panel.
There are also many standards for the design of the building itself, and more standards for the piping, and separate requirements for valves and pumps and backup batteries.
So what he’s ordering has already been done!
This may cause some of the models to be re-run with “new seismic data”. One way the greens would try to stop a plant from being built was to wait until the structural and piping seismic design was signed off, then “find” a new fault or “find” a new motion for an existing fault (academia can provide this), forcing a re-design. Do this four times and your $300 million plant goes over a billion, and yo have not even broken ground.
His action on this was aimed at people who do not know how plants are designed, and licensed.
And I fully expect at least one plant to be shut down “temporarily”.
Obama is in a corner now. He is gradually permitting nuclear power at a rate slow enough not to raise the wackos.
That plan is now toast........ except if he provides a new report rehashing the old news.
Nucs in their present form are ok.
The new nucs are safe
Ready for the California style rolling blackouts?
Starting to sound like the oil spill disaster. Shut everything down and “necessarily skyrocket” the energy prices.
Their scrutiny for safety is so closely monitored any further inspection will have more inspectors on site than workers!
They are too safe now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I live 12 miles from San Onofre and want the safety bullshit to be reduced!
Just wants a reason to shut ‘em down.
We have 104 reactors, but how many plants? I figured we had maybe a dozen.
Despite these unparalleled events, there have been no deaths directly attributed to the failures at the Nuclear Power Plants themselves.
Meanwhile, 14 people were killed in a New York Casino Bus crash last week. Perhaps Obama should initiate a comprehensive review of Buses and Casinos.
It would probably save more lives in the long run than his chicken little witch hunt against the Nuclear Industry in this country.
Death toll from tsunami, 16,000+
Death toll from radiation, 0.
Obviously, we must place a moratorium of development of nuclear energy and stick a few hundred bureaucrats up the operators backside.