Entirely appropriate course of action.
As long as he doesn’t mandate a shutdown until the review is completed.
“Entirely appropriate course of action.”
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Because the Communist Administration and its army of bureaucrats CERTAINLY knows more about nuke safety than the utility companies and their engineers who are running these facilities.
Appropriate IF his goal is to assure the plants are safe,
but I’d bet anything the goal is to find an excuse to shut them down.
Yes, unless he also recommends powering them down during the review!
LOL! Sure, we'll spend a couple million and have a bunch of inspectors crawling over nuke plants for the next two years. They will conclude that the plants are up to spec for the design they were intended for. We already have a dozen government agencies that signed off on the original designs. The problem is when you get a plant designed to handle a 8.7 earthquake and 5 meter tsunami hit with a 9.1 earthquake and a 10 meter tsunami. This is pure political theater.
“Entirely appropriate course of action”
IF he were an objective, rational human being!
However!
Since he’s agenda driven, you will find he will use the results (no matter their content), to justify halting further development, and likely shutting down existing facilities.
This is the anti-American, anti-captialist, anti-industry, population control, President we’re talking about!
there is nothing wrong with checking our nuclear plants , of course this will probay be used to close down plants and stop making any more. not good for America
“Entirely appropriate course of action.”
Agreed.
ANY president would have and should have done this.
I don’t like him any more than any one else here — and probably considerably less so than many — but anyone in this forum who wants to be taken seriously regarding the future of nuclear power would expect no less than a thorough review of safety systems and procedures.
This is ESPECIALLY so for those plants here in the USA that are near fault lines. It’s time for backups on the backups.
Yeah, like we're going to have 9.0 earthquakes and massive tsunamis in states from New Hampshire to Florida, nearly all of which have nuclear power plants. Oh, we especially gotta watch out for those tsunamis in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, and Arizona dontcha know.
Taking a break now to roll my eyes and laugh uproariously.
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!!!!
“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.
“Entirely appropriate course of action.”
Why? Are you expecting a 9.1 earthquake?
...IF its purpose is simply to ensure that our nuclear facilities are as failsafe as possible, rather than to help fulfill an ideological agenda.
Insuring nuke plant safety is one of the government's roles... and therefore has been his responsability since he took office. In theory, recent events in Japan shouldn't change any of that.
Except this is the Obama administration. It'll be used to regulate nuclear power out of existence if they can swing it.