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Posted on 11/21/2001 7:46:03 PM PST by Lucky2
Hillary's Nuke Safety Scheme Would Evacuate 20 Million Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001
Not content with adding thousands of airport workers to the federal payroll – and union membership – Sen. Hillary Clinton now wants even more new federal hirings to keep an eye on the nation's nuclear plants, now protected by the plant owners' security forces.
According to New York Times reporter Robert Worth, Clinton, D-N.Y., told reporters at the Indian Point nuclear facility that she would introduce legislation to make the feds responsible for nuclear plant security.
But that's not all. Clinton is also pushing for an expansion of the evacuation zone from the present 10 miles to 50 miles, putting New York City, 30 miles away, and its 8 million residents within the zone. This would require the evacuation of all 20 million people in that zone in the event of an emergency at Indian Point.
The senator did not explain how the nightmarish evacuation of the city's 8 million people plus the other 12 million people living within the 50-mile perimeter could be accomplished without creating unmanageable chaos.
She told reporters that the bill she'll co-sponsor with Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., would:
Put the feds in charge of plant security at the nation's 103 nuclear power plants.
Toughen the simulated terrorist attack exercises the feds already conduct from time to time on nuclear plants to check on their safety precautions.
Stockpile potassium iodide, which helps to prevent cancer and other diseases among people exposed to radiation.
The Times noted that Clinton failed to address any details of how the evacuation would be conducted other than to say "the direction and force of the wind" would be the major determinant of where an evacuation would be needed. According to the Times, the evacuation plan has become a sore point for many people in Westchester County who believe that it would not work in a serious accident.
I hope this isn't posted else where, I looked and didn't see it.
I can't predict how Entergy will benefit in the future, but they've had a long, corrupt relationship with the Clintons. Arkansas got a $1 billion screwing thanks to Bill Clinton and Entergy's Grand Gulf facility in Mississippi.
One thing you fail to realize--the dirty little secret in politics--is that BIG BUSINESS LOVES CERTAIN KINDS OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION. Supposed that there are ten widget manufacturers all of whom have profits 1% of gross revenues, but whose gross revenues are $10M, $15M, $25M, $30, $35M, $40M, $45M, $50M, $100M, and $150M. If the government were to impose some new regulation on widget producers, compliance of which would cost each producer $500K, how would such a regulation affect the two largest producers?
Although compliance with the regulations would cost them $500K, they would have sufficient profits to absorb that. Smaller producers, however, would be put out of business. With the smaller producers that controlled half the marketplace out of the picture, the two larger producers would have their sales increase substantially. The benefit they would gain by having their cometitors knocked out would far outweight the extra cost to them of the regulations.
If such a thing is ever proved there's a new problem: where do we stop? Shouldn't child care be federalized, too? It's for the children.
How about bus drivers? Pilots? Long haul truckers? Local police? Chemical plants? Water supplies?
I feel sorry for the last surviving private employee, having to pay everyone's salary.
YES, she is a person to fear.
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