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Obama pleases his corporate nuclear backers, but safety troubles won’t go away

The problems all occurred within days of President Obama’s post-election press conference in which he promoted restarting the U.S. nuclear power industry. His remarks came after heavy spending by the nuclear power industry during the recent election cycle .

As Obama pushes nuclear industry’s expansion, its safety troubles mount, FACING SOUTH, By Sue Sturgis on November 8, 2010, Two nuclear power plants owned by New Orleans-based Entergy were forced to shut down over the weekend following serious operating problems, including a radioactive leak at one plant in Vermont.
Those troubling incidents come on the heels of an electrical explosion at NRG’s South Texas nuclear plant last week, and a Friday incident at Progress Energy’s Shearon Harris plant in North Carolina that caused the plant to momentarily lose cooling to the reactor core.

The problems all occurred within days of President Obama’s post-election press conference in which he promoted restarting the U.S. nuclear power industry. His remarks came after heavy spending by the nuclear power industry during the recent election cycle ………      .ISS – As Obama pushes nuclear industry’s expansion, its safety troubles mount

November 10, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear renaissance, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, reactors, uranium