US Nuclear Regulatory Commission resisting new safety standards
It’s been very important to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow plants to be relicensed and not to put requirements in or to enforce existing requirements that would shut down nuclear plants for expensive upgrades or repairs.”
NRC resistant to improving nuclear plant safety standards,Press TV, 25 Aug 11, The director of Los Alamos Study Group says getting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to pass new safety standards is like ‘walking through molasses’.
Greg Mello told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Wednesday that even though Congressman Edward Markey “has done a terrific job in trying to improve the record of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and get some new safety standards passed … there’s a lot of resistance from some of the members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”
The head of the citizen-led nuclear disarmament group believes “over the years, the safety standards at U.S. nuclear power plants have been gradually eroded as the plants have aged. It’s been very important to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow plants to be relicensed and not to put requirements in or to enforce existing requirements that would shut down nuclear plants for expensive upgrades or repairs.”
Mello pointed out that most of America’s nuclear power plants are old and “in a weaker position to withstand events of all kinds” including natural hazards like earthquakes.
He also pointed out that “the possibility of multiple problems at the reactors is always a concern.”
Following Tuesday’s earthquake that caused the automatic shutdown of a nuclear power plant just a few miles from the temblor’s epicenter, Representative Markey (D-Mass.), Congress’ leading voice for nuclear safety, called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to implement stronger safety standards to prevent a nuclear accident. .. http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/195696.html
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So far, the nuclear lobby has bought the hearts and minds of governments, but has not won the hearts and minds of the people. In a propaganda war, as in all wars, truth is the first victim. But there are many journalists and others out there who will counter the lies of the nuclear industry.
Today, across the world, the nuclear industry is unpopular. It is particularly unpopular with women, and with indigenous peoples. It’s unpopular with those who have suffered from it, such as the veterans who attended nuclear bomb tests, and the ‘downwinders’ who suffered from those same tests. It’s unpopular with families afflicted with cancer from uranium mining. It’s unpopular with Ukrainians and Japanese whose lives have been disrupted by nuclear disasters.
he nuclear industry is also unpopular higher up in the social food chain. Many academics, economists, scientists, and doctors are concerned about the dangers of all kinds that are intrinsic to the nuclear industry.
So who does like the nuclear industry? – careerists in the nuclear industry, careerists in politics, academia, careerists in the Murdoch media, highly paid uranium workers, communities that exist only because of mining, – (the latter can’t really afford not to support it).
The nuclear industry, following in the footsteps of the tobacco and asbestos industries will now blanket its servant mass media, and any other possible avenues – such as education, and politics, – with propaganda.
The main focus of the nuclear lobby’s propaganda? This will now be CLIMATE ACTION .
They’re spending an awful lot of money on this. Despite this huge investment in deception, the nuclear lobby is not winning.
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