Reply #67: random and scattered

[buddhamama]

i had hoped to be able to work on the nuke power issue this afternoon but had to work so this certainly is not concrete or necessarily coherent :-)

So the question i've kept asking myself is this, Why nuclear power
or more accurately Why after all these yrs is it being pushed? One is answer is Bechtel.

researching the energy bill(s) i keep coming back to one
thing, Nuclear power and Bechtel.

it's not surprising how/why 'they'(admin and congress) would
push for nuke power now, not sure how the Ohio Davis-Besse
plant will affect this push...desperation on the part of the
American public.
the selling on nuke power as a means to get away from
dependence on Oil,etc,etc. but,the NRC has had a hard time
convincing the public that nuke power is safer and; they
failed to measure up to their 'promise' of electricity to
cheap to measure.

but there is something far more sinister going on here,imho.

1)Mox power is being implemented. Mox nuke power is a mix of
plutonium and uranium. hah, this helps the government though to get rid of
its stockpiled weapons--The Moscow Treaty signed in 2001. add to this the weakening of the Price-Anderson
Act and this is major. Chernobyl has cost over $350 billion to 'clean' up but the P-A Act limits liability to $8 billion. That would change limited liability would become even more limited if the Senate's version were to pass.
nuke power came after nuclear weapons but it made sense and saved money. what better could you get your nuke weapons???

there is something else too, that troubles me. Water.(and inspite
of what you may have heard, releases happen everyday, into the
air and the water.)

the Bill would allow for In Situ Leach mining for uranium.
what's that you say. huh read this
http://www.sea-us.org.au/isl/islsuks.html
or
http://www.sea-us.org.au/pdfs/isl/islsummary.html

and while this is being 'discussed' Bush has rolling back Clean Air and Water rules.

i'll add more later.