European Expert: U.S. Policymakers Are 'As Wrong As They Can Be' About The French...

[bananas]

Source: Reuters

European Expert: U.S. Policymakers Are 'As Wrong As They Can Be' About The
French Experience With Nuclear Power

Marignac Says "Far From Being a Model, France Should be a Powerful Cautionary
Tale for the U.S. about the Folly of a Headlong Rush into More Nuclear Power"

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. policy makers are in the
grips of "dangerous and costly illusions" if they think that France is a model
showing how nuclear power could be implemented aggressively in the United
States, according to Yves Marignac, a leading international consultant on
nuclear energy issues and the executive director of the energy information
agency WISE-Paris.

In visits this week with state and federal officials, Marignac is debunking
the myth of the so-called "French nuclear model" that is being touted as a
blueprint for the revival of the embattled nuclear power industry in the U.S.
His visit comes at a particular key time, as the U.S. Senate considers
additional subsidies to the nuclear industry in its version of pending climate
legislation and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seeks public comment on
weakening the rules for loan-guarantee bailouts of proposed new reactors.

Yves Marignac said: "I am at a loss to understand how the United States could
be so far off the mark in its understanding of the French experience with
nuclear power. The so-called 'success story' of the French nuclear program,
which is being promoted so assiduously by the U.S. nuclear industry, is a
complete disconnect with the stark reality of the 50-year history of rising
costs, steadily worsening delays, technological dead-ends, failed industrial
challenges and planning mistakes. The United States could make few worse
mistakes than embracing France's sorry nuclear legacy. If American
policymakers are going to weigh the example of France, they need to get the
facts instead of settling for the fantasy being sold to them by the US nuclear
industry."

In his remarks today, Marignac noted the following key problems:

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS148422+15-Sep-2009+PRN20090915

[tabatha]

1. Does the right-wing never stop distorting facts?

[lovuian]

4. Lies Lies and more Lies

and we pay we pay and pay

[DCKit]

2. "...loan-guarantee bailouts...". All I needed to see.

Wall St./Bankers (and their government enablers) looking for the next big scam. Set it up to fail, get rich in the process.

[AzNick]

3. Yet 80% and exporting some of it... to Germany!

So hmm...

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. This is not LBN. It's a press release by an anti-nuclear group. n/t

[bananas]

6. It is LBN

Press releases are LBN, for example:
"AFL-CIO Convention Endorses Single-Payer"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4061206

edit to add another example:
"U.S. Citizen Arraigned on Charges of International Sex Tourism"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4051594

edit to add another example:
"FDA Study: Lead Levels in Lipstick Much Higher Than Previously Reported"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4041777

edit to add another example:
"USW Condemns Latest in Wave of Colombian Assassinations"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4033770

[Dr.Phool]

7. It says "Reuters" to me.

That makes it news.

In Florida, they've already added a 30% surcharge to our electric bills for "pre-construction costs" for 2 nuclear plants. Isn't that the shareholders responsibility, instead of the ratepayers?

Fuck them, we're going to fight it tooth and nail.

Coming very soon....

www.citizensforratepayerrights.com
www.citizensforratepayerrights.org
www.progressenergysucks.org

They'll be online soon!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. It clearly says PRNewswire in the header.

It's right there in the OP. The fact that Reuters' website has a press release feed does not make it a Reuters article.

[bhikkhu]

8. Nuclear with a plan sounds ok

But more and more it sounds like there is no plan, and you just get a massive and endless capital expense along with your electricity.

A "plan" would be, to me, build the thing according to a proven design, safely and permanently store the waste, use some of the power to create an alternative (such as a solar plant), and decommission the plant on schedule and on budget.