Frieda Berryhill Writes: Are The Risks And Safety Issues Really On The Table For Nuclear Power "Renaissance"?

With Yucca Mountain dead what next?
Obama's nuclear power policy: a study in contradictions?
Obama wants to triple public financing for new nuclear power plants, even as he nixes funds for storing commercial radioactive waste. The policy may be calculated to win votes for climate change legislation, but critics say it's not 'coherent' and carries new security risks.


- With no place for the waste to go this is what dry cask storage looks like. A terrorist’s dream. `104 sites to chose from.
- Time to clean up before dreaming of a “nuclear renaissance”
- No more Nuking the taxpayers








Percent by which President Obama's latest budget proposal would increase taxpayer-backed loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors
- Current price estimate for a new reactor: $10 billion

- Estimated amount taxpayers and ratepayers paid for those abandoned plants: $40 billion

- Amount ratepayers paid in today's dollars in cost overruns for the plants that were built: over $200 billion

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Meanwhile, (The Sunbeam, Salem County, NJ) Bill Gallo reports ~ PSEG Nuclear seeks extension from NRC over security upgrades at Artificial Island

LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TWP. - PSEG Nuclear is seeking an extension from federal regulators on the deadline for completing new security upgrades at its Artificial Island nuclear generating complex here.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the operation of the nation's nuclear power plants, is reviewing the request.
...“Sure, give them 20 more years of mediocrity.. .......Sure hope terrorists didn't read this.” Said Norm Cohen of UNPLUG Salem.

This means that these plants are not safe from terrorist attack, Can they be made safe? How? See video:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2009/06/05/meserve.making.terror.easy.cnn

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