Well. At least someone finally gets it…Somewhat anyhow. I’m not an expert by any means, but to me it has been crystal clear for decades that these nuclear plants are deadly toxic structures. We have very little control of them! Especially when they’re built on fault lines and/or in coastal areas subject to tsunami.
Catatrophic events are becoming less “rare” and a few more nuclear meltdowns on this planet could make human life rare or nonexistant!
RISK OF GIANT AMERICAN EARTHQUAKE OFF WEST COAST GOES UP
“From the team’s findings, he concludes that during the past 10,000 years — the farthest back that the core samples allow him to peer …
19 [Earthquakes] by Goldfinger’s count — were megaquakes that rattled the entire region, producing magnitude-9 tremblers…”
“The current nuclear reactor design was chosen – not because it was safe – but because it worked on navy submarines. And governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for 50 years.
BBC reporter Greg Palast reports – based on a first-hand interview of a senior engineer for the corporation which built the Fukushima nuclear plants, and a review of engineers’ field diaries – that the engineers who built the Fukushima nuclear plants knew their design would fail in an earthquake:
The plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earthquake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could “completely and utterly fail” during an earthquake.
That quote is about the Shoreham, New York, power station…”
As part of his ongoing investigation into U.S. nuclear safety since the Fukushima meltdowns, Rep. Edward J. Markey’s report details how four Commissioners at the NRC colluded to prevent and then delay the work of the NRC Near-Term Task Force on Fukushima, the entity tasked with making recommendations for improvement to NRC regulations and processes after the Fukushima meltdowns, the worst nuclear disaster in history.
Documents also show open hostility on the part of the four Commissioners toward efforts of NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko to fully and quickly implement the recommendations of the Task Force, despite efforts on the part of the Chairman to keep the other four NRC Commissioners fully informed regarding the Japanese emergency.
Major findings in the new report include:
-Four NRC Commissioners attempted to delay and otherwise impede the creation of the NRC Near-Term Task Force on Fukushima;
-Four NRC Commissioners conspired, with each other and with senior NRC staff, to delay the release of and alter the NRC Near-Term Task Force report on Fukushima;
-The other NRC Commissioners attempted to slow down or otherwise impede the adoption of the safety recommendations made by the NRC Near-Term Task Force on Fukushima;
-NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko kept the other four NRC Commissioners fully informed regarding the Japanese emergency, despite claims to the contrary made by these Commissioners; and
-The consideration of the Fukushima safety upgrades is not the only safety-related issue that the other NRC Commissioners have opposed.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) lowers safety standards in order to keep old nuclear power plants, such as San Onofre, operating.
Instead of their mission of “protecting people and the environment”, their priority appears to be “protecting nuclear industry profits”. Here are reports that substantiate this:
Well. At least someone finally gets it…Somewhat anyhow. I’m not an expert by any means, but to me it has been crystal clear for decades that these nuclear plants are deadly toxic structures. We have very little control of them! Especially when they’re built on fault lines and/or in coastal areas subject to tsunami.
Catatrophic events are becoming less “rare” and a few more nuclear meltdowns on this planet could make human life rare or nonexistant!
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100531/full/news.2010.270.html
RISK OF GIANT AMERICAN EARTHQUAKE OFF WEST COAST GOES UP
“From the team’s findings, he concludes that during the past 10,000 years — the farthest back that the core samples allow him to peer …
19 [Earthquakes] by Goldfinger’s count — were megaquakes that rattled the entire region, producing magnitude-9 tremblers…”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/san-onofre-nuclear-plant-can-withstand-quakestsunamis-officials-say.html
San Onofre nuclear plant can withstand up to 7.0 quake, is protected by a 25-foot tsunami wall, Edison says.
Engineers Knew Fukushima Might Be Unsafe, But Covered It Up … And Now the Extreme Vulnerability of NEW U.S. Plants Is Being Covered Up
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/engineers-knew-fukushima-might-be-unsafe-but-covered-it-up-and-now-the-extreme-vulnerabilty-of-new-u-s-plants-is-being-covered-up.html
“The current nuclear reactor design was chosen – not because it was safe – but because it worked on navy submarines. And governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for 50 years.
BBC reporter Greg Palast reports – based on a first-hand interview of a senior engineer for the corporation which built the Fukushima nuclear plants, and a review of engineers’ field diaries – that the engineers who built the Fukushima nuclear plants knew their design would fail in an earthquake:
The plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earthquake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could “completely and utterly fail” during an earthquake.
That quote is about the Shoreham, New York, power station…”
http://markey.house.gov/search/node/regulatory%20meltdown
As part of his ongoing investigation into U.S. nuclear safety since the Fukushima meltdowns, Rep. Edward J. Markey’s report details how four Commissioners at the NRC colluded to prevent and then delay the work of the NRC Near-Term Task Force on Fukushima, the entity tasked with making recommendations for improvement to NRC regulations and processes after the Fukushima meltdowns, the worst nuclear disaster in history.
Documents also show open hostility on the part of the four Commissioners toward efforts of NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko to fully and quickly implement the recommendations of the Task Force, despite efforts on the part of the Chairman to keep the other four NRC Commissioners fully informed regarding the Japanese emergency.
Major findings in the new report include:
-Four NRC Commissioners attempted to delay and otherwise impede the creation of the NRC Near-Term Task Force on Fukushima;
-Four NRC Commissioners conspired, with each other and with senior NRC staff, to delay the release of and alter the NRC Near-Term Task Force report on Fukushima;
-The other NRC Commissioners attempted to slow down or otherwise impede the adoption of the safety recommendations made by the NRC Near-Term Task Force on Fukushima;
-NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko kept the other four NRC Commissioners fully informed regarding the Japanese emergency, despite claims to the contrary made by these Commissioners; and
-The consideration of the Fukushima safety upgrades is not the only safety-related issue that the other NRC Commissioners have opposed.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) lowers safety standards in order to keep old nuclear power plants, such as San Onofre, operating.
Instead of their mission of “protecting people and the environment”, their priority appears to be “protecting nuclear industry profits”. Here are reports that substantiate this:
http://sanonofresafety.org/nrc-problems/