Re: [Marxism] Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures (Union of Concerned Scientists reverses position on nuclear)

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On 11/9/18 9:47 AM, DW via Marxism wrote:

Ah...a link from 2012 that says zip about the UCS change of position. Ok


I don't care about the UCS change of position. Any defense of nuclear 
power that is based on a prerequisite of the NRC guarantee its safety is 
not worth the paper it is written on even if it UCS stationery.


Just look who Trump is naming as NRC Commissioners:

Caputo is a senior adviser to Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of 
the Environment and Public Works Committee, and previously served under 
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), the past chairman of the panel that oversees 
the NRC.


She previously worked for the House Energy and Commerce Committee and 
Exelon Corp., a large electric utility that operates more nuclear plants 
than any other company. Her term would expire in 2021 because she would 
replace a commissioner who left early.


https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/334663-trump-to-nominate-three-to-nuclear-commission

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The state of Nevada is trying to keep a federal regulator from being 
involved in decisions on a long-stalled nuclear waste repository at 
Yucca Mountain.


The Las Vegas Sun reports the state filed its appeal late last month 
after Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner David Wright, who was 
sworn in roughly two months ago, denied a request that he recuse himself.


Nevada argues that Wright is biased and allowing him to participate in 
Yucca-related decisions would violate Nevada's due process rights.


Nevada points to several actions and statements by Wright as evidence 
that he's biased, including his role in establishing a group the state 
says lobbies for the repository.


https://foxreno.com/news/local/nevada-files-appeal-against-nuclear-regulatory-commissioner
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Re: [Marxism] Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures (Union of Concerned Scientists reverses position on nuclear)

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Ah...a link from 2012 that says zip about the UCS change of position. Ok


David
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Re: [Marxism] Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures (Union of Concerned Scientists reverses position on nuclear)

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On 11/8/18 4:38 PM, DW via Marxism wrote:


Full:
https://blog.ucsusa.org/ken-kimmell/ucs-nuclear-power-global-warming-report


"Consistent with our longstanding advocacy for nuclear safety, subsidies 
should be considered only for plants that at a minimum earn the highest 
safety rating from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."


COUNTERPUNCH, MAY 28, 2012
Meltdown at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
by KARL GROSSMAN

The resignation last week of the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission is another demonstration of the bankrupt basis of the NRC. 
Gregory Jaczko repeatedly called for the NRC to apply “lessons learned” 
from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan.  And, for 
that, the nuclear industry—quite successfully—went after him fiercely.


The New York Times in an editorial over the weekend said that President 
Obama’s choice to replace Jaczko, Allison McFarlane, “will need to be as 
independent and aggressive as Dr. Jaczko.”


That misses the institutional point.

The NRC was created in 1974 when Congress abolished the U.S. Atomic 
Energy Commission after deciding that the AEC’s dual missions of 
promoting and at the same time regulating nuclear power were deemed a 
conflict of interest. The AEC was replaced by the NRC which was to 
regulate nuclear power, and a Department of Energy was later formed to 
advocate for it.


However, the same extreme pro-nuclear culture of the AEC continued on at 
the NRC. It has partnered with the DOE in promoting nuclear power.


full: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/28/meltdown-at-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission/

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Some times people wake up and realize their long held positions, when faced
with evidence to the contrary, were wrong.
--David Walters
Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures

A new UCS report, *The Nuclear Power Dilemma: Declining Profits, Plant
Closures, and the Threat of Rising Carbon Emissions
*, indicates that more than 22
percent of total US nuclear capacity is unprofitable or scheduled to close
over the next five to 10 years. The report also indicates that without new
policies, the electricity generated by these and other marginally economic
nuclear plants is likely to be replaced in large part with natural
gas-fired generation (although this will vary from plant to plant). If this
occurs, cumulative carbon emissions in the electric sector could increase
by up to 6 percent between 2018 and 2035.

Full:
https://blog.ucsusa.org/ken-kimmell/ucs-nuclear-power-global-warming-report
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