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Best Smoking Gun Ever – Former Senator Tim Wirth Giving Natural Gas Industry Legislative Pep Talk

ByRod Adams

…s out the coal industry specifically for its careful positioning in Waxman-Markey, but there is no doubt that the audience knows that nuclear energy already has a 20% share of that market and is poised to grow it quickly in a carbon constrained world – unless they take effective action. During the question and answer session, Wirth is even more clear about the need for the natural gas industry to fight for provisions in the climate change legislat…

Durango Herald Thinks Senators McCain And Udal Have Nuclear Positions That Are Politically Irreconcilable – I Disagree

ByRod Adams

…he believes his bill will result in growth in nuclear energy production. (Markey is another story, but he is not quite as pragmatic.) However, I do not believe that any logical senator will agree to pass a bill that does so little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as the Waxman-Markey bill does while calling it a climate change bill. There is a good reason for principled opposition to accepting the emissions credit giveaways to coal interests th…

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Gregory Jaczko – Example of Public Hazard of Political Appointments

ByRod Adams

…any of the articles have mentioned that he used to work for Representative Markey and others have mentioned that he also worked for Senator Harry Reid. What most articles fail to highlight is that Jaczko has ONLY worked for those two avowed critics of nuclear energy. Here is his complete professional resume at the time that he was put on the commission as part of a political maneuver to convince Senator Reid to remove a hold on several unrelated j…

Another hurdle that Jaczko is erecting in front of the Nuclear Renaissance

ByRod Adams

…key’s district. And add in the TMI issues that both UCS and Representative Markey worked on years ago, it is hard to dispute the ties between Markey and the UCS stretch back decades. Therefore, it shouldn’t be a great surprise to see Mr. Jaczko speaking the same language as the UCS. It is very disappointing for the current leader of the NRC to use the same language but not a surprise considering those long-term connections. The one question about…

NRC Commissioners support staff analysis on spent fuel storage

ByRod Adams

…fety. (Emphasis added.) A number of politicians, including Senators Boxer, Markey, and Sanders, and professional intervenor organizations, including the UCS, were disappointed by the 4-1 vote. The vote brought back memories of a pattern that arose at the end of the Jaczko era. The Chairman, personally selected and pushed forward by the Senate Majority Leader based on a history of predictable political positions, most of which are associated with u…

Improvements in spent fuel pool modeling

ByRod Adams

…fear, uncertainty and doubt. Politicians like Senators Boxer, Sanders and Markey should be encouraged to stop bringing up the issue in an attempt to force nuclear power plant operators to spend money on unnecessary movements of used nuclear fuel into expensive dry casks. Affected citizens should remind their representatives via cards, phone calls and letters that resources wasted on trivial issues that have nothing to do with improved economics,…

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NRC FY2016 budget hearing – Sen Alexander and Sen Feinstein

ByRod Adams

…hearing was a refreshing experience compared to watching Sen Boxer and Sen Markey grill the commissioners. As usual, Senator Alexander was strongly supportive of nuclear energy and reminded the commissioners that their job was to maintain safety, but not to strangle the valuable industry by byzantine, expensive rules. He told them to diligently review their current practices and he expressed keen interest in the program that Chairman Burns describ…

Nuclear plant issues in Japan are the least of their worries

ByRod Adams

…ent professional fear mongers like Harvey Wasserman and Congressman Edward Markey will do their best to use the Japanese tsunami as another arrow in their quiver of antinuclear propaganda, the aftermath will show that all of the hype and fear will signify nothing. There may well be some damage at the plant, but the damage will be contained as a result of the defense in depth strategy that is enabled in nuclear power plants because of the exceeding…

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Dr. Greg Jaczko finally resigned – good news for truth seekers

ByRod Adams

…ppropriated for that review. It boggled my mind to read how Congressman Ed Markey and Senator Harry Reid, Jaczko’s political patrons, attempted to spin the story as one in which their boy was being bullied by an overly powerful industry that did not want to follow his unique vision of actions required to ensure nuclear safety. The reality is that Jaczko has no background in nuclear fission technology and has no idea what actions are needed to impr…

Who fights energy abundance? Why?

ByRod Adams

…Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for public bashing by Boxer, Markey and their “independent” tagalong – Bernie Sanders. Tom Carper, Ben Cardin, Amy Klobuchar, and Mary Landrieu (depending on the results of the December runoff) are all examples of Democrats that might work with pronuclear Republicans to start the process of removing some of the many strings that have been tied over the past 45 years to keep the nuclear Gulliver under c…

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NRC Professional Staff Brief – “Very Good News” Unit 4 Pool Never Dry

ByRod Adams

…e other job after college – he was a science advisor for Representative Ed Markey, one of the most consistently antinuclear congressmen in the US House of Representatives. That may be circumstantial evidence, but taken in combination with his actions during the past 2 years, it seems pretty clear to me that Jaczko is acting as a carefully placed sleeper agent with a mission of destroying a vital part of the American energy infrastructure. Chairman…

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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) supports nuclear because it reduces air pollution

ByRod Adams

…7-4. Here is the short list of people voting Nay. Hirono (D-HI) Lee (R-UT) Markey (D-MA) Merkley (D-OR) Regular readers might wonder about some of the senators who have been featured here for their antinuclear antics. Nine senators did not vote. Unfortunately, the non-voters included all of the presidential candidates that are currently serving as senators. Boxer (D-CA) Cruz (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Klobuchar (D-MN) Mikulski (D-MD) Nelson (D-FL) Paul…

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