[ RadSafe ] Informative Anti-Nuclear Energy newsletter

Tue Dec 4 11:35:04 CST 2007

I receive the monthly newsletter, Citizen's Watch, as you can, by request from:
 Tri-Valley CAREs, 2582 Old First St, Livermore,CA, 94551 (925)442-7148
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Citizens Against a Radioactive Environment. The name exposes purpose and ignorance.
I find more in that newletter about the nuclear project current status at LLNL (or lack thereof) 
than from a visit to LLNL or calling contacts of patients who work there.
It is run by UCBerkeley (where one of my profs was a declared Communist)
 and the management has huge funding now for "Climate Change"
- but little for national defense, as when Teller and Wood ran it.

They do NOT yet accept nuclear energy to reduce CO2 !

Howard Long

----- Original Message ----
From: John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>
To: "Bailly, Helen A" <Helen.Bailly at icp.doe.gov>; radsafe at radlab.nl
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2007 7:29:49 PM
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] "Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy"

Obivously you missed the point.  Barbara's examples of
what was in the past needs to be compared with new
license applications and the current extension of
nuclear plant operations. Of course pro-nuclear and
anti-nuclear actions are not mutually exclusive.  The
anti-nuclear efforts have been working for years.  But
have they dealt a "death blow" to nuclear power?  Who
knows, the good people of California may soon see that
having a nuclear power plant will be essential to
their continued economic growth.

By the way, life is never fair.  

--- "Bailly, Helen A" <Helen.Bailly at icp.doe.gov>
wrote:

> John, that's not very fair, you asked:
> 
>  
> 
> Do you have proof that there is an effort to
> eliminate nuclear energy?
> I see a constant nit-picking effort that is
> perceived to have influence
> beyond its real influence. (Most of the crying about
> anti-nuclear
> influence is on list like this.) I also see power
> companies recognizing
> the economic advantages of supplying energy using
> nuclear power.
> 
>  
> 
> Barbara gave you 6 examples of anti-nuke funded
> activities intended to
> eliminate nuclear energy that had an effect,
> negative in my opinion on
> nuclear energy (among other things).
> 
>  
> 
> Then you ask:
> 
>  
> 
> So, why are there many license applications for
> nuclear power plants?
> Laws can and changed...
> 
>  
> 
> That doesn't follow for me, just because there are
> efforts to eliminate
> nuclear energy doesn't mean there are efforts to
> expand and improve it
> as well.  They are not mutually exclusive. 
> Thankfully
> 
>  
> 
> Life is short - Break the rules!  Forgive quickly! 
> Kiss slowly!  Love
> truly! Laugh uncontrollably!... And never regret
> anything that made you
> smile.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of John Jacobus
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:37 AM
> To: BLHamrick at aol.com; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Do Not Read This If You
> Are Anti-Nuclear
> Energy"
> 
>  
> 
> So, why are there many license application for
> nuclear
> 
> power plants?
> 
>  
> 
> Laws can and changed.  Consider all the opposition
> to
> 
> the WIPP in New Mexico.  
> 
>  
> 
> If Californians are not willing to build nuclear
> power
> 
> plants (and I assume coal due to pollution
> concerns),
> 
> then they should be willing to pay for electrical
> 
> power from other states.  Economics and technology
> 
> are the driving forces.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> --- BLHamrick at aol.com wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> >  
> 
> > John,
> 
> >  
> 
> > Yes, I see proof that there is an effort to
> 
> > eliminate nuclear  power.  It is 
> 
> > a coordinated, reasonably well-executed effort,
> 
> > which  has had the following 
> 
> > ramifications:
> 
> >  
> 
> > 1.  In 1976 resulted in a law in California
> 
> > prohibiting the new  construction 
> 
> > of a Nuclear Power Plant until there was a
> permanent
> 
> > disposition  option for 
> 
> > spent fuel (i.e., Yucca Mountain).
> 
> > 2.  In 1992 resulted in Congress effectively
> 
> > "rescinding" the NRC's  1990 
> 
> > "Below Regulatory Concern" (BRC) Policy.
> 
> > 3.  In 1999 resulted in Governor Davis refusing to
> 
> > appeal an  adverse 
> 
> > decision (against the State) in Court to compel
> the
> 
> > federal  government to transfer 
> 
> > land for the development of an LLRW facility at
> Ward
> 
> >  Valley.
> 
> > 5. In 2002 resulted in a law that would prohibit
> any
> 
> > future development of  
> 
> > an LLRW facility at Ward Valley, and essentially
> any
> 
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -- Sir Winston Churchill

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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