[ RadSafe ] Obama makes NO nuclear compromise to pass clean energy bill

[garyi at trinityphysics.com]

That wasn't Obama doing the endorsing, it was the energy secretary.  There is a huge 
difference between sending a surrogate and saying something yourself.  And if you read what 
was said, even the secretary promised....nothing.  Closing Yucca, imho, speaks louder than 
this "endorsement by association".  I've looked, and I can't find a single thing that this 
administration has done to advance nuclear power, despite the overwhelming emphasis it 
puts on clean energy

If I were president, and I really did "...want to recapture the lead on industrial nuclear power"  
I would actually say so myself.  Further, I would be pushing congress to make legislative 
changes to accomplish that.  Nothing like that is happening.  No, in the context of the political 
situation, Chu's statements are really meant to entice more support for climate legislation, not 
nuclear power.  Its not even a carrot - its a suggestion of a carrot, a shimmering global 
warming mirage of a carrot.  Kind of like the EPA's threat of "command and control" 
regulation of CO2 is a stick (but the stick is real).

Even if the big 0 really does like nuclear power, his core political base is simply too green for 
him to risk allowing real progress on it.

-Gary Isenhower


On 9 Dec 2009 at 16:56, Perle, Sandy wrote:

From:           	"Perle, Sandy" <SPerle at mirion.com>

Franz,

Here is "one" example, not just by words but by actual endorsement.

Regards,

Sandy
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