[NukeNet] NRC represents nuclear industry

[MJ]

NRC represents nuclear industry
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 06/30/06
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/OPINION/606300303/1032

A legal precedent was recently set when residents living within 50 miles
of a California nuclear power plant, fearing a potential attack,
instituted legal action against additional storage of waste on site. Three
judges of the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously disagreed with the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's finding that "an attack was remote and
speculative and therefore unnecessary to consider."

Again and again, we see the NRC representing the nuclear industry rather
than protecting the public. The NRC's primary focus is to allow the plants
to continue operating, with scarce thought to potential problems such as
terrorism, aging equipment failure and environmental degradation.

Meanwhile, the Bush administration and Congress are promoting the
construction of a new round of nuclear plants and, in order to expedite
them, claim that the industry is overregulated.

Perhaps it is time to get rid of this Congress, forge a sane energy bill
not written by the boiler industry, and replace the NRC with a consortium
from the National Academy of Scientists.

If you agree, check out your congressman's voting record on this matter,
then in November vote accordingly. We are the people who put them there.
They need to know we can get rid of them.

Thomas J. Cervasio

CHAIRMAN

ENVIROWATCH

BERKELEY

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"If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago": Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military 
service": Albert Einstein

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have 
acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph": Haile Selassie 

Molly Johnson 
6290 Hawk Ridge Place
San Miguel, CA  93451

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