Let's inspect the nation's nuclear power plants, Mr. President.

[Toucano]

We can use the same energy industry experts who inspect the oil rigs, coal mines, gas pipelines and refineries.

There's never been a problem with any of those!

Then we'll need industry regulators like we have for Wall Street...people who know the business INSIDE and OUT.

That's the way we do things in crazy town...er...I mean the USA!


I'm going to watch "Silkwood" now to remind me how HONEST and TRUSTWORTHY the nuclear energy industry has ALWAYS been.

[ClarkUSA]

1. "President Obama requests nuclear review, sees risk in Japan" (March 17, 2011)

Read more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x682474

[Toucano]

2. Uh huh.

Johnny on the spot!

Stand back, everyone. The nuclear energy industry trained inspectors are coming your way, ready to bite the hand that feeds them.

Watch out for the sternly worded memos and recommendations that couldn't ever be ignored...

[ClarkUSA]

3. These are facts I'm offering you. I'm not into baseless conspiracy theories.

See ya.

[Toucano]

10. Really? Where are these facts?

You link the president's statement about inspecting the plants and call that a fact?

Who is to perform these inspections?

[ClarkUSA]

11. Do you not grasp the difference between your baseless rhetoric and my facts?

<<You link the president's statement about inspecting the plants and call that a fact?>>

Yes. And it's clear you didn't bother to read the news article I linked to, otherwise you'd know the facts.

<< Who is to perform these inspections? >>

If you bothered to read the news article, you'd know. I'm not your personal assistant.

[nc4bo]

4. The question is: Inspected by who? The NRC? IAEA? lol, sorry.

Hello - doesn't sound like a brilliant idea to me.

Who can be trusted to thoroughly inspect these plants that isn't beholden to the industry itself? **looks around**

[DeSwiss]

5. So is he going to support US nuclear plant inspections....

...in the same way he supported single-payer?

- Or will it be more like he supported the return to habeus corpus, the stopping of renditions and torture, the quitting of warrantless wiretaps or the quitting of the DEA marijuana drug busts???


K&R

[nc4bo]

6. Like the smilie, so appropriate.

The thoughts I have about many of the things this Admin. has done or hasn't done would probably get me TS'd. The only thing that keeps hope alive for me is that I'm not alone for feeling this way.

[DeSwiss]

7. And.....

...the TRUTH shall set you free!

[Dems to Win]

8. Letter I sent to Obama yesterday:

Dear President Obama:

I am writing today to demand that you follow the lead of Angela Merkel and immediately shut down the 70s-era nuclear plants, as Germany is sensibly doing. No studies are needed or could possibly provide reassurances to allow them to keep operating.

President Obama, I have always opposed nuclear power and tried to vote accordingly. Though sometimes I've contributed to and voted for someone like yourself in spite of your pro-nuclear stance because I agreed with you on other issues.

Never again. I have now become a single issue anti-nuclear voter.

You have about 18 months to come to your senses and follow the lead of Angela Merkel of Germany and immediately close all pre-1980 nuclear plants, including those in California, and earn my vote.

If the only antinuclear candidate in the race is the Green, I will vote for the Green. No more choosing the lesser of the two evils between the Republicans and Democrats. Only anti-nuclear candidates will get my vote, period. No compromise.

Close all pre-1980 nuclear plants immediately, and enact a plan to close the rest in a couple of years. No other course of action meets the sanity test.

Respectfully,

[Toucano]

9. +1 n/t