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Trust the radiation-lying document-forging nuclear industry to build new nukes?

TEPCO

that lied about deadly levels of radiation at Fukushima


is part of the industry

Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning brags about
as producing

“nuclear power as a clean, safe, affordable solution for this
world’s energy future”.

SO and Georgia Power are building two new nukes at Plant Vogtle on the
Savannah River, including

parts by Korea’s document-forging Doosan.
Forging as in lying, as in what the Korean press is now calling

the Korean nuclear mafia of power companies, vendors, and testers.
Stateside
U.S. NRC
is refusing to supply Congress with safety documents.
And when I asked NRC if they were going to take account of Doosan
in their

webinar about foreign ownership of U.S. nuclear reactors
NRC staff told me Vogtle was an unbuilt reactor and they were only dealing
with existing power reactors.
Which is very strange, considering their Commission Direction
explicitly refers to unbuilt and not-even-permitted Calvert Cliffs 3
in its subject.



And considering Doosan’s online map of its customers includes
not only six not built yet,

Vogtle 3,4, Summer 2,3,
Duke Energy’s Levy County 1,2 (since

cancelled),
but also nine operating nuclear power reactors,
Entergy’s

Waterford 3 (west of New Orleans; remember the dark Super Bowl?),
TVA’s

Sequoyah 1 and 2 near Chattanooga and

Watts Bar 1 near Knoxville
(all
within 500 miles of here) plus
Entergy’s
Indian Point 2 and 3 near New York City and
Arizona Public Service’s

Palo Verde 1,2,3 near Phoenix, Arizona.
With Vogtle 2 and 3, that’s fifteen reactors in the U.S.
supplied by document-forging Doosan.
OK, 13 now that

Levy County 1 and 2 won’t be built.

How about we say the same soon about Vogtle 3 and 4?
That they won’t be built?
Probably Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers could say that.
GA PSC, Georgia legislature, or SO CEO Tom Fanning could say that.
We’re listening.

-jsq

Last NRC call about foreign ownership of U.S. nuclear reactors: now until noon today

Call in this morning or send written comments.
Here are the

previous materials (this URL works; the one in the NRC PR is broken).
See also
NRC’s PR
and
Commission Direction.
The nuclear industry has been

pushing for changes for a year now;
see
more posts.
Rather than relaxing rules on foreign ownership of operating reactors,
how about stop accepting foreign nuke parts from the likes of

document-forging Doosan, which supplies Plant Vogtle among a dozen
or so other U.S. nukes?

Try joining the
webinar from a Linux system and you get:

This system isn’t supported


Not supported

Joining a session from this computer’s OS or web browser isn’t supported.


Please view the GoToWebinar system requirements.


Questions?


Contact Global Customer Support or tweet to us @gotowebinar.

They support Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android, but not Linux.
Seriously?
And NRC is asking technical questions?


NRC PR 7 August 2013,

NRC Webinar Aug. 21 to Discuss Regulations On Foreign Ownership of U.S. Reactors, Continue reading →

Palisades nuke down 11 times since 2011

Decrepit nuke leaked radioactive water into Lake Michigan
in May 2013, and “The same tank sprang a leak in 2012.”
That reactor has been down so many times the reporter couldn’t count
them all.


When will we realize what Korea and now Japan has:
the nuclear industry colludes to hide its mistakes from the public,
and the public needs to do something about it.

David N. Goodman wrote for AP 6 May 2013,

Nuclear Regulatory Commission: ‘Very slightly radioactive water’ enters Lake Michigan,

Early Sunday morning, the tank was ruled inoperable and the nuclear power plant began powering down. This is

reportedly the ninth time that the facility has been shut down since 2011.


Nope, ten times; count ’em:

>

Palisades nuke down 11 times since 2011

And it stayed down from May 6th to June 17th 2013.
Plus who knows what it’s leaking now that they didn’t bother to take it down for? Continue reading →

The Korean nuclear mafia: power companies, vendors, and testers


Document-forging Doosan was just the tip of the Korean nuclear corruption iceberg.

It’s different stateside, right?

San Onofre 2 and 3
Oh, wait:

U.S. NRC is refusing to supply Congress with safety documents
related to the closing of San Onofre.
But Plant Vogtle is much safer, right?
Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning told us so.
Of course, he also told us Kemper Coal would come in on budget, and now

SO is writing off $611 million after taxes.
But
that bad concrete pour, the misplaced reactor vessel, the leaking tritium;
those are all flukes, right?
Meanwhile, solar panels don’t leak tritium, and if you misplace one,
you only lose money, not risk lives.

By Choe Sang-Hun in NY Times yesterday,

Scandal in South Korea Over Nuclear Revelations,


Korean nuclear reactor
Weeks of revelations about the close ties between South Korea’s
nuclear power companies, their suppliers and testing companies have
led the prime minister to liken the industry to a mafia.

The scandal started after an anonymous tip in April prompted an
official investigation. Prosecutors have indicted some officials at
a testing company on charges of faking safety tests on parts for the
plants. Some officials at the state-financed company that designs
nuclear power plants were also indicted on charges of taking bribes
from testing company officials in return for accepting those
substandard parts.

Worse yet, Continue reading →

If missing docs sunk San Onofre, will Doosan document-forging sink Vogtle and Summer?

If documents can doom the San Onofre nuke and maybe the NRC Chair,
how about forged Doosan documents and Plant Vogtle?

Matthew L. Wald wrote yesterday for The Caucus,

Tussle Over Nuclear Plant Documents May Sink N.R.C. Appointment,

The botched repair job that doomed a California nuclear plant has
created a political whirlpool that may be close to claiming another
victim: the chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The issue is no longer the plant itself, San Onofre, which the
majority owner, Southern California Edison, announced on June 7 it
would permanently close. The problem now is that Senator Barbara
Boxer, Democrat of California, who is chairwoman of the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee and a longtime critic of
nuclear power, has been seeking documents from the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission about Continue reading →

NRC to change nuke foreign ownership so EDF can fire up Calvert Cliffs?



The NRC “upheld” license denial for the Calvert Cliffs nuke
with its fingers crossed, the very same day
directing staff to look into changing the requirement
by which it just ruled.
A requirement against majority ownership by a foreign firm,
in this case


Électricité de France (EDF),
whose flagship Cattenom reactor

caught on fire a week ago with smoke seen from miles away;
two people died at Cattenom in February.
You can comment on NRC’s proposed changes to let EDF

fire up Calvert Cliffs

online or in person June 19th in Maryland.



The same day

the NRC upheld denial of a license, 11 March 2013,

the same Commission

“directed the staff to provide a fresh assessment on issues relating to FOCD including recommendations on any proposed modifications to guidance or practice on FOCD that may be warranted.”

And the issue with Calvert Cliffs was that very same
“foreign ownership, control, or domination (FOCD) of commercial nuclear power plants.”

This explains why Continue reading →

More new nukes to stop: Vogtle, Summer, and 15 more

Although

TVA’s Bellefonte nuke will never come up,
others are still being built, including TVA’s own Watts Bar,
plus 19 more.


Document-forging Doosan-supplied
Vogtle 2 and 3 in Georgia and Summer 2 and 3 in South Carolina
are

the only four actually already issued combined licences (COL)
to build and operate.


But 15 other
proposed new reactors are

“Under Review”, and all the ones in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina are within 500 miles of here: Continue reading →