{"id":598,"date":"2012-08-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/ed-asner-against-horse-and-buggy-turkey-point-nuclear-boondoggle.html"},"modified":"2012-08-04T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T12:00:00","slug":"ed-asner-against-horse-and-buggy-turkey-point-nuclear-boondoggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/ed-asner-against-horse-and-buggy-turkey-point-nuclear-boondoggle.html","title":{"rendered":"Ed Asner against horse-and-buggy Turkey Point nuclear boondoggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7705952306\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Nuclear subsidy\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8164\/7705952306_7ed5f2cbfc_m.jpg\" alt=\"Nuclear subsidy\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=BzwZIBmLhT4\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce52970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce52970b-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a> CWIP rate hikes for power nobody&#8217;s getting yet: it&#8217;s not just for <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/10\/calculate-how-much-vogtle-is-costing-you-mandy-hancock.html\"> nukes for Georgia Power<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/08\/cwip-for-sos-kemper-coal-plant-in-mississippi.html\"> Coal for Mississippi Power<\/a>, it&#8217;s for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=BzwZIBmLhT4\"> Florida Power and Light&#8217;s Turkey Point nuke boondoggle!<\/a> Let Ed Asner explain.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=BzwZIBmLhT4\"> the video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BzwZIBmLhT4\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<a title=\"FPL CWIP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7705440362\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce5a970b\"  src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce5a970b-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"FPL CWIP\" \/><\/a>\nEd Asner asks why not put that $35 billion to better use:<\/p>\n<blockquote>Why would anyone not want to work on renewable safe and much less expensive solar energy, in the sunshine state?!<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or in the Empire State of the South, for that matter. You know, Georgia, the state where FPL\n\n<!--more-->\nowns most of 1 of 4 of the coal burners at Plant Scherer, the nation&#8217;s dirtiest coal plant, and exports the power to Florida. Georgia, where Georgia Power and the Southern Company continue to <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/georgia-power-peddling-old-disinformation-about-solar-power.html\"> work hard to prevent us from using solar power.<\/a><a title=\"Thyroid cancer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7705441240\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"  class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce5e970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce5e970b-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Thyroid cancer\" \/><\/a> Maybe we should change that. Like the video says, contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/state.php\"> our state elected officials<\/a>. Or maybe <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/08\/incumbents-win-ga-psc-primary-face-general-election-challengers.html\"> elect some new ones!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nRates of thyroid cancer are already elevated near Turkey Point&#8217;s stored nuclear waste, maybe related to those\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/07\/fukushima-children-358-thyroid-cysts-08-in-control-group.html\">thyroid cysts<\/a> in 0.8% of\ni Japanese school children in 2001 and in 36% this year of children near Fukushima.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Hurricanes before\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7705442534\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce67970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce67970b-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Hurricanes before\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Hurricanes after\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7705443554\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce70970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce70970b-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Hurricanes after\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAsner asked whether engineers for Fukushima assured the public that it was safe.\nYes, <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/07\/fukushima-children-358-thyroid-cysts-08-in-control-group.html\">in 2001 TEPCO reassured everyone that tsunamis were not a problem for Fukushima.<\/a>\nIn 2012, Southern Company CEO Thomas A. Fanning reassured us that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/05\/exit-strategy-for-when-this-big-nuclear-bet-goes-bad-john-s-quarterman-so-2012-05-23.html\">\nPlant Vogtle is a hundred miles inland and not in an earthquake zone.<\/a>\nHe didn&#8217;t mention the same was true of Chernobyl, and he didn&#8217;t mention hurricanes.\nHas anybody seen any hurricanes near Savannah?\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Water\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7705444634\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01676907ce78970b\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8158\/7705444634_5bf3ea7c32_m.jpg\"\nalt=\"Water\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7705951460\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Solar installation\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8168\/7705951460_f49c7110fd_m.jpg\" alt=\"Solar installation\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7705950100\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Maybe solar was better\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8150\/7705950100_67e0285531_m.jpg\" alt=\"Maybe solar was better\"><\/a>\nNuclear and coal and biomass <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/07\/nuclear-and-coal-burning-water-solar-doesnt.html\">burn water<\/a>; solar and wind do not.\n<p>-jsq<\/p>\n<p>PS: Owed to Seth Gunning and the <a href=\"http:\/\/florida.sierraclub.org\/\">Florida Sierra Club.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CWIP rate hikes for power nobody&#8217;s getting yet: it&#8217;s not just for nukes for Georgia Power and Coal for Mississippi Power, it&#8217;s for Florida Power and Light&#8217;s Turkey Point nuke boondoggle! 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