The Potential Future of Nuclear Power

From: "Mike Mulligan" <steamshovel2002@y...> Date: Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:40 pm Subject: Re: VY fire loop service life


You mark my words –when the first spade slices into the ground forthe next generation of nuclear plants –the whole way the public and media looks at the industry will change.

Will the NRC and industry be ready for this onslaught -absolutely not. They have been protected from the harsh realities of the truth as seen by the outsiders. All of these political credit card dinners, all of the special Washington relationships, all of the insider monies and all of the monies for the NEI -all the other special interest has done nothing but weaken the industry –its beenpolitical welfare for the nuclear industry and their political friends. So when the first spade slices into the dirt –this whole horrible weak structure is going to collapse. It's going to expose all of the corrupt political interaction of the regulator and the nuclear industry, from decades back to current.

You guys think you got political protection on licensing of the new plants; what a con game of gigantic proportions to the financers of the next plants. It is nothing but an illusion like Enron here–it going to evaporate with the repeated incompetence as seen in theoperational problems with the first generation plants, with thismagnifying the media's need to see more problems in the newconstruction.

We are going to dump new regulation on the industry and it's going to make your head spin –we are going to have the politician's bytheir necks and we won't let go –they are going to be fighting for their political lives through a blizzard of corruption issues. Your competitors are going to superimpose the problems of the old fleet onto this new generation even before they begin operating –the stupid public won't be able to understand the difference.

The public is going to utterly lose faith in you people before the main disconnects gets closed for the first time –as this becomes apparent you will have to restrict even more information from the public-with this pissing off the public and media even more. You see, the public will lose faith in our politico's and politician'sability to manage nuclear technology and the nuclear industry, maybefor decades.

It is going to be a national tragedy of historic proportions -the death of your dreams is going to slip right before your fingers. It's going to be an embarrassment of national proportion –the world going to ask why doesn't America have the ability of managing these projects, as the rest of the world does. It is going to be anenormous national embarrassment.

What a joke with the Bush administration, it's absolutely telegraphing political weakness as seen by the politicians; it shows how tenuous the politician's trust of the public with nuclear power. Bush puts all his nuclear power plant cards on the table only afterhe knows he can't get voted into office again –what a horrible signof political and public weakness with the nuclear industry. For the politicians nuclear power is truly radiactive.

You understand what I am saying the technology might be there –but bureaucracy across the board is extremely brittle and sitting on the edge of failure! It won't be a technical failure, it will be another political and bureaucratic failure -it's so sad.

mike mulligan
Hinsdale, NH