Cheney's Plan to Combat Global Warming: Nuclear Power

[jpak]

http://www.pubrecord.org/index.php?view=article&catid=1%3Anationworld&id=108%3Acheneys-plan-to-combat-global-warming-nuclear-power&option=com_content&Itemid=8

While Dick Cheney has been talking tough about Iran's alleged nuclear activities, the vice president has been quietly pursuing nuclear ambitions of his own.

For more than two years, Cheney and a relatively unknown administration official, Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell, have been regularly visiting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure agency officials rewrite regulatory policies and bypass public hearings in order to streamline the licensing process for energy companies that have filed applications to build new nuclear power reactors, as well as applications for new nuclear facilities that are expected to be filed by other companies in the months ahead, longtime NRC officials said.

Before being sworn in as deputy energy secretary in March 2005, Sell, a lawyer whose roots extend to Bush's home state of Texas, was a White House lobbyist working on energy issues. He had also participated in secret meetings with Cheney's Energy Task Force.

In April, Sell and Cheney had both met with NRC officials to sign off on the final regulatory policies related to new nuclear reactors. Following the meeting, Sell had alerted a group of energy companies they could begin to take advantage of the faster application process, NRC officials said.

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[sam sarrha]

1. ONLY ABOUT 20 YRS OF URANIUM..so plutonium breader reactors will have to be used

[sabbat hunter]

4. link to show we only have

20 years of uranium?

Plus with reprocessing we can greatly extend the life of fuel rods.

[sam sarrha]

6. probably much less...>>Link>>

http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/01/a-shortage-of-u.html

[sabbat hunter]

8. that website

refers to only research that they themselves did (and not peer reviewed to boot). Additionally they are pushing an agenda/way for them to make money with the tradeable energy quotas.

I do not consider that website a reliable source of information given those two factors.

[sam sarrha]

9. can anything be ...or has anything ever been proved to satisfy you ,wait, i forgot i dont giv a shit

[sabbat hunter]

10. yes

research that is independently done (and if possible peer reviewed)

The website you linked only refers to their own research and no independent studies, research. To be considered legitimate you need that independent research, otherwise it is garbage.

[sam sarrha]

2. i always felt that the cold war was a scheme to produce fuel for reactors at peak oil.. 30 yrs ago,

at taxpayers expence

[enough]

3. One more massive transfer of weath to his favorite corporations.

[NV Whino]

5. Let's send him a one way ticket to Chernoble.

[losthills]

7. Please don't use the word "Cheney" in this forum.

I hurts certain people's feelings and illuminates their hypocrisy....