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NEW CONTENT MOVED TO MIDDLEBORO REVIEW 2

Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Monday, March 18, 2013

Nuclear Makes No Sense!

In the shadow of the local publicity Pilgrim Nuclear is gathering, the articles below appeared, highlighting the power, risks and short-sighted folly of Nuclear Energy.

We already know wind and solar are much cheaper than Nuclear and don't present the inherent risks.



Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant 16 Mar 2013 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, equivalent to 7,400 times the state-set limit deemed safe for human consumption. The greenling measuring 38 cm in length and weighing 564 grams was caught near a water intake of the four reactor units in the power station’s port on Feb. 21 during the utility’s operation to remove fish from the port. Tepco has installed a net on the sea floor of the port exit in Fukushima Prefecture to make it hard for fish living near the sediments of contaminated soil to go elsewhere.

Obama announces $2B corporate welfare for nuclear power and 'green' technology research 15 Mar 2013 President Barack Obama returned to Chicago Friday to push an energy policy aimed at weaning the country off of oil by using revenues from increased oil and gas production. In a roughly 20-minute speech at Argonne National Laboratory, Obama touched on research into batteries, natural gas, wind, solar and nuclear power that he deemed vital to America having a long-term healthy economy and environment. As part of his administration's overall plan, Obama also formally introduced a proposal to establish a $2 billion trust from royalties the government receives from offshore drilling [to turn over to his nuclear power corpora-terrorist cronies].


Nuclear boss wants to cut family fuel aid --Chief of French company poised to build reactors in Britain also argues against European subsidies for renewable energy 17 Mar 2013 The boss of a company set to build two nuclear reactors in Somerset has been demanding cuts to renewable energy subsidies and to help for people in fuel poverty while quietly lobbying the European Commission for financial help for new nuclear power stations. Areva, which is part owned by the French state, has signed a contract to build nuclear reactors for EDF, another French company, at Hinkley Point. If it goes ahead, it will be the first new nuclear power plant in Britain for a generation.


Sealed 'black cells' stall radioactive waste cleanup at Hanford nuclear reservation 16 Mar 2013 In the late-1990s, the Hanford nuclear reservation's British contractor designed the world's largest nuclear waste treatment plant around a fateful feature: "black cells." Fifteen years, a new set of contractors corpora-terrorists and $8 billion of construction later, the U.S. Department of Energy is still trying to figure out whether they'll work. The cells, enormous concrete boxes lined with stainless steel, will hold mixing silos to process waste from 44 years of making plutonium for nuclear bombs. They'll be highly radioactive and inaccessible to humans for the treatment plant's life. They're also central to Hanford's [insane] plans to treat 56 million gallons of nuclear waste stored in 177 underground tanks. Recent disclosures of fresh leaks in six of those tanks, a half-dozen miles from the Columbia River, has brought renewed urgency to finishing the treatment plant, already delayed by two decades.

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold public meeting on Pilgrim Nuclear April 2

Pilgrim's safety performance in 2012 is topic of discussion

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