Bad timing: Obama promotes nuclear power as its safety problems mount

The problems all occurred within days of President Obama’s post-election press conference in which he promoted restarting the U.S. nuclear power industry. His remarks came after heavy spending by the nuclear power industry during the recent election cycle.

As Obama pushes nuclear industry’s expansion, its safety troubles mount, FACING SOUTH, By Sue Sturgis on November 8, 2010, Two nuclear power plants owned by New Orleans-based Entergy were forced to shut down over the weekend following serious operating problems, including a radioactive leak at one plant in Vermont.
Those troubling incidents come on the heels of an electrical explosion at NRG’s South Texas nuclear plant last week, and a Friday incident at Progress Energy’s Shearon Harris plant in North Carolina that caused the plant to momentarily lose cooling to the reactor core.

The problems all occurred within days of President Obama’s post-election press conference in which he promoted restarting the U.S. nuclear power industry. His remarks came after heavy spending by the nuclear power industry during the recent election cycle.ISS – As Obama pushes nuclear industry’s expansion, its safety troubles mount

November 9, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | uranium | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium

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