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Environmental activists, including Earth First! members, staged a protest at the TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant in Chattanooga to mark the facility's 23rd birthday while still under construction. The plant, which began permitting in 1972,…
“I think it is still kind of a pipe dream that they are going to finish that as a nuclear plant”
“We're having (customers) spend their dollars on a nuclear power plant that will never be built”
“The Vogtle loan guarantee puts nearly 16 times as much at stake for taxpayers when compared to Solyndra. Taxpayers cannot afford an $8.33 billion gamble when the odds are stacked against them as badly as they are here. The very large exposure to losses for U.S. taxpayers should the Vogtle Project go awry, along with the known complexities of building two new reactors, underscore the importance of an objective and unbiased review of the project, its borrowers, and the appropriate credit subsidy level. Political interference increases fiscal risks because political pressure can supplant economic and financial assessments in driving funding decisions and terms.”
“Dit gaat over belastinggeld, maar de belastingbetaler mocht niets weten van deze onderhandelingen”
“This Commission decision halts all final licensing decisions -- but not the licensing proceedings themselves -- until NRC completes a thorough study of the environmental impacts of storing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel.”
“We believe it is appropriate to halt nuclear licensing decisions and stop creating an inter-generational debt of nuclear waste that will burden our children and grandchildren for centuries to come”
“We're not joking when we call it the Humpty Dumpty reactor. We think they ought to quit throwing good money after bad.”
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has frozen final reactor licensing decisions at 19 sites following a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that invalidated the NRC's Waste Confidence Rule and Temporary Storage Rule. The Appeals Court decision was…
“Waste is an environmental concern, it's a public health concern and it's become a security concern because we live in a different world now”
“Why are we paying this money to utilities for nuclear reactors that are never going to get built?”
Consumer groups Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition and Critical Mass Energy Project released a joint report criticizing TVA for spending hundreds of millions on nuclear plant repairs without conducting economic feasibility studies. TVEC president Greg Mackay argued…
Op-ed by Lyle Lipke encouraging citizens to participate in TVA's upcoming public meetings on the agency's 25-year operating plan. The author argues these meetings are legitimate opportunities for public comment on TVA's power generation methods, not…
Florida regulators are considering whether FPL and Progress Energy Florida should be allowed to charge customers nearly $300 million for nuclear power projects, including upgrades to existing plants and early work on possible new reactors. The…
“A layman's look at what we received raised eyebrows. But now we have confirmation that there are indications of political involvement in the process that we believe needs to be looked into more.”
