Donald Trump and Rick Perry
Want to ‘Make Nuclear Energy Cool Again’ by Chralie Spiering, 6/29/17 Breitbart
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry wants to bring back nuclear
energy. Speaking
to White House reporters at the press briefing room, Perry
recalled growing up in a time where nuclear energy in America was the
future.
“When
I was younger in the ’60s … a lot of kids wanted to go into the nuclear energy
field,” he said. “At my alma mater there were a lot of young boys and girls who
wanted to be nuclear engineers.” Perry
appeared saddened by the failed promise of nuclear energy, noting that it had
been “strangled” by government regulations. “One
of the things we want to do at DOE is to make nuclear energy cool again,” he
said.
The New York Times reported that construction
of nuclear power plants has “all but disappeared in the United States,” thanks
to an increasingly burdened regulatory system after Toshiba announced in
February their decision to shut down Westinghouse, a nuclear power subsidiary
in America. But President
Donald Trump wants to change that.
In
May of 2016, the president included nuclear energy in his speech on developing
the country’s energy resources, vowing to reduce the regulatory burdens in the
United States.
“We
will get the bureaucracy out of the way of innovation, so we can pursue all
forms of energy,” Trump promised. In March, the president signed an executive
order directing all agency heads to review regulations that could burden the
production of nuclear power, as well as other forms of energy.
The
pursuit of nuclear energy has environmental implications. After several
reporters grilled him on climate change, Perry spoke about the importance of
expanding nuclear energy to reduce emissions.
“I
believe no clean energy portfolio is truly complete without nuclear power, and
so does the President,” he said, calling for the development of advanced
nuclear reactors and small modular nuclear reactors.
The
push for nuclear energy has national security implications as well. The
Westinghouse bankruptcy was a setback for America’s effort to
provide nuclear fuel to European countries, something that Russia and China are
pursuing.
Under
former President Barack Obama, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously approved the
sale of Uranium One to Russian companies, ceding control of one-fifth of all
uranium production capacity in the United States while accepting major
donations from the Russian investors to the Clinton Foundation.
Perry
warned that Russia and China were actively pursuing nuclear energy technology
to “leverage their political place” in the world.
“We
need as a county, I think, to again bring us to that place where the nuclear
energy is a part of a portfolio and to be able to sell it in great truthfulness
and honesty about what it can add to America both from an environmental
standpoint and from a security standpoint,” he said.
Comments by Bruce Duncil
Contrary to modern thought
(euphemism), the commercial nuclear power industry has for a generation USED
regulations, and similar government gimmicks such as loan guarantees and hidden
taxes, to *steal *Hundreds of $Billions from tax and rate payers.
The Feds have already greased the
licensing process for new plants to the point where the constructors/operators
do NOT have to prove that the plant they design and license is the one they
actually build and will operate.
And states like GA have already
granted constructors/ operators with Enron-style financing, saddling consumers
with carrying costs that, thanks to ABSENCE of any real oversight, guarantee
plants like Vogtle 3&4 are $Billions over budget and years behind schedule
- if they're ever finished at all. *Now The Powers That Be want to give us
another round of sticker-shock:*
Comments
Nuclear
Power Plants have always been hampered by the government bureaucracy. This
overkill got worse after Three Mile Island and got progressively worse over the
decades. Sabotaging Nuclear Power became a hobby under Obama’s wind and solar
era and Georgia Power paid the price. Real Experts with common sense need to
take over these regulations and remove the landmines. Congress needs to grill
the kids who wrote these regulations in televised hearings.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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