democracynow.org – The Obama administration is backing an expansion of nuclear power plants, but have the lessons of Fukushima been learned? We speak to former nuclear industry executive Arnie Gundersen on the fallout from Fukushima, the design failures of the Mark 1 nuclear reactor used at Fukushima and many U.S. power plants, the economics of nuclear energy and the battle over nuclear power in his home state of Vermont. Gundersen is a former nuclear industry senior vice president who has coordinated projects at 70 nuclear power plants around the country. He is the chief engineer at Fairewinds Association and co-wrote the new Greenpeace report, “Lessons from Fukushima.”
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August 17, 2011 MSNBC
The pivotal force of the opposition; prone to bring about a change in IRAN, revealed through the PMOI that despite the NIE report and International reluctance in inspecting the Iranian threat on nuclear arsenal, The mullahs have managed to misguide the International speculations, over their nuclear intentions, in a new revealed site called his site is using robots to verify and speed the nuclear acquirements of the fundamentalist regime in Iran. They have evolved their activities since April 2007 through a newly organized command base on nuclear arsenal in Khojeyr area. The regime is using this operation as a main success under the secret name ALIREZA NOORI .The NCRI said that the arsenal is not only against the National interests of the Iranian people but will be used as a leverage to blackmail and stay afloat this regime. They also said that this is exactly the result of appeasement policy of the West, in which they have labeled the PMOI the main opposition movement, playing softball. This is an International license for this regime to acquire the arsenal. The NCRI and PMOI, have so far have had 80 revelations so far ,each proved in time, but never used to stop the nuclear arsenal, because of this policy. The West has to change policy; there is no possibility of any change of behavior of the regime. The only possible and peaceful means to stop war, and genocide is to side with the Iranian people and first to delist the main opposition to the regime.
The worldwide nuclear power industry says it operates today in a “culture of nuclear safety.” Protecting the population and the environment, it says, are its top priorities. Achieving and maintaining that safety involves constantly improving reactor designs, along with rigorous training for those who operate power plants. But, as this first segment in a multi-part series explains, there have been tragic accidents that have driven this focus on safety. VOA’s Jeffrey Young has details.
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