Tweet
NRC approves first new nuclear plant in 3 decades
Associated Press
Matthew Daly
2/9/2012
Excerpts:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 to approve Atlanta-based Southern Co.'s request to build two nuclear reactors at its Vogtle site south of Augusta.
The vote clears the way for officials to issue an operating license for the reactors, which could begin operating as soon as 2016 and 2017.
The NRC last approved construction of a nuclear plant in 1978, a year before a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania raised fears of a radiation release and brought new reactor orders nearly to a halt."......................
President Barack Obama has offered the Vogtle project $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees as part of its pledge to expand nuclear power."
View the complete article at:
http://news.yahoo.com/nrc-approves-f...182337706.html
My comment:
Hmmmm! --- "... first new power plant in a generation ..." "... Obama has offered the Vogtle project $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees ..."
Could this very recent major finance and construction-approval boost for Georgia possibly have been a 'quid pro quo' for Judge Malihi's outrageous decision allowing Obama to illegally appear on the 2012 ballot in Georgia? Nah! - criminal activities like this might take place in some 3rd world 'banana republic' but this type of massive and serious corruption involving the highest levels of the federal government and a state government could NEVER happen here in the good ole USA! (extreme sarc!)
Associated Press
Matthew Daly
2/9/2012
Excerpts:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 to approve Atlanta-based Southern Co.'s request to build two nuclear reactors at its Vogtle site south of Augusta.
The vote clears the way for officials to issue an operating license for the reactors, which could begin operating as soon as 2016 and 2017.
The NRC last approved construction of a nuclear plant in 1978, a year before a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania raised fears of a radiation release and brought new reactor orders nearly to a halt."......................
President Barack Obama has offered the Vogtle project $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees as part of its pledge to expand nuclear power."
View the complete article at:
http://news.yahoo.com/nrc-approves-f...182337706.html
My comment:
Hmmmm! --- "... first new power plant in a generation ..." "... Obama has offered the Vogtle project $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees ..."
Could this very recent major finance and construction-approval boost for Georgia possibly have been a 'quid pro quo' for Judge Malihi's outrageous decision allowing Obama to illegally appear on the 2012 ballot in Georgia? Nah! - criminal activities like this might take place in some 3rd world 'banana republic' but this type of massive and serious corruption involving the highest levels of the federal government and a state government could NEVER happen here in the good ole USA! (extreme sarc!)