The Commission recently voted to allow plants to continue to overfill these pools for as long as they wished to do so.
Fukushima reminded us of the devastating effects of a nuclear reactor meltdown.
It is very important for this culture to change. I am just afraid that it has not.
For me, that is still unforgivable. We know what can happen. We know what the consequences are.
The solution to this is simple. Take the waste out of pools and put it into safer, dry cask storage.
With that much at stake, I think the Commission's vote not to heed these warnings was simply irresponsible.
The original revolution in nuclear was government subsidized, let's be honest about it.
The only entities willing to finance nuclear plants are governments.
The reason is that plants are closing faster than new ones are opening.
It used to be that people thought nuclear energy would be too cheap to matter but now with cheap gas and wind, nuclear energy is actually to...
That is why I recently introduced the Dry Cask Storage Act which gives plants 7 years to remove all the waste that can be removed from the p...