October 16, 2107
AT ISSUE: "Dead" reactors should get an "autopsy". Don't let Trump
kill US solar jobs
When
a nuclear reactor shuts down permanently, it provides the perfect
opportunity for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to demand a full
"autopsy." What better
way to understand the perilous safety condition of our aging and still
operating reactors than to conduct a full technical inspection of the
closed ones? The NRC has never ordered this. The agency prefers to turn a
blind eye to potentially fatal safety flaws
because ordering the industry to fix them would cost the financially
free-falling nuclear power sector even more money.
This
kind of deliberate negligence is unacceptable, and it's why we are
calling again for the routine autopsy of closed reactors - including in
this
October 12 opinion piece in Truthout.
At Beyond Nuclear we feel it is essential to keep speaking truth
to power; to inform the public; and to push the media to cover what is
actually happening, not blindly accept what the industry says.
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Two U.S. solar companies just made a terrible deal with the
International Trade Commission. Claiming they cannot compete with
imported Chinese solar panels, the companies demanded steep tariffs. The
ITC agreed. That could kill 88,000 U.S. jobs
in an industry that already provides 374,000 jobs, more than nuclear at 76,771 and coal at 160,119 combined.
The rest of the solar industry is vociferously opposing this proposal. Curtailing supply will
undermine implementation, the biggest employer. The ITC must decide by November 13 whether to continue its support of these tariffs. After that, if Trump signs off, this could deal a fatal
blow to solar growth in the U.S. We wrote about this last week in Counterpunch.
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