Lipstick on a dead pig - 645 million dollars worth

[Richard D]

The mystery has been solved.

Where is this "new reactor renaissance" coming from?

There has been no deep, thoughtful re-making or re-evaluation of atomic technology. No solution to the nuke waste problem. No making reactors economically sound. No private insurance against radioactive disasters by terror or error. No grassroots citizens now desperate to live near fragile containment domes and outtake pipes spewing radioactive tritium at 27 US reactors.

No, nothing about atomic energy has really changed.

Except this: $645 MILLION for lobbying Congress and the White House over the past ten years.

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That's $1 million per every US Senator and Representative, plus another, say $100 million for the White House, courts and media.



http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/24-5