Former Clamshell Alliance Seabrook Nuclear Station Protester (and now the Federal Government Overlord for NH) Jeanne Shaheen is trying desperately trying to conjure up a caldron of spells to reverse this Japan/EU NukeExpansion project.
I blame her for personally seeing to it that Seabrook was years over schedule, way over budget, and that (especially now in our time of expensive electricity!) Seabrook II (the second reactor) was never built.
Yet, she’s the one all over the environment? IMAGINE how much less fossil fuel we would be using today if she had kept her yap shut and did the “follow the Science” two-step back then?
From Hot Air: (emphasis mine, reformatted):
13 EU countries join nuke energy pact and Japan says it’s glow time
What a day in the news for nuclear power. I’m pretty sure it won’t be getting the red-headed-step-child treatment for much longer. France is leading the charge on this one and, ho boy. Hard core Green heads have to be ‘sploding.
Eleven EU member states vowed on Tuesday to “strengthen cooperation” on nuclear energy, which they said would help Europe move away from carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia agreed “to support new projects” alongside existing nuclear plants, according to a statement released during a meeting of EU energy ministers in Stockholm.
“Nuclear energy is one of many tools for achieving our climate targets”, to produce electricity to meet consumer demand and “for security of supply”, they said.
Translation – their citizens have made it clear that they WILL NOT go back to the Stone Age for their and their kids and their grandkids lifestyles. As much as most of the EU has been doddering towards a state of being-monarchies-without-Royalty, they realize that their serfs citizens still have votes. They understand that while nuclear energy must be handled carefully, the technology and procedures are well known. France, to remind you, gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear.
Sure, Russia had its Chornobyl, but that wasn’t a “root cause” nuclear failure – it was a poor Governmental design, poor Governmental procedures, and bad oversight by poor Governmental workers (starting to get my drift here?). Japan’s Fukushima was a result of poor siting and BAD luck for both earthquake-prone areas (which they had successfully planned well for THAT) and a HUMONGOUS tsunami that couldn’t be planned for. Three Mile Island here in the US hurt or hurt NO ONE. And that’s it. The US Navy has operated dozens of nuke-powered ships (mostly aircraft carriers and subs) without serious accidents (again, Russia, not so much).
And Japan, even with their knee-jerk shutting down their nukes, has realized that renewables are pie-in-the-sky for a few more decades and have been quietly restarting their nukes as well. I believe that Germany is trying to restart at least two of theirs, but there is much consternation about it.
Ministers from the 11 countries also considered the opportunities for further scientific cooperation on nuclear energy and to share best practices to address safety issues.
If you look at the list of countries, though, it’s not a surprise at all – who are they? For the most part, they are smaller, less economically powerful EU states who have taken it in the chops thanks to the fanatic adherence to renewables of major players like Germany.
fuel and electricity from closer Russian or Ukrainian sources prior to the conflict. No doubt they do not want to continue in such positions of vulnerability any longer. As far as those big Brussels players go, they’re sniffing in disdain at the pretensions of the small bloc. Completely ignoring the fact that their own energy resources
And have American “leaders” on the Left learned from Germany’s skyrocketing electrical costs BEFORE Putin invaded Ukraine? So far, no. They are trying to kill off all fossil fuels but not paying attention to how vulnerable our electric grid already is. And renewables won’t be able to pick up the loads from shutting down normal plants. Heck, even Gov. Newsom of CA realized that they couldn’t shut down Diablo Canyon when previous law had set a shutdown date.
Often, too, many of them were importers of both are a shambles, it sounds like they’ll take comfort in their black-out prone, renewable superiority…Austria, Germany and Luxembourg reaffirmed their opposition in Stockholm to the development of nuclear energy in Europe.
And get the guy letting the cat out of the bag:
“If we want to win the race against climate change, we need to be fast,” Luxembourg Energy Minister Claude Turmes said on Monday, adding that new nuclear stations would take 15 years to build. “It’s much more about ideology than being practical,” he added.
And the writer adds that Italy has now joined that group.
Oh boy, I think that the game has just been changed! So what will the US / Biden do now – having been left out in the cold? Especially as there is a decades-long R&D effort to create “modular” reactor designs, and a couple of them have been approved (it took longer than needed because GOVERNMENT regulators aren’t agile and adept at adopting updated views as these can safely power towns and small cities rather than the giga-sized plants that Shaheen was against. Their designs are such that they’ll dump down and shut down in ways in that there can’t be a meltdown making them FAR safer than, well, a train carrying a bunch of hazardous material cars blowing up in a small town.
