A great article from Karl Grossman delineating the history of the Westinghouse AP1000 and how public input has been all but scuttled.
"Last week’s granting by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of combined construction and operating licenses for two nuclear plants to be built in Georgia—both Westinghouse AP1000s—is the culmination of a scheme developed by nuclear promoters 20 years ago.
"If Americans are anxious about a disaster involving the AP1000—and want wind and solar and other safe, clean, renewable energy technologies which they can live with instead—well, under the new system, that’s too bad. With the new nuclear licensing system—devised 20 years ago and now moving ahead despite Chernobyl and Fukushima and the availability of energy alternatives that render nuclear power unnecessary—the citizenry and what they want are to be excluded." - Counterpunch
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> The Nuclear Juggernaut - Georgia and the Scheme to Revive Nuclear Power in the US | Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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