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History shows a legacy of failures in the pursuit of the sodium reactor fantasy. As Admiral Rickover said almost 70 years ago, sodium reactors are “expensive to build, complex to operate, susceptible to prolonged shutdown as a result of even minor malfunctions, and difficult and time-consuming to repair.” Mr. Gates, it’s time to face the music…

Bowie city mayoral candidates answer questions ahead of election.

 SOUTH KOREA’S CORRUPT AND DANGEROUS NUCLEAR INDUSTRY “During the eighteen months from the beginning of 2012 to mid- 2013, major corruption incidents occurred in the nuclear power industry in every country currently seeking to export nuclear reactors: the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Russia, France, and China….. “In the Korean case, systemic nuclear industry corruption was found Supplementary Submission to the Victorian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Environment an...

April 21, 2020  Last July, Ohio’s governor signed House Bill 6 (HB6) to provide FirstEnergy (now Energy Harbor), a large electric utility, with subsidies of nearly $150 million per year to keep its Perry and Davis-Besse nuclear power plants operating. Ohio is only the fifth US state to offer such subsidies; other states include New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Although the subsidies are justified by some as necessary for climate mitigation, in the latter four states, elect...

Nuclear reactors on an aircraft carrier, were simultaneously conducting strikes into iraq and afghanistan, im supervising the operation of eight nuclear reactors, i didnt turn to the reactor operator next to me, say, are you a democrat, a republican? we had a mission to accomplish. i think that that idea of, you know, this is not a partisan issue. i think it is an issue of doing the thing that is right and i understand for myself, this could very well be a political liability, but i came to cong...

This group that you mentioned, certfa. they said they stumbled across an unsecured server. they were able to monitor their activities and extract the e-mail addresses of the people they targeted. i spent the last couple weeks getting in touch with the phones and letting them know theyre at risk and interviewing them, ask them why they were targeted. >> shepard: what were they trying to accomplish? >> i dont know. i have asked the hackers. they havent gotten back to me. maybe we can make inferenc...

Representative elect, that veterans, they just know how to collaborate better. when you serve, you serve with many different folks. you get the job done. >> well, i would agree with that. over the 20 years, i served on six different ships and deployed as many times. i think back to deployments where i was on an aircraft carrier and we were simultaneously launching strikes against terrorist targets into iraq and afghanistan. while were operating eight nuclear reactors to send those off, i never t...