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Expansion of Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Suspended
mdsolar writes in with news that plans to build two new reactors at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant have been put on hold. "On Friday, Luminant, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, suspended its application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build two new reactors at the plant. Its partner on the project, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, said it was focusing on getting its nuclear reactors in Japan back in operation. The majority of Japan's reactors were shut down because of safety concerns following a 2011 tsunami that caused a radiation leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex 150 miles north of Tokyo. Mitsubishi 'has informed us that they will materially slow the development of their design control document for their new reactor design by several years. In addition, both [Mitsubishi] and Luminant understand the current economic reality of low Texas power prices driven in large part by the boom in natural gas,' read a statement from Luminant."
Remember when America actually developed and MANUFACTURED its own technologies and was an industrial powerhouse? Those days are long gone, and this is the poisonous fruit of the Globalist traitors who have infiltrated the US government, in the globalist plot to destroy America. Are we really better off than we were in the 50s and 60s when the US still manufactured most of what it uses and globalisation was not common? If globalisation is so wonderful, why have the last 3 decades of globalisation produces a shrinking middle class, a stagnant economy that has not grown at all for the middle class in over 3 decades, to the point that a growing percentage of the US population now earns less than the Mininum wage of 1968, to that a massive percenrtage of the country is now on food stamps and this grows relentlessly? The US economy was growing by leaps and bounds in those two decades of the 50s and 60s, every year of those decades poverty declined, and the middle class was growing in the 50s and 60s. The middle class has not grown at all since the 70s, and there has been no reduction in poverty since the 70s. Ever since the offshoring of the US economy (read: gutting), there has been virtually no growth of the middle class in the country. Instead, the super rich have pocketed massive amounts of money by laying off American workers and replacing them with third world labor. I think its time to realize that globalisation is a scam and the perpetuators of this free trade snake oil are liars who have sold out this country and destroyed it. Further reprensible is the immigration invasion which is turning the US into Mexico North and is quite frankly a genocidal assault that is destroying the traditional identity of the United States. Studies have been done that Mexicans have a 20% lower IQ than European Americans and studies have shown that this is almost entirely due to genetics. This means that he average population IQ is declining because of the influx of low IQ racial groups and the country is basically being turned into a third world cesspit. We need to go back to what worked, what we had prior to the 70s, that is 1) very low levels of immigration that maintain the racial demographics of the country, exactly as it was in the 1924 Emergency Immigration Act (in effect 1924-1965), re-enacting this law and repealing the 1965 immigration law, and reflected in the countries first citizenship and naturalization law, the 1790 Naturalization Act which was signed by President George Washington and signed by the founding fathers themselves 2) Strong tariffs, favouring national industry and keeping manufacturing and industrial know how in country 3) recognize that manufacturing and blue collar professions are noble and worthwhile, abandon the absurd "everyone must go to college" mentality, and encourage more people to go into blue collar work, including by building a pipeline from high school into vocational/trade schools and apprenticeships for everything from trucking, car manufacture, to plumbing 4) encouraging a family values society with large families to encourage internal birth population growth, by incentivizing a high birth rate among the middle class through larger per child percentage income tax incentives for the middle class 5) cap export of foodstuffs to other countries in such a manner that allows maintainence of current population level in other countries but does not incentivize population growth in those countries, to allow for compensation of temporary decline in food production due to natural disasters, but prohibits an increase in exports due to population growth in those countries.
Globalisation and importation of cheap labor via immigration, benefits one group of people, the super rich. It is destroying the country for the rest of us, and as well is anti-diversity because it is destroying the unique qualities of countries.
Perhaps it is because the film is untruthful. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/opinion/pandora-nuclear-energy-opinion-cavanagh-cochran/