"As if Fukushima never happened...'

Expediency is forcing decisions that condemn future generations. There is not enough courage in political leadership to make the hard choices. Barack Obama had completely revealed himself to be the president of and for Infinite Growth. -- MCR

US licenses first nuclear reactors since 1978

"It's been 34 years -- and several nuclear accidents later -- but a divided federal panel on Thursday licensed a utility to build nuclear reactors in the U.S. for the first time since 1978

MSNBC,

9 February, 2012

"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's chairman, Gregory Jaczko, opposed licensing the two reactors at this time even though he had earlier praised their design.

"'There is still more work' to be done to ensure that lessons learned from Japan's Fukushima disaster last year are engrained in the reactor design", he told his colleagues. 'I cannot support this licensing as if Fukushima never happened.'"

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