Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning: Follow the Money w/ A Gundersen 7/17/15
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2015-07-17

Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning: Follow The Money 
Nuclear Plants are expensive to operate, but they are even more expensive to "not operate"... https://fairewinds.squarespace.com/nuclear-energy-education/fukushima-daiichi-decommissioning-follow-the-money
Are the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi over? The answer is no. In Fairewinds’ latest video, Chief Engineer and nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen updates viewers on what’s going on at the Japanese nuclear meltdown site, Fukushima Daiichi.  As the Japanese government and utility owner Tokyo Electric Power Company push for the quick decommissioning and dismantling of this man-made disaster, the press and scientists need to ask, “Why is the Ukrainian government waiting at least 100 years to attempt to decommission Chernobyl, while the Japanese Government and TEPCO claim that Fukushima Daiichi will be decommissioned and dismantled during the next 30 years?”

Like so many big government + big business controversies, the answer has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with politics and money.  To understand Fukushima Daiichi, you need to follow the money.

also related: How YOU Get Screwed with Nuclear Power (Follow the Money) Gundersen  https://youtu.be/-A7x6EBxJak 
Follow the Money http://fairewinds.org/content/follow-money
A closer look at how the utilities screw the public.
This week's show is all about money.  We look at how some utility owned U.S. nuclear power plants continue to drain the public's pocketbook, sometimes to the tune of fifty million dollars a month, without generating a single watt of electricity.  
Crystal River unit 3 Cracked containment in Florida - plant shut down in 2009 costing rate payers approx 50 MILLION dollars a Month to pay workers at a NON OPERATING Plant.  It's been shut down approx. 4 Years!  Is it Really Cost Effective?
The Owner Progress Energy sees no economic sense and decided to shut it down for good.

Georgia Vogel plants will cost the ratepayers 20 Billion dollars EACH for the construction of the plants, which, by the way, are a FLAWED DESIGN.  See this  video for more the design flaw they intend to build there with the AP1000 reactors.
Fukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant http://fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-and-its-impact-upon-westinghouse-toshiba-designed-ap1000-atomic-power-plant
 About this video:
Fairewinds was retained by the AP1000 Oversight Group to evaluate the AP1000 design for flaws that are now evident as a result of the nuclear accidents at Fukushima. The NRC's refusal to thoroughly examine these flaws is reminiscent of the Atomic Energy Commission's refusal in 1972 to thoroughly examine the innate flaws in the GE Mark 1 containment systems that failed at Fukushima. The AP1000 Oversight Group is demanding that these design flaws be remedied prior to design certification, lest history repeat itself.

Post Accident AP1000 Containment Leakage
http://fairewinds.org/content/post-accident-ap1000-containment-leakage

Also, a ton of links about the AP1000 are available here:
http://fairewinds.org/search/node/ap1000?page=1

Wisconsin Kewaunee nuclear power plant is a merchant run nuclear plant. 
https://www.dom.com/about/stations/nuclear/kewaunee/index.jsp
Merchant run nuclear plant means: the nuclear plant is run to MAKE PROFITS. If the plant does not make profits, it closes the doors.

In Stark Contrast:
Nebraska Fort Calhoun is a Utility run plant.  Thus, rate payers pay to keep workers there and not produce electricity!

San Onofre units 2,3 is a utility run plant.  Now the citizens are launching a law suit against Southern California Edison because So Cal Edison maliciously changed a design on the steam generator and did not inform the NRC ~ causing VERY Premature Wear and a Huge Safety Hazard... At the Taxpayers Expense.

See these links for tons of more information about THAT:
http://fairewinds.org/search/node/san%20onofre

San Onofre's Steam Generator Failures Could Have Been Prevented
http://fairewinds.org/content/san-onofre%E2%80%99s-steam-generator-failures-could-have-been-prevented

SAN ONOFRE: Did Edison Submit False Information to NRC?
http://fairewinds.org/content/san-onofre-did-edison-submit-false-information-nrc-0

San Onofre's Steam Generators: Significantly Worse than All Others Nationwide
http://fairewinds.org/content/san-onofre%E2%80%99s-steam-generators-significantly-worse-all-others-nationwide

NRC Presentation
http://fairewinds.org/content/nrc-presentation

San Onofre Cascading Steam Generator Failures Created By Edison
http://fairewinds.org/content/san-onofre-cascading-steam-generator-failures-created-edison

Steam Generator Failures at San Onofre
http://fairewinds.org/content/steam-generator-failures-san-onofre

Lessons from Fukushima
http://fairewinds.org/content/lessons-fukushima

contact the NRC Here:
http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/contactus.html