Rising Hegemon
We probably would have not made the change in future plants either, it would have costs money better used to lobby for more tax breaks.
Japanese regulators discussed in recent months the use of new cooling technologies at nuclear plants that could have lessened or prevented the disaster that struck this month when a tsunami wiped out the electricity at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power facility.
However, they chose to ignore the vulnerability at existing reactors and instead focused on fixing the issue in future ones, government and corporate documents show. There was no serious discussion of retrofitting older plants with the alternative technology, known as "isolation condensers," government advisers said.
Meanwhile...and logically...Americans are much less supportive of nuclear power than before (plus there is this) -- not that it will matter much to the Villagers, they can always defrost Walt Disney.
[Cross-posted at Firedoglake]
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When Disney was negotiating with Orange County, FL, for the tax abatements and perks for Disney World, the commissioners were so head-over-heels in love with the idea that they offered, without prompting, to give Disney the right to build its own nuclear power plant to provide power for the facility.
Apparently, none of them remembered Mickey and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
DEMOCRITUS! amazing how safety is not the fist issue when MONEY CAN BE MADE.
Different time and place. .... . We should have learned more since then(we have) and done more (we have not). History and mistakes of the past should be our friends. Alas, it is the fatal flaw of peoplekind to always take the easy way, instead of the prudent way.
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