In the unlikely event of a nuclear generating plant accident, how would you be notified?
If the public needs to take shelter or evacuate, warning sirens will sound.
Weather-alert radios will also activate and you will hear a message.
Listen for a steady siren tone lasting 3 minutes. In areas not served by sirens, slow-moving law enforcement vehicles or state helicopters will warn citizens using sirens and loudspeakers.
Now, no one ever accused those mutts at "Freedom Dogs" of bein' none-too-bright. Lemmings? Yep. Bootlickers? Of course! Flat-out liars? Well, click on the link above, and judge for yourself.
Here's the kicker: mutts like the Freedom Lemmings "Dogs" love - LOVE - to claim that they're "free-marketeers" that hate - HATE - "government handouts."
Folks, the simple fact is, there would be no - NONE - nuclear plants now in operation, had not the nuclear industry been given the federal handout known as the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act.
In a nutshell, The Price-Anderson Act says that if, as stated in the Excel Calendar above, there's an "unlikely event of a nuclear generating plant accident" and there's a whole bunch of damages, Excel isn't on the hook for the damages - YOU are. Me, too. Well, EVERYONE is. That's right; nuclear plants don't have to buy no stinkin' liability insurance; the nuclear industry instead will stick the taxpayers with the tab if there's a meltdown.
"Too big to fail" ring a bell?
Here's why the nuclear industry puts the cost of a (cheney)up meltdown on the American Taxpayers: it's because no insurance company in their right mind would ever - EVER - insure a nuclear plant for liability. So, to make the buck, the nuclear industry has to put the good ol' USofA taxpayers on the hook. If they had to buy liability insurance in the open market ("Hello, Allstate?"), and factor that cost into the end price customers paid, other technologies would suddenly look mighty cheap in comparison. You know, like solar? Hydro? Wind? Yada, yada, yada?
Price-Anderson, Gentle Readers, is a Federal Handout - something today's alleged "conservatives" claim they are against.
Can anybody reading this, tell me one other industry that doesn't have to provide liability insurance for their operations; one other industry that has to have - HAS TO HAVE - the American Taxpayers on the hook, in order to be economically viable?
As far as I know, nuclear is the only one that fits both of the above.
I'd bet the mutts over at Freedom Dogs never thought of that, before they decided to (once again) play bootlicker for the GOP's benefactors (this time, the nuclear industry). And I'm certain they never figured out that although they claim (loudly and often) that they want LESS Government, expansion of nuclear power would require MORE government: more regulators/more inspectors/more fire/more police/more emergency responders/more yada, yada, yada.
Unless, of course, they're advocating MORE nuclear power with LESS government regulations and oversight and evacuation plans, yada, yada, yada.
If they are (and don't put anything beyond the realm of those mutts), I'm certain they'd have no problemo if said new nuclear plant were built upwind from them by a company run by, say, Ken Lay Jr., or, perhaps, a Charles Keating The Third, or say, the next Tom Petters?
At any rate, the whole sorry saga of alleged "conservatives" advocating for more nuclear power is also another example of:
"Hypocrisy, Thy Party Is GOP" |
