RE: [cdn-nucl-l] Bush visits Browns Ferry

[Ruth Sponsler <jk5554@yahoo.com>]

I loved the subtle pun regarding wild-eyed John
Brown's raid!

Perhaps the closure of Nanticoke (as a coal-fired
plant) will be akin to John Brown's raid - that will
ignite nuclear energy projects across Canada.

http://wesupportlee.blogspot.com/2007/06/ive-posted-few-times-before-about-city.html

...no more enslavement to coal!

It so happens that a couple of years ago I enjoyed
walking a trail through the town of Harper's Ferry and
visiting the various locations downtown that had
historical presentations. 

Best wishes - 


Ruth




--- Jaro <jaro-10kbq@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> You mean Harper will visit Browns Ferry ?
>  Jaro
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: cdn-nucl-l-admin@mailman1.cis.McMaster.CA
> [mailto:cdn-nucl-l-admin@mailman1.cis.McMaster.CA]On
> Behalf Of Andy English
>   Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 4:52 PM
>   To: 'Jerry Cuttler'; 'Canadian Nuclear Discussion
> List'
>   Subject: RE: [cdn-nucl-l] Bush visits Browns Ferry
> 
> 
>   He'll probably do it now that George has done it.
>   Cheers,
>   Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>   From: cdn-nucl-l-admin@mailman1.cis.McMaster.CA
> [mailto:cdn-nucl-l-admin@mailman1.cis.McMaster.CA]
> On Behalf Of Jerry
> Cuttler
>   Sent: 23 June 2007 10:40 AM
>   To: Canadian Nuclear Discussion List
>   Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] Bush visits Browns Ferry
> 
> 
>   When will a Canadian prime minister visit a CANDU
> in Canada and deliver a
> positive message about nuclear power?
>   Will it happen in my lifetime?
>   (The premier of New Brunswick delivered a positive
> message about Point
> Lepreau, and a potential Point Lepreau 2, at the
> recent CNS conference.)
> 
>   Jerry
> 
> 
>  
>
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/News/Display_News_Story.cfm?Section=WireNews&SubS
> ection=HOME&NewsID=149417
> 
>   Bush visits Browns Ferry: Power intersects at
> nuclear plant here
>   Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (June 22,
> 2007)
> 
>   Jun. 22--The power was palpable at Browns Ferry
> Nuclear Plant on Thursday.
> 
>   Not only were three nuclear reactors humming along
> at 100-percent power,
> the most powerful man in the nation was speaking on
> the importance of
> nuclear energy.
> 
>   Among the 250 crowded into a hot employee
> gymnasium to hear President Bush
> speak were 150 Tennessee Valley Authority employees,
> 100 of them chosen by
> lottery from Browns Ferry rank and file.
> 
>   "Thanks for what you're doing," Bush said, to the
> employees. "Thanks for
> being skillful. Thanks for working hard. Thanks for
> helping the country."
> 
>   Jeffrey Kirsch, a fire protection system engineer
> at Browns Ferry since
> 1985, said the president's visit was an important
> morale booster for
> employees.
> 
>   "I think it was a shot in the arm for all of us,"
> Kirsch said. "People get
> tired after all that work (for the Unit 1 restart).
> It was a big plus for
> the employees."
> 
>   Bush emphasized the importance of last month's
> Browns Ferry Unit 1 restart
> and said new nuclear plants need to be built.
> 
>   "It's one thing to restart one, and I congratulate
> you," Bush said. "It's
> another thing to build the new ones. And that's what
> we ought to have happen
> if we're interested in a comprehensive, sound, wise
> energy policy that is
> environmentally friendly."
> 
>   Unit 1 has had a troubled history, most
> dramatically when a worker using a
> candle to check ventilation in 1975 started a fire
> that closed it for a year
> and panicked a nation. The plant closed again in
> 1985 for safety reasons.
> Plans for the $1.8 billion restart began in 2002.
> 
>   'This is a safe plant'
> 
>   "This is a safe plant," Bush said after a quick
> tour, "and the people in
> the United States must understand that."
> 
>   A major reason for Bush's visit was to push
> Congress to pass energy
> legislation that would expedite the construction of
> new plants.
> 
>   "We want to start building plants, and we
> recognize that there have been
> some regulatory burdens that ... discourage the
> construction of new plants,"
> Bush said.
> 
>   He said expediting the Nuclear Regulatory
> Commission's inspection process
> is a necessary step in adding new plants.
> 
>   "So, I've got the chairman of the NRC here," Bush
> said to laughter. "I
> want him to hear what I just said."
> 
>   Bush said the fact that the NRC has 20
> applications pending for up to 30
> new reactors -- largely as a result of incentives
> included in 2005 energy
> legislation -- is a sign that "attitudes are
> changing."
> 
>   He proposed a partnership between government and
> industry to expedite
> construction.
> 
>   Bush advocated the reprocessing of spent fuel as a
> method of alleviating
> the ongoing dilemma over what to do with nuclear
> waste.
> 
>   U.S. nuclear plants are storing most spent fuel in
> on-site cooling pools,
> which many scientists see as vulnerable to terrorist
> attack.
> 
>   Plants are storing spent fuel that won't fit into
> the cooling pools in
> massive dry casks, stored on site at Browns Ferry
> and other plants, which
> most scientists believe present a lesser risk.
> 
>   "Reprocessing spent uranium fuel for use in
> advanced reactors will allow
> us to extract more energy, and has the potential to
> reduce storage
> requirements for nuclear waste by up to 90 percent,"
> Bush said. "And when we
> (begin reprocessing), we will be able to answer a
> lot of the charges of our
> critics that say, 'What are you going to do with the
> fuel"' "
> 
>   He pushed a proposal for a global partnership --
> that would include
> France, Japan, China and Russia -- to develop
> technologies for the safe
> recycling of spent fuel.
> 
>   Bush touted his budget proposal, which includes
> $495 million to continue
> progress on licensing Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a
> national repository for
> spent fuel.
> 
>   Bush said the solution to the nation's energy
> needs must include nuclear
> plants, but should include other sources as well. He
> pushed for more
> ethanol-friendly cars, improved technology for wind
> and solar energy,
> increased extraction of U.S. petroleum reserves,
> more efficient coal
> technology and improved battery technology for
> vehicles.
> 
>   "And your (battery-powered) automobile won't look
> like a golf cart," he
> said to an appreciative Alabama audience. "It will
> be a normal-size pickup
> truck."
> 
>   Bush said the energy legislation debated in the
> Senate "falls far short of
> the ambitious goal I laid out," but would assist in
> his goal of decreasing
> 
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