Nuclear Accident We Lose Everything, But New Build Reactors Get INSURANCE

Thanks to greed, and special interest lobbying, citizens in reactor host communities are left to hold the bag if there is a nuclear accident. Thanks to the United States Congress and Senate and the Price Anderson Act, we cannot insure our homes for nuclear accidents or a terrorist act on a Nuclear Reactor. Meanwhile, if some host community OPPOSED a New Build Reactor in their neighborhood, seems our government has decided that Nuclear Companies should be insured for such UNFORTUNATE DELAYS!

Now, this is no small time insurance policy either...be one of the first two reactors in line to build a new generation of nuclear reactors, and the DOE is going to guarantee your company $500 million in insurance to offset any costs due to delay from things like LAWSUITS, and that policy is thanks TO OUR TAX DOLLARS...this is on top of the $50 BILLION in loan guarantees that groups like MUSE are now trying to stop.

US government agrees new build insurance
27 September 2007



Companies building new nuclear power plants in the USA can now qualify for a share of $2 billion in federal risk insurance, under a Conditional Agreement released by the Department of Energy (DOE).

The insurance covers costs associated with certain regulatory or litigation-related delays that, through no fault of the company, can delay plant start-up. According to the DOE, the risk insurance, authorized under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, "provides incentive and stability in spurring construction of new nuclear power plants and meeting our energy needs in a clean, safe, economical manner."

Energy Secretary Samuel W Bodman, announcing the agreement, noted: "Conditional Agreements pave the way for risk insurance contracts that will provide the first project sponsors constructing new nuclear power plants with assistance if they face delays in expanding the use of nuclear energy across the nation."

The coverage of the government-backed risk insurance would include delays associated with regulatory reviews of inspections, tests, analyses and acceptance criteria, as well as certain delays associated with pre-operational hearings or litigation in federal, state or tribal courts. Normal business risks, such as employment strikes and weather delays, would not be covered.

Under the Energy Policy Act, the DOE is authorized to enter contracts to provide risk insurance with the first six sponsors to begin construction of new nuclear facilities and that meet all other contractual conditions. Coverage of up to $500 million will be available to the first two plants which begin construction, with up to $250 million for the next four. Application for coverage is a two-step process, with sponsors required to enter a Conditional Agreement first and then, if eligible, a risk insurance contract. The Conditional Agreement is available to any sponsor of an advanced nuclear facility once its application for a Construction and Operating Licence (COL) is docketed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). However, only the first six that are issued a COL and begin construction will be eligible for the risk insurance contract with DOE.

Has Department Of Homeland Security Prepared You For Terrorist Attack On Indian Point?

Are you, your family and your loved ones prepared for a significant off site radiological event, or worse a terrorist attack on Entergy's Indian Point? We have all seen the Peek Fatality map, have bought our rolls of duct tape and sheets of plastic. However, is it enough, are you prepared to survive the FALL OUT from a significant MALFUNCTION at Indian Point?

Civil Defense Bulletin Number 1-Introduction to A Nuclear Event

Do Your Homework-Nuclear Is Hitler Ugly

We have vile sinister monsters lying to the public, claiming nuclear is safe, boosting that no one has ever been killed for Nuclear Energy. They lie, and people around America are dying every day for Nuclear Power, being stricken with horrible cancers in the name of clean green energy. Americans need to study the history of the Nuclear Military/Commercial Fuel Cycle so that they know the ugly truth. We need to END the nuclear fuel cycle, not perpetuate it.

Human Radiation Experiments in the United States

By Arjun Makhijani and Ellen Kennedy

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and
misguided man.

Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary announced on December 7, 1993 that the nuclear establishment had conducted radiation experiments on humans since the 1940s. It was a stunning admission - the first time that the head of a nuclear weapons agency had stood before the people it was pledged to protect to admit the awful truth that it had experimented on them. "The only thing I could think of was Nazi Germany," she told Newsweek.² Similar thoughts undoubtedly crossed the minds of millions, who wondered how the citizens of a country with democratic checks and balances could have been used as unwitting guinea pigs.

It was soon apparent that other agencies, beyond the Department of Energy, had been involved in human radiation experiments.³ For example, the Department of Defense deliberately released radionuclides into the air from 1948 to 1952 in order to design and test radiation weapons.⁴ Such weapons, discussed as far back as the Manhattan Project, are designed to create temporarily high radiation fields to kill or debilitate enemy soldiers. Secretary O'Leary, in effect, opened a Pandora's box of U.S. radiation testing on humans.

Purposes of the Experiments

The accompanying table on pages 4 and 5 shows a list of many of the human radiation experiments categorized according to the five goals of the funding agencies. Some experiments may have had more than one purpose; for example, some involving external exposure to sick people were purportedly to treat cancers. The objectives of the experiments will not be entirely known until we have more documentation.

Nameless Subjects

This is not a new story, despite the impression that recent, intense media coverage conveys. In 1986, Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts released a report called "American Nuclear Guinea Pigs," documenting many of the radiation experiments on U.S. citizens and calling for further investigation.⁵ Yet at the time, the Department of Energy denied that anything unethical had been done, and the report went largely unnoticed.

There are several reasons why the experiments have generated a public outcry in 1993-94 and did not in 1986. First, the Department of Energy is slowly trying to redefine itself according to post Cold War reality, thanks in large part to Secretary O'Leary. Second, the 1986 Markey report released information about nameless human subjects. It took a reporter from the Albuquerque Tribune - Eileen Welsome - uncovering the identities of some of the subjects for the public to listen. Somehow the thought of "Cal-3" being injected with plutonium was less offensive to the public than "Elmer Allen," a down-on-his-luck railroad porter being injected in his injured leg, in which he was told he had bone cancer; his leg was then amputated.