Can America taxpayers afford to continue to insure nuclear reactors?
Susana Hitorangi on  April 11.2012

A recent 2011 property value study of property values within the 50 miles radius of Indian Point is $8.5 trillion.  Under the Price Anderson Act Indian Point is only insured for $12 billion. That is only .15% coverage.

Clearly that is not adequate insurance.  Yet insurance companies made a decision at the birth of the nuclear industry that they would not insure it - as it to risky.

 So Price Anderson was enacted and continues to be renewed by Congress after Congress and is the ultimate government bailout or subsidy.   In essence the United States Taxpayers are the insurers for privately owned highly profitable nuclear plants.    An interesting form of capitalism seems to be at work in the nuclear industry: privatize profits and socialize liabilities.

After Fukushima can America as a nation afford to insure Indian Point and the 103 other nuclear plants?

The NRC’s own study (1997 Brookhaven National Laboratory study) concluded that a spent fuel pool accident in a densely populated area, such as 17 million people living within 50 miles of Indian Point,  would result in about 140,000 excess cancer deaths and $540 billion in damages (roughly $700 billion in 2010 dollars).   The US government has promised to assume the rest of the liability, though there is no practical legislative provision for it and would require dramatically increased taxation.

Private insurance companies and consortium refuse to issue insurance because the liabilities arising from severe nuclear accidents daunting.    Yet the American public unwittingly is the world’s largest insurer.

And, as insurers  the American Public have the right to demand enforcement of safety regulations – however the NRC continues to be a lap dog to the nuclear industry granting 20 year renewal licenses for aging, non-compliant and leaking nuclear plants.    Also the NRC continue to grant exemption after exemption from fire safety rules.   For example, at Indian Point fire safety regulations have been reduced by exemption to 24 minutes instead of the required 3 hour.

The question must be asked is the American Public still willing to insure nuclear production a risk, that insurance adjusted find to be too risky?

VT Law School Researcher Calls for Shifting Nuclear Liability to Plant Operators
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT October 6, 2011
Vermont Law School energy researcher Mark Cooper on Wednesday called for the repeal of the Price-Anderson Act and for shifting the liability for nuclear accidents from governments and the public to plant operators.



STAR WARS II: HERE WE GO AGAIN

It Can't Happen Heeere .. OK, contaminating citizens with radiation. Experiments with medical radiation, and Syphilis, Dumping poisons, nuke waste and frickfraking fire from the faucet.. Fluoridation quelling gulags, fabricated police actions, nukes, starvation and malnutrition, Thalidomide the sequel, Private prison slave labor, and nerve gas, waterboards and tear gas on students. But would they lie about doobies?

"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."
~ Dorothy Day

AEC, DOE, NRC, Nuclear Murderers by David Proctor
Americas Atomic War Against Its Citizens and Why Its Not Over Yet
After 15 years of investigating, I have concluded that the United States governments atomic weapons industry knowingly and recklessly exposed millions of people to dangerous levels of radiation. Nothing in our past compared to the official deceit and lying that took place in order to protect the nuclear industry. In the name of national security, politicians and bureaucrats ran roughshod over democracy and morality. Ultimately, the Cold Warriors were willing to sacrifice their own people in their zeal to beat the Russians.

Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall from the foreword to Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of Americas Nuclear Arsenal by Michael DAntonio

Since early June, newspapers in Australia and Great Britain have published articles about experiments conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by U.S. scientists on the bodies of deceased and stillborn babies.

Documents declassified by the U.S. Department of Energy show that scientists from the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority worked with their American counterparts to take the bodies of 6,000 infants from hospitals in Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, South America and the U.S., then ship them to the United States for the nuclear experimentswithout permission from the parents.

It was called Project Sunshine. continued...

Poisoned Power the book

In the 1950s, nuclear energy was billed as the answer to Americas energy questions. Today we know that billions of dollars have been wasted in this attempt to produce electricity too cheap to meter. The power plants, according to a study done after Three Mile Island, were under-engineered, poorly built, poorly staffed and badly run.

Now, as lobbies push for more nuclear plants, ratepayers and taxpayers are still on the hook for the billions of dollars it will cost to decommission the plants, clean up the sites and safely store the contaminated building and fuel rods for hundreds of thousands of years.

Finally, let us not forget the ugly history of medical experiments.

Declassified documents show that government and university doctors injected scores of prisoners, mental patients, retarded adults and children and even pregnant mothers with radioactive substancesnearly always without full consentsometimes just to see what would happen.

The Next 500,000 Years

Now, with this revolting 50-year record behind it, the government wants us to believe it can safely move military, commercial and foreign waste to gigantic burial grounds near Las Vegas (Yucca Mountain) and Carlsbad, N.M. (Waste Isolation Pilot Project or WIPP). And protect it there for hundreds of thousands of years.
~ David Proctor
Americas Atomic War Against Its Citizens
and Why Its Not Over Yet

Killing Our Own the book

"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937.

Benefits of Cannabis: Acute radiation syndrome
- Reduced Nausea
- Increased appetite
- Reduced vomiting
- Weight gain
- Sleeping aid

Only The Stoners Will Survive
Studies reveal that marijuana protects against brain damage from stroke, heart attacks, and nerve gas.

Ganja 4 Banned Nerve Gas Used on Yemeni Protesters
Among its many properties cannabis provides considerable protection from a number of lethal nerve gas symptoms by defending the brain from injury and suppressing the the seizures, nausea and vomiting associated with chemical warfare agents.

Hemp 'Eats' Chernobyl Waste 02/13/01
In 1998, Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP), PHYTOTECH, and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops began what may be one of the most important projects in history =the planting of industrial hemp for the removal of contaminants in the soil near Chernobyl.

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment & Linx

If... the machine of government...
is of such a nature that it requires you
to be the agent of injustice to another,
then, I say, break the law.
~ Henry David Thoreau,
On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

THE THALIDOMIDE TRAGEDY

Thalidomide v Cannabis
In January, a thalidomide developer, Celgene, of Warren, New Jersey, announced that the data from its trial in 99 people with AIDS wasting showed a statistically significant weight gain. The company seems to have "jumped the gun," as one person close to the trial put it. No data were yet available from the trial to justify Celgene's press release.

Drug company rebuked for marketing thalidomide as cancer fighter
In 1957, the drug thalidomide was approved for use in Europe as a treatment for morning sickness caused by pregnancy. Thousands of women took the pills, assured by the drug maker that they were safe. Unfortunately, the drugs had primarily been tested as a sleep aid for elderly patients -- not on pregnant women. By the time its tragic side effects were known, it was too late to help the than 12,000 babies born with severe birth defects. Today, it is known that even one capsule of thalidomide can cause devastating defects, including the development of flipper-like limbs. Yet, the Celgene Corporation has promoted the pill as a cancer treatment, despite warnings from the FDA.

Marijuana Helped 3-Year-Old Beat Cancer May 6, 2011 foxnews

Dad Claims Marijuana Helped 3-Year-Old Son Beat Cancer.

Dad Gives Toddler Battling Brain Cancer Medical Marijuana U2b
Marijuana Marijuana has cured a little boy with brain cancer despite the doctors refusal to consider the treatment.

Therapeutic Use of Cannabis “the munchies”
Marijuana users often (but not always) get “the munchies,” a stimulated appetite for food, which, at this time, makes cannabis the very best medicine on the planet for anorexia. Hundreds of thousands of Americans in old age, convalescent wards, or hospital situations have anorexia. Most could be helped by cannabis—yet these Americans are being denied a healthy life by governmental policy dictated by government police! This effect can also extend the lives of victims of pancreatic cancer (eat or die). However, the DEA and U.S. government prevented any research or use of cannabis in pancreatic cancer therapy since 1976. They have effectively allowed tens of thousands of persons to die each year, denied the right to live relatively normal, healthy, and productive lives.

Chapter 5: Marijuana Prohibition
The Emperor Wears No Clothes

“Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug enforcement/drug treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depends on finding more and more people to arrest and ‘treat’?  “More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?”
—Fred Oerther, M.D., Portland Oregon, September, 1986.

Koch Roaches A.L.E.C. Drug Detention Centers
Today many have had their eyes opened regarding the huge profits made off of what is commonly called the "Prison Industrial Complex."  Suddenly awareness has turned from disbelief to anger as taxpayers realize the screwing private prison companies, their lobbyists and elected Legislators have been giving them for more than three decades now.

Fluoride
Controversial fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC (FLUoxetene Hydrochloride) and Sarin nerve gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUoride).

Starving Babies and Illegal Food
Doctors in the US are not required to have any formal nutritional education. Though many illnesses are caused by nutritional deficiencies, most doctors prescribe a "pill-for-an-ill" and neglect to educate patients on prevention and lifestyle improvements that can heal many illnesses.”

Thank God for Hippies
Who are these people? We are the yeast that makes the dough rise. And it's not just us, there's been people like us for centuries. Before there were hippies, there were beatniks, before there beatniks, there were bohemians. The European counterculture ran away from Naz Germany. They brought hundreds of thousands of artists and musicians and writers into this country. Before that there were people like George Bernard Shaw and Voltaire and all the way back to Socrates. There have always been that fraction of people who have said, "I want to see the truth." ~Stephen.Gasken