In South Carolina we have a burgeoning nuclear power industry. The local power monopoly has taken it upon itself to force customers to pay for the financing of this venture up front … as though it’s the very least we can do — and the whipped legislature is impotent to act decisively on behalf of the tax payer in this matter.
The thing that torques me about it all is the power monopoly’s relocation to new digs on this side of the river.
The pretentious complex is surrounded by a very secure array of wrought iron fencing, strategically placed formidable pyracantha bushes every few feet, and replete with the latest in brick structures, sheds, extensive paving of roads, parking lots, and sidewalks as well as bodacious landscaping, covered picnic areas for the employees, and security cameras all around.
Why can’t they assume some of the austerity the rest of us must endure? In the economic downturn the taxpayer has to tighten their belts. The power utility just has to raise rates.
They could at least assume a chief executive from South Carolina prior to attempting to impose their unseemly will on the taxpayers of the state.
I’m just quite a bit more than a little tired of feeling like their bitch and being continually subjected to their capricious whims.
In the evolution of things we have nuclear power in place but the thought remains: what about a nuclear accident.
Having been acquainted with the sequela of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl I decline to engage in fear mongering. However, a healthy skepticism for the safety of this technology is in order; particularly in light of domestic terrorist attempts to reek havoc on both people and the infrastructure — these plants would be a plum target in the enemy pursuit of breaching homeland security.
The Chernobyl Disaster
Nuclear accident which happened April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic — now known as ‘Ukrane’.
On April 26, 1986, reactor four at the Chernobyl plant experienced a meltdown.
It is the worst nuclear power plant accident in history … thus far.
It caused a massive release of radioactivity from a power problem which destroyed one of the site’s reactors.
Most of the deaths resulting from the accident were due to radiation poisoning.
The resulting fire sent a plume of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.
This radioactivity drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern, Western, and Northern Europe.
Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia had to be evacuated, with over 336,000 people resettled.
This accident raised numerous concerns regarding the safety of the Soviet nuclear power industry as well as nuclear power in general. It was a causative factor in slowing its expansion for a number of years and forced the Soviet government to become less secretive.
The countries of Ukrane, Belarus, and Russia have the continuing burden of substantial health care and decontamination costs secondary to Chernobyl.
We could be next.
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