Nuclear energy is not clean. Ever. Could this Obama new policy have anything to do with Senate bill S2795 being introduced in the Senate recently?
"Still, the relationship between Mr. Obama and Exelon has been mutually beneficial", says the New York Times, August 22, 2012, titled "Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility."
"The ties go back at least to Mr. Obama's tenure in the Illinois State Senate, when he befriended an Exelon lobbyist named Frank M. Clark. Exelon's employees, including Mr. Clark, were among the biggest financial supporters of Mr. Obama's United States Senate campaign, with donations also from Mr. Rowe, then the company's chief executive, and others in the executive suite, campaign finance records show.
"Exelon's employees have contributed at least $395,000 to Mr. Obama's federal campaigns. By far the strongest link is with Mr. Rogers, the Exelon board member and family friend. A college classmate of Michelle Obama's brother, he was co-chairman of Mr. Obama's inauguration committee and still occasionally plays basketball with Mr. Obama.
"He is one of Mr. Obama's biggest campaign donation bundlers, having raised more than $500,000, and has co-hosted several fund-raisers, including one in March that featured a performance by the Grammy-winning musician John Legend. (A spokesman for Mr. Rogers said he had not contacted Mr. Obama or any administration officials on Exelon's behalf.)
"Another Obama bundler is William A. Von Hoene Jr., who oversees Exelon's legal and lobbying team out of Chicago, despite Mr. Obama's rule against accepting contributions from lobbyists. Mr. Von Hoene is not a registered lobbyist, although records show he attended a White House meeting to push Exelon's cause".
"When Japan's Fukushima accident prompted a review of safety at United States nuclear power plants, Exelon had an obvious stake in the outcome. Mr. Rowe was the only utility industry executive serving on a commission appointed by Mr. Obama in 2010 that made recommendations based on the accident and concluded in January that nuclear waste stored in pools of water -- as they were in Japan -- present 'no unmanageable safety or security risks.'
"Since the accident, Exelon has managed to minimize how much it must spend to address safety concerns at its plants, including its eight General Electric boiling water reactors -- the same models as those at Fukushima."
A Moral, Public Health and Public Safety Issue
In "The Medical Implications of Fukushima," Dr. Helen Caldicott tells us that "Children are 10 to 20 times more vulnerable to the carcinogenic effects of radiation than adults. Little girls are twice as sensitive as little boys and women are more sensitive than men. Fetuses are thousands of times more sensitive."
"There's a very clear association between increased child leukemias and proximity to NPPs,"Dr. Ian Fairlie warns us.
Nuclear power has a big carbon footprint, radiation truth tells us. "People that claim nuclear power is carbon-neutral are considering only the direct emissions of the plant itself. In fact, it has the largest carbon footprint of any energy source other than fossil fuels". Monitoring of radioactive waste - Carbon pollution generated by monitoring and guarding the radwaste for eternity." Nuclear power has another footprint: "Mobile Chernobyl - Transporting nuclear waste to a central repository risks contamination along highways and rail lines, by accident or terrorists"."
"Millions of tons of radioactive soil and debris can be seen packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture." A drone flies over the bags; published April 17, 2015.
Radiation tragically affected plants, birds and butterflies very strongly in Chernobyl and Fukushima, [4:06-8:07 sum up], Dr. Timothy Mousseau, researcher and biology professor, has reported.
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