Obama Stands Behind Nuclear Power

By JARED A. FAVOLE And TENNILLE TRACY

WASHINGTON—Obama administration officials Monday brushed aside calls for a freeze on new U.S. nuclear power development, and sought to reassure the public the nation's nuclear facilities are safe and the threat of harmful radiation reaching U.S. soil from Japan is minimal.   --The Wall Street Journal Mar 15, 2011

That's the last we heard until Apr 16, 2011:

President Barack Obama met with a dozen environmental activists at the White House Friday as his energy agenda continues to come under fire from all sides.
Obama dropped in on a meeting between White House staffers and Energy Action Coalition activists in town for the Power Shift 2011 conference — a gathering of some 10,000 people, almost entirely college students, organizing to promote clean energy and the environment.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53303.html#ixzz1K8fXcQho

You have to ask yourself, which side of the butter is this breaded on? Or is it that I'm two-faced politician and I really don't believe I'll get a second term, after all, I may be stupid, but not that stupid.

Aomori business groups ask TEPCO, others to resume building nuke plants

"A group of six chambers of commerce and industry in Aomori Prefecture asked Tokyo Electric Power Co. and other entities on Thursday to restart construction of nuclear facilities being clustered on the Shimokita Peninsula of the northern Japan prefecture.
The local bodies in five municipalities on the peninsula said in the written requests that the regional economy has taken serious blows from halts to the construction of TEPCO's Higashidori nuclear plant and other facilities in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Fukushima Prefecture."  --AOMORI, Japan, April 21, Kyodo

What's the best course of action after a level 7  nuclear sccident?  Well, the answer is obvious: Go back and do the same thing that got you in this mess in the first place!  That's what intelligent people do. Besides, we've got to do something with all that fuel stored at Dai-ichi that nobody knows about.

Well gee, thanks a lot

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is considering cutting annual salaries of its employees by around 20 percent as part of its restructuring effort to make compensation payments over the emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, company sources said Thursday.   --Kyodo Apr 21, 2011

You would think after all they have put these poor people though they would get a bonus. What do ya bet they don't cut management salaries? Probably give themselves a raise for their fine handling of plutonium and other radioactive materials. Not to mention their keen foresight in creating emergency backup systems that work in extreme conditions. And lest us not forget their efficient  handling of the press and timely, accurate posting of data.

Your doing a fine job there brownie!

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