Obama: Nuclear Power OK For Enemies but Not For US?


With Obama, it's yea for our enemies and NO for U.S.

Nuclear power is the most environmentally friendly power of all, low on emissions, does not require destructive mining or drilling efforts to feed it, and is also one that creates a lot of jobs both in initial construction as well as to sustain its ongoing operation. Nuclear power is also a mainstay power source for such countries as France. It’s clean, safe, and extremely desirable. Its only drawback is what to do with its waste.

But to the U.S. enviro-racket, nuclear power is a bugabear that needs to be deep sixed forever and Barack Obama is a chief bugger of that bugabear. Unless, that is, you happen to be an enemy of the USA. If you are, say, Iran, why, nuclear power is a vital national interest that he is willing to stand behind in principle.

Outrageously the “president of the world” is willing to agree with Iran, one of our biggest international enemies, a nation that has sent its soldiers and trainers into combat against our own troops, a nation that exports acts of terror across the globe, a nation that claims it needs nuclear power for domestic energy… and Barack Obama is on their side.

In Prague last month, Obama said that he saw no reason why his administration wouldn’t “support Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy with rigorous inspections.” And today in London, Obama reiterated that support by agreeing that Iran’s announced intentions for nuclear power were “legitimate aspirations.”

Not only that, but just last month Obama approved a nuclear power deal with the United Arab Emirates, as well. So, it’s nuclear power for everyone but the U.S.

So what about nuclear power for the US? Here we are dependent upon foreign oil on one hand, or still using what Obama claims is “dirty” coal power on the other, yet Obama still refuses to allow his own countrymen build new nuclear power plants.

Oh, sure, he made noises about cautiously supporting nuclear power for the U.S. during the late presidential campaign, but his nuclear power denying actions since have spoken louder. Even during the campaign pro-Obama Newsweek concluded that Obama was anti-nuclear power for his own people. And since his election, it has become clear that he will not move forward on construction of any new American nuclear power plants.

One of the biggest obstacles to American nuclear power plants concerns what to do with the waste. Of course, it appears that Obama has turned his back on the Yucca Mountain project, the one project that could have served as the nation’s nuclear waste dumping site. Without the Yucca Mountain dumpsite approved, expecting to build new nuclear plants is difficult at best. So, in essence, Obama has shut down any possibility of building new plants forcing the U.S. to remain a slave to foreign oil and “dirty” coal, two things he also claims he’s against.

So, as far as Obama is concerned, it’s yea for they but not U.S. for clean, cheap, and efficacious nuclear power and at the same time it also an Obama nod of the head for some of our biggest enemy’s nuclear aspirations. They get the cheap, clean, and safe power and we are left without. Now THAT is sacrifice, folks!

Some American president we have here.


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Obama is a diabolical genius

NickDeringer (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 4:10PM EST (link)

It’s a known fact that nuclear energy causes children to be born with 2 heads and causes people to die at a young age from lukemia. In a couple of decades there’ll be nothing left but dead, 2 headed Iranians.

Brilliant!!

Fish Heads

GreyCloak (Diary) Wednesday, June 3rd at 3:18AM EST (link)

Ayup … although a study of fish near the oldest [Dresden] commercial nuclear plant near Chicago showed that not only had they not developed extra heads, but were actually thriving in the warm waters created by the plant.

 
 

Right on all counts

leonidas Tuesday, June 2nd at 4:56PM EST (link)

This is an outrageous policy and we and our friends will suffer mightily for it.

Obama does not put the interests of the United States first and that is a truly frightening fact.

When will Americans in large numbers realize this? When something truly awful happens again??

Leonidas

they will begin to recognize it...

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 5:03PM EST (link)

when unemployment and inflation are in high double digits and gas is over $5.00 a gallon.

It’s coming, soon.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

 
 

This was literally my first thought upon seeing the story...

evanm (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 5:06PM EST (link)

My second way: How is it okay for our enemies to develop nuclear technology, but not okay for our allies to develop settlements?

 

If we put the nuke plants in the desert, like Iran, is it ok then?

gekster (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 5:07PM EST (link)

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved

 

Just paying for the USA sins.

deevee Tuesday, June 2nd at 6:02PM EST (link)

It was the Clinton administration in 1994 that secured “not hostile” North Korea nuclear capability http://download.premiereradio.net/guest/rushlimb/pdf/nailing.pdf , for electricity they claimed, but hey, they were only “cheating”.

Same with Iran “a nation that claims it needs nuclear power for domestic energy” , only the naive would believe.

Why do they get nuclear energy and we get third world, 20% efficient, expensive windmills, you might light a bulb, not power an industrial nation.

Clinton gave Korea its excuse

GreyCloak (Diary) Wednesday, June 3rd at 3:23AM EST (link)

Clinton agreed to send oil to North Korea to help with electricity production until they could build nuclear plants. But he never followed through: the first contracts for designing North Korea’s nuclear power plants were not issued until 2000.

 
 

Uranium mining is a hot topic here in No. CO

NightTwister (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 6:16PM EST (link)

It’ll definitely be an issue in the Senate and CO-4 races in 2010.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

so to speak

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 6:25PM EST (link)

LOL!

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 
 

If oil producers/exporters have legitimate need for nuclear power

civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 6:34PM EST (link)

..surely net importers of oil and gas have an even stronger need for nuclear power.

This is where Obama’s position breaks down on logic – and becomes an attempt to cripple and perhaps destroy our economy – and blame it on the next administration (if they’re Republicans), since it will take some years for the effects to become dominant,

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

 

Can we say it now??

izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 8:54PM EST (link)

The emperor has no brains

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

Yucca mountain 12+ billion and not opened

carlsbadd Tuesday, June 2nd at 9:25PM EST (link)

12+ billion in tax payer money (directly ot through energy fee’s from nuclear power plants) And the enviro nuts and fighting tooth and nail to keep it closed forever.
We can’t reuse our spent supplies like other countries to “re-fuel ” current plants due to security reasons. Nuclear waste is guarded almost as well as Fort Knox

Clean, renewable and produces no CO2 and our country refuses to build more, insanity at it’s best.

even more when you consider that the newer plants

kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 9:29PM EST (link)

could use that old “waste” as fuel.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

But Yucca and Reprocessing are dead

GreyCloak (Diary) Wednesday, June 3rd at 3:31AM EST (link)

The tax put on everybody for Yucca Mountain still has an $18 billion surplus. Congress took the money and never spent it for the purpose for which it was intended.

Yucca Mountain is actually ready to accept waste, but Congress won’t let it. Meanwhile, the products intended for disposal are sitting in concrete containers or pools of water all over the United States.

We stopped research on recycling fuel rods or using “spent” fuel to create “new” fuel thirty years ago.

Meanwhile, even France generates over 75% of its electricity from nuclear plants … and the Japanese now own one of the two US companies that were once able to make nuclear plants.

And France probably owns the other half :).

Xasteius (Diary) Wednesday, June 3rd at 10:31AM EST (link)

AREVA has made their not-so-secret company goal of taking over the nuclear industry.

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

Franco-German Nukes

GreyCloak (Diary) Thursday, June 4th at 2:26AM EST (link)

Germany, held at bay by the same eco-antis as the US, currently plans to be no-nuke within thirty years.

France, on the other hand is expanding its nuclear power generation capabilities. Over 75% of their electricity is nuclear.

As Germany finds that it is unable to provide its own needs with wind-power and other eco-friendly methods, I have heard that Germany may have to buy power from France, and agree to store French waste. There have been many protests over waste storage in Germany … its own waste is processed in France/Belgium and returned … because Germany has no processing facilities of its own.

 
 

License is under review by the NRC, actually.

Xasteius (Diary) Wednesday, June 3rd at 7:31PM EST (link)

and current license for YM stinks IMO

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

*sigh*

Xasteius (Diary) Wednesday, June 3rd at 7:32PM EST (link)

2nd link here.

http://www.redstate.com/settingsun/2009/05/06/republicans-to-obama-where-is-the-science-behind-your-yucca-mountain-decision/#comment-139

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

 
 
 
 
 

Obama is a pandering jerk. nt

redneck_hippie (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 9:40PM EST (link)

Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

 

Secret List of Nuclear Sites Leaked

jeepnpat1 (Diary) Tuesday, June 2nd at 11:27PM EST (link)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/us/03nuke.html?_r=2&ref=global-home&pagewanted=all

Of course because we have inept people releasing information.