Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Unserious
A senator, or maybe a private citizen, named Obama is suggesting that perhaps it would be wise to build more nuclear plants. This senator or private citizen is proposing an increase in federal loan guarantees to spur the construction, which is a good thing.
Unfortunately, the plants won't even be approved for construction for another 2 years, and then will probably take 20 years to build.
Not because of any technical limitations: actual construction takes about 3 years.
So what's the idiotic delay? Federal regulations.
It's too bad this Obama fellow, this senator or private citizen, doesn't have any influence on the President. After all, the President is head of the executive branch, and could immediately order the NRC to cease interfering with the national interest. If this Obama dude really wanted to make nukes happen, he'd be asking the President for emergency executive orders instead of just talking about loans.
Wonder who the President is?
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Satire aside, here's how a COMPETENT executive does it:
Dateline: Oklahoma City, 1930s.
Unfortunately, the plants won't even be approved for construction for another 2 years, and then will probably take 20 years to build.
Not because of any technical limitations: actual construction takes about 3 years.
So what's the idiotic delay? Federal regulations.
It's too bad this Obama fellow, this senator or private citizen, doesn't have any influence on the President. After all, the President is head of the executive branch, and could immediately order the NRC to cease interfering with the national interest. If this Obama dude really wanted to make nukes happen, he'd be asking the President for emergency executive orders instead of just talking about loans.
Wonder who the President is?
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Satire aside, here's how a COMPETENT executive does it:
Dateline: Oklahoma City, 1930s.
As drilling operations pushed on toward the north and west, there arose a controversy over drilling within the city limits. ... In July 1930, the city council enacted ordinances to establish safety regulations and to allow drilling in the SE part of town. Shortly the derricks were towering over the homes in this residential district. ... Demands for extending the drilling zone forced the city council to hold special elections in 1935 and 1936, extending the drilling toward the state Capitol. Governor E.W. Marland [one of Polistra's guiding lights] demanded that production be allowed on state-owned land around the Capitol so that the state would receive a share of the revenue. When the city council refused to include it in the permitted area, Marland put the lands under martial law and issued drilling permits in defiance of the city government. Twenty-four wells went down immediately, some within a few yards of the Capitol and governor's mansion.¶ 7:26 AM
