A)   Congress and the  state governments must authorize and clear the way for  the immediate expansion of existing nuclear power plants  that were originally   designed and approved for more reactors than are operating in these plants  today.     We could  build 40 to 50 new nuclear reactors  at the existing nuclear power plant sites.  This way,  no new sites must be selected and approved with long delays and local opposition.   There are dozens of nuclear power  plants  in the U.S.   that already have the facilities  and infrastructure  in place for more nuclear reactors.    They were approved long ago.   And these plants are in the  regions that need more energy every year.   But these regions have been building more filthy coal burning power plants that are  adding  hundreds of millions of tons of  CO2 and other pollutants to the atmosphere each year.      Simply expanding the existing nuclear power plants that have been operating continuously for over forty years is the biggest  reduction of greenhouse gases that can be accomplished without shutting down the American economy.      

B)   The government can build the first new nuclear power plants in the U.S.   at existing government power projects.    This should be  the modern “Apollo Project”  or “ Manhattan Project”  to build new energy for  the U.S.

Why not?    Congress already passed laws to guarantee the investment in the first five new nuclear plants built in the U.S.      (Was going to the moon in 1969 more important than rescuing 150 million working American families today from the bankruptcy of  $10 a  gallon gasoline for the next ten years?   Was going to the moon more  important than stopping the production of  billions of tons of  greenhouse gases every year from  coal burning power plants?  

Without new nuclear plants to avoid  building more coal plants,  the U.S.  will be increasing, not decreasing,  CO2 in the atmosphere by at least  2% each year.   Our political leaders calling for reduction in global warming  look like silly hypocrites when they do not call for stopping the building of more coal burning power plants.   However, there are plans to build at least 100 new  coal plants on the drawing board now  -- and not a peep out of the so-called environmental organizations who oppose nuclear power.   

C)   Turn  the foolish “excess profits”  attack on the oil companies into something constructive.   Require the rich oil companies to use part of their profits for something of long-term good.   Require that they build nuclear power plants with a small share of their  profits.  This will profit the country and they oil companies as well.  The major  oil companies could build five new nuclear plants a year with just ten percent of their profits  -- and they will have an income and the nation will have non-polluting, inexpensive energy  long after the oil is gone. 

Option A) is without doubt the quickest way to  get America moving forward.      Diablo Canyon in California is a good example of where more reactors were authorized than were built.     Diablo Canyon could double its energy generating capacity  -- and make the biggest  greenhouse gas reduction possible for  California .    Diablo   Canyon   was originally approved for  four  nuclear reactors.   Only two reactors were  built after years of attacks by  anti-nuclear fanatics who ran up the construction costs by billions of dollars.    The large power plant site,  security,  power lines,  and infrastructure are all in place for at least two additional  modern nuclear reactors.  Only the  anti-nuclear obstructionists stand in the way of California making a big addition to this nation’s non-polluting energy supply and a big reduction in greenhouse gases.   

Diablo Canyon has saved California from energy crises since it began operating.      This one nuclear plant alone has been  supplying  24% of the energy for northern California for  decades.   And it produces no greenhouse gases or pollution to the atmosphere whatsoever.   However,  another   50 percent  of  northern California’s energy is produced by filthy fossil fuel  power plants the are putting  100 million tons of CO2 in the atmosphere every year – and more  every year because California needs another 1000 megawatts of new energy  each year – another major power plant.   (Keep in mind that  so-called “clean natural gas”   power plants put  40% as much CO2 in the atmosphere as coal burning plants.)

The anti-nuclear politicians  in California are the  biggest  and most vulgar  Climate Change hypocrites  in the world.   They passed a law (AB 32) demanding that the California public reduce  greenhouse gases by  20% in  ten years.  But these same political leaders  are authorizing and building new fossil fuel power plants every year  to supply the state’s increasing energy demands  (1000 megawatts per year.)    These new fossil fuel power plants are adding  3% more CO2 to the atmosphere each year,  at least  another 3  million tons of CO2 each year.    This is more CO2  than can be reduced by all the AB 32 restrictive regulations on the working people in California !    

The anti-nuclear policies of California’s politicians  guarantee that California will add  20% more  CO2 to the atmosphere over the next ten years,  not  reduce by 20%  -- and they know this,  while they lie to the public that trusted them to run the state.   

The First New Nuclear Plant

 Everything will fall in place as soon as construction starts on the first new nuclear plant in the U.S.    No  arguments, facts, or state of emergency will convince the fanatical anti-nuclear crowd to change their minds.    They will resist and cover their past monumental  mistakes until new construction is a reality.   They will never admit to the damage they have done to the U.S. working public and the world ecosystem by forcing this country to build filthy coal burning plants  and creating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. 

That first new nuclear plant in the U.S  is the most important thing on which all effort must be focused.   It  matters  not where it is built or who builds it,  so long as it is one of the designs already preapproved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission  (NRC).     Then there is good reason for congress to waive all future  bureaucratic delay and  environmental  opposition so long as the NRC approves the sites and designs.   

Once the first new plant is underway and congress eliminates bureaucratic delay and environmental fraud  lawsuits to stop construction,  there will be a stampede to build the hundreds more nuclear plants that the U.S. must build to even slow down global warming and  prove that we will take care of our own energy needs.   There is no time to waste.   There are plans now to build  120 new coal burning plants in the U.S. to keep up with growing energy demands.   Only non-polluting,  modern  nuclear plants can replace these  filthy coal plants that will generate  another  500 million tons of  CO2 and  toxins.    The new coal plants  will increase the U.S. contribution to global warming by  20%!   (while  anti-nuclear politicians lie to the unsuspecting  public and claim we can reduce by  20%).   The U.S.   economy will not be allowed to die because of too little energy.  It will be one or the another, more coal plants or  new nuclear plants.  

And finally,  there is one more thing that must be done to make any of the above options possible.   Congress must stop  obstructionism by environmental frauds.  Congress must take away the money in the National Environmental Protection Act  (NEPA)  and  Endangered Species Act (ESA)   that pays  eco –fraud organizations  to file lawsuits and blackmail the public and stop all development  of our resources  in this nation. 

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Discussion and Opinions:

Top scientists and internationally recognized  environmentalists alike now agree  that we made a big mistake in killing nuclear power in the U.S  forty years ago.   That forced us to  relying  on coal and natural gas power plants that have  created the excess CO2 greenhouse gas  that is blamed for global warming.    They agree  that nuclear  is  now the only large source of  non-polluting energy that can replace the fossil fuels that are creating  global warming.    Our nation will be bankrupt  if we have to buy oil from overseas forever.   We must start building the FIRST NEW NUCLEAR  PLANT IMMEDIATELY.    Everything will fall in place after that.  The sobered and educated public will demand that more be  built as soon as possible.   

But even if we started construction on a hundred new  nuclear plants tomorrow,  the  American working public will be blackmailed for the gas to drive to work for  at least another  six to eight years.    We can only relieve the  unfair burden on our working families in the interim by quickly tapping  our own  oil resources  in the U.S. as soon as possible.   We can be producing  more of our own oil  within two to three years if we start now.  

The most important thing is that the oil producing countries and OPEC will  bring down the price of oil only when they see the U.S.   developing its own vast reserves of oil --- and they see us building nuclear plants for the long-term  at the same time. 

The U.S. can achieve  long-term  energy independence only by using nuclear energy  -- and lots of it  -- as soon as possible.    In the interim, we must  tap into our own vast reserves of oil that are now  blocked off from drilling with the senseless arguments that our land is more precious than the land of  other countries who are producing the oil we are using.   The selfish environmental fraud organizations have used our courts to stop every effort  in the U.S.   to develop sufficient  energy for the American working families who must drive to work.   Most of our  political leaders stood by and did nothing while gasoline soared to $5.00 a gallon.    It will go higher before we can protect ourselves and bring it down.   The oil producing countries know that we allowed ourselves to become  helpless.  They are  blackmailing us for good reason.

  Abundant, cheap  nuclear energy  is the only way we will ever have real  alternative fuels for our vehicles,   such as natural gas and maybe hydrogen someday.     Nuclear power plants  will allow  for the first time widespread  use of electric cars that can be charged inexpensively at night.    The use of electricity generated in fossil fuel power plants to charge electric cars is just plain stupid.    It creates more  greenhouse gas than just burning the fossil fuel directly in the cars.    And we are now burning fossil fuels in our power plants to produce  ethanol with large government subsidies.    That is equally stupid.

The anti-nuclear fanatics and environmental frauds  organizations set up this nation to be blackmailed by the oil producing countries.   Thirty years ago, they  killed all expansion and development of nuclear power in this country by spreading scare stories that are whole cloth lies.   And they persist today.   There has been only one serious nuclear accident in the U.S. in over forty years, Three Mile Island .   It was caused by idiot operators who deliberately shut down the safety equipment in the plant.   This caused the plant to be destroyed,  but no damage to the surrounding population.  The billion-dollar containment dome over the nuclear reactor  contained all radioactivity, just as it was designed to do.     After Three Mile Island ,  the anti-nuclear fanatics forced this nation to build hundreds of filthy coal burning power plants to supply this nation’s energy needs.   They loaded our atmosphere with billions of tons of  greenhouse gases and thousands of tons of  radioactive  elements  from the coal burning power plants.   Much the same environmental fear mongers and frauds  also demanded that we put  most  of  our oil resources off limits to drilling and production.    This has left us  totally dependent on  oil from overseas for two-thirds of our needs.    

For  the next six to eight years,   the only  salvation for the  American working people who must drive to work will be to drill for the oil that sets in the vast areas of the U.S. that were  foolishly closed off.   At the same time, we must build the non-polluting  nuclear power plants that are the only way we will ever have the energy to develop  alternative transportation fuels to take the place of oil when it is depleted around the world.      

There is an estimated  85 billion barrels of  oil in areas of the U.S. that have been blocked off from exploration.   The estimated  10 billion  barrels of oil in a postage stamp area of the Alaskan National Wildlife (ANWAR)   may be the quickest new oil supply we can develop.  (The entire Anwar is the size of the northeastern states.   The only area to be drilled is smaller than New York City .)    ANWAR can be connected to  the   shipping infrastructure that has been delivering Alaskan oil from Prudhoe Bay for the last twenty years.  

The obstructionists claim that it is too little to be worth the effort.   Too little?   Ten  billion barrels of oil is  an additional  one million barrels per day for the U.S. --  every day for at least the next eight years.  The world is now hoping that Saudi Arabia will increase its production by  half that amount to bring down that outrageous price of oil.   An addition of  one million  barrels  per day is an immediate 12%  increase in production of oil in the U.S.    It means that the American public will not have to send almost 50  billion dollars a year to foreign countries for oil at present prices.  Is that insignificant?   Is that too little to be worth the effort?  

The environmental fraud organizations claim that the ANWAR ecosystem is too valuable to take a chance that there will be an oil spill in the area.   But they cannot answer why the ecosystem  in ANWAR is more precious than the land in foreign countries that are asked to drill for oil for the U.S.    The obstructionists  don’t dare stand up and tell  the public that all drilling for oil in other countries  should stop and that the American economy should be destroyed.