Re: [Sustain] Fwd: CBS's Nuclear Revival

2 Aug 2007

      Don,

Sorry; as you see I am behind on email.  But I do think that the "no 
subsidies" line is a winner.  Then you don't have to argue danger or 
waste or any of the other stuff that the technofix crowd think is 
somehow magically solvable.

Jeanne

Don Eichelberger wrote:
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Cal-
I visited with Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS this 
Friday- she's out here for a visit.  She has 
worked against P-A for years and is convinced it 
is a sacred cow, of sorts, that legislators will not touch- at least, not now.
She suggested going after other subsidies to the 
nuclear industry whose support is softer, 
especially the loan guarantees that are being 
offered to try to win over Wall Street to invest in nuclear power.
More on this as it develops.  For now, any ideas 
for how we can do this are welcome.
Since it is an election year, it would seem we 
need to be pushing all candidates to support a no 
subsidies for nuclear power statement and let the 
technology compete, stand or fall, on its own merits.
We should also try to get energy spending - 
especially to lower greenhouse gasses-officially 
prioritized by CEC for quickness of 
implementation and cost per kilowatt, which would 
put energy conservation at the top of spending priorities.
I am convinced nuke cost and time for 
implementation, as well as their security threats 
to safety and mass outage potential, will undo them.
But the anti-nukers among us can no longer be the 
"silent majority" on the subject.  Even in 
California, opposition to nukes, once at 2/3rds 
looks to be slipping, thanks to a well 
orchestrated campaign around global warming by 
the nuclear industry and their partners.
Let's talk,
Don
At 09:06 AM 6/14/2007, you wrote:
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How about eliminating the Price Anderson Act?  No insurance waiver means no
nukes.  We pushed a proposition in 1976 but it failed, though it sparked a
lot of debate.
Cal Broomhead and Kathleen Ribeiro
broomhead@igc.org
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[Original Message]
From: Don Eichelberger <done7777@sbcglobal.net>
To: Susan Swift <vencejo@mindspring.com>
Cc: <sustainability@sfgreens.org>; Lynda Hernandez
<redwoodsforever@verizon.net>; <GPCA-Energy@yahoogroups.com>;
<TrueGreen_NoNukes@yahoogroups.com>
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Date: 6/12/2007 6:43:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Sustain] Fwd: CBS's Nuclear Revival
I hope they were responsive to working together.
Seems we have "allies" almost everywhere we
look.  It is a matter  of finding ways to keep
each other in each other's loops and, if not
"coordinating efforts", at least making a buzz in unison.
Overcoming the other side's media blitz will be a
big part of it.  I am ccing the state Green Party
media guy, Cres, with a heads up that his help
would be good to have.  The main media strategy
at present seems to be writing and responding to
blogs (my first blog is
www.greenuprising.blogspot.com) and writing
letters to editors for newspaper articles that promote nukes
We need to do something newsworthy.  We (SF Green
Sustainability Working Group) are considering
pushing Leno for stronger legislation than a
study, including opposing renewal of nuke
operating licenses in the state on the same grounds we now oppose new
licenses.
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I would like to get something happening,
Don
At 07:48 AM 4/19/2007, you wrote:
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Great News! We have some allies outside the immediate environmental
ncommunity. Thanks for sharing this Don. I'll write to CBS and FAIR.
-Susan
-- In TrueGreen_NoNukes@yahoogroups.com, Don Eichelberger
<done7777@...> wrote:
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I looked at the 60 Minutes segment and said to
myself, "Noooooo! Not 60 Minutes, too!"  I had
intended to respond to them, but got turned to
other things, until I got this alert.  In case you want to respond....
Glad FAIR is doing this.
Don
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:27:06 -0700
From: "Richard A. Knee" <rak0408@...>
To: "Knee Richard A." <rak0408@...>
Subject: Fwd: CBS's Nuclear Revival
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Subject: CBS's Nuclear Revival
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:34:18 -0700
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3086
Action Alert
CBS's Nuclear Revival
60 Minutes' critic-free boosterism
4/18/07
On April 8, the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes aired a segment about the
"resounding success" of the French nuclear power program,
suggesting that
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"emission-free" nuclear power might offer an easy solution to the
problem
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of climate change. The report protected this dubious assertion from
skeptical scrutiny by failing to quote a single bona fide critic of
the
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nuclear industry.
The segment was titled "Vive Les Nukes," which gave a good
indication of
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the slant it took. Describing it as "an efficient means of
producing large
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amounts of carbon-free energy," correspondent Steve Kroft announced
at the
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top of the segment that nuclear power is "a technology whose time
seemed
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to come and go, and may now be coming again." The notion of a nuclear
power renaissance was bolstered by CBS's choice of interview
guests--the
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program spoke only to nuclear power supporters (in France and
elsewhere),
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thereby allowing their rhetoric to go unchallenged.
Guests on the segment were French energy official Pierre Gadonniex,
French
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nuclear industry executive Bertrande Durrande, White House deputy
secretary of energy Clay Sell (Bush's "point man on nuclear power"),
French nuclear executive Anne Lauvergeon, MIT nuclear researcher
Andrew
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Kadak and David Jhirhad of the World Resources Institute, described
as "an
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environmental think tank in Washington."
Jhirhad was the only potentially balancing source, but he is quoted
only
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to make Kroft's point that "even some environmental groups are
taking a
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second look at nuclear power." This is an emerging line in much of
the
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corporate media (e.g., Washington Post, 4/16/06; New York Times,
2/27/07),
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though the actual number of green groups embracing nuclear power is
quite
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small. The World Resources Institute receives contributions from
several
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energy companies and other major polluters, information that would
have
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been useful for CBS viewers in evaluating Jhirad's claim that the
nuclear
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industry's "safety record has been pretty good."
The segment's one-sided sourcing was made all the more problematic
when
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the White House's Sell claimed that "no serious person can look at
the
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challenge of greenhouse gases and climate change and not come to the
conclusion that nuclear power has to play a significant and growing
role
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in meeting that challenge worldwide." Of course, "serious people" do
question precisely that--and CBS should have interviewed them.
Excluding such sources meant excluding important information. While
France's nuclear power is portrayed as widely popular, CBS failed to
mention large protests held across the country on March 17 (Agence
France
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Presse, 3/17/07) against construction of a new nuclear plant. Nor, in
touting the massive nuclear reprocessing plant France has built in
Normandy, did the show refer to the radiation it releases into the
English
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Channel (NIRS Nuclear Monitor, 3-4/00) or the cluster of leukemia
cases
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occurring around the plant (British Medical Journal, 1/11/97).
Kroft even adopts industry-friendly language in describing the push
to
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revive U.S. nuclear power, discussing the "financial incentives" and
"streamlined regulatory system" intended to encourage nuclear energy
development. Such "incentives" might better be described as
government
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subsides, which have long been criticized by nuclear industry
critics as a
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waste of taxpayers' money. Unmentioned in the CBS report were similar
subsidies in France; according to the U.S.-based Institute for
Energy and
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Environmental Research (5/4/06), $1 billion a year in government
subsidies
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go to plutonium production alone.
Excluding critical voices allowed grossly misleading information to
go
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unchallenged, as when nuclear executive Lauvergeon claimed, in the
segment's conclusion, that "wind and solar are, you know, temporary
sources of energy. It works when you have wind, it works when you
have
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sun. No sun, no wind, no energy. You don't want to watch TV only
when you
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have wind." Of course, wind and solar energy are not "temporary"
sources
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of energy; power generated by both can be stored. Airing this sort of
misinformation eliminates any real consideration of viable
alternatives to
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nuclear energy.
At one point, Kroft says that "the Bush administration is pushing a
nuclear revival." The same could be said for CBS.
ACTION:
Contact 60 Minutes to ask why its report on nuclear energy excluded
the
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views of the industry's numerous critics.
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Alert</SPAN><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><STRONG><FONT
face=Georgia><FONT size=3><SPAN class=main_headline>CBS's Nuclear
Revival</SPAN><BR></FONT></FONT></STRONG><FONT face=Georgia><FONT
size=3><SPAN class=sub_headline>60 Minutes' critic-free
boosterism<BR></SPAN><BR><SPAN
class=date>4/18/07</SPAN><BR><BR></FONT></FONT><SPAN
class=published-content-body><FONT face=Georgia size=3>On April 8, the
<SPAN class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> newsmagazine
<SPAN class=media_outlet><STRONG>60 Minutes</STRONG></SPAN> </FONT><a
title=""
href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
16&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2007%2F04%2F06%2F60minutes%2
Fmain2655782.shtml"
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target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272 size=3>aired a
segment</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3> about the
"resounding success" of the French nuclear power program, suggesting
that "emission-free" nuclear power might offer an easy solution to the
problem of climate change. The report protected this dubious assertion
from skeptical scrutiny by failing to quote a single bona fide critic
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of the nuclear industry.<BR><BR>The segment was titled "Vive Les
Nukes," which gave a good indication of the slant it took. Describing
it as "an efficient means of producing large amounts of carbon-free
energy," correspondent Steve Kroft announced at the top of the segment
that nuclear power is "a technology whose time seemed to come and go,
and may now be coming again." The notion of a nuclear power
renaissance was bolstered by <SPAN
class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN>'s choice of interview
guests--the program spoke only to nuclear power supporters (in France
and elsewhere), thereby allowing their rhetoric to go
unchallenged.<BR><BR>Guests on the segment were French energy official
Pierre Gadonniex, French nuclear industry executive Bertrande
Durrande, White House deputy secretary of energy Clay Sell (Bush's
"point man on nuclear power"), French nuclear executive Anne
Lauvergeon, MIT nuclear researcher Andrew Kadak and David Jhirhad of
the World Resources Institute, described as "an environmental think
tank in Washington."<BR><BR>Jhirhad was the only potentially balancing
source, but he is quoted only to make Kroft's point that "even some
environmental groups are taking a second look at nuclear power." This
is an emerging line in much of the corporate media (e.g., <SPAN
class=media_outlet><STRONG>Washington Post</STRONG></SPAN>, </FONT><a
title=""
href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
17&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F20
06%2F04%2F14%2FAR2006041401209.html"
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target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272
size=3>4/16/06</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3>; <SPAN
class=media_outlet><STRONG>New York Times</STRONG></SPAN>, </FONT><a
title=""
href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
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size=3>2/27/07</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3>), though
the actual number of green groups embracing nuclear power is quite
small. The World Resources Institute </FONT><a  title=""
href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
19&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wri.org%2Fpartners%2Fcontrib_financial.cfm"
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target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272 size=3>receives
contributions</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3> from
several energy companies and other major polluters, information that
would have been useful for <SPAN
class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> viewers in evaluating
Jhirad's claim that the nuclear industry's "safety record has been
pretty good."<BR><BR>The segment's one-sided sourcing was made all the
more problematic when the White House's Sell claimed that "no serious
person can look at the challenge of greenhouse gases and climate
change and not come to the conclusion that nuclear power has to play a
significant and growing role in meeting that challenge worldwide." Of
course, "serious people" do question precisely that--and <SPAN
class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> should have interviewed
them.<BR><BR>Excluding such sources meant excluding important
information. While France's nuclear power is portrayed as widely
popular, <SPAN class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> failed
to mention large protests held across the country on March 17 (<SPAN
class=media_outlet><STRONG>Agence France Presse</STRONG></SPAN>,
3/17/07) against construction of a new nuclear plant. Nor, in touting
the massive nuclear reprocessing plant France has built in Normandy,
did the show refer to the radiation it releases into the English
Channel (<SPAN class=media_outlet><STRONG>NIRS Nuclear
Monitor</STRONG></SPAN>, </FONT><a  title=""
href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
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size=3>3-4/00</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3>) or the
cluster of leukemia cases occurring around the plant (<SPAN
class=media_outlet><STRONG>British Medical Journal</STRONG></SPAN>,
</FONT><a  title=""
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target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272
size=3>1/11/97</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia
size=3>).<BR><BR>Kroft even adopts industry-friendly language in
describing the push to revive U.S. nuclear power, discussing the
"financial incentives" and "streamlined regulatory system" intended to
encourage nuclear energy development. Such "incentives" might better
be described as government subsides, which have long been criticized
by nuclear industry critics as a waste of taxpayers' money.
Unmentioned in the <SPAN
class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> report were similar
subsidies in France; according to the U.S.-based Institute for Energy
and Environmental Research (</FONT><a  title=""
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22&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieer.org%2Freports%2Fenergy%2Ffrance%2Flowcarbonrepo
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target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272
size=3>5/4/06</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3>), $1
billion a year in government subsidies go to plutonium production
alone.<BR><BR>Excluding critical voices allowed grossly misleading
information to go unchallenged, as when nuclear executive Lauvergeon
claimed, in the segment's conclusion, that "wind and solar are, you
know, temporary sources of energy. It works when you have wind, it
works when you have sun. No sun, no wind, no energy. You don't want to
watch TV only when you have wind." Of course, wind and solar energy
are not "temporary" sources of energy; power generated by both can be
stored. Airing this sort of misinformation eliminates any real
consideration of viable alternatives to nuclear energy.<BR><BR>At one
point, Kroft says that "the Bush administration is pushing a nuclear
revival." The same could be said for <SPAN
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