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Showing posts with label Hearing Bellefonte. Show all posts
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Friday, August 19, 2011

The "Mendacity Club," TVA's song and dance show with its cast of conservative socialists, the building of the fascist state in the United States of America.

"There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity!" 'Big Daddy' in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"  "Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter." John Hay, Secretary to President Lincoln


A quote by John Adams: "The true and only real definition of a republic is a government in which all men, rich and poor, magistrates and subjects, officers and people, masters and servants, the first citizen and the last are equally subject to the laws." The government itself, represented by the TVA in this case, is bound by law. Deceitful socialist bureaucracy and propaganda are being utilized to  subvert nuclear safety laws, policies and procedures by the TVA .

Yesterday's TVA board meeting should have been an eye opener for those who were in favor of Bellefonte restarting. Unfortunately, it was not, due to a willingness to accept lies from the TVA for financial motivations. What was exposed was the extent the TVA is willing to perpetuate deceit to build a nuclear power plant. TVA Executives and those who support nuclear power deceit are now members of the newly formed "Mendacity Club." Below are a few highlights of the clubs positions.

Dr. Marilyn Brown, chairperson of the Nuclear Oversight Committee, was elated over her proclamation that nuclear power is "secure, clean and affordable." ( "Secure," but not safe nuclear power.)  That statement of fallacy was repeated many times yesterday at the TVA Board meeting. Another proclamation of Dr. Brown concerned the so called unbiased and independent nuclear oversight committee experts, far from it, as both support the nuclear industry. It seems the college professor has become a developer of TVA propaganda.

Chief Operating Officer Bill McCollum supported and presented the "Mendacity Club's" position. One of his points was that a combined cycle natural gas plant cost nearly the same as finishing the Bellefonte Nuclear Reactor. This was a gross distortion of the facts. Cost to complete Bellefonte, $4.9 Billion, cost of a 800 mega watt combined cycle natural gas plant at Bellefonte with the pipe line, under $2 billion dollars. I'm no supporter of coal, but Bill McCollum's statement that nuclear was less expensive than coal demonstrates the extent of deceit the TVA will make to support their position concerning nuclear power.


McCollum also stated quality assurance systems were maintained during TVA's period of the nuclear plants' cancelled construction permit and subsequent stripping of the plant. McCollum's statements directly conflict with the NRC position on this issue.

The "Mendacity Club's" solution to their financial debacle, increase their debt and form schemes of irresponsibility, sell, lease and/or lease back the defective Bellefonte Nuclear Reactor.

There is a serious downside to TVA's history concerning nuclear power. The TVA and their supporters will utilize any means to support their position concerning nuclear power, including death threats, lies, massive debt, threats of arrest and the utilization of propaganda . Now, the ignoring of obvious safety problems and illegal actions contained within the current Bellefonte construction permit process.

There is a political expose in this process. Many government officials in their unwavering support of TVA's mismanagement and nuclear power have exposed themselves as supporters of deceit, propaganda and socialism as a political and economic government form. The various government officials in supporting TVA's irresponsibility demonstrate irresponsibility themselves in their grab for TVA in lieu of tax money and the false proposition that TVA is the benevolent parent providing jobs when in fact TVA is an abusive government corporate bureaucracy destroying American Regulated Capitalism via irresponsible leadership and mismanagement in a system of socialistic fascism.
(About Fascism in America: Here's a bit of reading in a factual story from an old soldier, Delta Force, Special Forces, and the various aspects of Special Observations and Operations. Suggest you read the story, it should be eye opening. "Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America" If you wish to learn more here are some articles. http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200601003_white_supremacism_sexism_militarism/  and http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fascism-in-America-II-131650.shtml
Lawrence University, Socialism and Fascism are Essentially the Same: http://www.lawrence.edu/sorg/objectivism/socfasc.html  )

The government officials involved do not support good ole American regulated capitalism, they support fascist socialism where the means of production and distribution are owned by the government and built by the multinational corporation at either taxpayer or TVA ratepayer expense. The "socialist corporatocracy" grows, say thank you to our ignorant, socialist supporting government leadership, the trade unions, nuclear lobbyists and the TVA. They have formed a Corporate Socialist Amerika in support of nuclear power and the beginings of the fascist state.

The Bottom Line of TVA and Bellefonte, the song and dance is not over.

Various government officials may have demonstrated they do not support the American ideals of regulated capitalism. However, this fight is not over, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Washington D.C District, will now decide the case of the defective construction permit since the TVA ignored the obvious defects in support of their deceitful financial position and gross mismanagement.
UPDATE: A technical error resulted in loss of the case. Petitioner and their attorneys failed to correct their error. Why is there always an error?

The supporters of nuclear power attempt to suckle at TVA's teats of government deceit and financial irresponsibility at ratepayer expense. The Tennessee River Valley Caucus conservative political representatives have shown their hand, they are only conservative in support to conserve the neu Corporate Socialist Amerika pouring millions of dollars into their political reelection campaigns, not to mention the millions of dollars spent for corporate lobbying.

Meanwhile our electrical rates increase, the TVA, according to their own figures supplied yesterday, ranks 43rd in 100 electrical utility providers for rates to customers.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44199002/ns/local_news-chattanooga_tn/

TVA is building a record of anti-American activities by not allowing peaceful protest and by the harrasment of citizens attempting to convey messages and gain an understanding of TVA's actions.
Protest at Knoxville TVA Headquarters.


Previous harrasment by TVA Security in violation of individual rights at Harriman, Tn..



Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Limited Appearance Letters to the NRC, Financial and Nuclear Waste Issues

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The following is a Limited Appearance Letter forwarded to the NRC by an Attorney from Cookville, Tn. More reasons why the TVA must not proceed with the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant project. This is an important Limited Appearance Letter and deals with important financial issues of the TVA as well as waste storage issues.

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Limited Appearance Bellefonte Nuclear Plants Units 3 and 4

Docket No. 52-014--COL and 52-15-COL

Honorable Paul Bollwerk,

I am an attorney licensed in Tennessee and several other jurisdictions. I am a member of the Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation, a distributor in the upper Cumberland of electricity produced (or purchased) by TVA.My wife and I participate in TVA's "Generation Partners" and return to the grid some of the electricity produced by the 4 kW solar PV array which I have installed on the roof of my home in Jackson County.We have studied TVA since the time the new Board first proposed a Strategic Plan which completely omitted any reference top electrical efficiency, conservation and the generation of power from renewable sources.We respectfully direct the presiding officer's attention to the July 16, 2008 testimony of Dr. Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety. We ask that a copy of this statement be included in the record of these proceedings. An electronic copy can be found at http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/pdf/romm_testimony.pdf. I have attempted a preliminary review of the NRC's draft Environmental Impact Statement. Unfortunately large portions of that document as posted on the internet are not available for public review. This certainly violates the instruction to allow informed public input found in the National Environmental Policy Act and the Council on Environmental Quality regulations.A critical omission is any documentation by TVA of a reliable forward projection on energy demand that would justify the proposed Bellefonte nuclear plants. TVA's rates are steadily rising and are to be increased again by 10 to 20 percent on October 1, 2008. These rate increases have lead to reduced demand. TVA is to lose 4 to 5 % of the base demand when the USEC gaseous diffusion nuclear fuel processing facility in Paducah is scheduled to cease operations in 2012 as an industrial customer of TVA. In any event, TVA should not be allowed to make a new and financially very risky multi-million dollar re-entry into nuclear plant construction in order to provide subsidized power to a few industrial direct customers while putting the repayment costs and risks on all of the other users of TVA power. TVA faces prohibitively high costs for construction and does not have the financial strength to complete this project. The federal financing bank will not loan federal funds to TVA for nuclear construction. The proposals for Bellefonte on their face violate the "no new major generation" promise TVA made to the taxpayers, Congress and the GAO following the collapse of TVA's last foray into nuclear power. ("TVA Plans to Reduce Debt While Meeting Demand for Power" GAO-06-810 Report, August 2006.) Private financing for nuclear plants, even with federal loan guarantees, has not appeared. Private financing of such a risky venture appears even less likely as our bank credit system continues to shrink and becomes more risk averse. Government loan guarantees, the renewal of the Price-Anderson Act and subsidies only make the risk more self-evident. See: http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid467.php At the same time TVA faces steadily and rapidly increasing construction costs. The skyrocketing costs of steel, concrete and other construction materials and the limited availability of skilled craftsman and knowledgeable supervisors and managers make any projection costs and all timetables extremely speculative. Undertaking a project with no prospect that costs and implementation schedule can be controlled is foolish. In any case the excessive cost per unit of electricity generated makes further nuclear investment by TVA unwise and as well as unnecessary. The return on investment for conservation, efficiency and co-generation to achieve demand reductions has been demonstrated many times in many places. There appears to be no reason that demand for TVA power could not be reduced from the current high per capita use figures by 30% or more with a much smaller investment than is proposed for the Bellefonte plants. The (declining) costs of renewable generation from wind and solar are known. Private investors have already offered to capitalize additional wind generation at Buffalo Mountain in TN but TVA has declined to contract for the power that would be produced despite the fact that it would cost less than the cost of much of the other purchased power, particularly peaking power. It looks like the "standard design" paradigm for the AP 1000 has already been sacrificed to applicant plans for customization and continued discovery of design defects as more detailed engineering documents are presented to the NRC. It does not appear the NRC will succeed in finding suppliers for all key components which it can certify in advance. I suspect that Westinghouse, like General Electric soon will start to discard business lines. As the financing of reactor design and construction is recognized as extremely risky in risk averse capital markets, the AP 1000 may disappear from the U.S. market. We have not solved the problem of spent fuel storage. It looks more and more like Yucca Mountain will never be available, which at the same time the U.S. taxpayers are being bled in actions for damages by operators of existing (and even decommissioned) reactors. Of course, TVA's Bellefonte plants will have no right to the use of Yucca Mountain and in this respect the spent fuel disposition aspect of its plans are incomplete and cannot be approved.


Respectfully submitted,
Brian Paddock
Cookeville, TN 38501