Document-forging Doosan was just the tip of the Korean nuclear corruption iceberg.
It’s different stateside, right?
Oh, wait:
U.S. NRC is refusing to supply Congress with safety documents
related to the closing of San Onofre.
But Plant Vogtle is much safer, right?
Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning told us so.
Of course, he also told us Kemper Coal would come in on budget, and now
SO is writing off $611 million after taxes.
But
that bad concrete pour, the misplaced reactor vessel, the leaking tritium;
those are all flukes, right?
Meanwhile, solar panels don’t leak tritium, and if you misplace one,
you only lose money, not risk lives.
By Choe Sang-Hun in NY Times yesterday,
Scandal in South Korea Over Nuclear Revelations,
Weeks of revelations about the close ties between South Korea’s
nuclear power companies, their suppliers and testing companies have
led the prime minister to liken the industry to a mafia.
The scandal started after an anonymous tip in April prompted an
official investigation. Prosecutors have indicted some officials at
a testing company on charges of faking safety tests on parts for the
plants. Some officials at the state-financed company that designs
nuclear power plants were also indicted on charges of taking bribes
from testing company officials in return for accepting those
substandard parts.
Worse yet, Continue reading →
They call it the Triangle of Death because of the cancer clusters.
No, not Waycross: near Naples, Italy,
“It’s impossible to clean it all up. The area is too vast.”
