USA: il resto del mondo vale solo 100 milioni di dollari (28 giugno)

Proprio così. Se leggete sotto scoprirete che gli USA, se per errore dovessero distruggere il resto del mondo con l'inquinamento nucleare, pagherebbero solo 100 milioni di dollari di danni. calcolando in 5,7 miliardi il resto degli esseri umani, il valore a testa è di: 0,017 dollari. Ben 34 lire italiane per persona. Poco più dei famosi trenta denari...


For anyone interested in joining the new Price-Anderson List which will attempt to hold the nuclear industry responsible for any and all damage it inflicts by not having the U.S. Congress renew the Price-Anderson Act send an e-mail to the address below:  Price-Anderson allows the industry to continue it's massive experimentation on literally BILLIONS of human beings internationally, massive parts of Earth, much of the human, animal and plant genetic pool and the economic health of the global economy.

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   Whereas: Not a single utility was willing to build a
> nuclear plant until the Price Anderson Act was passed.
>
    Whereas: Alternative safer sources of energy are much
> less costly to the American taxpaying utility ratepayer,
> when the direct and hidden costs of nuclear plants are
> fully accounted for.
>
   A reminder once again that Price-Anderson is GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL  in scope even though the law has been instituted by the United States Congress on behalf of industry. If the NASA/DOE Cassini mission had accidently re-entered earth's atmosphere in say, Japan, China, India, Brazil or Germany NASA/DOE would only have to pay PART of the $100 Million the United States would have to pay for possibly destroying an entire country, most of that $ being paid by the US taxpayer who are usually unaware that such a law even exists.

    Let's keep that INTERNATIONAL perspective in mind throughout the running of this list and be as comprehensive and inclusive as possible.
 
    Whereas:  The Price Anderson Act is extended to foreign
> reactors built by American contractors.  This greatly
> adds to the problem of uncontrolled nuclear weapons
> proliferation, since the fission byproducts  of nuclear
> plant operation can be used to arm atomic  atomic and the
> triggers for hydrogen bombs.

    Roger Herried has set up & will run the technical end of things for this list & I will monitor the list. The list is open for Sign-On Letters & Action Alerts of any anti-nuclear nature but let's focus on Price-Anderson & its eradication.

   Your Friendly List Overseer,

                                 Bill Smirnow

Sidney - Thank your friend Mr. Reichart. It is an excellent start. I am thinking to use it create a simple document (easily printed and faxed, or emailed, or printed and snail mailed to senate/congress/media/etc.) opposing the "rubber stamp" renewal of PA when it is presented at the next congressional session without a complete study to determine its morality, efficacy, and constitutionality. I am working on the PA web page which can serve as the hub for information.

karin
 

--- "Sidney J. Goodman" <sjgdesin@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> To whom it may concern: Richard B Reichart, who I met at
> the American Ethical Union/ American Humanist Association
> Assembly (6-4-00),  encouraged me to prepare the
> following draft resolution.  Please review it and suggest
> improvements as may be advised.  A background discussion
> of the subject follows the draft.
>
> Sid Goodman
> (address below)
>
> Draft
>
> RESOLUTION REGARDING THE PRICE ANDERSON ACT
>
> Whereas: The refusal to accept full responsibility for
> one's actions distinctly defines an attitude of
> irresponsibility..
>
> Whereas:  When the consequences  of those actions
> threaten the lives of millions, and render vast areas
> unfit for habitation for hundreds of thousands of years
> or even millions of years, it threatens the viability of
> the entire economy as well as the health and welfare of
> the United States.
>
> Whereas:  A federal law which blesses the avoidance of
> complete responsibility, in order to promote a
> politically favored commercial enterprise fails to
> protect the public, as laws are supposed to do.
>
> Whereas:  When that federal law also deprives American
> citizens of due process  it constitutes a direct attack
> on the civil liberty of all Americans.
>
> Whereas: A federal law called The Price Anderson Act does
> indeed excuse the nuclear power industry from most of the
> damage which would result from major accidents at a
> nuclear plants, it attacks the civil liberty of all
> Americans.
>
> Whereas: Not a single utility was willing to build a
> nuclear plant until the Price Anderson Act was passed.
>
> Whereas: The nuclear industry has nevertheless always
> claimed that there is essentially no risk of any damaging
> accident.
>
> Whereas: If there were a shred of truth to those claims,
> there is no justification for the continued existence of
> the Price Anderson Act.  Consequently, it means that
> the continued existence of the Act demonstrates that the
> nuclear industry knows they are being fraudulent in their
> assurances, yet they perpetuate that fraud.
>
> Whereas: The Price Anderson Act allows damages to be paid
> in an amount which are a tiny fraction of the potential
> damage (i.e. a total of $7 billion for a potential $314
> billion disaster according to the government's own
> estimate).
>
> Whereas: The Price Anderson Act gives the Nuclear
> Regulatory Commission complete and irrevocable powers in
> distributing damages in a manner that  abrogates fair due
> process.
>
> Whereas:  The Price Anderson Act is extended to foreign
> reactors built by American contractors.  This greatly
> adds to the problem of uncontrolled nuclear weapons
> proliferation, since the fission byproducts  of nuclear
> plant operation can be used to arm atomic  atomic and the
> triggers for hydrogen bombs.
>
> Whereas: The Price Anderson Act applies a statute of
> limitations for illnesses (like cancer),  caused by an
> accident,  and victims of such diseases will be rendered
> ineligible for any compensation whatsoever after the
> limiting date expires. This will deprive them of any
> remedy for damage since most cancers take longer to
> develop than the statute of limitations in the Act.
>
>  Whereas: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has shown
> itself to be biased in favor of the industry it is
> supposed to regulate.
>
> Whereas: There is reason to believe that a United States
> Supreme Court decision which upheld the Constitutionality
> of the Price Anderson Act (in 1978) was based on the
> acceptance of fraudulent arguments presented by the
> nuclear industry.
>
> Whereas: The Price Anderson Act encourages a lessening of
> quality control and diligent execution of design,
> operation, and maintenance by nuclear contractors and
> operators, which increases the likelihood of great harm
> to the environment, the economy, and health of the
> general population.
>
>  Whereas: The use of plutonium MOX fuel in reactors will
> increase the likelihood of a major accident, both in the
> United States and in Russia. Russia (as well as American
> utilities)  is being urged to use MOX plutonium fuel.
>
> Whereas: The Price Anderson Act must be periodically
> renewed by a vote of the US House of Representatives and
> Senate, and it will be voted on by the next Congress.
>
> Whereas: Alternative safer sources of energy are much
> less costly to the American taxpaying utility ratepayer,
> when the direct and hidden costs of nuclear plants are
> fully accounted for.
>
> Now Therefore Be It Resolved:
>
> 1. The Price Anderson Act must not be renewed.

> 2.  Nuclear Contractors and Operators must assume full responsibility for all damages to the public, without any statute of limitations

> 3.  The Supreme Court's 1978 decision should be investigated and challenged.


> Background on the PRICE ANDERSON ACT
>
> Your advice and/or help would be appreciated
>
> The Price Anderson Act is up for renewal in the next
> Congress. This law is a rip-off, which will leave the
> public holding the bag and carrying the coffin in the
> event of a nuclear power plant accident.  Sooner or
> later, another accident will happen. The Act allows
> nuclear operators to cause hundreds of billions in
> damage, enormous loss of life and sickness, yet escape
> full responsibility for the consequences of their
> actions. The Price Anderson Act is The lynch pin for
> nuclear depredation in the United States and throughout
> the world.
>
> If there is no credible risk from nuclear plants, AS IS
> ALWAYS CLAIMED, then there is no justification whatsoever
> for the mere existence for the Act. Yet, the Act remains
> as proof positive that the big guns in the industry do
> not really believe one word of their assurances about
> health and safety.
>
> Imagine someone coming up to your community, smashing it
> with a wrecking ball, killing occupants and walking away
> Scott free.  That is what the Price Anderson Act allows.
>
> The Price Anderson is a Federal Law, which excuses
> nuclear operators from most of the damage they cause.
> The Act is periodically renewed.  Each time it is
> renewed, the nuclear lobby threatens to shut down every
> nuclear plant unless the Act is renewed.  Congress has
> always complied with this pressure.
>
> The Act will be up for renewal in the next Congress.
>
> In the event of a nuclear accident, the Price Anderson
> Act will pay damages up to a limit of $7 billion for an
> event, which could cause up to $314 billion, according to
> an official government estimate.  The estimate was
> squelched until the freedom of information act ferreted
> out the government report.
>
> The Act establishes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
> (NRC) as the sole judge of who gets paid, how much they
> get paid, and the order in which they get paid.  There is
> no appeal from what the NRC decrees.
>
> After an accident, each licensed utility (US and foreign)
> kicks in a fee to divide the limited liability cost. A
> provision in an old renewal Bill, indicated that this fee
> might be reduced in the event that a second accident
> happens in a single year
>
> There is a statute of limitation for damages.  Most
> cancers will take more than 10 years to develop.  Under
> the Act, after 10 years, a victim will not be eligible
> for a single penny.
>
> Collecting anything (anyway) will be difficult.  As what
> happened after the Three Mile Island accident, victims
> were told that they weren't harmed at all.  They were
> told that it was all in their imaginations.
>
> As explained by Dr. Steve Wing, Associate, Department of
> Epidemiology, School of Public Health, CB#7400,
> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC27599-7400,
> it is easy to design an "investigation" which proves that
> no harm is caused by an accident.  Recently, another
> white-wash report, for Three Mile Island, was issued by
> the University of Pittsburgh.  However, Dr. Wing's
> investigation found that there has really been a cancer
> increase
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