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McCains plan to spend endless billions on nuclear plants without a waste disposal system in place is like building a massive hotel without toilets.

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Toggle Navigation Home Voter Purge Lists Georgia Voter Purge List 2020 Wisconsin Voter Purge List 2020 North Carolina Voter Purge List 2020 Michigan Voter Purge List 2020 Store Film Screenings The Movie Other Palast Films Palast YouTube Media Interviews BBC Reports Democracy Now Reports Bio Donate Contact Reader Contact Media Contact The McCain Plan: Homer Simpson without the Donut by Greg Palast August 6, 2008 March 11, 2020 Im guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCains comments from inside a nuclear power plant in Michigan are so cracked-brained that I fear some loose gamma rays are doing to McCains gray matter what they did to Homer Simpsons.

On Tuesday, the presumptive Republican candidate descended into the colon of a nuke to declare we need to build 45 new nuclear plants that this is the way out of our energy crisis.

Nuclear power, declared the senator, is a safe, efficient and inexpensive alternative to oil.

Really We can argue all day about whether nuclear plants are safe (they arent period).

But there can be no argument whatsoever that these giant radioactive tea-kettles are breathtakingly expensive.

Not one of the last 49 nuclear plants cost less than 2 billion apiece.

Im looking down the road at the remainders of the Shoreham nuclear plant which took nearly 20 years to build at a cost of 8 billion or close to 7,000 per customer it was supposed to supply.

When I say supposed to, it was closed for safety reasons after operating just one single day.

Were told that the new generation of plants will be different.

Just like an alcoholic child-beater, the nuclear plant builders promise us that, This time it will be different.

Sure. And McCain believes them.

I dont. Maybe thats because I headed the government racketeering investigation of the Shoreham nuclear plants builders.

Now Stone Webster (a division of Shaw Group Inc.) will cash in big-time under Plan McCain.

The other big builder which will hit the jackpot under the McCain scheme is KBR, the one-time subsidiary of Halliburton, whose best known project is the rebuilding of Iraq.

Halliburton dumped KBR last year.

Cant blame them.) KBR has built many nukes not one within a mile of its promised cost.

So who is McCain getting his energy advice from Im looking at a photo of the perplexed senator inside the control room, looking like Homer without a donut, getting a lecture on the wonders of nuclear energy from a power company CEO, one Tony Early.

Early is the former President of LILCO, the very corporation the Feds and State of New York charged with civil racketeering.

When the government got him on the witness stand, it was clear the guy was too clueless to recognize he was in the midst of a billion-dollar swindle.

McCains got quite some team.) Now, you Obamaniacs might not want to read this next paragraph: While McCain is pushing nuclear power, a Senator from Illinois who shall remain nameless (skinny, just gave up smokes), was already embracing radiation as the solution to pollution.

This Senator voted for George Bushs energy bill, a law which contained massive giveaways to nuclear energy, legislation which disses and dismisses conservation.

Indeed, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate has been derided as the Senator from Commonwealth Edison, the Chicago division of Exelon Corp., the nations largest operator of nuclear plants and whose executives were the money backbone to his early presidential campaign.

McCains ready to spend a hundred billion dollars on nuclear power, no questions asked.

But Barack Obama puts a crucial condition on his approval for building new nukes: an affordable method of disposing the new plants radioactive waste.

While The New York Times reporters following McCain repeated his line about inexpensive nuclear power without question, a buried wire story on the same day noted that the Energy Department is putting the unfunded bill for disposing nuclear plant waste at 96.2 billion nearly a billion dollars per plant operating today.

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