In this segment Robert asks the Nuclear Regulatory Commission if they have done any health studies on the risks of people living within 7000 feet of a nuclear power plant as well as the economic consequences of a nuclear power plant being located in such close proximity to residential real estate. Reasonably straight forward questions posed to the officials apparently are too hot to handle … in public and so an NRC official is directed/volunteers to speak to Robert outside the public meeting thus preventing the discussion/answers to Robert’s questions from being documented on the Federal Record. A court reporter documented every word spoken… in this meeting. John Russell citizen and recent District 5 Congressional Candidate makes some very important points as well that will appear on the Federal Record. Principle point made by Mr Russell being that building additional nuclear power plants will be a disaster of monumental proportion from an economic standpoint. Nuclear energy in addition to all of the other negatives (Huge Capitol Cost, Long Time Horizons for Construction, Declining and increasingly costly sources of fuel, costs of nuclear waste storage/processing that span by some estimates nearly incalculable time-frames calculated in centuries not years or decades.) Notwithstanding the fact that competing alternatives for generating electrical power are nearly in parallel cost with fossil fuel at the time of this writing and are without the environmental drawbacks …
