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Sorry if this was posted already, I just saw it today. It looks like the fox is guarding the henhouse! www.fairewinds.com

@Edano does it work for you?

They spend so much money on the PR and reactor build and sit back in their expensive leather chairs with their fingers crossed and their Cayman accounts open.

This is some convenient timing! A new poll comes out .... today.

Fewer Americans want plugs pulled on nuclear plants, survey finds
By Phil Drake on May 23, 2011

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters shows that 29% of people polled believe the United States should systematically phase out the use of nuclear power plants over the next 50 years. 47% do not agree

Support for phasing out nuclear power plants is down from 35% in late March, two weeks after the earthquake hit Japan.

www.rasmussenreports.com

@ms in la And that is some effective message management.

@Rob in SF Yep..ready to whisk them away from danger while subjecting little children to unconscionable levels of radiation...How cynical I've become!

@radioguy Can always count on Rasmussen.... Sometimes the polls are worse liars than the media.

@Nancy Sandbags?! I have a better flood plan than that at my house!

OK here is the Poll. Go ahead Scribblers -- We should run our own poll and see what percentage we come up with!

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters

Conducted May 19-20, 2011
By Rasmussen Reports

1* How closely have you followed news reports about the ongoing problems in Japan since its earthquake last month?

2* What effect will the crisis caused by the earthquake in Japan have on the U.S. economy? Will it help the economy, hurt the economy or have no impact on the economy?

3* Should more nuclear power plants be built in the United States?

4* How concerned are you about the safety of nuclear power plants in the United States?

5* Should the United States begin to systematically phase out the use of nuclear power plants over the next 50 years?



NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence

@ms in la Dead serious and the Missouri River floods almost every spring. It was cited as a bad example by various outlets and IIRC the NRC who is now declaring everything totally safe. ::headdesk::

@Nancy Yes, landlines. Most polls are run by media orgs or closely aligned. I stopped trusting polls when researching the 2000 election.

@ms in la I bet the Rassmussen phrasing wasn't: now that three nuclear reactors are simultaneously melting down, spewing the worst imaginable toxins into out sea and air, how do you feel about a nuclear power plant in your town?

@Ian That correlation would be the interesting one to see broken out.

We should definitely run that poll like Nancy's group name poll... docs.google.com

I get it now. It's the Nuclear Industry's Confidence Campaign we're witnessing. Begun in earnest.

See this from today... and put it with the poll.


Release of measures may improve public confidence in safety of nuclear plants
BY WAYNE BARBER
SNL Power Daily
05-23-2011 7:52 am

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission task force studying implications of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan might recommend the federal agency make public certain secret measures implemented around U.S. nuclear plants in response to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The NRC enacted many significant accident mitigation measures in the years following the 2001 attacks, and the task force will probably ask the commission to make some of those measures public in order to improve confidence, Task Force Chairman Charles Miller told the commission during a May 12 meeting at NRC's Maryland headquarters.

In providing NRC with a 30-day update on its work, Miller said the task force has thus far "not identified any issues that undermine our confidence in the continued safety and emergency planning of U.S. plants." That said, Miller believes the task force will make recommendations aimed at improving safety and preparedness. When asked directly, though, Miller indicated he saw no need to suspend nuclear power operations while the task force conducts its review.

www.securityinfowatch.com

They are trying to offer the public a security blanket with a confidence boosting blitz campaign. Releasing double secret security measures instituted after 9/11 to show all the ways they've been secretly protecting us all along, and polls that show we really don't want them to phase out NPPs... it's all good. We're over it. Guarantee you we will see much more along these lines. Confidence restorers.

@ms in la You were dead on with the quake. It was a 4.7 close to the north coast 15-20 min ago. quakes.globalincidentmap.com

I get it..I'm from San Diego..I've been noticing my dresser rattle a lot more lately!

@Nancy I'm cobbling that poll into SurveyMonkey now... Stay tuned.

"But nuclear experts advising the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna report that Iran is pressing ahead with plans to start operating the reactor." ?? It already reached criticality. Sounds started to me.

@Rob in SF Did you mean fission reactors in your survey?

Nancy, here's the embed code if you want to try it...
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