Road to Global Warming Hell Paved by Politicians With Bad Intentions

For almost four decades, nothing the U.S. Congress did reduced any global warming gases. There are no public U.S. technical reviews or milestones that evaluate global warming advances and projections, "renewable" energy performance, national energy policies, global temperature increase, impacts of global warming advancements, funding, cost of Nuclear Regulatory Commission policies, etc. All the planning and costs of "renewable" energy are political special interests frauds of hundreds of billions of dollars and denial that global warming temperature increase exists.

Global warming temperature increase is a response to atmospheric accumulations of human and natural carbon dioxide and methane emission since the 1750 CE start of the industrial revolution. The most important reason the world has not responded to to global warming is the result of the U.S. political machinery suppressing for more than 30-years the expansion of nuclear energy as a replacement energy for the U.S. carbon economy.    

Continued Political Support Drive Left Democrat Policies

Rather than loose election support from the political machine faithful, President Obama and left Democrat U.S. Senate are engaged in continuing to producing great economic harm to the U.S. economy. The same is true of reducing global warming temperature increase. Rather than taking steps to save the human races for 2050-2099 CE destruction; through obfuscation President Obama and left Democrat Senate have greatly reduced the probability of human survival from global warming.

Winning the November 2012 election means everything to progressive left Democrat neo communists. President Obama and Senate Democrats have held their election ground by not responding to core left Democrat systemic issues. When questioned, there are no responsible policy or performance rebuttals by Obama or Senators regarding unproductive policies. Left Democrats simply ignore all significant arguments. Democrat politicians dwell upon (or create) derisive issues rather than resolve troubling problems.    

During President Clinton January 1993-2001 administration the U.S. communist movement made great strides in organizing winning regional, state, and federal elections. Since the 1990s left Democrat block captains organized progressive groups for “grassroots” election turnouts. The Vietnam War Era U.S. student communists had over time previously established small but significant controls over universities and colleges. Vietnam War Era communist body is well established and remains to this day influential in neo communist politics.   

A huge amount of government funding within current federal and state government department accounts are “interdepartmental loaned” to other government departments for use by left Democrat neo-communist special interest projects (some say these “loans” are misappropriation of legislated funds). With left Democrats in power, balancing the books is more like juggling the books. There is no federal budget since 2009 because left Democrat Senate and President Obama move funds to support the communist agenda while denying non communist objectives. Without a federal budget President Obama has been given blank checks to run government. The left Democrat Congress is running the U.S. government with many trillions of dollars given to President Obama over the years by the self serving left Democrats within the U.S. Senate. At best, the political management of the lack of federal budget is fiscally disturbing and lacks accountability.   

President Obama is the regulator and controller of all Federal Government funds, there is little accountability for how trillions of government funds are spent. Left Democrats live in a world of limitless energy and money, with unaccountable performance and fiscal management at the heart of left Democrat communist politics.     

The drafting of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) (aka, “stimulus bill”) was done 2007-2009 CE by the left Democrat 111th Congress. The rationale for ARRA was from Keynesian macroeconomic theory which argues that, during recessions, the government should offset the decrease in private spending with an increase in public spending in order to save jobs and stop further economic deterioration.    

Keynesian Theory does not produce products. An economic theory that considered increasing national economy through production of tangible goods would be a theory of materialism. President Obama and left Democrat U.S. Senate are so deep into Keynesian Economic practice that they cannot now disengage from federal deficit spending. Left Democrat President Obama and U.S. Senators are caught in an infinite loop (or Möbius strip) of increasing federal spending and debt. If they step out of the loop, there is loss of left Democrat election support. The only solution to political infinite loop spending and debt is to not elect any more left Democrats.  

Left Democrats drafted ARRA 2009 in support of radical neo-communist election campaigns. Communist election campaigns are standard practice in Europe. It is just that the U.S. spends billions of dollars upon their elections, which makes the U.S. a unique demagoguery whose elected representatives buy their way into power with the aid of expensive political machinery.

President Obama is a product of a U.S. communist education and progressive “grassroots” community organizing for the Chicago left political machinery. With strong communist organization and union backing, the left Democrats wiped out the Republicans in the November 2008 elections. Since it was originally formed 1993-2001 the left Democrats’ election machines remain intact (never broken up after elections). Communist left Democrats retain a formidable election force because its system for elections is experienced, has a successful track record, has processed billions of elections dollars to buy support, rewards those who obey the commands, has no moral scruples, and has spent trillions of government dollars to promote their candidate causes. The left Democrat election machinery only cares about winning elections, nothing else matters.

History has shown that whatever the left Democrats communists are doing, it will not work in the long-run, and will end in massive failures.   

Global Warming Progresses                

There are only two sources of clean energy that might curb enough global warming to save the human races: nuclear reactor energy and hydroelectric energy.

In 1992, left Democrat neo communist movement started government investments in “renewable” alternative energies that are still popular with the European-US neo communists. The beginning supporting argument for promoting “renewable” energy was to address the need to reduce carbon dioxide gas and curb global warming temperature increase. What occurred was congressional politicians ignored global efforts to reduce global warming temperature increase and covertly promoted continued expansion of hydrocarbon economies (coal, oil, natural gas). Renewable energy was/is used as a public diversion topic and renewable green energy became a vehicle for political graft, corruption, and waste.  

President Obama and the left Democrat neo communists are now caught up in failed European-U.S. economic programs and fundamentally failed “renewable” energy corruption so great that they cannot retreat from U.S. economic destruction and global temperature increases. The self serving neo communist politicians are welded to 1990s U.S. left Democrat congressional energy policies.

The human races are now stuck within Spaceship Earth in a political molasses-like-downward-spiral to its final destruction of human races 2050-2099 CE.     

The intentions of U.S. left Democrat neo communists is to increase control over national means of production and economies by owning the “renewable” energy sector, eliminate nuclear energy, and have the government regulate carbon energy production for regional political districts’ of coal, oil, natural gas. The U.S. capability and capacity of nuclear energy to produce necessary clean energy to reduce temperature increase has been eliminated over the last four decades by untoward powerful Congress members. Clean hydroelectric expansion has been unable to expand over the last four decades.    

For more than two decades, the Democrat’s political funding and management of multinational “renewable” energy has promoted greed, fraud, lies, waste, and global warming destruction. Joining of European-US neo communist leadership produced effective political control of decades of many trillions of dollars of European-US hydrocarbon energy. While U.S. politicians stopped clean energy nuclear growth for more than three-decades, the German politicians went farther and legislated all nuclear energy shutdown by 2023 CE. German and U.S. politicians alone now consume enough hydrocarbon energy to assure destruction of the human races 2050-2099 CE.   

U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992

After more than 20-years of global warming failure, the left Democrats still retain the same counter productive energy policies of EPAct 1992. Congress repeatedly passed the same alternative renewable energy topics in 1992, 2005, and 2009.

There has never been a U.S. political attempt to save the lives of 9 billion people.

The U.S. left Democrats and Republicans promoted the U.S. Energy Policy Act (EPAct 1992) to avoid (or distract from) necessary reductions of global and U.S. greenhouse gases. The politicians remain determined to keep their districts producing coal, oil, natural gas, and keep the U.S. economy dependent upon a carbon economy. EPAct 1992 formed the core “renewable energy” topics used over the last two decades to deflect the global need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.   

Since the EPAct 1992 under President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and Democrat Congress, the U.S. left Democrats addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management (Title I), natural gas imports and exports (Title II), alternative fuels and requiring certain fleets to acquire alternative fuel vehicles, which are capable of operating on non-petroleum fuels (Title III-V), electric motor vehicles (Title VI), radioactive waste, coal power and clean coal (Title XIII), renewable energy, and other issues. It reformed the Public Utility Holding Company Act and amended parts of the Federal Power Act of 1935 (Title VII).

Title III of the EPAct 1992 addresses “alternative fuels” (ethanol, propane, and electricity, in cars and light trucks). It gave the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) administrative power to regulate the minimum number of light duty alternative fuel vehicles acquired in certain federal fleets beginning in fiscal year 1993. Major amendments to the EPAct 1992 are the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 1989 established a new licensing process: 10 CFR Part 52. Congress affirmed and strengthened the new licensing process as part of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct 1992). To politically suppress nuclear energy and increase U.S. hydrocarbon energy production, congressional politicians unnecessary increased the costs of building new nuclear energy on the pretext of nuclear "safety" regulations imposed by the politicians and lawyers of the NRC. Nuclear politics of Congress and the NRC members have contributed greatly to increasing U.S. global warming greenhouse gas emissions.      

Among many changes the EPAct 1992 effectively deregulated electric utilities, created energy mandates, and in Section 801 directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate radiation protection standards for the DOE’s Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. In 2009, President Obama and congressional political machinery took over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) membership and also shut down the completed Yucca Mountain geologic nuclear repository to add to preventing further nuclear development. The EPAct 1992 directed the federal government to decrease energy consumption in federal buildings when feasible, and to integrate the use of alternative fuel vehicles in federal and state fleets. Title XXII in the EPAct 1992 authorized tax incentives and marketing strategies for renewable energy technologies in an effort to encourage commercial sales and production. The untoward Congress members have held fast to the the same unproductive energy policies since 1992, for more than two decades. There have been no reductions of U.S. global warming greenhouse gases resulting from any U.S. energy act.  

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has not identified how much the EPAct 1992 reduced U.S. global warming gas emissions. It is the U.S. self serving congressional members for MORE THAN the last two decades who have created the downfall of human races by repeating the same failed political energy process for more than 20-years.

U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005

The Energy Policy Act (EPAct 2005) is a bill passed by U.S. Congress Republicans and Democrats on July 29, 2005. The act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing (undefined) energy problems, changed U.S. energy policy by providing tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types of alternative renewable green energy, and increased required corn ethanol. The Act is Republican and is less renewable energy aggressive, but did not result in any U.S. reduction in global warming gases.  

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review of the conference version of the 2005 bill estimated the EPAct 2005 would increase direct spending by $2.2 billion over the 2006-2010 periods and by $1.6 billion over the 2006-2015 periods. In addition, the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the legislation would reduce revenues by $7.9 billion over the 2005-2010 periods and by $12.3 billion over the 2005-2015 periods. Total revenue reduction and spending is $16.1 billion. The CBO noted that the bill could have additional effects on discretionary spending, but did not attempt to estimate those effects. Major amendments to EPAct 2005 are the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The CBO has not identified how much the EPAct 2005 reduced U.S. global warming gas emissions.  

U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA 2009) and passed by President Obama and left Democrat House and Senate, is commonly referred to as the $850 billion “Stimulus” or “The Recovery Act” that is an economic stimulus package enacted by the United States Congress in February 2009. Drafting of the bill was done 2007-2008 CE.

Some ARRA Energy Project Background Information   

There is no accounting for state level spending of ARRA (2009) monies.

The White House has said ARRA (2009) contained $90 billion in renewable alternative green energy funds. Wikipedia lists $48.7 billion of ARRA (2009) alternatives to energy; $27.2 billion energy efficiency, renewable energy research, and investments and total $21.5 billion for energy infrastructure.  

U.S. neo communists funded $27.2 billion into useless green renewable energy while U.S. strategic need for scientific research only received a total of $7.6 billion. As with the trillions of dollars, there is no fiscal or performance government accountability of alternative renewable green energy. Like many of the left Democrat communist programs, a stimulus check around $850 billion was given to President Obama by the Democrat House and Senate; there has been little accountability of money spent by left Democrat neo communists. President Obama spends government funds as he wants to.       

The left Democrat neo communists have disdain for sciences and engineering (sometimes scientific conclusion are directly opposite of political policies, therefor sciences are suppressed). The Democrat’s communist agenda freely uses other people’s money unhindered by facts or logic or science. Left Democrat politicians funding of school sciences and hard sciences is undesirable for neo communists because science programs draw funds away for social programs. America has no science or education future while neo-communists Senators and President remain in political offices.     

The costs of the U.S. "renewable green" programs are huge. There have been no programmed reduction of global warming temperature increase.

Left Democrat neo communist energy WAST, FRAUD, and CORRUPTION of “loans,” “grants,” and “investments” into green alternative to energy are a significant part of the final American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. It takes a huge amount of taxpayer funding and debt to satisfy this neo communist political base.

As a diversion to the real problem of global warming temperature increase, President Obama and other neo communists have invested in a social program called “renewable energy.”     

The Department of Energy states that President Obama’s goal is to generate 80% of our U.S. electricity from “renewable” energy by 2035.  It is an impossible goal. By 2035, global warming temperature exceeds +2oC above preindustrial temperatures, atmospheric carbon exceeds 450 ppm, the global carbon budget exceeding-infrastructure was “locked-in” in 2017 CE, and with a temperature rise to exceed +5 oC; there is no hope for human races 2050-2099 CE survival.  

2009 CE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT, Total: $27.2 billion

NOTE: All of the technologies below are old technologies that are in limited use or have previously proposed and rejected over the past 100 years.  If there were any greater technologies here, capitalism would have already been using the energy technology and making it better. Although funding for below items have been on the books since 1992, none of the below have produced significant reductions in U.S. greenhouse gases.    

● $6 billion for renewable energy and electric transmission technologies loan guarantees for solar, wind, and “smart national grid.”  Smart national grid does not work.   
● $5 billion for weatherizing modest-income homes
● $3.4 billion for carbon capture and low emission coal research
● $3.2 billion toward Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants
● $3.1 billion for the State Energy Program to help states invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy
● $2 billion for manufacturing of advanced car battery (traction) systems and components
● $800 million for biofuel research, development, and demonstration projects
● $602 million to support the use of energy efficient technologies in building and in industry
● $500 million for training of green-collar workers (by the Department of Labor)
● $400 million for the Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP).  Cost of megawatt of Neal Hot Springs geothermal is two to three times more than natural gas electricity.  
● $400 million for electric vehicle technologies
● $300 million for energy efficient appliance rebates
● $300 million for state and local governments to purchase energy efficient vehicles
● $300 million to acquire electric vehicles for the federal vehicle fleet (GSA)
● $250 million to increase energy efficiency in low-income housing
● $204 million in funding for research and testing facilities at national laboratories
● $190 million in funding for wind, hydro, and other renewable energy projects
● $115 million to develop and deploy solar power technologies.  Solyndra is a bankrupt $535-million solar panel manufacturer.  There will be more government failed “green energy” businesses.
● $110 million for the development of high efficiency vehicles
● $42 million in support of new deployments of fuel cell technologies

2009 CE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, Total: $21.5 billion

● $6 billion for the cleanup of radioactive waste (mostly nuclear weapons production sites) IF “NUCLEAR WEAPONS CLEANUP” WAS EVER NEEDED IT IS NOW NO LONGER NEEDED – THIS IS PORK BARREL FUNDING WASTE
● $4.5 billion is allotted to the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE).  As outlined in the legislation, these funds are provided as “investment in a nationwide plan to modernize the electric grid, enhance security of U.S. energy infrastructure, and ensure reliable electricity delivery to meet growing demand” and build Obama’s smart national grid.  The OE is a new private/government Regional Entity responsible for coordinating and promoting bulk electric system reliability in the Western Interconnection.  Western Interconnection Synchrophasor Program (WISP or DOE NASPI) includes Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and involves 18 partners.  THE SYNCHROPHASOR “SMART GRID” PROGRAM APPLICATION FOR CONNECTING SOLAR AND WIND FARMS TO BASE LOAD GRID HAS NEVER WORKED LARGE SCALE.  Before funding billions of dollars get the electrical systems working to specifications. If the system does not work, do provide funds to build it larger.
   Expanding high voltage transmission lines is designed to expand Mid West coal electrical electrical production and transport the carbon energy via high voltage lines to the Pacific Coast.  
● $3.25 billion for the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) for power transmission system upgrades is PORK BARREL FUNDING.  WAPA appears to be a private/government funding administrator of federal funds for under defined political projects. Expanding high voltage transmission lines is designed to expand coal electrical electrical production and transport the carbon energy to the Pacific Coast.    
● $3.25 billion for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) for power transmission system (smart western grid) upgrades PORK BARREL FUNDING.  Congress created BPA in 1937 to deliver and sell the power from Bonneville Dam, Oregon. Expanding high voltage transmission lines is designed to expand coal electrical electrical production and transport the carbon energy to the Pacific Coast.
● $4.5 billion to increase energy efficiency in federal buildings (GSA) LOW OR NO GLOBAL WARMING RETURN ON INVESTMENT

The CBO has not identified how much the ARRA (2009) reduced U.S. global warming gas emissions.

Politics to The End

For more than two decades alternative renewable green energy has been used by politicians to deflect necessary national shifts from hydrocarbon economies of coal, oil, and natural gas. For more than four decades congressional politicians have suppressed new nuclear development to increase use of hydrocarbon energy from congressional voter districts. The only economies that might permit survival of human races past 2050-2099 CE are the nuclear and hydroelectric economies.

When confronted with the review of global warming temperature, President Obama does nothing to correct the deadly results. Left Democrat U.S. Senators follow President Obama’s election lead and are also non responsive. Political greed, fraud, corruption, and untoward policies no longer matter for the Washington political machine. The politicians will delay global warming responses until people in the U.S. are frying eggs in the streets from global warming temperature increase. However, because of carbon-budget infrastructure lock-in, by 2017 CE there will be no need to respond to global warming -- energy responses will be too late to save anyone.  

Total U.S. energy: nuclear electric is 8%, conventional hydroelectric power 2.7%, coal 23%, natural gas 23%, and petroleum 40%. Nuclear energy produces about 20% of U.S. electrical energy. The core global warming task is to reduce global energy share of coal, natural gas, and petroleum, to be replaced with hydrocarbon free nuclear and hydroelectric energy.

The price of correcting global warming temperature increase is high. The price of not doing so is much greater.  

Unless there is change, all those who are not yet born, and those who are now children and young adults under the age of 30-years, shall die 2050-2099 CE (more like 2050-2055 CE), ending the 160 thousand year journey of mankind.  

Nuclear Reform is Necessary

Blogger: Nuclear Reform is Necessary

Key Words: small modular reactors, SMR, U.S. Navy, Yucca Mountain, Military, NRC. DOE, IAEA, USN, Obama, left Democrats, Yucca Mountain, Congress, human races, temperature, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program,     

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There is revival of interest in small modular reactors (SMRs) for generating electricity from nuclear power, and for process heat. This interest in small and medium nuclear power reactors is driven both by a desire to reduce capital costs and to provide power away from large grid systems. The technologies involved are very diverse and SMRs have been operating for decades. The U.S. Navy has been using SMRs on navy vessels for 60 years.

The problem with the U.S. civilian nuclear energy program is that Congress (Republicans and Democrats) for the last 40-years have been suppressing U.S. nuclear development to promote U.S. economic expansion of hydrocarbon coal, oil, and natural gas industry. Political nuclear suppression to benefit politicians economically has become so bad that the criminal element within the left Democrat political movement starting in 2005 promoted economically and environmentally unsound “alternative, renewable, green energy” as a replacement for nuclear energy. Shutting down the completed Yucca Mountain geologic nuclear repository was an act by the left Democrat Congress and President Obama to signal nuclear investors that politicians no longer consider the U.S. nuclear industry as politically correct. Nuclear energy is out while alternative renewable green energy, coal, oil, natural gas are to now to be the “energy diversification” driving energy force of the U.S. economy.

With what little time that humans have remaining, if Congress has its way, America will forever live off of global warming carbon producing coal, oil, natural gas, and the politically correct “green energy.” However, the global carbon budget is too soon reaching a 2017 CE saturation point that determines the fate of humanity -- there is no turning back once the global carbon budget infrastructure saturation point is exceeded. There is no more than five years to stop the chain of human infrastructure events.  

Important: Science vs Politics - Researchers concluded that the 0.58 watts per square meter (W/m2) atmospheric energy differential implies that carbon dioxide levels need to be reduced to about 350 parts per million (ppm) to restore Earth's energy budget to equilibrium. They say the most recent measurements put carbon dioxide levels at 392 ppm and those global warming concentrations are expected to keep rising, resulting in continuous increase of global warming temperature exceeding Earth’s capacity to sustain any of the lives of 9 billion people. There is NO safe carbon dioxide level above 350 ppm. Science has presented definitive evidence that global warming is occurring since preindustrial times 1750 CE. As a result of intransigent self serving U.S. political machinery, there is no turning back the clock. The infrastructure of the global carbon budget shall exceed the carbon emissions limit, beyond which the cost of global warming recovery becomes exceedingly expensive. Science tells us then the human races end 2050-2099 CE; but self serving politicians continue to serve their own money and power needs to be elected now.         

The problem is, Congress’ shut down of U.S. commercial nuclear energy over the last 30-years-plus has condemned Earth’s human races to global warming temperature increase destruction 2050-2099 CE. It is unlikely President Obama nor left Democrats will do anything to effectively alter global warming course of events. Earth’s human race survival depends upon both phasing out the U.S. left Democrat political machinery and rapidly expanding global nuclear energy.

Nuclear energy is the only energy that provides both current technology and energy capacity necessary to possibly help save the human races. Nuclear energy must be fully implemented NOW.   

NRC

The only politically efficient way to start to correct U.S. long-term nuclear energy deficiencies is to fire and reorganize the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) members. Most likely any attempt to reorganize the NRC membership will be blocked, ignored, or delayed by President Obama, congressional left Democrats, and Obama’s paid following.   

For four decades Republicans and Democrats have foiled efforts to shift America from its hydrocarbon economy. Since the 1990s, Left Democrats and European-U.S. neo communists have sidetracked the UN charter to address the issues of global warming. World leaders have foiled commercial nuclear energy efforts to reduce human greenhouse gas emissions.  

Nether the less, with six decades of experience, the U.S. Navy (USN) existing small and medium sized nuclear reactors (SMRs) technology can become available with some modification on the commercial nuclear market, within a year. The USN nuclear energy program has been long established and well run. There are also operating commercial SMRs that are of interest.  

Under President Ronald Reagan, Executive Order 12344 of Feb. 1, 1982, the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program is an integrated program carried out by two organizational units, one in the now politically oriented Department of Energy (DOE) and the other organization is in the experienced Department of the Navy (Chief of Naval Operation).   

The U.S. nuclear commercial energy sector is a global asset too valuable to be run by mostly unreliable politicians who arrange to have no accountability for there actions. Untoward politicians now control the NRC. The NRC member situation is untenable. No longer can human races survival depend upon the whims of politically appointed NRC’s lawyers and politicians.  

If human global greenhouse gases are to peak by 2020 CE and than continue to be reduced, NRC members are to be fired now and be replaced with three senior military nuclear representatives and one representative appointed by the President.  

U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program

The U.S. has a vast and successful professional nuclear development program, it is the best and most experienced in the world. The U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program comprises the military and civilian personnel who design, build, operate, maintain, and manage the nuclear-powered ships and the many facilities that support the U.S. nuclear-powered naval fleet. The Program has cradle-to-grave responsibility for all naval nuclear propulsion matters.

The U.S. Military, in particular the U.S. Navy has all of the necessary experience to direct the U.S. nuclear Renaissance that is necessary as part of a long-term human races salvation plan.

President Ronald Reagan, Executive Order 12344 of Feb. 1, 1982:
 

Executive Order 12344--Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program

By the authority vested in me as President and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, with recognition of the crucial importance to national security of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, and for the purpose of preserving the basic structure, policies, and practices developed for this Program in the past and assuring that the Program will continue to function with excellence, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Sec. 7. Within the Department of the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy shall assign to the director responsibility to supervise all technical aspects of the Navy's nuclear propulsion work, including:

   (a) research, development, design, procurement, specification, construction, inspection, installation, certification, testing, overhaul, refueling, operating practices and procedures, maintenance, supply support, and ultimate disposition, of naval nuclear propulsion plants, including components thereof, and any special maintenance and service facilities related thereto; and

   (b) training programs, including Nuclear Power Schools of the Navy, and assistance and concurrence in the selection, training, qualification, and assignment of personnel reporting to the director and of Government personnel who supervise, operate, or maintain naval nuclear propulsion plants.

Sec. 8. Within the Department of the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy shall assign to the director responsibility within the Navy for:

   (a) the safety of reactors and associated naval nuclear propulsion plants, and control of radiation and radioactivity associated with naval nuclear propulsion activities, including prescribing and enforcing standards and regulations for these areas as they affect the environment and the safety and health of workers, operators, and the general public.

   (b) administration of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, including oversight of program support in areas such as security, nuclear safeguards and transportation, public information, procurement, logistics, and fiscal management.

To reduce human greenhouse gases, the only tool that is quickly available is to quickly expand nuclear energy, building new nuclear reactors, and replace old hydrocarbon (coal, oil, natural gas) energy units.

To accomplish a U.S. nuclear Renaissance, the restructuring of the Nuclear Energy Commission (NRC) membership is necessary. Currently, NRC members are no more than appointed politicians and lawyers whose paid job is to continue the more than 30-years of political blocking U.S. nuclear energy advancement. NRC current members have neither professional nuclear experience nor do they have the personal capability to lead an American nuclear energy recovery effort. Current NRC membership is to be replaced now.

An NRC makeup of three senior military nuclear representatives and one representative appointed by the President is the only regulation authority that might help the U.S. to provide enough clean energy in a timely manor.     

Global Warming  

How is the U.S. going to produce enough clean nuclear energy soon enough, which will save the human races from total destruction 2050-2099 CE?

Over the past three to four decades left Democrats have ridden hard to stardom with their forceful and manipulative denunciation of domestic and global nuclear energy. In the 1990s special political interest took over UN responses to global warming. Than in 2005 CE the left Democrats activated political “grassroots” support of alternatives to energy. In December 2009, at Denmark UN COP-15 meeting, President Obama promoted a transfer of wealth scheme that has derailed global responses to global warming. European-U.S. neo communist shutdown of Germany nuclear energy and in the place of nuclear energy promoted dependence upon alternatives to energy. Nations’ remain dependant upon expanding economies of hydrocarbon (coal, oil, natural gas). Much of the U.S. government global warming and energy reporting is erroneous, with omissions, or information withheld. Political computer hackers with inside Cyber War skills roam the internet and suppress left Democrat opposition.  Resulting is human races demise 2050-2099 CE.

The only tool that is quickly available to reduce U.S. and global human greenhouse emissions is to quickly expand nuclear energy, building new nuclear reactors, and replace old hydrocarbon energy units. However, the 2005 “renewable energy drive” was further enabled by withholding permitting for U.S. expansion of U.S. and global nuclear energy; which allowed left Democrats’ European-U.S. neo communists to promote 2011 ₡ 96 billion euros (US$ 122.63 billion) special interest corruption carbon-cap-and-trade renewable energy funding. US$ 90 billions of ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ (ARRA 2009) renewable energy special interests corruption funding.

Reform of government is necessary to correct 30-years of U.S. Senate left Democrat political regulation of the Nuclear Energy Commission (NRC). The political Department of Energy (DOE) and political Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are also now under President Obama’s strict political control.    

With the exception of expanding nuclear power, all other U.S. national energy proposals and policies are NOT viable. U.S. energy policies simply do not reflect real clean energy needs and real energy growth demands. Life-cycle process of all human energy sources (except nuclear energy and hydroelectric) emit large amounts of greenhouse gases. Clean inexpensive nuclear energy CAN provide new jobs if political nuclear construction and operating costs are reduced for new nuclear energy expansion and the nuclear replacement of existing dirty hydrocarbon energy sources. INEXPENSIVE CLEAN NUCLEAR ENERGY DOES STIMULATE THE GENERAL ECONOMY AND THEREFORE DOES PRODUCE JOBS. Added benefits of nuclear energy are it reduces greenhouse gas emissions and reduces global warming temperature increase. Unlike renewable green energy, coal, oil, and natural gas, nuclear energy can become inexpensive as a tangible long-term economic stimulus. Inexpensive nuclear energy provides improved economies and increase employment while helping human races survival. There must be a large replacement of hydrocarbon energy, to be replaced by new nuclear energy.   

As a result of their systemic deficiencies, alternative renewable green power sources require massive government subsidies in the form of tax breaks and requirements that utilities and public buy inefficient power. While not reducing fossil fuel use, poorly run European “cap and trade” programs will effectively ration our primary hydrocarbon and nuclear energy sources, resulting in energy demands exceeding supplies. Alternative energy policies result in direct and indirect increased cost to the world economy, while producing very little energy and no net reduction of greenhouse gases. Congress and individual U.S. states make long-term energy rules that unnecessarily increase costs to the industry.    

To have any reasonable 70% chance of avoiding greater dangerous climate change, global emissions will need to peak carbon emissions by 2015-2020 CE.  Nuclear energy, reprocessing of uranium, and the nuclear fuel cycle will be of utmost importance in the task of stabilizing Earth’s temperature increase. Left Democrats’ control of U.S. energy have made the U.S. global warming reductions tasks much more difficult. President Obama is suppressing U.S. paths to nuclear energy advancement and has given away essential nuclear technology to China.

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)

The revised NRC membership of three military and one presidential appointment first task is to produce NRC approval of a number of Small Modular Reactors (SMR). However, in the long-term, SMRs may do little to increase nuclear Energy Consumption by Major Sources from U.S. current ~8% level. SMRs have several viable foreign market applications.  

To make a difference in human global warming greenhouse gas emissions, there must be new and retrofit large nuclear reactors installed prior to 2017 CE. A very large number of nuclear reactors must be constructed (in less than five years). Since there is no official global warming planning, there is no estimate as to how to prevent Earth’s carbon budget lock-in resulting from human hydrocarbon emissions.  

Necessary planned successful responses to global warming temperature increase are essential, many, and varied and involve lives of more than 9 billion people.  No national leader has established a viable national or multinational response plan to counter global warming temperature increase. No nation maintains a viable organization to respond to countering global warming temperature increase.    

With global hydrocarbon infrastructure lock-in occurring around 2017 CE, and it takes about 3-4 years to build a large nuclear facility, the future of SMR nuclear energy will expand as new and retrofit clean energy sources.

The need for SMRs energy source has evolved from overall cost saving measures to more focused concerns on environmental impact and security issues, such as susceptibility of national grids and the reliance on foreign sources of liquid fuels.  

Most likely for now, U.S. approved SMRs are necessary as clean heat to extract oil from Alberta's oil sands, which are proposed to supply oil to the Canada-U.S.-China Keystone XL project. However, due the existing oil-sand construction time-line, most likely the heat oil-extraction process requires SMRs retrofit of planned oil/natural gas fired oil extraction units. Alberta's oil sands are part of the global problem of “global carbon budget infrastructure lock-in.” Much of the existing global hydrocarbon infrastructure needs to be retrofitted with clean nuclear energy to meet necessary reductions of carbon dioxide levels (to below 350 ppm) to reduce greenhouse gas levels necessary to sustain human lives past 2050-2099 CE.       

As nuclear power generation has been established since the 1950s, the size of nuclear reactor units has grown from 60 MWe to more than 1600 MWe, with corresponding economies of large-scale operations. At the same time there have been many hundreds of smaller power reactors built both for naval use (up to 190 MW thermal), yielding enormous long-term expertise in the engineering of SMRs. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines 'small' reactor as under 300 MWe, and up to 700 MWe as 'medium' – including many operational units from 20th century. Together they are referred to as small and medium reactors (SMRs) by IAEA.

Today, due partly to the high capital cost of large power reactors generating electricity via the steam cycle and partly to the need to service small electricity grids under about 4 GWe, there is a move to develop smaller units. These may be built independently or as modules in a larger complex, with capacity added incrementally as required. Economies of scale is not found in SMRs size but by the number and timeliness of units produced. There are also moves to develop small units for remote sites and special applications.

One of the “hottest” topics being discussed in the U.S. nuclear industry is the viability of deploying small modular reactors (SMR), those under 300 MW, into the nuclear land fleet to help address environmental concerns while keeping up with the demand for power. Isolated communities require new energy sources for economic development. They need to increase generation efficiency, reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, and find cleaner sources of electricity. This includes islands in the South Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean and remote communities in Alaska, Canada, South America, and Europe. In 2009, the global number of people completely without access to electricity was 1.4 billion or 20% of the world’s population. In 2010, there were 170 island communities with populations over 100,000 who could use SMRs.     

World primary energy (coal, oil, natural gas, hydroelectric, nuclear) consumption projected in 2050 CE is to exceed 826 Quads. In 2001 CE primary energy consumed was 404 Quads. The U.S. current electricity demand is projected to increase by 28 percent by 2035. And annual carbon dioxide emissions for electrical generation are projected to INCREASE by 275 million metric tonnes, according to the U.S. DOE.     

Small Modular Reactors Are Hot

Power Engineering Magazine

02/01/2011

By Brian Wheeler, Associate Editor

   The DOE has a goal to decrease 28 percent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and it expects that the goal can be met with the help of small modular reactors. [Note: DOE too many energy statements are not helpful and difficult to apply to practical assessments. SMRs are speciality reactors; it is unlikely they will by themselves significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. --DGE]

   The concept is to install the small modular reactors to areas and applications under served by hydrocarbon plants, or sites that may not be able to support a large nuclear units. “But it is not a competition between large and small reactors,” said Paul Genoa, director of policy development at trade group the Nuclear Energy Institute.

   The idea of the SMRs is not new in the U.S. The U.S. Navy has been using small reactors on vessels for over 50 years. Using this design in the commercial energy industry, though, is new.

   Currently, the U.S. does not have any commercial SMRs producing power, but vendors such as Hyperion Power Generation and Babcock and Wilcox and others are moving forward towards NRC member’s design certification. Although, the NRC members’ expect the first deployment of an SMRs in the U.S. may not come until the 2018 to 2020 time frame.

   [NOTE: There must be more than two dozen SMRs active designs around the world. The U.S. Navy has been producing SMRs since the USS NAUTILUS was launched on January 21, 1954. China has CAP 100 that is a 100 to 150 MWe SMR being promoted by China National Nuclear Corporation, which aims to begin construction of a two-module demonstration plant by 2015. The International Reactor Innovative and Secure (IRIS) (made by an international team of companies, laboratories, and universities and coordinated by Westinghouse) is an advanced, light-water cooled reactor expected to be deployment-ready in 2015 - 2017. IRIS has capability to satisfy the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (previously IFNEC was GNEP) requirements for smaller-scale grid-appropriate reactors in the near term, and provides a viable bridge to long-term Generation IV reactors. Westinghouse’s SMR is an 225 MWe class integral pressurised water reactor with passive safety systems and reactor internals including fuel assemblies based closely on those in the AP1000 reactor. In the 1970s General Atomics developed an reactor having prismatic fuel blocks based on those in the 842 thermal power produced MWth, which ran 1976-89 in the USA. General Atomics licensing review by the NRC was under way until the projects were cancelled in the late 1970s. etc. There is much functioning SMR technology. Medium and Small (25 MWe up) reactors with development well advanced in 2012 CE, some SMRs models are: KLT-40S, VK-300, CAREM, IRIS, Westinghouse SMR, mPower, SMART, NuScale, CAP-100/ACP100, HTR-PM, PBMR, GT-MHR, SVBR-100, Hyperion HPM, Prism, FUJI. For more than three decades politicians have used the NRC membership as an instrument for holding up expansion of U.S. and global nuclear energy capacity. --DGE]  

   The [Obama] plan is to build SMRs later in 2018 to 2020, start generating power and bring more SMRs online to form a larger nuclear plant, as needed. The SMRs are expected to be ready, as the DOE calls it, to “plug and play” when the reactor arrives on-site. Sounds simple? There are still NRC obstacles that need to be defeated before the arrival of a commercial SMRs. NRC reviews and licensing are the number one challenges at this point.  

   [NOTE: President Obama’s SMRs plan within the DOE promote special interests and bypass existing long established NRC Staff nuclear reviews and licencing procedures. The left Democrat’s political machinery has special interest in retaining control of U.S energy. Nether the less, USN/DOE have several existing operational SMRs. Hyperion Power Generation (U.S.A.) now has mini nuclear fission reactors (called Hyperion Power Module) that provide electricity and hot water to remote locations, nearly all outside the United States. The reactor has been designed to deliver 70 MWth of heat (25 MWe of electricity) for a 10-year lifetime, without refueling. Hyperion Power Module (HPM), an advanced technology mini reactor. Based on intellectual property developed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and leveraging forty years of technological advancement, the HPM was designed to fill a previously unmet need for a physically small and transportable power source that is safe, clean, sustainable, and cost-efficient. Hyperion Power Generation reactor appears “shovel ready” to be now applied to reduce greenhouse gases within the oil sand field oil extraction process of the Canadian, Alberta. --DGE]   

   [Please NOTE: President Obama has established another level of political bureaucracy within the NRC members. His new Advanced Reactor Program agency is going to issue separate licensing review of SMRs. President Obama’s licensing of SMRs outside of existing established NRC Staff review process is ill advised, very unwise, poorly conceived, and subject to untoward politics that skirt historical and congressional legislated requirements. NRC political members’ continue to subject the national nuclear industry to very political special interest influences. Since 2005, huge amounts of political corruption within the U.S. is risen with promotion of alternatives to energy. Now a very large amount of unhealthily political corruption is on the rise with DOE’s and NRC members’ management of U.S. nuclear energy programs.        

   Because of the highly complex nature of nuclear technology, any changes to existing nuclear review and licensing is to be made by the experienced and qualified three military and a Presidential appointee of the newly revised NRC membership. President Obama’s nuclear politics is a global disaster happening. --DGE]   

   The funds for the research and development of new SMRs could pose a problem as well. However, Obama administration has requested $38.9 million for the 2011 fiscal year budget for the development and of SMRs. The DOE supports public and private partnerships to advance mature SMR designs and supports “research and development activities to advance the understanding and demonstration of innovative reactor technologies and concepts.”

   Among other goals, DOE plans to “solicit and select industry partners for cost-sharing the U.S. NRC review of design certification document for up to two of the most promising light water SMR concept(s) for near-term licensing and deployment” and “develop recommendations, in collaboration with NRC and industry, for changes in NRC policy, regulations or guidance to license and enable SMRs for deployment in the U.S.”

   And as the general interest in energy continues to grow, so does the interest in SMRs, said Philip Moor, vice president of consulting and management firm High Bridge Associates.

   If approved, the funding towards the development of small reactors in the U.S. may play a part of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) current estimate of between 49 to 97 SMRs built by 2030.

   Utilities may have more interest in SMRs once the NRC gains more     expertise and the uncertainty of deploying these reactors in the U.S. can be addressed. And if the regulator approves any of the designs for licensing, the U.S. may see a stronger nuclear renaissance take place. As we have seen, some operators have scaled back or completely pulled out on plans to build new large reactors due to the cost [and NRC members’ constraints and licencing constraints]. The ability to construct these SMR reactors in factories could lead to lower costs and shorter construction times. Of course, the upfront capital to develop and engineer the facility is going to be needed for new SMRs. But after that, the reactors can be built in the controlled environment in repetition to lower cost, which could in return lead to more clean energy on the grid.

   [NOTE: The statement “And if the regulator approves any of the designs for licensing...” indicates how much NRC members have control over the U.S. nuclear industry and how long approvals take and who receives final NRC member approvals. NRC members are part of the left Democrat congressional political machinery. NRC members are appointed politicians and lawyers lacking professional desire for public nuclear service to proper nuclear regulatory practices. President Obama, who is a European-U.S. neo communist, and the left Democrat political machinery have through “regulations” covertly nationalized the U.S. nuclear industry to keep the U.S. dependent upon national hydrocarbon energy of coal, oil, and natural gas. President Obama and congressional political machinery control energy corruption, no matter what will happens to human races. Please God, save us from Legions of politicians. --DGE]   

Fin

It Takes Work to Change Global Warming Direction

International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA's) estimate is that between 49 to 97 SMRs can be built by 2030, too late to make any global warming difference. The global infrastructure carbon budget cut off point is 2017 CE. It is going to take a rapid deployment of nuclear energy to make a difference with global warming. Who are going to be leaders to save human races? How will they save us from destruction? How can there be build in time enough clean energy nuclear capacity?  

USN has available, tested, AND operated 60 years of nuclear reactor technology research, development, design, procurement, specification, construction, inspection, installation, certification, testing, overhaul, refueling, operating practices and procedures, maintenance, supply support, and ultimate disposition, of nuclear propulsion (including components), and maintenance of nuclear plants and service facilities.

Construction of USS NAUTILUS was made possible by the successful development of a nuclear propulsion plant by a group of scientists and engineers at the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission, under the leadership of Captain Hyman G. Rickover. In July of 1951, Congress authorized construction of the world's first nuclear powered submarine. The USS NAUTILUS keel was laid by President Harry S. Truman at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Connecticut on June 14, 1952. After nearly 18 months of construction, USS NAUTILUS was launched on January 21, 1954.

Admiral Hyman G. Rickove quote:

   "An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is cheap. (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is very flexible in purpose. (7) Very little development will be required. It will use off-the-shelf components. (8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now.”

   "On the other hand a practical reactor can be distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) It is being built now. (2) It is behind schedule. (3) It requires an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. (4) It is expensive. (5) It takes a long time to build because of its engineering development problems. (6) It is large. (7) It is heavy. (8) It is complicated.”

   "The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it. The academic-reactor designer is a dilettante. ......."

President Obama’s small modular reactor (SMR) plan is unnecessarily increasing the cost of nuclear energy, wastes time, and promotes political-machinery corruption. President Obama is reinventing a SMR nuclear reactor wheel that was developed by the US Navy and U.S. national lavatories more than 60-years ago. President Obama’s DOE, and NRC are regulated by political motivations, not technical. Politicians are not operating in the best U.S. interests. President Obama is refusing to implement available nuclear technology to reduce global warming temperature increase (which is very bad news for human races). It is President Obama’s self serving control of government resources and the U.S. political machinery that confirms U.S. economic destruction, and the too soon destruction of all human races.      

The global carbon infrastructure is exceed the carbon budget around 2017 CE saturation point. Unless there is a quick and effective political response to increased combined atmospheric levels of human and natural carbon dioxide and methane, there results a global warming temperature increase that terminates human life 2050-2099 CE.

The new NRC makeup of three senior military nuclear representatives and one President appointed representative will provide much needed professional U.S. nuclear direction. Nuclear energy is the only energy source that might produce enough clean energy to prevent human races destruction.

Without restructuring of the Nuclear Energy Commission (NRC) membership and expansion of global nuclear energy, the one hundred and sixty thousand year journey of the human races ends 2050-2099 CE.