Talk:Centrus Energy/Archives/2013

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This is from Stiglitz's Globalization and its discontents. "....At last privatization advocates in the US thought of something that few others would, or could, privatize: USEC, which not only enriches uranium for nuclear reactors but also for atomic bombs. The privatization was beset by problems. USEC had been entrusted with bringing in the enriched uranium from Russia; as a private firm, this was kind of monopoly power that would not have passed scrutiny of the antitrust authorities. Worse still, we at the council of economic advisers had analysed the incentives of a privatized USEC, and had shown convincingly that it had every incentive to keep Russia uranium out of US. This was a real concern: There were major worries about nuclear proliferation - about nuclear material getting into the hands of a rogue state or a terrorist organization - and having a weakened Russia with enriched uranium to sell to any one was not a pretty picture. USEC adamantly denied that it would ever act counter to broader US interest and affirmed that it would always bring in Russia uranium as fast as Russia were willing to sell; but the very week that it made these protestation, i got hold of a secret agreement between Russia and USEC. The Russians had offered to triple their deliveries, and USEC had not only turned them down, but offered a handsome amount of money to keep the offer secret...." gathima 22:24, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Geoffrey Sea on "FukUSECshima" in ecowatch

OK to edit but not to delete these ecowatch refs, text repeated here.

>>Geoffrey Sea of “Neighbors for an Ohio Valley Alternative” wrote a series of articles on the ecowatch news site which expose USEC as a corrupt, hazardous and polluting privatization boondoggle. [12][13][14][8][15][16] Sea further reported that USEC had threatened the Department of Energy with "a sudden shutoff of power at Paducah at the end of May" despite its charter "to return the facility to DOE 'in safe condition'.”[17] In September 2013, Sea predicted USEC's bankruptcy by 2014.[18] Paducah mayor Gayle Kaler reportedly said “Our priority as a community is first and foremost demanding clean up dollars. We cannot accept a dirty shut down.”[14]

In April 2012 it was reported that USEC had spent $15.6 million on congressional lobbying between 2005-2012.[19]

1. (May 31, 2013). "Uranium Enrichment Ends at Paducah (Part 3)". ecowatch. Retrieved 22 September 2013.

2. Sea, Geoffrey (March 30, 2012). "USEC Bailout Dies Yet Again". ecowatch. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

3. Sea, Geoffrey (May 22, 2013). "Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah (Part 1)". ecowatch. Retrieved 22 September 2013.

4. ^ a b Sea, Geoffrey (May 28, 2013). "Slow Cooker at Paducah Comes to a Boil (Part 2)". ecowatch. Retrieved 22 September 2013.

5. Sea, Geoffrey (June 4, 2013). "Stiffed USEC Sues Feds in Nuclear Slugfest (Part 4)". ecowatch. Retrieved 22 September 2013.

6. Sea, Geoffrey (June 26, 2013). "Kentucky’s Nuclear Future Melts Down to Lawsuits (Part 5)". ecowatch. Retrieved 22 September 2013.

7. Sea, Geoffrey (July 12, 2013). "Uranium Titan Tumbles". ecowatch. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

8. Sea, Geoffrey (September 19, 2013). "USEC’s Tsunami: Uranium Company Washes Out". ecowatch. Retrieved 22 September 2013.

9. Korte, Gregory (April 27, 2012). "Politics stands in the way of nuclear plant's future". USA Today. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

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I hope these refs to the ecowatch series will not be deleted. Military industrial corporate conomic political corruption and extreme pollution... Yohananw

Restored a few of these refs to G Sea's ecowatch expose of USEC after they were deleted. The entry now has something from each article so these cites refer to actual matter and not only references to reporter's series. (Moving from partisan ENENEWS forum to the in contrast neutral encyclopediac tone of Wikipedia requires switch. Also the large scope of this entry has many issues, economic, political, subject of privatization, environmental, ecological sides...) Yohananw (talk) 10:10, 22 November 2013 (UTC)