{"id":923,"date":"2026-07-15T21:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:11:36","slug":"the-nuclear-nightmare-that-was-manufactured-by-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Nuclear Nightmare’ That Was Manufactured by the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few years ago, nuclear power looked doomed.<\/p>\n

Plants were shutting down.<\/p>\n

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won applause bragging about closing a nuclear plant “14 years ahead of schedule.”<\/p>\n

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“Why would they applaud?” asks former nuclear engineer Ray Rothrock in my new video. “They shut down New York’s finest source of clean energy.”<\/p>\n

Rothrock has met with presidents, trying to persuade them to embrace nuclear power, but “nothing was ever addressed.”<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to speed up licensing of new plants.<\/p>\n

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D\u2013R.I.) called that a “flagrant disregard for nuclear safety.”<\/p>\n

“Not conducive to nuclear safety,” complained Sen. Adam Schiff (D\u2013Calif.).<\/p>\n

“That’s just a bunch of crap,” says Rothrock. “They’re afraid of something that they don’t need to be afraid of.”<\/p>\n

We don’t? What about that meltdown at Three Mile Island?<\/p>\n

Time<\/em> magazine called it a “nuclear nightmare.” The Washington Post<\/em>: “nuclear crisis.”<\/p>\n

“The result\u2026should be the abandonment of nuclear power!” said a widely quoted “analyst.”<\/p>\n

It was the usual media hysteria.<\/p>\n

“Nobody was hurt!” Rothrock points out.<\/p>\n

It didn’t matter. Media still called nuclear energy an unacceptable risk.<\/p>\n

Then there was another accident in Fukushima, Japan.<\/p>\n

People did die there, but not from radiation. Not one. People died because the government’s required evacuation disrupted their medical care.<\/p>\n

The United Nations “no discernible increased incidence of radiation-related health effects.”<\/p>\n

But my media colleagues, as usual, made radiation the villain. Nuclear power was set back further.<\/p>\n

It’s why more countries didn’t do what France does: get\u00a0most<\/em> of its power from nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n

People in France are OK with that, but in most of the rest of the world, anti-nuclear protesters persuaded people to be frightened about “radiation leaks.”<\/p>\n

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The scare works because most people don’t realize that radiation is\u00a0everywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just flying in a plane exposes you to it. So does living in Denver.<\/p>\n

A beach in Brazil has natural radiation levels much<\/em> higher than our government’s safety standards.<\/p>\n

“Thirty times the safety standard!” says Rothrock.<\/p>\n

People who use that beach don’t get more cancer. Our bodies can handle low levels of radiation.<\/p>\n

“Why take\u00a0any<\/em> risks?” I ask Rothrock. “Why don’t we just use solar and wind?”<\/p>\n

“Wind stops blowing sometimes\u2026.You need a lot of land for solar and wind. Throw in all those costs and it’s pretty darn expensive.”<\/p>\n

In America, new nuclear plants are pretty darn expensive, too. But that’s mainly because of the NRC’s cumbersome rules.<\/p>\n

“‘Thou shall do it this way,'” complains Rothrock. “Thou all shall have that. Thou shall have this.’ The regulators said, ‘If it takes a 3-foot, 6-inch wall to protect from the radiation\u2026why don’t you make it 4? Better still, why don’t you make it 10?'”<\/p>\n

Regulators rarely adjust rules to account for new technology.<\/p>\n

The NRC required plants to be covered by a dome. But some new reactors, says Rothrock, are “not pressurized! There’s no need for a dome. But the rules say you have to build a dome!”<\/p>\n

Just to get approval for a new plant “got to be five, six, seven years. Then people stopped completely. For literally 30 years, the NRC has not seen a new reactor proposal.”<\/p>\n

Only now have the rules been changed, and for the first time in 10 years, a new reactor has been approved.<\/p>\n

So protestors shout: “This nuclear nightmare is back!\u2026You can have a full-blown reactor core meltdown!”<\/p>\n

This time, they are losing.<\/p>\n

Eighteen reactors have had operating licenses extended. Many new reactors are in development.<\/p>\n

Private entrepreneurs are making better fuels and reactors that are easier to install.<\/p>\n

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If bureaucrats get out of the way, we should soon have cheap, clean energy.<\/p>\n

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