[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9623-9624]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     CONCERN OVER RE-LICENSING THE DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, FirstEnergy, which operates the Davis-
Besse nuclear power plant, has consistently misrepresented to the 
public structural defects in the building that shields its reactor.
  Their latest fable is that cracks in the circumference of the shield 
building were caused by a snowstorm that occurred in 1978.
  In 2002, FirstEnergy covered up information about a hole in the head 
of a reactor that jeopardized the safety of millions of people, for 
which they were fined $28 million. FirstEnergy caused the blackout in 
August 2003, which put 50 million people in the dark, because

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they were too cheap to hire people to trim trees.
  Can they be believed when they claim a snowstorm 34 years ago created 
cracks that appear today? Are buildings all over northern Ohio falling 
apart today because of the blizzard of '78, or is this just another in 
a series of desperate lies used to keep a plant going that should be 
either shut down or massively repaired?
  How long before FirstEnergy's 34-year snow job is fully exposed?

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