Trump's lawyer Cohen opens doors for Alabama nuclear developer Haney
May 23, 2018 It seems perverse to call incomplete atomic reactors already nearly a half-century old "new," but alas, this is Trumpland we're living in!
As Kyle Whitmire reports in an opinion column at al.com, zombie monsters stirreth in the radioactive "swamps" of Alabama and Washington, D.C. (No offense to literal swamps or the creatures that inhabit them!)
Whitmire warns about the safety risks of a billionaire would-be "new" atomic reactor developer, Franklin Haney, who retained the infamous Trump lawyer Michael Cohen (as well as is attempting to access Qatari royal money) to help him resurrect two long abandoned, half-built atomic reactors at Bellefonte, AL.
Never mind that even zombies had long warned the Tennessee Valley Authority to use their brains and say NO! to Bellefonte's "resurrection from the dead."
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The Wall Street Journal article that broke this story is entitled "Michael Cohen Helped Trump Donor Seek Investment From Qatar Fund: Trump lawyer was a consultant in pitch seeking funds for nuclear power plant."
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer helped a major donor to Mr. Trump’s inauguration pitch a nuclear-power investment to the Qatari sovereign-wealth fund at a meeting in April, according to people familiar with the matter.
The donor, Franklin L. Haney, is seeking to complete a pair of unfinished nuclear reactors in Alabama known as the Bellefonte nuclear plant. His company is lobbying the Trump administration for an extension of tax credits, federal disclosures show.
(The rest of the article is behind a pay wall.)