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Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) Knowledge in General Practice: a cross-sectional study of Western Adelaide general practitioners
With evidence to support early assessment and management of TIAs, the role of the general practitioner (GP) needs to be considered in developing a TIA service in Western Adelaide. We thus aimed to determine GP knowledge of TIA assessment and management and identify perceived barriers, in order to tailor subsequent GP education and engage primary care in the co-ordinated care of TIA patients.
A self-administered questionnaire was mailed to all GPs (n = 202) in the Adelaide Western General Practice Network. Response frequencies were calculated for all variables, and associations examined by univariate analysis.
32 GPs responded. All respondents correctly identified early risk of stroke following a TIA. Difficulty accessing neurological expertise was identified as a barrier (40.6 %), as was a lack of GP knowledge (18.8 %). Areas for improvement included access to neurologists (36.7 %), relevant guidelines and education (43.3 %).
Diagnosis of TIA is difficult and this study highlights the need for further education and practical guidelines for GPs. With this training, GPs could be better equipped to assess and manage TIAs effectively in the community in consultation with stroke physicians.
The role of the general practitioner (GP) can be significant in the assessment and management of transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs). TIA patients may regard their symptoms with less urgency and present to primary care, and the diagnosis can be a difficult one. Increasing evidence supports early urgent assessment and management of TIAs to prevent subsequent stroke. An estimated 20 % of strokes are preceded by a TIA, with the risk of stroke following a TIA being between 10-20 % in the next 90 days
There are currently no formal pathways for TIA care in Adelaide and it is unclear how GPs manage patients who present with suspected TIA in Australia. GPs in the Australian health system have a number of options including managing the patient themselves, referring onto an emergency department at either a public or private hospital, referring to a public neurology outpatient clinic with variable waiting times, referring to a private neurologist or to a TIA clinic is one exists in the region.
There have been some studies that have assessed the knowledge of GPs on stroke and TIA management. Middleton et al. assessed GPs' knowledge of TIA/stroke risk factors and stroke prevention and management in New South Wales in 2003
Drawing on the postal questionnaire by Middleton et al, a questionnaire, comprising of 3 sections, was designed to evaluate the knowledge of GPs on the assessment and management of TIAs. Section one aimed to collect demographic data while the second section contained questions based on case scenarios. The case scenarios were written by the authors, two of whom are general practitioners and based on typical cases seen in general practice. The third section asked open questions enquiring about the perceived barriers to TIA assessment and current management in general practice. Participants were asked to comment on the barriers to assessment and management, and areas they considered required improvement.
All responses were read and general themes were extracted and coded into categories. With approval from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) National Research and Evaluation Ethics Committee granted, the questionnaire was piloted on a group of 18 GP educators and supervisors to ensure that the questions were appropriate and would maximise response rates. Previous papers
With the assistance of the Adelaide Western General Practice Network (AWGPN), questionnaires were mailed to all 202 GPs on their database. The AWGPN covers an area of 205.4 square kilometres with the population of Western Adelaide reported as 212, 741 in 2006
A follow-up reminder facsimile was sent to all GPs by the AWGPN 3 weeks following the mail-out. A random selection of GP names was then generated using a random number generator, and the investigator visited practices to raise awareness about the questionnaire amongst practice administrative staff. Practice managers were asked to remind GPs of the study and further copies of the questionnaire were provided. No financial or other incentive was offered with any invitation to GPs to participate in this study.
Questionnaires returned were de-identified and responses entered into a database. All questionnaires were included in the study although some had missing responses. Responses to the case scenarios were coded in true, false, unsure or missing categories, as the scenarios were not designed to be purely correct or incorrect responses. The coding was determined before data was collected. Statistical analysis of the data was undertaken using SPSS version 15.0, with frequencies for questionnaire responses calculated for all variables.
30 GPs responded to this questionnaire after the initial mailing and a further 2 responded after the follow up methods were employed. The response rate was 16 % from a total of 202 GPs invited to participate. A further two GPs returned questionnaires indicating they were not interested in participating (no reasons given) and three were addressed "return to sender".
The demographic data collected is shown in Table
Most (n = 27) respondents have over 10 years of experience in general practice work, with 2 having had more than 41 years of experience. Most respondents (n = 18) were working more than 9 clinical sessions per week.
The first case scenario asked questions about the diagnosis of TIA. The responses are presented in Table
The second part of the case evaluated knowledge about the risk of stroke following a TIA, wit h the results presented in Table
Another case scenario explored the possible investigations that could be arranged in primary care following a TIA. The results are presented in Table
The following case scenario explored the options of assessment and possible referral in a general practice setting. The results are presented in Table
The final questions related to the instigation of treatment for the secondary prevention of stroke, with the results presented in Table
Open questions then sought to explore the perceived barriers to the assessment and management of TIAs in general practice. Responses were analysed and themes extracted.
Difficulty in accessing neurological expertise or acute stroke units (ASU) was identified as a barrier by 13 respondents, whilst accessing investigations for the assessment of TIAs was considered a barrier by 7. The lack of knowledge both by GPs (n = 6) and the public (n = 7) was also identified as a barrier to TIA assessment and management. The lack of time in general practice consultations was identified by 5 of the 32 GPs in the survey as a barrier to effectively manage potential TIA cases.
In response to questioning about the areas for improvements, participants addressed the barriers identified earlier. Improved access to neurologists and/or ASUs (n = 11) and better access to investigations (n = 2) were suggested. The establishment of relevant guidelines and specific education for GPs (n = 13) and public education (n = 6) were also considered as areas for improvement.
Participants were asked about their preferences for attending educational workshops. Participants indicated a conference venue as the most preferred venue (n = 22), followed by GP division offices (n = 17), own clinic (n = 6) and RACGP offices (n = 1) as the least preferred.
The case scenarios suggested that respondents were less confident in selecting specific treatments in TIA, with 15/32 answering correctly about anti-hypertensive treatment and slightly more correct with respect to managing hyperlipidaemia (20/32). However all correctly identified the early risk of stroke following a TIA, and nearly all answered correctly on the appropriate blood tests to order in a TIA case. The diagnosis of TIA is recognised as difficult, and this study highlights that whilst knowledge on the assessment and risks of TIA is present, there is a need for further education and practical guidelines for GPs to improve knowledge with respect to specific management and pathways of care. The National Stroke Foundation Audit observed the decline in public hospital based TIA clinics in 2007
Given the current medical workforce climate, it was not surprising that difficulty in accessing neurological specialist opinion and hospital acute stroke units, in particular, were identified as a barrier. However, access to private radiological investigations, were not as notably identified. Miller et al report that GPs order a CT at a rate of 1 per 100 encounters and of these 2 % are for cerebral ischaemia
Whilst respondents identified the lack of public knowledge about TIA symptoms, they were also aware of their own knowledge deficits. The National Stroke Foundation developed the
The long-term treatment goals of secondary prevention constitute the daily work of GPs. However, with continued workforce shortages in primary care, GPs face time pressures in providing comprehensive care to the community. Multidisciplinary care plans have been introduced by government initiatives and this may provide incentives to appropriate management of TIA
The response rate from the questionnaire limits this study, as the small sample of GPs may not be representative and open to bias. Previous studies have acknowledged the difficulty in engaging GPs to participate in postal surveys and have suggested a number of techniques
GPs in the AWGPN constitute 12 % of the South Australian GP workforce. The AWGPN registers all GPs working in the area as members by default, but 4/32 participants replied that they did not consider themselves members of this division. Most respondents reported that they worked in group practices (n = 15) whilst 9 (30 %) respondents indicated that they were solo practitioners, compared to 37 % nationally
The low response rate may suggest a disinterest in the topic, which is cause for concern as TIA assessment and management is in the domain of general practice and the risk of subsequent morbidity and mortality significant. Previous studies have shown that non-responders are more likely to be older, more experienced, solo practitioners, more stressed and less well qualified than responders
Whilst there may have been value in having a control group to compare the results to, for example neurologists, we would expect different answers as the approach to an acute neurological episode in general practice has its own challenges and barriers, which is what the study aimed to evaluate.
The questionnaire itself has its limitations. Whilst the use of a pre- and post- test questionnaire may have provided additional information on the retention of knowledge, this questionnaire was not designed to necessarily contain "right" and "wrong answers". In order to maximise the response rate, and the authors wished to avoid an exam style approach to "testing" GPs. Similarly with a pre and post questionnaire GPs with good knowledge and interest may be more likely to participate and so presenting a biased sample. The authors consider instead that designing an educational intervention based on the questionnaire results, and then testing GPs after the education session may be more useful. Again though the questionnaire would have its limitations as it only suggests what GPs might do in an ideal clinical setting, which may be quite different to what occurs in real practice.
Since the study was conducted further research has been published on the assessment and management of TIA, which may have an impact on whether the responses are viewed as correct or incorrect. In particular the definition of TIA is now tissue based
Within these limitations, this study nonetheless is suggestive of a need to improve knowledge amongst GPs, in particular the management pathways for TIA. A number of barriers to TIA care, including difficulties in accessing services, were also identified. Together with the low response rate, it seems that specific education to GPs to highlight the relevance and importance of this topic along with a review of the accessibility of services locally needs to be addressed so that we might in future contribute more effectively in caring for patients with TIAs in primary care.
Availability of supporting data
The data set supporting the results of this article are available in the Stroke Research Programme repository,
Ethical approval
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners National Research and Evaluation Ethics Committee granted approval for this study.
TIA, transient ischaemic attack; GP, General practitioner; NSF, National Stroke Foundation; ASU, Acute Stroke Unit; RACGP, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners; AWGPN, Adelaide Western General Practice Network; MBS, Medicare Benefits Scheme; MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging; NHMRC, National Health and Medical Research Council.
Competing interests
Funding: ESL was supported by Sturt Fleurieu General Practice Education and Training and the University of Adelaide in a GP Registrar Academic Post.
MHB, CP and SAK declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
EL, AHB and SK contributed to the conception and design. EL carried out the collection and assembly of data, and the data analysis and interpretation. All authors contributed to manuscript writing and review, and approved the final manuscript.
We would like to thank The Adelaide Western General Practice Network for their support and the GPs who participated in the study. John B.F. Field, Statistician, Health Sciences, University of Adelaide for statistical advice and support and TQEH Neurology Department.
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That's the bad news. Here's the worse news: Airline service will not improve any time soon. In my opinion, there's a direct link between poor service and outsourcing everything from baggage handling to reservations, and that means it won't be getting better in the foreseeable future.
For the airline industry, there's been more work and more stress on the workforce, as indicated in a recent USA TODAY report on how the industry is automating many tasks once handled by employees (Airline Service Evolves into Do-it-Yourself). And by most objective measures, the airlines are not keeping up with passenger demand.
Here's what was revealed in the latest statistics from the DOT's Air Travel Consumer Report:
• On-time arrivals for all domestic airlines fell from 78.1% in 2004 to 77.4% in 2005;
• Reports of mishandled baggage (lost, damaged, delayed, or pilfered luggage) rose sharply from 4.91 per 1,000 passengers in 2004 to 6.04 per 1,000 passengers in 2005;
• Denied boardings (bumped passengers) increased from 0.86 per 10,000 passengers in 2004 to 0.89 per 10,000 passengers in 2005;
• Consumer complaints spiked upward from 0.74 per 100,000 passengers enplaned in 2004 to 0.89 per 100,000 passengers enplaned in 2005.
Undoubtedly baggage handling has been affected by outsourcing more directly than other service sectors. That's why it's enlightening to see the report issued earlier this week by SITA (http://www.sita.aero/default.htm), a communications firm that tracks baggage information for the airline industry throughout the world. SITA said the problem is "worsening" and that about 30 million bags will be mishandled this year, while about 204,000 will be lost or stolen.
Are all these passenger service problems directly caused by an increase in outsourcing? No, not entirely. But there's little question that contracting out more and more tasks to lower-paid and less-skilled workers is negatively affecting all aspects of airline customer service, including reservations, check-in, baggage handling, ramp operations and aircraft servicing. And since investors and airline executives are still seeking ways to cut payroll costs, this trend shows no sign of reversing.
A tale of two industries
When I started working in the airline industry more than 20 years ago, my colleagues had euphemistic names for the two types of carriers: "dog" airlines and "real" airlines. Those of us who toiled at dog airlines worried not only about our job security but sweated our paychecks on a week-to-week basis. Our airplanes were older, shabbier, and tended to break more often, so our flights were delayed and cancelled more frequently, which fueled a vicious cycle of economic peril. We envied friends at real airlines, who boasted of financial stability and steady career advancement.
I began my own airline career working for a carrier I'll call Dog One. Though it had been operating for 35 years when I joined, this venerable charter operator shut down within six months of my arrival. But the death throes were particularly painful: In the final months our Thursday paychecks began arriving later and later, until finally one Thursday the previous week's checks were distributed. One brave employee, not unlike Oliver Twist with his gruel cup, asked when we would be receiving today's check, only to receive the snappy answer, "You just got paid! What do you want?" When Dog One finally succumbed (on Christmas Eve, no less), I was temporarily stationed in Massachusetts, and I lost not only my final pay but also got stuck with the hotel bill.
I then spent time at another dog (some would call this one a mongrel). In 1988 and 1989, I spent several months setting up a new operation in Miami, as Dog Two began scheduled flights there. Basically, I trained a small battalion of contracted employees in all aspects of ground handling and critical flight operations, even though many of those employees did not speak English and I certainly did not speak fluent Spanish. When the inaugural flight arrived, a lone mechanic and I were the only two bona fide Dog Two employees on hand to greet the crew. Long before the term was popular, we had become a "virtual" airline.
Finally I made the leap to a real airline, Pan Am. Like other major carriers in that era, Pan Am tried to keep outsourcing to a minimum, and trained its own employees in nearly all aspects of running an airline. Of course, the irony is not lost upon me that my dog and real airlines alike all filed for bankruptcy liquidation.
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Today the latest generation of start-up airlines nearly all rely on outside workers to perform functions once undertaken by airline employees. This trend has not abated, even after the fatal 1996 crash of a ValuJet flight was tied to outsourcing of hazardous material handling.
These days, it's become harder and harder to determine what constitutes a real airline. Most major carriers are enforcing mass layoffs and attempting to outsource all that will be allowed by the Federal Aviation Administration, the bankruptcy courts, and the ever weakening labor unions. So the dog scenario of the 1980s—whereby a handful of real employees oversaw the work of legions of non-employees—suddenly has become the norm for many domestic carriers.
I still have many close friends in the airline industry, and they're unanimous in asserting that today the two best real airlines are Southwest and JetBlue. Now the majors have become the dogs.
Employees at Southwest and JetBlue joke about drinking the corporate Kool-Aid but they acknowledge they've been made to feel vital and integral to the success of their companies. And those companies factor the needs of passengers and employees into their corporate equations, while other carriers often appear more concerned with the interests of shareholders and senior executives. Therefore, is anyone surprised that Southwest and JetBlue ranked first and second in generating the fewest consumer complaints among all U.S. carriers last year? It's hardly a coincidence.
Perhaps you're more concerned with low fares than labor issues. That's certainly your right. But you still need to realize it's not just airline employees who are being hurt by the current outsourcing craze. One of the most obvious manifestations is the demonstrable decline of customer service.
Your flying experiences are going to get worse, not better. That's not pessimism, it's the simple acknowledgement that a business focused on service will suffer greatly when the employees who provide that service are not treated well themselves – or lose their jobs entirely.
Keeping Abreast
Thankfully, airline service is monitored fairly closely by the DOT. So even as these seismic changes overtake the industry, you'll need to stay informed as a consumer. Take the time to check out the monthly Air Travel Consumer Report at: airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/reports/index.htm.
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Games organisers face fury as 2012 run is slated to start and finish in the shadow of Buckingham Palace rather than in the stadium.
Anger over the route of London Olympic marathon
LONDON // The organisers of a major international sporting event have found themselves under fire. And, for once, those organisers were not the ones behind the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
This time, the fury was being directed at the people behind the 2012 Olympics in London.
The subject of their anger - the route that the marathon will take through London - was probably not as serious as the unfinished athletes' accommodation, collapsing bridge, sparse crowds, corruption claims, ticketing and computer problems, venomous snakes, blocked drains and upset stomachs that have bedevilled the Commonwealth Games.
But the anger in London over having the marathon start and finish in the shadow of Buckingham Palace, rather than in the Olympic Stadium in London's East End, shows how difficult it is to please all the people, all of the time when planning such events as the Olympics.
In fact, in comparison with the Commonwealth Games, which ended in India on Thursday, the preparations for the Olympics in London appear to be going smoothly.
The main stadium itself is about three-quarters complete and should be ready months before the Games' opening on July 27, 2012. The swimming pool, cycle arena and all the other sport venues are at least on schedule, if not ahead of it.
And an appeal in September for 70,000 Britons to volunteer to help out at the Olympics prompted more than 100,000 people to put their names forward in less than a month.
But if the preparations in London appear in stark contrast to what has happened in Delhi, Lord Sebastian Coe, the former Olympic middle distance runner who heads the UK Olympics organising committee, says this is no reason why developing or Third World countries should not be encouraged to stage similar, prestigious international sporting events in the future.
"It's really important that countries which have not traditionally staged major sporting events should be encouraged to do so, and you have to recognise that there are going to be challenges if you want to truly globalise sport," he says.
In fact, London's organisers are learning lessons from what is happening in New Delhi in at least one crucial area: security.
Gopal Krishna Pillai, India's home secretary, confirmed this week that a team from London 2012, including Scotland Yard officers, has been in the capital to see how New Delhi has gone into a security lockdown with an estimated 100,000 police and military personnel in the city.
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Massive cuts in government spending are inevitable next week but Lord Coe and company are hoping that the Olympics' £9.28 billion (Dh54.7bn) budget - well under half what is estimated to have been spent on the Beijing Games - will be spared.
The Olympic Delivery Authority, the body responsible for the Games' buildings and infrastructure, has already been told to shave a fairly modest £27 million from its budget since the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government came to power in May.
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These "Boyfriend Handling" Secrets Have Been Proven In 4 Worse-Case Relationship Scenarios In A Row, Bringing A Cold Boyfriend To Become Addicted After Nearly Leaving For Good…An Abusive Husband To Change Into "Mr. Right"…4 Dates In 5 Hour To A Woman Dateless For 6 Years…And A Man To Fall Back In Love 2 Years After Leaving Forever…
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If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then I have important news for you:
If you don't properly handle a man and know how to make him feel a positive emotional response for you, you risk him withdrawing and even "shopping" for another woman… even if he loves you.
Without knowing it, most women push the wrong buttons in men that cause men to do stupid things in relationships, and even eventually leave.
There's nothing more painful, especially when he's being a jackass and isn't opening up about the situation.
But if you learn what I'm about to share with you to drive a man wild with desire for his girlfriend…so much so that he can't sleep at night at the thought of how lucky he is to have found such a woman…you can get him hopelessly in love and devoted to you.
How does a woman get more love, commitment and be more desirable to the man she wants in her life?
How do you get that type of relationship that is like a "fairytale" dream to most people?
People get weird over what I'm about to show you, especially when…
The 4 Worst Boyfriend Problems You've Ever Seen Vanish
I'm about to take you deep inside the confusing world of the male heart.
I have four shocking stories of women I personally coached who not only created the "perfect" relationship, but also got their men thanking god every night for their luck in finding an amazing catch.
It is possible to evoke any man's powerful side AND his passionate, thoughtful, sincere side for you, even if he's gotten distant or bored, and it's possible for ANY woman to do it…you just have to know how and what to do.
The "True Story" Behind The Biggest Relationship Turnarounds
You've heard what happened "behind the scenes" of my own near relationship disaster and triumph.
And the reason why I told you the truth behind that story is to show you that miracles can and do happen.
We're only at the beginning and you've already heard some far out things. If I were you I'd probably be thinking…
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Look, if I hadn't experienced this for myself, I wouldn't believe it myself.
So let me help you to understand by giving you the inside stories of the big successes and near heartbreaks of
What Happened To The 4 Most Hopeless Women I've Ever Met
The first thing I ever did when I started showing women how to get more success with men was take a handful of students to teach personally.
Up until then, the "Relationship Goddess" was just an undefined idea in my head that I was kind of reluctant to tell anybody about.
But when I finally started helping my first four students, I didn't realize that I would be working with the four worst love lives I had ever seen.
I want to share with you these four stories and I think you're going to learn quite a bit.
You may have heard people point to these stories, but let me let you in as to what we're really talking about:
They were all women with good hearts… but they were just doing certain important things wrong when it came to relating with men.
Sometimes just changing one little thing can change everything in relationships.
I got to work with Sheila first, and to say the least…
Sheila Was An Emotional Wreck Over Her Withdrawing Boyfriend
I saw it in her eyes that she had no idea what to do about her man who was losing interest and withdrawing, not to mention the embarrassment she felt for coming forward for help (which in the end was probably the deciding factor that saved her).
She told me she was depressed, she disliked the person she had become and felt like she was the one doing all of the work and getting nothing in return, but also felt like she couldn't do anything right.
She said she was afraid it would never workout for her, and that men were destined to not value her.
Her man barely called anymore and had even been seen with another women.
I told her that men respond to internal energy more than "physical attraction". If her internal energy was in being overly-emotional, argumentative, analytical and fear-based, those are some of the things men pull away from.
She looked at me skeptically.
The problem was instead of actually working on the cause of the problem, Sheila was "working" for the sake of working.
Sheila was working "hard" rather than working smart.
The problem is "work" alone won't inspire love in a man.
In fact this can push a man away very easily because a man is not looking for a relationship to be "work".
You must put in the right work, and when you do you inevitably put in less work, which is what all men want.
Her energy was fear-based and she didn't understand that was causing her man to pull away.
Make sense?
Honestly, I thought she had just wasted $7,000…and I was about to refund her money!
But after she went home, out of my amazement three days later I got an email…
Sheila Got Her Man More In Love Than She Had Known Since The First Month They Fell For Each Other
It happened so fast she said she ended up getting him "too" in love with her and he started becoming attached and needy!
She actually made the changes and was rewarded with results.
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Just imagine having to learn how to make a man more independent after being so withdrawn.
That's a high quality problem.
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Gretchen told me that although her man's emotions were unstable, and that he would get angry when she tried to have "talks" with him about the relationship and would end up shutting her out, she knew he had a good heart and was the best thing that ever happened to her, and she was desperate to make the relationship what it once was.
Before Gretchen and her husband married, he was actually a great guy. You might even say he was "Mr. Right".
But Mr. Right turned into Mr. Wrong — distant, unaffectionate, lazy, controlling and even emotionally abusive… He got upset at her for the smallest things and would never talk about.
I simply advised that she needed to end the relationship.
But she couldn't agree to that.
I wanted to see if he was good for her or if she was just emotionally addicted to an abuser, but the weird thing he wasn't that bad of a guy.
One problem was she was too focused on the past and what they used to have instead of planting new seeds right now.
In fact, because Gretchen was fantasizing about the past so much and how great things used to be, she was upset that it wasn't like that anymore and resented him for him not doing anything about it, she was sending a clear message to her husband that she was not "long-term marriage material".
He was regretting getting married and felt "trapped".
Most men need a woman who can help him to enjoy right now.
When a man is with a woman who doesn't understand this, he will often push her away.
Gretchen eventually revealed to me that she felt very guilty after getting married.
As we got deeper I found that she was flirting with other men, and this was turning her frustrating marriage into a nightmare.
I got deep into teaching her the relationship goddess fundamentals.
As we bid farewell she seemed to be seeing things in a new light, but I felt doubt she would find the strength to use what she had learned, because who knows what would happen if she didn't when she got back.
I was worried for her.
But my worry turned into pride when Gretchen emailed me saying…
He Hired A Skywriter Who Wrote "I'm Sorry Gretch, I Love You So Much"
.It's still hard for me to believe that actually happened.
Now that's commitment…not some B.S. flowers and chocolates to try to "patch" things up… and going back to "the same old" the next day.
And just like with Sheila, Gretchen's man ended up getting "too" loving for her taste, so again I went back and showed her how to keep him in love at the right level.
Let's real talk for a second.
We've both heard about "miraculous" relationship turnarounds where people make it seem like two words made a man want to put a ring on her finger.
But, that's not real life.
These changes don't happen overnight.
It takes commitment and consistency to see positive changes in how men relate to you.
"Quick fixes" exist, yes, but my experience is they don't work long-term.
I hate to say that because even I wish it were different!
From the many women I've coached, women who don't put in the work usually fail with men.
It was at this point that I started getting "haters".
People called me a scam, a fraud you name it.
It seems like when you start getting results in the public eye it triggers people's limiting beliefs about what can be accomplished.
It would have been easy to just ignore those people, but I wanted to prove them wrong.
How The Relationship Goddess Formula Brought In 5 Dates In 4 Hours…To A Woman Dateless For 6 Years
Now you might say "It's because you were there to push her Brandon", but once I showed Bonny the relationship goddess basics, she took them and ran.
Bonny was the first woman to prove to me how easy it actually was.
She was a middle-aged (but young at heart) woman living in a suburban condo in Glendale.
When we sat down together, I immediately knew why she was dateless.
Attraction is based on the meeting of opposite energies.
When a woman is "yin" feminine, this is the type of energy that attracts confident, masculine, sensitive men.
She was turning men off before she even had a chance, and because of this…
She Lived In Constant Fear Of Ending Up Alone For The Rest Of Her Life
One reason why I like Relationship Goddess is that it demonstrates exactly how to live with courage and act in ways you never thought you could, like being "ballsy" with men.
So after going through the Relationship Goddess techniques all day, working through her insecurities and transforming from "normal woman" to goddess, she was ready to go bag a high class man.
We went out to The Standard in Hollywood that night, and when we got there she immediately froze.
Seeing all of the attractive men she would like to talk to, her body was froze with fear, very similar to baby Simba in the Lion King seeing the Wildebeests running down the cliffside.
Here's What She Was Doing Wrong
Why do so many women "freeze up" with fear when they want to go talk to a man they find attractive?
When you look too far into the future and "sell in advance" and start think about a possible future with a man, not only do men pick up on this energy and hope that you don't talk to them, but you also make it more difficult on yourself to actually talk to men
Selling into the future, whether it be the short term of simply getting a guy to like you, or long term of settling down and having a fairytale relationship, will cause you to tense up and not be present with men.
Being present is how you get men to want you.
She was shaky like a newborn fawn taking its first steps…but once we got past that hurdle and she began to relax, her energy became present and she was approaching men like she never had done before.
Her energy was now causing men to be OPEN to her approach, and she had men approaching her by the end of the night, which hadn't happened to her in years.
When you take a risk, the payoff is incredible.
By the end of the night she got herself two dates.
Bonny emailed me a week later that she went out with the girls Saturday night and got…
5 Dates In a 4 Hour Night!
I was in total disbelief!
This lady with a six year love drought was now a maniac with men.
I think we need a new name for Bonny's life… maybe the Bachelorette Lifestyle!
She didn't even need a TV crew…
I'll work on it.
But seriously, it turned out that one of those guys was particularly special to her and I hear they are still together and happy to this day.
If you've been there and have been stuck with men, not being able to approach them and having no good men approaching you…
Here's How We Did It
This should prove without doubt that you can do anything you want if you put your heart into it.
All we had to do was change Bonny's mindset from a weak one to a powerful goddess mindset.
Once she was feeling like a goddess… game over for any man in there because men respond to energy more than anything else.
You have to work on the core energy inside before you start seeing results on the outside.
This is just the way it is.
Unfortunately most women never think of it this way and hold a very needy energy — they're tense, nervous, anxious — and this energy leads men to become uninterested.
Goddess energy is cool, relaxed, confident, loving, powerful.
Bonny hadn't had a date in SIX YEARS, but within days, the relationship goddess formula changed her energy and immediately we saw big changes in men's reactions towards her. They were interested to the point of…
Men Begging To Take Her Home
Now those kind of men weren't what we call "boyfriend material" (they were no slobs though)…but this was a drastic change compared to a six year drought with no love.
For my money, it proved that any woman can be a goddess with men.
Things were great until…
I Was "Tricked" Into Bringing An Ex-Boyfriend Back Two Years After Leaving
'm talking about the guy so easy to fall in love with who can make you feel like the only woman on earth… and leaves out of the blue.
I'm the guy who's been bringing these guys back to women, getting them in love, committed and telling women how to keep them for good, for one because I used to be that guy.
This situation was pure Relationship Goddess from start to finish.
I Never Wanted To Do It
After just going through three women in a row, I was exhausted! (not like that perv :-))
I was ready to spring a surprise vacation with my girl to France, tour the Louvre and have dinner at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
But fate had other plans.
Teri was on her way out here to LA and I thought I'd teach her what I know while I packed for France.
Sounds like a good plan, no?
Well, Teri gets here and tells me that she wants her boyfriend back who she hasn't so much as said a single word to since two years after…
He Left For Another Woman
Keep in mind, Yintegrity was still "off the beaten track", so she was really on a wing and a prayer with me.
I honestly didn't know if I was going to be able to help with such a drastic circumstance.
I didn't know if Teri was in love or if I needed to call the loony bin to have them pick her up, but it turned out that Teri was serious about.
Getting Back The Love Of Her Life
She was so sweet, so sincere and I'm guessing that any woman she met wanted immediately to be her bestie.
The only contact information we had for her man was his email address, so we decided to start there.
I started writing out a very detailed heartfelt email to Teri after a day long coaching session, with all of the relationship goddess fundamentals and directions of what she needed to say to her ex boyfriend to get him in love with her again.
So I sent her the email, but when I was looking at the message I just sent, the email address WASN'T Teri's…
I Accidentally Sent The Email DIRECTLY To Teri's Ex-Boyfriend!
Out of my exhaustion I had the wrong email address in the "address" bar.
I couldn't even BELIEVE what I had just done!
I couldn't help but feel terrible that I had just singlehandedly ruined any chance Teri would have of getting back with the love of her life.
A day went by without a response back. Two days… Three days…
At that point I was sure that I had messed up big time.
Just as I was going to break the news to Teri three days later, I saw an email sitting in my inbox.
He responded back…and I couldn't believe what he said
"Teri I Should Never Have Left You. I'm Sorry I Didn't Write Sooner But Seeing You're Email I Just Was Speechless. Where Are You, I'm Coming To You Right Now."
Talk about a wing and a prayer.
I couldn't believe he didn't notice my email address, the directions to using the email, the secret use of words I showed her, or any of the other weird things in that email!
I guess what they is true… men can be pretty dense sometimes.
Or perhaps he just read a few lines and didn't need to read the rest. I guess we'll never know.
But one thing was for sure…
The Relationship Goddess Fundamentals Work
By the way, I got an email from Teri recently saying that they're still together and she's never been happier.
Before we go on, one thing you must see is how Relationship Goddess has worked for other women.
When I released my first book "The Future Of Femininity"…
I Was Scared Out Of My Mind
I had no idea what would happen because:
To make things worse I kept getting all these calls from people telling me not to release it.
What the hell!
As you can imagine, I had my doubts.
But I decided to release about 100 copies of "The Future Of Femininity" anyway and waited nervously as a few copies were sold for replies on how it work out for them…and I waited…and waited…and I got no replies. I didn't heard so much as a god damn peep out of anyone, and it had been almost a week.
I started thinking…
"Maybe I Got Lucky… Maybe This Is NOT For Everyone"
I'll never forget what happened next.
After I released those copies of "The Future Of Femininity" to the public, seven days later, I hadn't heard from anyone all week.
But when I woke up that morning to check my inbox I found…
94 Emails From Women With MAJOR Breakthroughs With Men
It was like god almighty came down and flooded my inbox with emails from almost all of the women who purchased my book in my inbox all in one day.
Que the "Twi Light Zone" music.
And many of these women were in bad situations, but the success rate was staggering.
And these women didn't even pay me $3,500 a day like the first group. They just bought that 147 page eBook.
It was…
Proof That Relationship Goddess Works Like Nothing You've Seen
But there's something very important I need to tell you before going on.
Sheila had just kept the man of her life from leaving, Gretchen's now had Mr. Right, Bonny found "the one" and Teri had just gotten her ex back.
My inbox was flooded with tons of similar stories.
And while there were tons of successes, there were more QUESTIONS than I could handle.
I'm talking thousands of questions.
That's when I decided to turn the old book into "Relationship Goddess" and answer all of the questions.
It's the most condensed, powerful and uncensored material out there that guarantees success in love with men.
I want to show you
Examples Of How Relationship Goddess Changes Everything Around
We both know that men don't exactly make things "easy" in relationships.
It's confusing when things are going great and out of NOWHERE he withdraws or puts up a "Great Wall of China".
Have you ever walked down the street with a man holding hands enjoying each other when suddenly he gently turned his head as an attractive woman came walking by? You weren't sure if you were just being paranoid or if he was unconsciously saying he wasn't interested in you anymore?
The worst part is not knowing what he's REALLY thinking… and unsure you'd actually want to know.
Men do weird, stupid and immature things in relationships. It can make you feel like awkward "friends" rather than lovers.
Here's what most women don't know about what men want, that causes men to lose interest
Men Crave A Goddess Woman
What I've learned from talking with hundreds of guys is that men make an unconscious decision to close off from women who send them subtle "wrong" signals in their attitude, body language and energy.
Men always unconsciously look at these signals and when they see them in a woman, they will shut down from her and "shop" for other women, turn emotionally cold and even emotionally violent and controlling.
Chances are if he's "hot and cold", then he doesn't see you as a goddess, and if you don't start sending men the RIGHT signals, he never will.
Here's what I mean.
1. A "Wrong Signal" That Turns A Man Off Instantly
A "wrong" signal is when a man says to a woman "That girl over there is hot" and our friend the woman says "You think she's prettier than me? You don't find me attractive anymore do you. I hate you…"
What does this do to a man?
When a woman says this, she sends a clear message to him that she's not "girlfriend material".
To a man, girlfriend material is things like femininity, confidence and "yin" energy.
When a woman reacts this way, she demonstrates loud and clear that she is insecure, needy, afraid and isn't feminine… which causes a man to lose that "special feeling" for her.
2. A "RIGHT" Signal That Turns A Man On Instantly
When a man says "That girl over there is hot" and the woman says "Yeah she is kind of cute", this tells a man "I'm confident, I'm feminine, I'm attractive, I'm a freakin' goddess".
The energy behind it is calm, GODDESS energy.
While this doesn't make "logical" sense, men are insatiably attracted to what I call "goddess" energy.
When you do this the right way (and it's easy), you cause him to RESPECT you because now he feels twice as comfortable with you.
The problem is not only do most women not know why men act the way they do, but they have no clue that what they're doing provokes it…and mistakenly think it's all his fault.
Have you ever wondered why do men do stupid, careless things?
The reason is he doesn't feel that special connection and desire to be romantic with you anymore even though he wants to subconsciously, and he doesn't know how to bring it back… or even think it's possible.
If a man felt that special feeling for you, he wouldn't think twice about being the man of your dreams.
The good news is most men want a special connection with one woman and men are actually EASY to turn around at any time.
When a man starts sees you as a goddess, you trigger his gut biological and mental processes to start seeing you as "the one".
A goddess woman says all the right things to what makes a man want a relationship in his psychology, and she is RARE, and it's a damn shame. Sadly most men look for that one special woman and never find her.
Without knowing it you may be inadvertently leading him to lose attraction, interest and love for you even though he may want things to work with you and is waiting for the day that it does.
All you want is a great thing with a great guy, and an intelligent woman like yourself DESERVES that.
But, if you keep sending him the wrong signals, he will eventually slam the door on you for good.
I've seen it happen to one too many unsuspecting women.
When you send a man the right signals, you keep him PEAKED in desire for you all the time….and the best part is it's not hard.
So what causes men to invest his WHOLE HEART into a one woman and withdraw from others?
The Secret To Grabbing YOUR Love Life By The Balls And Becoming A "Relationship Goddess"
In the past few years of helping women from all over the world get success with men, I've noticed a pattern that even happens to good-hearted women.
They self-sabotage when faced with a man problem and inadvertently make things twice as difficult on themselves.
I realized this: women who are successful with men rarely share their true secrets with women who don't have the success they want.
Have you ever seen that girl who has men pining over her day and night…her phone seems to ring off the hook with great guys wanting to date her?
Not only does she have men wanting her but at the amount she wants.
It seems like she was born with psychic powers.
The thing is it's no accident, and she wasn't born that way either.
She does, says and thinks things that most women don't.
The problem is, no one's ever told you which step to take first to make that happen in your life and it's agonizing feeling like you'll never get it.
The second big discovery I had was a woman's looks are not important to getting men interested.
This was trippy for me to learn as a MAN.
But everywhere I looked, I started seeing average looking women in relationships with attractive men. And I even noticed in in my own life!
What were these women doing (other than voodoo)?
After years uncovering the truth of relationships from in depth study of psychology, biology, sociology, sexuality, spirituality, shamanism…and hanging out with relationship experts from Los Angeles, Montreal, Australia and the U.K., I figured it out almost by accident.
The answer is so elusive yet so obvious.
A woman has far more success with men if she actually knows how to interact with men.
If you're finally ready to take charge of your love life and get your man madly in love with you, inspire steamy sexual chemistry long into a relationship, take that chemistry up to the heart, create an unbreakable bond…and start looking forward to the future instead of dreading it…
I've just finished a brand new book designed for any woman to become a "goddess" with men in a relationships who gets love, attention and admiration effortlessly…and never worries about men pulling away or leaving.
My new book is called "Relationship Goddess".
This is an "eBook", which means you can download it to your computer and be reading it within seconds. (Any computer windows or mac is compatible).
This book is more like an experimental "Jimi Hendrix Experience" – just flow, fun and a way to do things with men that is proven to work by many successes from women with the same root problems with men as yourself.
It's a method that's guaranteed to work by the laws of nature and was derived from the experience of masters of relationships and love…it's no crap-fest written by some 83 year old TV doctor.
Experience has taught me that if you want to heal your love life, the most sensitive situation there is, you need something of incredible value…even something second rate will leave you stranded…and that's why I wrote this book.
We've been through crazy successes from women who used Relationship Goddess, but now I thought it'd be cool to show you what a few guys had to say about it, so here's what they had to say unedited.
Who would have thought…men actually thanking me for teaching their girlfriends how to be goddesses.
Pretty cool huh?
Now, we haven't gone through exactly what we're talking about in Relationship Goddess, so now I'd like to take you through…
Just A Few Secrets You're Going to Discover In Relationship Goddess…
Here's a question I get a lot:
"This All Sounds Good Brandon, But Is This Really For Me And My Personal Situation?"
And you'd be right to ask, because Relationship Goddess isn't for everybody.
If you have a man who's in love with you long into a relationship without resistance and you don't worry about him leaving, this eBook isn't for you.
If you never get emotional, jealous, angry, or worried over man situations…and you're sex life is right where you want it, then this eBook isn't for you.
If you make good decisions in stressful situations like arguments that result in your boyfriend becoming more attracted to you, then this eBook isn't for you.
On the other hand, there are certain chronic issues that plague most women's experiences in relationship that just don't "go away".
Read through the list below and if you've experienced one of these situations, I highly recommend Relationship Goddess for you.
However, if you read through and start tallying up more, you NEED to soak up every page of this book immediately:
The point is I don't need to tell you whether or not you need Relationship Goddess. If you need it then you know you it.
There's a good chance that the one thing you need most is inside this book, and I want to make sure you have it available, because you must…
Become A Relationship Goddess To Make Him LOVE You
If you're what I call a "relationship goddess" with a man, he has no choice but to love you.
It might sound unrealistic, but you've seen the evidence yourself.
Once you understand men and what causes them to fall in love, you stop having all of those problems.
Look, men and women have known each other for maybe millions of years and STILL can't get along… weird isn't it?
Now is your opportunity to change ALL of that regardless of where your man is at emotionally and what "issues" he has.
I've spent years scouring the globe for the answers, coaching thousands of women including celebrities, and I've put everything I've found that works and packed it into this book. You're could be just minutes away from learning these powerful secrets and having the ability to make men give you non-stop affection, commitment, love and attention.
After reading my eBook, I guarantee you'll never again worry about your man leaving you, falling out of love, shutting down, getting upset or angry at you, or ending up alone.
This information is the most powerful material I personally have ever come across on bringing a man to love you and getting him to be a great boyfriend… I say this because I deeply care about your success in your love life.
I'm extremely excited to "bare all" and see you finally get the attention, love, affection and respect from your man that you DESERVE.
Closing Thoughts
I have a silly, but very real question to ask you.
What would you give right now to wake up tomorrow morning to breakfast in bed, a note on your pillow with instructions for you for a treasure hunt during the day ended at sunset with a beautiful candle lit dinner, wine and loving glances, with your man in love with you?
Well, the fact is you couldn't put a price on that… well, maybe a valuable organ… like a kidney.
What if he would simply look into your eyes and say "I love you" just one more time and REALLY mean it from the bottom of his heart without ANY BS and be willing to do whatever it takes to begin to heal things with you?
Would $1,000 be worth it just to see your man start to be your dream man?
Hell YEAH.
I know that when you look back at this time in your life and you decided to empower yourself, not only are you not going believe how easy it was, but you're going to feel proud of yourself for making it happen.
And of course it won't cost you $10,000, $1,000 or even $100.
Potentially $500 blown on a new outfit and a night of drinks to just forget the pain of losing him for a night of losing yourself, OR…
Are you going to invest in yourself to become a Relationship Goddess and get the validation from HIM?
When you know how to speak the language of a man's heart to have him take off his armor, he'll never avoid looking into your eyes deeply and saying "I love you".
I've priced this eBook package in the past for $49.97, and I've had many happy customers. But now, because I want you to be able to truly benefit from the information in this book, I've priced this eBook package at just $22.97.
You'll Also Get These Three FREE Bonuses Just For Trying My eBook…
In this bonus eBooklet "Secrets Of Commitment: Turning His Resistance Into Burning Desire To Commit His Heart To You And ONLY You", I show you exactly why men avoid commitment, what specific words most women use around the subject that send a man packing and what words to substitute to get him liking the idea (hint: one of those words is in the title of this eBooklet!), how to "reframe" his mind to actually start enjoying the idea of committing long-term with you, and the "magic formula" to get him begging to commit his heart to you and stay with you for good, the way he would if you were Angelina Jolie.
In this next bonus "The 4 Personality Types Your Man Finds Naturally Attractive" I take you through the different personality types that your man finds NATURALLY and magnetically attractive by the laws of nature, and how to develop your own natural personality to become insatiably desirable and attractive to your man on a biological, psychological, emotional and spiritual level. I also share with you why you attract the type of men that you do, and how you can become irresistible to the man you most desire… which eventually even helping to transform your current boyfriend's personality into your "dream man": listening to you, caring for you and adapting a "us against the whole world" attitude.
FREE Unlimited Access To Customers ONLY Support Community
The one thing that my successful students have that women who struggle with men don't (and it's no surprise to me) is having a group of positive, motivated, like-minded people surrounding you who will push you to the next level.
My marketing friends say a membership like this should be charged at least $29.97 a month.
That's $359.64 a year, and it would be well worth it.
But instead I'm going to give it to you just as a token of my appreciation for trying out my eBook.
I want to keep the community small in size, so I'm making this a limited time offer only to the next 124 applicants.
These bonuses are a $86.00+ value alone, but I'm giving this all to you FREE in this package, because I want you to have a full spectrum of education in men, attraction, love, relationships, intimacy, heart-connection, communication and sexuality that no woman has ever had the opportunity to have.
Here's What To Do Next…
When you scroll down and click the blue "Buy Now" button below, you'll be taken to a secure ordering page where you will enter your credit card, Paypal or online checking information.
After you have filled in your name and billing preferences and have clicked the orange "make payment" button, your eBook will be sent immediately to your inbox as an Adobe PDF file.
Download the eBook and bonus materials to your hard-drive and make sure you back it up on to a disc.
For the next week, start by reading the main material for a half hour a day from front to back and when you have finished the eBook, spend particular time on the sections that really stick out at you as most important.
Don't try too hard to understand it, just relax and let the material soak into your brain. The material is designed to work for you, so by the end of the week your boyfriend will be more loving, affection, attentive and will want to be a man for you.
You're transaction is completely secure.
It only takes a minute and then you will be deep into the secrets of being a goddess with men in relationships.
You're going to wake up next him in the morning and have him cuddling with you all morning long and actually feel happy waking up.
He's going to support and respect you and back you up when you're insecure and and feel low…he will want to face off against the world together.
You're going to feel his love and deep intimacy, something most women will never be fortunate enough to experience.
OR he could leave you for another woman who CAN make it happen while you end up alone feeling hopeless that you'll ever find a great thing.
The choice is yours.
What kind of power do you want with men, not just being pushed and pulled by circumstances?
What's your ideal man if you could simply choose him, like choosing a color for your boudoir?
Do you want him to look at you with that undeniable glimmer in his eye?
Take care of you like you are his to protect?
Will you feel like the woman who deserves it? Will he feel fortunate to have you?
Just click here to get your "Relationship Goddess" 7-day free trial (no brainer).
You'll thank yourself later.
With love and honor,
P.S. Don't let your relationships fail and let your man fall out of love with you. I guarantee you'll have him telling you from the bottom of his heart how much you mean to him and you won't end up completely alone. This eBook will show you the way to getting that deep emotional connection with a man you've always wanted but didn't know how to get. I say that with 100% integrity.
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Electricite de France or EDF ADR (OTCPK:ECIFF) just got dumped by Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG). And that could spell some big changes to its plans. The French state-owned utility and its U.S. partner were going to build at least four nuclear plants in the U.S. And they were going to use EPR, created by another French firm Areva ADR (OTCPK:ARVCF), to do so.
A third-generation pressurized water reactor, EPR is the first of its kind to hit the markets. But it seems less exciting now than it did when EDF and CEG first joined forces in 2007.
Less exciting, at least, in the U.S. The natural gas glut and resulting low prices have seen to that, along with the fact that the cost of building EPRs has skyrocketed. And now EDF has to find a new U.S. partner for its costly and complex project, which has already experienced repeated delays and cost overruns. Originally estimated at €3.5 billion, projections now sit at €5-6 billion.
EDF definitely made mistakes, such as allying with Constellation Energy to begin with. But its problems in the U.S. run much deeper than that, cost issues or natural gas prices.
Simply put, it is just extremely difficult to build nuclear power plants in the United States.
Once Upon a Nuclear Industry
The U.S. nuclear industry cheered when Congress approved federal loan guarantees for nuclear reactor construction projects in 2005. Three decades after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, nuclear power appeared ready to light up again.
In 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission received 22 applications for reactors. And President Obama even proposed another $36 billion in federal loan guarantees for the industry in February of this year. Yet last year, only one application was filed. And none at all this year.
Blame natural gas prices or the recession if you want. Analysts certainly expect U.S. 2010 power demand to fall below 2007 levels, which lessens any immediate need for reactors. But those short-term effects don't matter much for reactors that operate at least 60 years. What really poses a problem is the fragmented U.S. electricity market.
Nuclear Construction Obstacles
In the U.S., regulatory frameworks in the electricity market differ widely. In some states, power companies can pass on any costs of generation to their consumers, subject to regulator approval, of course.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) does just that for its Plant Vogtle project. This enables it to raise financing and start preliminary work at the site. Additionally, so far, Southern has the only federal loan guarantee – for $8.3 billion – to build two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors. The total project is estimated at $14.5 billion.
Many other utilities, like Constellation, operate in competitive electricity markets though. So they have to justify the cost of any new projects to their customers… projects like new nuclear power plants.
And with natural gas prices so low, that power may have a competitive edge for a while. So nuclear power generation requires investors who take a 40-year view on the market.
But no American industry takes such a long-term view. So don't expect the U.S. private sector to finance new nuclear reactor projects without federal loan guarantees.
Yet the high commercial risks made the loan guarantee too expensive for Constellation. That's why it won't proceed with the $10 billion Calvert Cliffs 3 project in Maryland. It's hardly alone either. The industry jokes that the only companies that can get federal loan guarantees on good terms are the ones that don't actually need them.
The Nuclear Industry's Bottom Line
Overall, these companies do expect to build nuclear reactors; they just don't know when. Constellation's vice-president for corporate affairs and policy, James Connaughton, put it bluntly:
There is no reasonable scenario by which we can meet the government's aims for energy security, air quality and cuts in greenhouse gas emissions without building in excess of 100 nuclear power plants [in the U.S.]. But the huge roadblocks in the way mean that we will end up doing what we know we must, but with needless delay and at much greater expense.
It would make sense for the U.S. government to make things easier for the utility industry in order to meet its own environmental goals. But this is the government we're talking about here, so common sense doesn't really factor in.
Yet until Washington does make sense, few nuclear power plants will be built in the United States.
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