Goodell: Get Us Back to Mediation
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell again has urged the owners and players to go back to mediation toward ending the current labor stoppage. Appearing on NFL Network, Goodell says: "I couldn't get off this show fast enough to get to mediation." But he seems resigned to that not happening until after a U.S. District Court judge in Minneapolis rules on the players' request for an injunction to stop the lockout that began Saturday. Goodell also says "there's unfortunately been very limited contact" with the NFL Players air yeezy Association, which dissolved as a union when talks broke down last Friday. He repeats Tuesday that the owners provided more financial information to the players than ever before, including some data not made available to the 32 clubs.The NRC on Monday also sought to dispel fears about earthquake damage at U.S. nuclear power plants. "We have a strong safety program in place to deal with seismic events that are likely to happen at any nuclear facility in this country," Chairman Gregory Jaczko said at a news conference at the White House, adding that the agency "will continue to take new information and see if there are changes that we need to make with our program." Many in California, however, worry that the dangers could be far greater than operators or the NRC have planned for. "There are many people who are very, very doubtful that they can trust whatever the company says about the plant," said Liz Apfelberg, a spokeswoman for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, a group that has opposed Diablo Canyon since the early 1970s. Fears about seismic dangers have also been stoked by the 2008 discovery of a fault line half a mile from Diablo Canyon. California state Senator Sam Blakeslee, a Republican who represents the district in which Diablo Canyon is located, on Monday called for further seismic studies of the area. "The devastating events in Japan underscore the importance of addressing the seismic uncertainty surrounding California's nuclear power plants," Blakeslee said in a statement. "Serious concerns about a newly discovered fault running underneath Diablo Canyon ... have so far gone unaddressed." Shortly after the discovery of the new fault, the California Energy Commission recommended that PG&E conduct 3-D imaging. On Monday, PG&E's Raftery said the utility was still evaluating whether or not to perform the 3-D studies.