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2004-06-27 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Anon1 2004-06-27 2:38:18 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Al Gore demonstrated the power of wind energy this past week.

Posted by Capt America 2004-06-27 3:21:13 AM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-27 3:21:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't forget - Solar Power is Nuke Energy. Mother nature's own. And please throw in the death toll annually from skin cancer into that calculation.

Posted by Don 2004-06-27 8:36:03 AM|| 2004-06-27 8:36:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 correctamundo, Don, 1/3 of all Australians get malignant skin cancers in their lives. Most get them cut out but some die.

Posted by Anon1 2004-06-27 9:29:02 AM|| 2004-06-27 9:29:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, nucleaar power is a good option. The problem with the waste can be solved by recycling. It is the enviros that are very much against recycling.
Nuclear waste can be recycled over and over until all that is left is very low level stuff.

Posted by Michael 2004-06-27 11:34:53 AM|| 2004-06-27 11:34:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Solar Power is Nuke Energy. Mother nature's own. And please throw in the death toll annually from skin cancer into that calculation

What! What! The Sun causes cancer! The Sun is nuclear! It must be banned immediately. And probably would be, if it wasn't for evil George Bush and Halliburton.

Posted by A Jackson 2004-06-27 12:07:37 PM|| 2004-06-27 12:07:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 And ban the byproducts of that nuclear energy, like food.

Posted by ed 2004-06-27 12:56:26 PM|| 2004-06-27 12:56:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Another lying opinion piece disguised as a commented article.

This time on how bad nuclear power supposedly is.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-06-27 1:21:48 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-06-27 1:21:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Nice try, Anon. Of all the attacks of knucklear power I have ever seen, the "Save My Job" attack is the most contemptible. I was a Navy nuke for 5 years and a civilian nuke for 6. Navy nuclear power operations were actually fun. Commercial - forget it. I never met a person in commercial nuclear power who was not contemptuous of their situation and did not yearn for a way out. If you want to meet a wild-eyed, unhinged lunatic, see any nuclear engineer after spending 5 days writing safety evaluations and planning a task that is the real-world equivalent of changing your lawn mower oil. And God help the poor dumb bastard who gets half way through the job and finds a complication. The money is good, but in the end, it is not worth the hassles. I made my Great Escape in 98. Thank God. So there, Anon, if you want ammo, use that. Please release that abused species, the nuclear workman, from your paranoid conspiracy theory. They deserve better.

Posted by Zpaz 2004-06-27 2:19:14 PM|| 2004-06-27 2:19:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 And how many eco-friendly, if undependable, bird-chop... er, windmills would it take, eh Arjun?

Posted by mojo 2004-06-27 3:31:48 PM|| 2004-06-27 3:31:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The irony of the brouhaha over the opening of Yucca Mountain Long Term Waste site is that the Navy has been putting their decommissioned reactors at the DOE's Hanford, Wahington site for years now. This picture always brings a tear to my eye. My old boat is in it somewhere :( If it is a DOE operation, I can not vouch for its safety. The DOE made a mess at Hanford during the pursuit of nuclear weapons. If it is a Navy operation, you can eat your lunch off the pit floor. The other much maligned method for decom is Davy Jones Locker. When the USS Thresher sank off the coast of Massachusetts in '63 :( she was fairly shredded to pieces. The Navy does rad surveys of the area including the sea floor where the remains ended. The results were always squat. Water makes a hell of a shield.

Posted by Zpaz 2004-06-27 5:02:02 PM|| 2004-06-27 5:02:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Iran is a good site for our nuclear waste. We can pour it down their old oil wells. The Soviets say it worked well for them in Poland.

Posted by Silentbrick 2004-06-27 5:44:59 PM|| 2004-06-27 5:44:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Most of the utilities have given up on Yucca Mountain happening anytime this century. My company plans to go into dry storage. Too bad about all the money we had to give the government for Yucca.

Posted by davemac 2004-06-27 9:29:44 PM|| 2004-06-27 9:29:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Guess what? Criticism of the Nuclear industry is legit enough to make it to New Scientist magazine so it aint the province of hysterical greenies.

Not only that but El Baradei is a complete LOSER who when not advocating that the west keep him relevant by building Nuke stations, runs around demanding that Israel give up all its nukes unless we let the third world despots have them.

Posted by Anon1 2004-06-29 7:06:27 AM|| 2004-06-29 7:06:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Criticism of the Nuclear industry is legit enough to make it to New Scientist magazine so it aint the province of hysterical greenies.

Oh, well I guess we all forgot how New Scientist is the ultimate arbiter of what's Correct. They have absolutely no editorial position, and every one of their articles is guaranteed to be equivalent to the Word of God.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-29 7:23:36 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-06-29 7:23:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 RC! Wash your mouth out with soap! That's Anon1 - long-standing ultimate authority of Rantburg! Why, I can almost recall the hundreds of deep-thought commentaries and remarkable analysis posts by this world renowned authority. We should be humbled he deigns to grace us with his thoughts.

Posted by .com 2004-06-29 7:45:24 AM|| 2004-06-29 7:45:24 AM|| Front Page Top

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