Fred's Comments

LOL, good story!

Very well said Peter.

And if we do not use oil---we do not need to defend access to it.

You're a good little Republican Anonymous.

Exactly the type of attitude and response the party is looking for.

It seems to me that the Republican party has proven that they are more than willing to sell out the well being of the American people, their health, their security, and their best interests.

A vote for a Republican is a vote for multinational profit making machines and lobbyists, and a vote against America and Americans.

The Republican policy---Grab the cash and run, leave the problems for the suckers.

I think we are caught in a 1950s drive in movie that just keeps repeating itself over and over, "The Troll With The Atomic Brain".........................................I'm going to the snack bar for some popcorn................

-----" People are reading Fukoshima wrong. The Fukoshima lesson is: DO NOT PUT NUCLEAR IN NATURAL DISASTER AREAS. Do not put it near faults. Do not put it near the ocean. Do not put it where it floods."---------

It has already been done. San Onofri in on a fault and RIGHT on the ocean. And in a high population density area.

Calhoun reactor in Nebraska in on the Missouri River, and came within inches of being flooded last summer.

There are a number of reactors are located in the midcontinental plate----around the site of the New Madrid earthquake---the largest ever seen in North America.

And that isn't even counting equipment failures.

Germany is replacing nuclear power with wind, solar and natural gas and biomethane.

In the early 1950s, there was a lot of talk about the bright promise of nuclear power. It was supposed to be clean, safe, and so abundant that it would be too cheap to meter.

It was supposed to wipe out poverty and hunger worldwide within a generation.

We are now moving into the third generation since then---and none of the bright promises are reality.

------" You can fool some of the people, some of the time, and you can fool part of the people, part of the time---but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."----Abraham Lincoln

But apparently, you CAN fool some of the people ALL of the time.

LMAO----you are right of coarse, Bill, but it is just SO much fun messin' with him...............

I know I have "Dr. Strangelove" in my video collection somewhere----I'll have to pull it out and watch it again tonight.

"HEY! A feller could have a right nice weekend in Las Vegas with this stuff........"----Major Kong, doing survival gear inventory.

DrAlexC---did you change your name? I'd swear I'm talking to Dr. Strangelove.................

You go out and find the 11 US nuclear devices that are armed and active----some of them lost since the 1950s, disarm them, and then come back here and tell us how wonderful nuclear power is.

How about starting with the 4 Megaton thermonuclear device that is armed and active----and lost somewhere in the sand sediments or marsh flats on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia, in the Tybee Island vicinity since 1958.

The longer it sits in contact with corrosive sea water, the greater the likelihood the container vessel can corrode thru and set off the trigger mechanism. Or, that the explosives in the trigger mechanism can self detonate due to age and instability breakdown.

When you find it and retrieve it, handle it carefully. It weighs almost 4 tons. Keep your toes out of the way, and try not to jar it or roll it around too much....................

--------" Fred, oops, I missed this gem: "should tell you something about the role nuclear reactors in producing nuclear weapons."

So now you've shown everyone here you don't understand how nuclear weapons are made and why civilian reactors are irrelvant to that.

And, your conflation of "use" with "make" for such weapons just shows your arguing to be desperate."--------

Nuclear devices use plutonium. Plutonium comes from nuclear reactors. If you can't make them, you can't use them.

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RADIATED VETERANS OF AMERICA (RVA) NEEDS YOUR HELP!

More than 300,000 American Military Veterans were exposed to ionizing radiation as a result of the atmospheric nuclear bombs exploded by the United States between 1945 and 1963. The vast majority of these Veterans were involuntarily exposed, and were advised by officials that the radiation would not effect them.

These Veterans have been dying at a rate exceeding that of their age groups, and because of punitive secrecy oaths many have died without revealing, even if they knew, how or why they suffered from a federally recognized radiogenic disease.

Those Veterans still living, like the Japanese survivors (many in the same age group) of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 bombings, are suffering, without compensation, from delayed effects of ionizing radiation.

A little more than 20 forms of cancer has been recognized by Congress as caused by radiation. These named cancers have been termed "presumptive" and a Veteran or survivor may be compensated. Only a few have been, and those with "non-presumptive" cancers (such as skin cancer, prostate cancer) and other radiogenic diseases recognized by Congress, may only be compensated following an arduous path of Dose Reconstruction -- and even fewer individuals have been able to get through this complicated and expensive system.

RVA strongly contends that "all radiogenic diseases" suffered by recognized "Atomic Veterans" should be classed as "presumptive". To this end RVA, recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(19) Veterans Service Organization, with the authority to influence legislation, is working to have Congress bring all radiogenic diseases under the same definition, so that Veterans (and/or survivors) may be treated equally."--------

http://www.radvets.org/

Nuclear weapons and the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States

------' Not that it's relevant to nuclear power, but are you honestly saying we've used nuclear weapons in our wars after Japan?'-----

Deploying carrier task forces to Iran and North Korean waters in an effort to stop the development of nuclear reactors should tell you something about the role nuclear reactors in producing nuclear weapons.

It isn't because they are safe.

Name one drug or treatment that can reverse the damage caused by radiation exposure.

BTW---as a USAF veteran, who worked in the medical field and medivac----I trained for nuclear emergency contingencies. I can tell you for a fact, the main medical treatment plan for nuclear emergencies boils down to one simple acronym-----what we called KYAG(Kiss Your A$$ Goodbye).