Japan reports a likely setback in nuclear crisis
After a few days of cautious optimism, the nuclear crisis in Japan has taken a more grim turn. In a speech to the nation Friday evening, Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the situation “very grave and serious,” and residents within an expanded 19-mile radius of the plant have been advised to evacuate.
What changed? After two workers were hospitalized yesterday after wading through highly radioactive water, officials tried to trace the water back to its source. They now believe the water may be coming from Reactor No. 3, suggesting a breach of containment.
As the Christian Science Monitor reports:
If that turns out to be true, the devastated nuclear complex may be much more contaminated with radioactive materials than officials had previously thought.
The suspected reactor breach would mark a major setback for the crews racing to return power to the plant and bring its reactors and spent-fuel pools back under control.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Friday that the situation at Fukushima remained grave: “We are not in a position where we can be optimistic. We must treat every development with the utmost care.”
… An examination of the water the workers sloshed through showed its radiation level to be 10,000 times higher than normal, said NHK. The radiation almost certainly came from the reactor itself, not the nearby spent-fuel pools, according to officials.”
So what does it all mean? For one thing, public support here in the United States has fallen significantly in the wake of the accident, as documented by a CBS poll released this week:
But on the other hand, there’s this. It’s a graphic representation of the number of deaths attributed to coal, oil and nuclear power, adjusted by the amount of power each generates:
Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-of-coal-marketing.html
That’s certainly fodder to argue that public wariness of nuclear power outpaces the actual danger it poses. However, you could counter that with the observation that oil and coal don’t require an evacuation zone with a 19-mile radius, an area of more than 2,200 square miles. A Russian nuclear expert has predicted that the immediate area around the Fukushima complex would be inhabitable again in, say, five years. But that was before the latest setback.
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Adam
March 25th, 2011
2:10 pm
George W: It has been shown before that your objection is actually a perception rather than an actual reality in most of the areas that it was suggested this was a problem. Granted, there are thugs out there, and some of them probably use public transport. But the facts do not back this perception up. I wish I could remember which thread this was on.
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:12 pm
Bosch….yep those solar panels really worked great! haha Keep up the good work!
Paul
March 25th, 2011
2:12 pm
Bosch
If it’s a time machine you’re after, there’s a blogger who shows up here who uses it on Jay. Maybe he’ll share?
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:15 pm
Blog God, poo.
“yep those solar panels really worked great”
George, how could they work great if they were removed?
Paul,
Good idea.
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:16 pm
Just posted three videos regarding public transporation but they are “awaiting moderation” lets see if he lets them go through.
AmVet
March 25th, 2011
2:16 pm
A $10 cab ride to the Doraville station. $2.75 and 42 minutes later, I’m stepping into the airport. In the meantime, I’ve read the AJC, chatted with people or caught a small cat nap.
OR…I could run the gauntlet called the downtown connector and pay big money to park at the airport for a week.
Some choice.
Too bad for them that the homophobes and xenophobes in Cobb never wisened up…
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
March 25th, 2011
2:16 pm
“True to the sense of humor and flair that defined her life, Elizabeth Taylor knew exactly how she wanted her final starring role to play out.
Her publicist tells Lifeline Live in a statement that Taylor wanted to be late for her own funeral:
The service was scheduled to begin at 2 pm but at Miss Taylor’s request started late. Miss Taylor had left instructions that it was to begin at least 15 minutes later than publicly scheduled, with the announcement, “She even wanted to be late for her own funeral.”
Her body may have been late for the funeral but her soul was right on time for eternity.
I hope she was ready.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
March 25th, 2011
2:18 pm
George W:
I think Jay has it set up to only take two websites, videos, etc. at a time. That’s why you went to “eternal moderation”.
Try two and then one and see what happens.
kayaker 71
March 25th, 2011
2:18 pm
Solar and wind supply about 1% of our energy needs. If you think that solar and wind are going to make a dent in our energy requirements, that 18 year old horse is still for sale. It boils down to two choices, fossil fuels or nuclear power. That’s all we have. We either learn from our nuclear mistakes and move on or we stay with coal and oil fired power plants and see our dependence on foreign sources control our lives. But these Darth Vader scenarios that Bookman keeps posting are of no help whatsoever. It might sell blog space and TV air time but it doesn’t contribute one bit to solving the problems with nuclear energy.
AmVet
March 25th, 2011
2:19 pm
I think I heard where the godly Christians from Westboro Baptist Church were considering “visiting” Liz’s funeral.
(She was friendly to those “funny” people, doncha know?)
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:19 pm
Sidebar. Japanese donations. I’m glad everyone in America has compassion for these folks. But we’re not talking about a Haitian or Indonesian earthquake here. Japan is a developed, prosperous (sort of), modern country that also has $2 Trillion of our debt in their bank accounts. They don’t need our money, they already have it.
They do need logisitics and physical help and support.
Granny Godzilla
March 25th, 2011
2:20 pm
Whats with the “sexual” references on alternative power sources from the right here?
Somebody compensating for some personal power shortages?
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:20 pm
Yep public transportation is SO safe…
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=76a_1298451840
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1b_1296457917
Wait a minute…what else do these video’s have in common?
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
March 25th, 2011
2:20 pm
2:16
Granny Godzilla
March 25th, 2011
2:21 pm
“It boils down to two choices, fossil fuels or nuclear power. That’s all we have.”
The autocar will never replace the horse either…
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:21 pm
Keep 2:08 – solar hot water does work. the rest, not at all.
Ragnar Danneskjöld
March 25th, 2011
2:22 pm
Dear Keep @ 1:43, quote without attribution:
As The New York Times science section reported in 2001, an increasing number of scientists believe that at some level — much higher than the minimums set by the U.S. government — radiation is good for you. “They theorize,” the Times said, that “these doses protect against cancer by activating cells’ natural defense mechanisms.”
Among the studies mentioned by the Times was one in Canada finding that tuberculosis patients subjected to multiple chest X-rays had much lower rates of breast cancer than the general population.
And there are lots more!
A $10 million Department of Energy study from 1991 examined 10 years of epidemiological research by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on 700,000 shipyard workers, some of whom had been exposed to 10 times more radiation than the others from their work on the ships’ nuclear reactors. The workers exposed to excess radiation had a 24 percent lower death rate and a 25 percent lower cancer mortality than the non-irradiated workers.
Isn’t that just incredible? I mean, that the Department of Energy spent $10 million doing something useful? Amazing, right?
In 1983, a series of apartment buildings in Taiwan were accidentally constructed with massive amounts of cobalt 60, a radioactive substance. After 16 years, the buildings’ 10,000 occupants developed only five cases of cancer. The cancer rate for the same age group in the general Taiwanese population over that time period predicted 170 cancers.
The people in those buildings had been exposed to radiation nearly five times the maximum “safe” level according to the U.S. government. But they ended up with a cancer rate 96 percent lower than the general population.
Bernard L. Cohen, a physics professor at the University of Pittsburgh, compared radon exposure and lung cancer rates in 1,729 counties covering 90 percent of the U.S. population. His study in the 1990s found far fewer cases of lung cancer in those counties with the highest amounts of radon — a correlation that could not be explained by smoking rates.
Tom Bethell, author of the The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science has been writing for years about the beneficial effects of some radiation, or “hormesis.” A few years ago, he reported on a group of scientists who concluded their conference on hormesis at the University of Massachusetts by repairing to a spa in Boulder, Mont., specifically in order to expose themselves to excess radiation.
At the Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine in Boulder, people pay $5 to descend 85 feet into an old mining pit to be irradiated with more than 400 times the EPA-recommended level of radon. In the summer, 50 people a day visit the mine hoping for relief from chronic pain and autoimmune disorders.
Amazingly, even the Soviet-engineered disaster at Chernobyl in 1986 can be directly blamed for the deaths of no more than the 31 people inside the plant who died in the explosion. Although news reports generally claimed a few thousand people died as a result of Chernobyl — far fewer than the tens of thousands initially predicted — that hasn’t been confirmed by studies.
Indeed, after endless investigations, including by the United Nations, Manhattan Project veteran Theodore Rockwell summarized the reports to Bethell in 2002, saying, “They have not yet reported any deaths outside of the 30 who died in the plant.”
Even the thyroid cancers in people who lived near the reactor were attributed to low iodine in the Russian diet — and consequently had no effect on the cancer rate.
Meanwhile, the animals around the Chernobyl reactor, who were not evacuated, are “thriving,” according to scientists quoted in the April 28, 2002 Sunday Times (UK).
Dr. Dade W. Moeller, a radiation expert and professor emeritus at Harvard, told The New York Times that it’s been hard to find excess cancers even from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, particularly because one-third of the population will get cancer anyway. There were about 90,000 survivors of the atomic bombs in 1945 and, more than 50 years later, half of them were still alive. (Other scientists say there were 700 excess cancer deaths among the 90,000.)
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:22 pm
Face it George, you just don’t want to be near THOSE people.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:23 pm
“Wait a minute…what else do these video’s have in common?”
I don’t know why don’t you tell us, and by the way, what were we supposed to notice about that picture of the unemployed you mentioned a while back?
Ragnar Danneskjöld
March 25th, 2011
2:23 pm
Dear Haywood @ 1:52, you asked; answered @ 2:22.
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:24 pm
Amvet 2:16 – isn’t it a bit ironic that the best thing, and biggest driver of elective marta rail use in this city is a connection to a hub point that facilitates the use of thousands of fossil fuel burning aeroplanes?
Jimmy62
March 25th, 2011
2:25 pm
Thankfully newer reactors are magnitudes more safe than the ones in Japan that we’re all talking about. Anti-nuclear people are Luddites more than anything else.
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:26 pm
Bosch…..youve got that right….why would I?
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:26 pm
Bosch…..youve got that right….why would I?
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:26 pm
Bosch…..youve got that right….why would I?
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:28 pm
MARTA: 15 miles of electricity using (semi-clean, but coal-based electricity) transportation to get to an airport for a 1,500 mile flight on a kerosene burning jet.
that’s cold hard reality….
Normal
March 25th, 2011
2:28 pm
If MARTA scares you, then you are easily frightened…
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:28 pm
Point is George, you don’t ride MARTA, so you are not qualified to say that it is full of thugs. It’s only your perception, and a wrong one at that.
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:29 pm
George W has a post-stutter issue and the blog filter has blown its “duplicate comment” circuit.
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:29 pm
Normal…..doesnt scare me but I wouldnt walk through South Atlanta after dark either.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:29 pm
“If MARTA scares you, then you are easily frightened…”
For real, Normal.
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:30 pm
Bosch…..I have riden it many times…..just choose to stay away from it as much as possible.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:31 pm
George again if you please:
“Wait a minute…what else do these video’s have in common?”
I don’t know why don’t you tell us, and by the way, what were we supposed to notice about that picture of the unemployed you mentioned a while back?
Tommy Maddox
March 25th, 2011
2:31 pm
“Funny how the righties never complain about military operations unless they are started by a democrat’
You said it mm! It’s a military operation that was started by ONE democrat – not one democrat in concert with Congress. Big difference…
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:31 pm
A “few days” in Libya has become a 90day campaign officially. Guess that’s all the war powers resolution will permit obama….
how long before Peace Prize Obama acknowledges we’ve actually started a war?
West strikes Libya forces, NATO sees 90-day campaign
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/us-libya-idUSTRE7270JP20110325
Obama is such a patsy. I’m sorry, he is. Pushed around by everyone, no compass whatsoever.
Normal
March 25th, 2011
2:32 pm
AmVet,
I’ve been wondering if it wouldn’t be “funny” to fight fire with fire and every time the Westboro Baptist Church shows up for a protest, have Gay men and women gather around them and protest them…heh, heh
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:32 pm
Bosch….you tell me….come on man I am sure you can figure it out.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
March 25th, 2011
2:33 pm
jm:
Looks like Syria is next …….. we’re going to run out of carriers and even planes at this rate.
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:33 pm
Um. 3am. Ring Ring.
Obama: Obama here. Uh-huh.
Michelle: What is it?
Obama: crazy stuff happening in Libya
Michelle: Please hand the phone to Hillary and let’s go back to sleep.
AmVet
March 25th, 2011
2:34 pm
“They don’t need our money, they already have it.”
Wow, jm. How can you be so friggin’ callous? We’re talking about untold numbers of heartbroken, devastated men, women and children who have lost everything.
You’re a better man than that, but I think, like all of us, you’re sometimes blinded by ideology…
I can’t let the world die just ’cause no one would try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhnmpl8IP9E
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:35 pm
George,
You are the one that brought it up, tell us, or are you too scared?
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:35 pm
Scout – yes, Syria’s been stewing for a while. BTW, have you seen the protests in Portugal? They are totally f’d. This world is f’d. Politicians prefer printing or anything over the mobs marauding Wisconsin, Greece, Portugal and Ireland.
Hard assets buddy. Hard assets. Germans know what is going to happen….
stands for decibels
March 25th, 2011
2:36 pm
Bosch……Marta? Really that is your response “bullsh#t”?
It’d be mine too. I never hesitate to have visitors ride the rails from the airport, and I’m happy to use it myself when it’s practical (which, alas, isn’t often.)
And I’d gladly pay whatever tax hike would be necessary to extend it into my neck of the woods. I’d be happy to have the nearest station within easy walking distance, too.
Normal
March 25th, 2011
2:37 pm
mobs marauding Wisconsin..,Sweet Jesus! That is TOO funny.
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:38 pm
AmVet – I’m not being callous, but you can’t see that. The Japanese will be fine. The US should provide all the physical and logistical support we can provide.
However, the Japanese do not need money. Do you give an overweight person food? No, a treadmill. Do you give a rich but homeless person money? No, you give them temporary shelter. Get it?
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:39 pm
Bosch….nope not scared at all……I just want to see if your fragile little mind can figure it out.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:39 pm
“Do you give an overweight person food? No, a treadmill. Do you give a rich but homeless person money? No, you give them temporary shelter. Get it?”
Yeah, AmVet, do you get it? Totally unrelated situations? And “rich but homeless” WTF??
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:39 pm
If the US or Germany had a disaster, I would think it was incredibly silly if the rest of the world sent us cash.
That said, it might not be that crazy given the direction of our country.
TaxPayer
March 25th, 2011
2:40 pm
Someone give jm a job.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:40 pm
“I just want to see if your fragile little mind can figure it out.”
No, you’re a coward.
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:42 pm
Bosch – really, you’re this daft. You know, there were plenty of wealthy people homeless after Hurricane Hugo and Andrew…. probably never crossed your mind. I’m sure you think wealthy people probably just walk up and steal the house from someone who’s house is still standing.
jconservative
March 25th, 2011
2:42 pm
37,313 people were killed in US traffic accidents in 2009.
How many did you say were killed by nuclear accidents?
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:42 pm
Someone give Taxpayer a brain.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:42 pm
“You know, there were plenty of wealthy people homeless after Hurricane Hugo and Andrew…. ”
And that has to do with WHAT exactly?
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:43 pm
Bosch – maybe you’re not aware. We’re discussing a disaster in Japan. There was an earthquake and tsunami. It left people homeless in Japan. Get it?
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:45 pm
But in Brussels, a NATO official said planning for NATO’s no-fly operation assumed a mission lasting 90 days, although this could be extended or shortened as required.
France said the war could drag on for weeks.
“I doubt that it will be days,” Admiral Edouard Guillaud, the head of French armed forces, told France Info radio. “I think it will be weeks. I hope it will not take months.”
————–
Someone please, please inform the French. Hope is not a strategy. Did not work in WW2. Will not work now. They never learn.
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:45 pm
hey bosch….was there much looting after Andrew or Hugo??? Why did it happen so much after Katrina?
AmVet
March 25th, 2011
2:47 pm
No worries, jm and others.
I’ll continue to support my friends and all the strangers in the land of the Rising Sun the best way I know how.
Most likely you go your way and I’ll go mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEwix-Zi0zw
TaxPayer
March 25th, 2011
2:47 pm
jm says the wealthy homeless are the ones in need of our help. Are these the same poor rich people that need more tax cuts.
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:48 pm
Taxpayer….as opposed to the poor that do not pay taxes???
TaxPayer
March 25th, 2011
2:51 pm
as opposed to the poor that do not pay taxes
That’s what we have debtor’s prisons for. Lock ‘em up ’til they pay. That’ll teach ‘em.
carlosgvv
March 25th, 2011
2:51 pm
1. Oil will become more and more expensive and eventually we
will run out.
2. Electricity seems, at this time, the only viable alternative
to fossil fuel energy.
3. Solar, wind and water power will not suffice to make up for
all the energy we now get from oil.
4. Coal burning plants are very harmful to the environment and
there seems no way to make them safe.
5. Therefore, in the future, nuclear power plants will be necessary.
Dave R.
March 25th, 2011
2:52 pm
” Hope is not a strategy. Did not work in WW2.”
Didn’t work for the country in 2009-2010 either!
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:52 pm
TaxPayer – sounds like you should be debating this with AmVet.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:53 pm
“was there much looting after Andrew or Hugo??? Why did it happen so much after Katrina?”
I don’t know George, you tell me.
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:53 pm
carlosgvv – sound logic. you left out natural gas which is also a good bridge. and wind is reasonably scalable and comparatively affordable.
Dave R 2:52 – amen
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:54 pm
And according to Scout there hasn’t been any Japanese looters either, and he won’t tell us why that is as well.
jm
March 25th, 2011
2:56 pm
Yeah. Nothing wrong with Wisconsin heretofore. Nothing at all.
The so-called “booby prize” in the ethnic enclave contest went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, because of its low level of self-employment and its job-creation record over the past decade, which the magazine said was the worst of any big city in the United States.
John Birch
March 25th, 2011
2:56 pm
In 57 years of nuclear power generation we only have three names; Three Mile, Chernobyl, and Japan. I’d say that’s a pretty good record. It’s wonderful that Georgia will finally put more plants on the grid. Build nukes and drill baby.
Normal
March 25th, 2011
2:56 pm
Hmmmm, Bosch…
No looters in Japan? You figure that it might be that there is nothing left to loot is why? Some people….
George W
March 25th, 2011
2:57 pm
Bosch….wow you seem ignorant today….wake up
John Birch
March 25th, 2011
2:57 pm
There was a lot of looting after Katrina because many of the good pople of NO, particulary those in the 9th ward, are actually scum.
Normal
March 25th, 2011
2:58 pm
They’ve been talking about hydrogen cell powered cars. I wonder what a head on collision would sound like?
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
2:59 pm
George,
Nope, totally awake, why was there more looting after Katrina than Andrew and Hugo? And what were we supposed to see from that picture of the unemployed a while ago?
AmVet
March 25th, 2011
2:59 pm
Georgia will finally put more plants on the grid.
And the Republican corporate lackeys in Atlanta got you and me paying for it before it ever goes on line.
Sweet!
You’re doing a heckuva job connies…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GHlcwlT1Y
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
3:00 pm
Normal,
Did you see this pic from LOLcats? It made me laugh…alot:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/03/24/funny-pictures-ruber-dukie/
stands for decibels
March 25th, 2011
3:00 pm
Got an early jump on the Friday pm music, especially for George W:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIQmFk1ok0
George W
March 25th, 2011
3:00 pm
Bosch……worthless trash.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
3:01 pm
George,
“worthless trash”
In the picture earlier? Was it a picture of actual trash or people?
stands for decibels
March 25th, 2011
3:02 pm
Sorry, my musical selection was also for our John Birch. I regret the ommission.
George W
March 25th, 2011
3:02 pm
trash
jm
March 25th, 2011
3:03 pm
Lord let them save us from armageddon.
‘Gang of 6’ senators launch public campaign to support deficit reduction
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gang-of-6-senators-launch-public-campaign-to-support-deficit-reduction/2011/03/07/ABEtpzO_story.html
Normal
March 25th, 2011
3:03 pm
Bosch, Yes I saw that! It was the classic coffee spew moment!
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
3:04 pm
OMG, Normal, did you see this one? I think I have damaged a kidney laughing at this. Don’t ask.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/03/24/funny-pictures-videos-crazy-cat-fighting-pose/
jm
March 25th, 2011
3:05 pm
At the same time, the effort is also attracting strong supporters. This week, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the leaders of Obama’s fiscal commission, are launching their own campaign to promote the Gang of Six talks. And despite reluctance at the White House to engage publicly on the issue, Bowles said in an interview that the president has named Vice President Biden as his “point guy” on the talks.
jm
March 25th, 2011
3:06 pm
Several commission members pointed to the testimony of economist Carmen Reinhart in late May as particularly compelling. Reinhart, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and her co-author, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, analyzed more than 200 years of data on 44 countries and found that “growth deteriorates markedly” when total government debt exceeds 90 percent of the economy. Total U.S. government debt exceeded 90 percent of gross domestic product last year.
“We are there. We’re not approaching it,” Crapo said in an interview. “You used to hear politicians say we can’t keep piling this debt on our children and grandchildren. Well, it’s not our children and grandchildren we’re talking about alone anymore. It’s everyone in America today. We do not have any time left for gridlock.”
Normal
March 25th, 2011
3:06 pm
Bosch,
I couldn’t get that one to work…I’ll have to wait to when I get home.
Normal
March 25th, 2011
3:07 pm
…but, but, but Cheney said deficits don’t matter…
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
3:08 pm
Normal,
Yeah, it’s a video — and there’s an advertisement before it, but make sure to watch it.
John Birch
March 25th, 2011
3:09 pm
Amvet – It has nothing to do with Repbulican lackeys. We paid for vogle years in advance when we had mnostly Democratic lackeys in the PSC too. As I’m sure you know utilities play by different rules because we really don’t want the lights going out and never coming back on, as Japan is demonstrating.
Dave R.
March 25th, 2011
3:09 pm
“Bowles said in an interview that the president has named Vice President Biden as his “point guy” on the talks.”
To quote Dr. Leaonard H. “Bones” McCoy, ” Are you out of your Vulcan mind?!?!”
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
3:09 pm
….and Normal, don’t have anything in your mouth at the time. Just saying.
Dave R.
March 25th, 2011
3:14 pm
“…but, but, but Cheney said deficits don’t matter…”
He said they didn’t matter when it came to electoral politics, Normal. This is the most misunderstood quote on the Web (but convenient for the libs to cherry-pick). And at the time he said it, he was right. However, the electorate has changed their tune due to the enormity of said deficit, and we saw that they do matter in electoral politics last November.
Thank God.
Granny Godzilla
March 25th, 2011
3:14 pm
John Birch
March 25th, 2011
2:56 pm
In 57 years of nuclear power generation we only have three names; Three Mile, Chernobyl, and Japan. I’d say that’s a pretty good record. It’s wonderful that Georgia will finally put more plants on the grid. Build nukes and drill baby.
why do we always have to help folks like you find the damn truth….Vermont Yankee? Indian Point? Erwin? Braidwood? Sellafield?
Virgil Sumner? Diablo Canyon? Sequoyah? Wanna talk transportation issues? Military ones too?
JohnnyReb
March 25th, 2011
3:15 pm
Looting is directly tied to character. A person of good character will not loot, even after a hurricane. Surely the Left is smart enough to draw further conclusions.
Guy Incognito
March 25th, 2011
3:15 pm
“G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether”
Guess when you’re buds with the Community Organizer and Chief, and still sell parts to Iran, you don’t fall into the left’s “Corporations are Evil” category
George W
March 25th, 2011
3:18 pm
JohnnyReb….Amen….they dont understand “character”.
WOW
March 25th, 2011
3:18 pm
“So what does it all mean? For one thing, public support here in the United States has fallen significantly in the wake of the accident, as documented by a CBS poll released this week:”
How many people have died because of the reactor? ZERO
I love how you act act as though a CBS poll is something to be taken seriously. The same CBS that allowed the now disgraced Dan Rather to show fake documents on W. The same CBS who is about to fire Katie Couric because nobody watches her.
I also love how the left has absolutely ZERO alternative to oil or nuclear power.
What would Ralph Nadar do? NOTHING!!!!!!!!! Why, because he’s a political hack who can’t ride his bike without training wheels.
WOW
March 25th, 2011
3:20 pm
In other news, the Marxist Kenyan, as Jay calls him, was burned in effigy today by muslims.
Guess Obama can’t walk on water in the muslim world.
Bosch
March 25th, 2011
3:22 pm
“This is the most misunderstood quote on the Web ”
No, Dave, I think the Pelosi HC quote and the Al Gore invented the Internet are much more misunderstood because they certainly get more air time.