With regards to Paul Newman, it’s nice to see that there was at least one subject where he stepped back from the Kool-Aid.

On October 4th, 2008 at 11:21 am, pueblo1032 said:

Somewhere along the line NEWMAN must have got word that FRANCE gets 80% of their power from NUCLEAR… A country almost always in opposition to the US, in almost everything… Having that much of a LEG UP on AMERICA is hard to understand… Yet it is so… ENVIRO WACKOS have delayed our entry into the 21st century long enough… The time has come to shut them down in OUR COURTS and LEGISLATURES…

There is a reason for this. In France almost all civil society groups, including enviro ones, receive most if not all their funding from the government. They would never dare to bite the hand that feeds them. Socialists certainly know what they are doing when they make groups dependent on government.

As I said in my very first post, if you want Nucs, you just keep them in your own back yard, don’t hire a bunch of illegal alien truck drivers to tranport the waste all over the U.S.
AND suffer any consequences, with out crying to the Feds for a “Nuclear Bailout”.

Ok, so your rant is what exactly?

I do not need to defend my willingness to support alternative energy sources, here. There are far more conscientious, sincere, & informed, folks to discuss this with.

What are you a moron?

The inability of “Pseudo-Conservatives” to participate in discourse about alternative sources of energy, along with your efforts to bully opposing viewpoints, merely betrays your ignorance.
Kind of reminds me of the movie, “Idiocracy”.
Just go back to the “Monster Truck” rally, & high five your peeps that fly the U.S. flags on their Hummers, & claim they support the troops while disproportionately financing terrorist nations.

On October 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm, FamilyMan said:
BOB
What is biggest fear of nuclear power? Is it justified?

Good question, the illogical fear of nuclear power is something I dealt with off and on during my 30 years at the nuke plant. Some people, I believe, still think the plant can blow up like a nuclear bomb…. they can’t get past the word, “nuclear”. There is also an inability to logically consider the various risks one faces in their everyday life. A good example would be their drive to work. They do it most every day and consider the risk worth the benefit of getting to work. The risk to the average person from nuclear power and/or nuclear waste is extremely small, and the benefits of clean available power that does not add to the “climate change” problem are great. I knew I was safer at the plant than during my drive to work, and never felt in any danger from the nuclear portion of the plant during my 30 years there. There were the normal hazards of any large industrial plant such as high pressure steam, rotating machinery, noise and such, but the nuclear part of the plant was controlled, operated and maintained in a way that maximized safety to both plant employees and the public. We learned a lot from Three Mile Island, and nuclear power is much safer than it was back then.

Another possibility is that some people do not want the large quantities of clean energy nuclear can provide because their agenda of forcing Americans to change their “wasteful” lifestyle will be harder to implement.

My house is about 5 miles from the plant, and if it were announced today that another two units are going to be built at the existing site it would be cause for celebration, not fear. The spent fuel should be transferred to the Yucca Mountain site but is being held up for political, not technological, reasons. Transporting nuclear fuel by truck or train in the transport containers is far safer than the various stuff that gets transported through communities every day, but again, irrational fears are holding up the ability to remove spend fuel from some 60 or so sites across the country and putting in a much safer central location that billions of dollars have been spent preparing.

New nuke plants are being built around the world and will likely be built here at some point in the future. There should IMO be an “emergency” plan to build new nuclear plants now……..but, we can’t even drill for oil.

Goldwater Knight said: “you can’t kill something that’s already dead.”

“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:”

1. From bondage to spiritual faith
2. From spiritual faith to great courage
3. From courage to liberty
4. From liberty to abundance
5. From abundance to complacency
6. From complacency to apathy
7. From apathy to dependence
8. From dependence back into bondage

Where do you think we are?

I would kill all the liberals….

you can’t kill something that’s already dead.