Published: June 27th, 2011 at 10:21 pm ET
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Fast-moving wildfire nears Los Alamos nuclear lab, Reuters, June 27, 2011:
[...] Due to high winds, all aircraft have been grounded, [Los Alamos Fire Chief Doug Tucker] said. [...]
Published: June 27th, 2011 at 10:21 pm ET
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Instead of grounding aircraft which could fight the fire, ground the apparachiks of the nuclear industry.
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This must be over – forecast for Tuesday is 88 degrees, winds from the south at 10-20 mph. Surely planes can fly in that.
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In a different thread, someone asked, “Why weren’t we told this before, earlier?”
Well, some of us tried to speak out. I was a graduate student at UCB during the A-Bomb tests in the Pacific in the 1950s. My friends in the physics department went around with geiger couters measuring the radiation on cars in the parking lots. The Quakers sent boxes of irradiated asparagus to President Eisenhouer. Everyone was saying “don’t drink milk, don’t eat dairy, don’t eat fresh produce”.
In those days. the NRC had a different name; it was the AEC, the Atomic Energy Commission. They held a meeting in Berkeley and had a banquet at the Claremont Hotel, where I waitressed banquets. At the AEC meeting, I was assigned to work the head table. I served the likes of Edward Teller, Glenn Seaborg, et. al.
While the AEC had been issuing official statements that there was nothing to fear, that we all should continue to eat everything — I watched these esteemed physicists push away their milk products and vegetables and scoop the whipped cream off the dessert.
Don’t believe anything the authorities say.
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Thank you for your personal knowledge !
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dharmasyd,
Thank you for that first person account…
This link below was posted in another thread, everyone should watch it completly and think about what dharmasyd just said…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r2VIN4M6QU&feature=youtu.be
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Wow! That really makes the point of just how extensively and foolishly we have irratiated the planet. Thx for the link.
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And that does not even include the five major nuclear plant disasters since then. The manufacturing facilities, the spent fuel issues, the daily “safe” releases from nuclear plants, the spills, the leaks, and the unknown incidents.
Have we had enough of this or is it too late?
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Good questions. And I don’t know if it is too late. But either way, any further progression along this path without due diligence, research, and humility is definitely counter-indicated.
Stop nuke development now. Continue small reasearch projects. Perhaps in 1K years we will have gotten past the greed and egotism which are dooming us currently.
Our humanity (divinity?) is not now sufficiently evolved to be able to use nuclear energy. Maybe way, way in the future. But not now.
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all aircraft grounded mmmm
remember 911 when they sent 2 navy pilots up and they headed out to sea away from new york.
they can bomb afghanistan in the winter in extreme weather.kill libyans with depleted uranium missiles at night flying across the desert.
but it is to windy to stop plutonium killing millions.
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Mass Animals Deaths since January 4, 2011 !
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/stories/by/0000000000004882
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Breaking~~~!!!
This just in. ABC news reports that an un-named Los Alamos official says that all nuclear components at Los Alamos are safe and not threatened by the fire!
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