Published: October 26th, 2012 at 12:44 pm ET
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'The Daily Show' is going nuclear: Nuclear industry will use program for ad campaign that claims to display value of atomic power -- Trying to target younger audience -Bloomberg
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Colbert Report NOT Selling Out to Nuclear Industry? Mentions "no nukes" -- Has Bonnie Raitt on as guest (VIDEOS)
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Interview
Colbert Report
October 25, 2012
Steven Colbert: [...] We might buy paint that has lead in it, we might drive cars that have lead in it, we might live next to a nuclear power plant that has these burdensome regulations on it. All those dangerous things that make us victims. [...]
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Published: October 26th, 2012 at 12:44 pm ET
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talking of Lead or Pb210 and Polonium210
they got rid of leaded gas
they got rid of leaded paint
are they are going to get rid of this…
london uk radiation alert 15/5/2012
0.75 microsievert/h was the highest that day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZAYmwgcxw
welcome to london..
land of lead
in fact the whole of the uk
check the milford haven lead levels and how they were obfuscated
and the uk didnt release the water quality report that includes isotopes for the year march 2011 to march 12012
funny that?
60 percent of europes airborne Lead contamination comes from electricity generation and most of that comes from Nuclear power plants and nuclear waste processing
largely in the form of radon that converts to the above isotopes of Lead
UK censored? Drinking water standards cover up!
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/18/uk-censored-drinking-water-standards-cover-up/
bit more on uk radiation monitoring here
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/09/15/the-lies-of-nuclear-food-alcohol-water-and-the-iaea-cover-up/
so living next to any nuclear establishment including medical reactors is actually worse than Lead paint not similar imo
bout the same as Lead in Petrol/gas though i think? maybe worse than that too because of the polonium?
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good stuff arclight…
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Oppenheimer always dreamed of having nuclear regulations looser than Snookie on the books. Because it's always the best option to de-regulate forces that can potentially decimate life on earth. Cut costs and save the future…of nuclear industry that is. Viacom must have chewed Colbert a new one after those remarks.
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re: "Because it's always the best option to de-regulate forces that can potentially decimate life on earth. Cut costs and save the future…of nuclear industry that is."
The irony that the nuclear industry is too shortsighted to realize is that their future would be more secure if regulators actually did regulate them in a meaningful way. It's when they are allowed to cut corners (whether due to negligence or greed) and/or fudge data that accidents are most apt to occur, and its when significant accidents occur that the industry's expansion is hindered by [temporary, unfortunately] public reactions against nuclear. TMI set back the nuclear industry for decades. The memory of (and lingering contamination from) Chernobyl coupled with the news of Fukushima , led the German to finally reject this technology.
Giving the nuclear industry more freedom from regulation is like giving them more rope to hang themselves with. They WILL cut corners to cut costs and maximize profits, and sooner or later they WILL have another accident. The problem is that, in doing so, they poison the rest of us and taint broad swaths of land and food supplies at the same time.
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The same short-sightedness drives the industry's desire to deflect attention away from Fuku's precarious spent fuel pools instead acting in a decisive way to get that situation under control before a bigger disaster occurs. If and when a worst case scenario does occur at SFP #4 or #3, it will be the death of the industry. Unfortunately, many other things will also die as a result of their folly.
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A+ Stephen Colbert, A+
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Colbert appears to "get it" better than Jon Stewart and his sponsors.
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might as well show you a picture of a dual core reactor for lasers.. in fact haow about ten of the reactor pumps phased to give a huge quick pulse to fire the new super laser.. and it is for… nuclear isotope making
Pu 238 is a favourite
radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG) is an electrical generator that obtains its power from radioactive decay. In such a device, the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material is converted into electricity by the Seebeck effect using an array of thermocouples.
RTGs have been used as power sources in satellites, space probes and unmanned remote facilities…,
…Safe use of RTGs requires containment of the radioisotopes long after the productive life of the unit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
anyway, heres is the article i put together.. i am dubious of this reactor technology and feel in one way or another will contribute to the levels of radon/Lead in europe.. a suspicion mind.. but a valid one
Europe’s Extreme light Infrastructure Nuclear Laser project still being hyped. To good to be true?
“..Dr Goldsworthy hopes that in 20 years the laser technology could be enriching a third of the world’s power station uranium, returning “handsome royalty streams” to Australia…”
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/10/26/europes-extreme-light-infrastructure-nuclear-laser-project-still-being-hyped-to-good-to-be-true/
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Can you send us a couple of these?
We can barter for a couple of eggs.
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5/2012 – US Radioactive Fallout Measurements In US Beef, US Radiation Tool; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/52012-us-radioactive-fallout.html
Gulf Seafood Radium Levels; Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/gulf-seafood-radium-levels-chernobyl-in.html
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