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continuing with my California dream theme, Sacramento is pushing to close the remaining nuke power plant HERE, which generates 10% of our power, even at night and when the winds doesn’t blow. WOW, what a concept.
While my departure from SoCal, which happened very shortly after the closure of San Onofre was announced, was not actually caused by the shutdown of the San Onofre generating station, I couldn't help but feel at the time a sense of "Well, no reason for me to be here anymore" when I heard that announcement.
There aren't a lot of things to like about Illinois, but one of them is that 58% of our state's electricity production is nuclear. That puts us at #2 nationwide, behind Vermont, which has a population of, like, twelve people.
I tried to find a humorous image of an atomic kitten to put here. Unfortunately, Atomic Kitten is the name of a band, so image searches are producing nothing but pictures of three women who wear a lot of makeup.
Nuclear kitten produces essentially the same search results.
So, here is an ordinary, conventionally-powered kitten:
While my departure from SoCal, which happened very shortly after the closure of San Onofre was announced, was not actually caused by the shutdown of the San Onofre generating station, I couldn't help but feel at the time a sense of "Well, no reason for me to be here anymore" when I heard that announcement.
There aren't a lot of things to like about Illinois, but one of them is that 58% of our state's electricity production is nuclear. That puts us at #2 nationwide, behind Vermont, which has a population of, like, twelve people.
I tried to find a humorous image of an atomic kitten to put here. Unfortunately, Atomic Kitten is the name of a band, so image searches are producing nothing but pictures of three women who wear a lot of makeup.
Nuclear kitten produces essentially the same search results.
So, here is an ordinary, conventionally-powered kitten:
I live within 10 miles of San Onofre and the closing had some crappy follow on effects. For example, the dumb shtitz now store the nuclear waste at the beach in thin steel canisters about two feet above sea level. When I say that San Clemente is the main surfing destination in the conus, don't doubt me. How effing stupid! I blame Send. Reid and his block of Yucca Mountain The Fins have figured out storage, and we could be using it now.. Out local hospital also closed, as they were mandated to stay open as long as the power plant was working. So we kept the spent fuel but most the hospital....
While my departure from SoCal, which happened very shortly after the closure of San Onofre was announced, was not actually caused by the shutdown of the San Onofre generating station, I couldn't help but feel at the time a sense of "Well, no reason for me to be here anymore" when I heard that announcement.
There aren't a lot of things to like about Illinois, but one of them is that 58% of our state's electricity production is nuclear. That puts us at #2 nationwide, behind Vermont, which has a population of, like, twelve people.
I tried to find a humorous image of an atomic kitten to put here. Unfortunately, Atomic Kitten is the name of a band, so image searches are producing nothing but pictures of three women who wear a lot of makeup.
Nuclear kitten produces essentially the same search results.
So, here is an ordinary, conventionally-powered kitten:
I live within 10 miles of San Onofre and the closing had some crappy follow on effects. For example, the dumb shtitz now store the nuclear waste at the beach in thin steel canisters about two feet above sea level. When I say that San Clemente is the main surfing destination in the conus, don't doubt me. How effing stupid! I blame Send. Reid and his block of Yucca Mountain The Fins have figured out storage, and we could be using it now.. Out local hospital also closed, as they were mandated to stay open as long as the power plant was working. So we kept the spent fuel but most the hospital....
This can happen at Yucca Mountain tomorrow. Safely.
No, it cannot.
The "nuclear waste is horrible and there is no way to manage it" theme is too powerful as a tool for the major political parties in the US for such a solution to be implementable. If they were to allow such a thing to happen, then a valuable fear-element would be removed from their arsenal.
This can happen at Yucca Mountain tomorrow. Safely.
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
No, it cannot.
The "nuclear waste is horrible and there is no way to manage it" theme is too powerful as a tool for the major political parties in the US for such a solution to be implementable. If they were to allow such a thing to happen, then a valuable fear-element would be removed from their arsenal.
Wholly unrelated:
Yes, and thinking like this is why our nuclear waste is at the beach in thin metal tubes, exposed to nature and terrorists, and just miles away from 20 million people. A rock mountain in the middle of nowhere, buried with the new Finnish methods makes no sense at all…
Just the Editor. The author correctly used "ambidextrous" in the body of the article. Authors generally don't create the headline - that's the Editor's job.
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