Posted on 08/21/2010 5:24:45 PM PDT by WriteStuff
Doesn’t it seem a bit interesting that while America has been blocked from building nuclear power plants because some very vocal groups think nuclear power plants will destroy the planet, yet Iran, thanks to the help of the safety-conscience Russians, is allowed to build a nuclear power plant because… well… they need it to power their peaceful economy?
So, while the Russians carefully load the highly radioactive materials into the reactor they built on sand, American companies continue to wait for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other regulators to approve applications for power plants here in America that would greatly help reduce the cost of electricity to millions of households across the nation. Meanwhile, America’s only attempt at building a nuclear waste repository to store the byproducts of our own nuclear power was shuttered after billions of dollars was poured into a hole in the side of Yucca Mountain on the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada.
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They’ve been silent since Obama took office. If Bush was still POTUS, the Gulf oil spill would still be front and center every day.
George Will
Environmentalists and leftists hate conservatives. Nuclear power ambitioned religious nuts are perfectly okay with that bunch. Nothing to worry about.
China is going to drill 60 limes from Keys off Cuba. No protest anywhere
I think it would not have happened on W’s watch. (Manufactured for a reason...)
They’re busy having coffee with the war protestors and ACLU.
Work on the embassy was stopped in 1985, after it was determined that the building was so riddled with listening devices implanted by Soviet workers that the structure was in effect a multistory microphone.
A couple of well placed/hidden explosive devices and Imadamnnutjob sings the Russian National Anthem like a natural born comrade when told "We'll Chernobyl your butts back to the stone age. Sing or glow, your choice."
Never trust Russian contractors!
Absolute! BTW, love yer tag -- I don't even worry about carrying - what is anybody gonna do to a geezer? ....................... FRegards
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