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Dudesky · #16 08-10-2012, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

You're assuming that there are no media outlets outside the US, nor universities and agencies with air-sampling equipment. Remember how well covering up Chernobyl worked out for the Soviets?

Fukushima was tragic. Twisting it to fit an anti-Obama agenda is just bizarre and crazy.

Especially if there's any merit to the story,eh?

Dudesky · #17 08-10-2012, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

You're assuming that there are no media outlets outside the US, nor universities and agencies with air-sampling equipment. Remember how well covering up Chernobyl worked out for the Soviets?

Fukushima was tragic. Twisting it to fit an anti-Obama agenda is just bizarre and crazy.

No twist here Spd.

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Some members of Congress are trying to restore billions in funding for a new factory at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to make plutonium cores for nuclear bombs that the military doesn't need. Meanwhile, President Obama is plowing ahead with plans to make plutonium fuel rods for power reactors that no power company wants to buy. Together, construction costs for these two radioactive white elephants add up to over $10 billion, and rising.

I wonder if we can get our Japanese friends to try this....

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In his speech at Hankuk University in South Korea, President Obama called his plan part of the "fuel cycle of the future." Plutonium fuel is not the fuel of the future. It is the failed fuel of the past.
This Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel, a blend of plutonium and uranium, is dangerous and expensive. That's why no power companies in the United States want to buy it. Producing this fuel will weaken the global nonproliferation regime by developing a plutonium economy that will encourage plutonium production.

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Funding for the plutonium fuel facility falls within the nuclear nonproliferation budget. That means that every dollar spent on unnecessary programs like MOX is one dollar less for vital nonproliferation programs that keep nuclear material and technology out of the hands of terrorists.

The Federal Government's $10 Billion Plutonium Boondoggle - Joseph Cirincione - The Atlantic

http://www.fukushimaforum.info/2012/06/20/plutonium-waste-1-2-million-tons/

spdrun · #18 08-10-2012, 03:32 PM

If security is such a major issue, why not build new MOX reactors at government facilities that already store plutonium (Los Alamos or Hanford) and have appropriate security measures?

Dudesky · #19 08-10-2012, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

If security is such a major issue, why not build new MOX reactors at government facilities that already store plutonium (Los Alamos or Hanford) and have appropriate security measures?

Its in that one link, kind of stupid though considering the toxic nature and possible use by terrorists.
I got a feeling Obama is out of his league here.

engatwork · #20 08-10-2012, 03:44 PM

IIRC we have only had one president that held a nuclear engineering degree.

Hatterasguy · #21 08-10-2012, 04:51 PM

If its on the internet it must be true, what a load of garbage.

Jim H · #22 08-10-2012, 05:05 PM

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Undaunted, unbowed and too ignorant to be afraid, the President of the United States asked the President of a Japanese utility, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO,) to run the “test” of the Plutonium fuel.
Now, what are you going to do when the President of the US asks you for a favor?

I just don't see any President getting involved at this level. Perhaps his DOE cabinet chief, but not The Man Himself. I also don't see the President of a Japanese utility just acting on such a request. This just don't smell right to me.

cullennewsom · #23 08-10-2012, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by engatwork

IIRC we have only had one president that held a nuclear engineering degree.

I was thinking the same thing. Our "idiot bum rat-fink liberal fascist commie muslim secular atheist tyrannical President" is some sort of nuke engineering whiz too? Who knew?