Comments on: Quote Of The Day http://hispanicpundit.com/2006/04/22/quote-of-the-day-260/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Angelo http://hispanicpundit.com/2006/04/22/quote-of-the-day-260/#comment-88745 Angelo Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:39:42 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2006/04/22/quote-of-the-day-260/#comment-88745 There's brave talk coming out of the Congress and the power industry that we need very badly to resurrect nuclear power for central station electricity. I wholeheartedly agree, but the problem is going to be finding anyone under 60 who faintly remembers or even ever knew how to design a nuclear power station. The design of the last US nuclear plant was cranked out about 25 years ago. Most of the US nuclear engineering University programs have shut down. Most of the students in the few remaining (MIT, Penn State, NC State, Univ Tenn., Purdue, Cal Berkeley) are either foreigners or candidates for US Navy Submarine Service. When DOE decided to decommission and cleanup the antiquated Nuclear weapons sites, they had to hire French (Cogema & Framatome) and British (BNFL) firms. No US company could submit a credible proposal. Maybe if we want Iran to stop we should send over Jane Fonda. There’s brave talk coming out of the Congress and the power industry that we need very badly to resurrect nuclear power for central station electricity. I wholeheartedly agree, but the problem is going to be finding anyone under 60 who faintly remembers or even ever knew how to design a nuclear power station. The design of the last US nuclear plant was cranked out about 25 years ago. Most of the US nuclear engineering University programs have shut down. Most of the students in the few remaining (MIT, Penn State, NC State, Univ Tenn., Purdue, Cal Berkeley) are either foreigners or candidates for US Navy Submarine Service. When DOE decided to decommission and cleanup the antiquated Nuclear weapons sites, they had to hire French (Cogema & Framatome) and British (BNFL) firms. No US company could submit a credible proposal.

Maybe if we want Iran to stop we should send over Jane Fonda.

]]> By: James Aach http://hispanicpundit.com/2006/04/22/quote-of-the-day-260/#comment-88528 James Aach Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:17:18 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2006/04/22/quote-of-the-day-260/#comment-88528 FYI: In the full article linked above, Dr. Moore mentions other environmentalists who’ve called for a second look at nuclear power, including Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog. Mr. Brand has also recently endorsed my techno-thriller novel about the inside world of nuclear power, “Rad Decision”. This book is available at no cost to readers – who seem to like it, judging from the comments they’re leaving on the home page. “Rad Decision” is written as an “airport paperback” and is a great way to learn about the good and bad of this energy source. (There’s plenty of both.) It’s based on my two decades in the US nuclear industry. http://RadDecision.blogspot.com . Not to curry favor, but one of the key positive characters is a first-generation Hispanic immigrant, BTW. FYI: In the full article linked above, Dr. Moore mentions other environmentalists who’ve called for a second look at nuclear power, including Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog. Mr. Brand has also recently endorsed my techno-thriller novel about the inside world of nuclear power, “Rad Decision”. This book is available at no cost to readers – who seem to like it, judging from the comments they’re leaving on the home page. “Rad Decision” is written as an “airport paperback” and is a great way to learn about the good and bad of this energy source. (There’s plenty of both.) It’s based on my two decades in the US nuclear industry. http://RadDecision.blogspot.com . Not to curry favor, but one of the key positive characters is a first-generation Hispanic immigrant, BTW.

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