Up and atom...atom plant!
Some of you may or may not be aware that the United States is in the process of re-building its nuclear arsenal, as our current nuclear weapons are how can I say are not the Energizer Bunny. So of course by 2020 we should have a brand new arsenal of deterrents and as for our old ones, I don't know let's make playground equipment out of them or something? I mean the Trident -II would make an awesome slide! We'll even make a kiddy play called the "Nukes of Hazard" which Tom and Luke run from the AEC and the evil Boss Hog!
But in all seriousness, I have no complaints about building up our arsenal or replacing out-dated technology as this is a dangerous and industrious world and you never know when you might need them, it'd be a shame if we were caught in the closet with our pants around our ankles now wouldn't it? One thing that kind of seems off to me is we have no problem building up our arsenal and disposing of half depleted uranium in some random desert, yet we have yet to build a new reactor since the 1979 Three Mile Island incident.
Even though the accident did minimal damage we still have this panic of a nuclear apocalypse off the Jersey shoreline embedded in the minds of every American alive during those times. The ridiculous thing about that fear is it was 1979 hell, we held heavy machinery together with duct tape, because quantity was better than quality during that time period. Now in 2006 (I hope) we have developed our technology and our common sense far enough to realize the faults and try our damned hardest not to repeat them.
Of course we hit our second obstacle, the all so famous "Terrorists could..." yeah they could do a lot of things so can I so can you, does that mean it's a certainty it WILL happen? No. It's just means you have to be a bit quicker than they do, maybe I don't know hire that extra security guard for third shift? Besides that if I were a terrorist I probably want the most efficient and least risky way of causing economical/political/collateral damage to my enemies, so this means I'd get my Uranium from some third world nation instead of breaking into Los Alamos or the AEC to quench my radioactive lust!
Both of those scenarios can easily be prevented with a little ingenuity, and maybe a little more intelligence from those in command? Now I know that a nuclear energy is a high investment, that aside think of the benefits, a cheap, abundant, and clean energy source that can be reused if we could refine the left over cesium some how? Not to mention the nuclear energy could create THOUSANDS of jobs from people who mine it, to those who utilize it, and those who oversee it. This would also stimulate international trade as Russia and countries in that region are the largest suppliers of pitchblende which contains the U-238 isotope required for enrichment.
Overall nuclear energy is good for the economy, good for business, and good for the environment, to deny its benefits based on fear alone is not only insane but profoundly retarded. You'd rather let things pass you by as you hold your damn head in the corner going "Mommy make the bad stuff go away!" I thought we were men not mice, pick yourself off the floors and go discover, create, and take risks...
After all man has never done anything great by sitting and thinking, he has done great things by taking some initiative.
But in all seriousness, I have no complaints about building up our arsenal or replacing out-dated technology as this is a dangerous and industrious world and you never know when you might need them, it'd be a shame if we were caught in the closet with our pants around our ankles now wouldn't it? One thing that kind of seems off to me is we have no problem building up our arsenal and disposing of half depleted uranium in some random desert, yet we have yet to build a new reactor since the 1979 Three Mile Island incident.
Even though the accident did minimal damage we still have this panic of a nuclear apocalypse off the Jersey shoreline embedded in the minds of every American alive during those times. The ridiculous thing about that fear is it was 1979 hell, we held heavy machinery together with duct tape, because quantity was better than quality during that time period. Now in 2006 (I hope) we have developed our technology and our common sense far enough to realize the faults and try our damned hardest not to repeat them.
Of course we hit our second obstacle, the all so famous "Terrorists could..." yeah they could do a lot of things so can I so can you, does that mean it's a certainty it WILL happen? No. It's just means you have to be a bit quicker than they do, maybe I don't know hire that extra security guard for third shift? Besides that if I were a terrorist I probably want the most efficient and least risky way of causing economical/political/collateral damage to my enemies, so this means I'd get my Uranium from some third world nation instead of breaking into Los Alamos or the AEC to quench my radioactive lust!
Both of those scenarios can easily be prevented with a little ingenuity, and maybe a little more intelligence from those in command? Now I know that a nuclear energy is a high investment, that aside think of the benefits, a cheap, abundant, and clean energy source that can be reused if we could refine the left over cesium some how? Not to mention the nuclear energy could create THOUSANDS of jobs from people who mine it, to those who utilize it, and those who oversee it. This would also stimulate international trade as Russia and countries in that region are the largest suppliers of pitchblende which contains the U-238 isotope required for enrichment.
Overall nuclear energy is good for the economy, good for business, and good for the environment, to deny its benefits based on fear alone is not only insane but profoundly retarded. You'd rather let things pass you by as you hold your damn head in the corner going "Mommy make the bad stuff go away!" I thought we were men not mice, pick yourself off the floors and go discover, create, and take risks...
After all man has never done anything great by sitting and thinking, he has done great things by taking some initiative.
posted by James Nease at 3:04 PM
1 Comments:
SLip of the tongue on the Uranium (been awhile since Chemistry haha) Yes, we are self-sufficent in Uranium, but the cost of our nation mining the Uranium as opposed to importing it from Russia would be far more expensive...
We'd personally have to deal with many enviromental regulations it just wouldn't be cost effective for us to produce our own Uranium. Granted we could say produce 25% of Uranium here and import the rest, which would be about the same as our gas trading right now.
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