🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:24:29 -0500, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:

>Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:48:48 -0500, Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote:
>> 
>>> A faint glimmer of hope...
>>>
>>> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3704815
>> 
>> I blame the Democrats here, we wouldn't have this problem if they had
>> not of turned Nuclear Power into a Political item.
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>Well, a lot of folks have been reluctant ever since Three Mile Island 
>ended up on page one, which has provided a lot of opportunity to 
>politicize this issue from more then one angle.  Like what to do with 
>spent fuel rods?  I've said this before...  we've got a lot of unused 
>rockets lying around - use them to lift it to an orbital trash bin. 
>Periodically, attached a rocket motor to the bin and send it back to the 
>sun.  This is no more risky than leaving it all stored down here in 
>basements everywhere.
>
>I read recently of a coupla new nuke plants for Texas are being applied 
>for.  At least a better alternative than what TXU claimed to want.

And I have agreed with you on the orbiting trash bin to the sun idea. 
Yes, entire county economies will go down the tubes as we back away
from coal.  Hey, change doesn't come cheap.

Ron