Nuclear is Our Future Pro-nuclear activist group

“With the NRC’s demonstrated lack of effective oversight and Entergy’s apparent disregard for public safety, renewing Indian Point’s licenses for another twenty years puts everyone living in the shadow of this plant at risk.”

-Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition

That doesn’t mean they can do things that are physically impossible.

Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Emergency Response, End Times, Missing the Point, Physics, Politics and Regulation, Safety

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »

Upward–significantly. So much for “no more uranium.” With efficient use of this uranium, it would be enough to run the world’s reactors for about fifty years. Try saying that about a single coal mine or oil well.

Link.

Filed under End Times, Fuel Cycle

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »

“Three Mile Island Unit 2 Middletown, PA

Peak Early Fatalities|Peak Early Injuries|Peak Cancer Deaths|Property Damage
Unit 2 - 42,000 Unit 2 - 57,000 Unit 2 - 28,000 Unit 2 - 122 Billion “

-Consequences of a Reactor Accident

So much for the sky falling. Three Mile Island Unit 2 experienced the worst possible accident for an American reactor and nothing anywhere close to that happened.

Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, End Times, Safety, Three Mile Island

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »

“According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which licenses power plants, almost all of these plants will reach their capacity for storage before the end of the decade.”

-Center for Health, Environment and Justice

That doesn’t mean that storage capacity can’t be expanded.

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Posted on January 4, 2007 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »

“Hopi prophecy states that World War III will be started by the people who first received the Light — China, Palestine, India and Africa. When the war comes, the United States will be destroyed by “gourds of ashes” which will fall to the ground, boiling the rivers and burning the earth, where no grass will grow for many years, and causing a disease that no medicine can cure. This can only mean nuclear or atomic bombs; no other weapon causes such effects. Bomb shelters will be useless, for “Those who are at peace in their hearts already are in the Great Shelter of Life. There is no shelter for evil. When the Saquahuh (blue Star) Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his mask, the time of the great trial will be here.”"

-Rainbow Family of Living Light

Filed under Alternatives, Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, End Times, Energy, Proliferation, Strange

Posted on November 12, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »

“Our planet is desperately ill and must be healed. If the human race does not change its present behavior, the ecosphere may be doomed within the next ten years.”

-Helen Caldicott, 1992

Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Clueless, End Times, Environment, Strange

Posted on October 1, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »

“Improvements in automobile efficiency since 1973 are saving consumers $177 billion in 2005 alone – more than twice as much as the federal government spends each year on education”

-Alliance to Save Energy

Every single research program that somebody doesn’t like is compared to federal funding for education–because the overwhelming source of funding for education is the states!

And I’ve said this a million times, but improving efficiency and reducing use of things we need assumes (quite arrogantly) that we’ve discovered everything, and that our efforts are better spent at making fossil fuels work longer instead of developing alternative sources.

Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Economics, End Times, Energy

Posted on September 29, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »

“But the First Law of thermodynamics tells us there is no “creation” — there is no such thing as “man-made capital”. Thus, ALL capital is “natural capital”, and the economy is 100% dependent on the “environment” for everything.”

-DIE OFF

The First Law of Thermodynamics concerns energy (meaning heat) within a closed system. Open points in the system or changes to the system are special cases within this general framework, and they happen all the time–the first happens when we don’t know everything about the system, and the second is known as “technology.” Furthermore, the above statement does not concern heat transfer and is thus not even within the realm of thermodynamics.

Economics is very often grossly misrepresented. It can be generalized as the study of decision-making, and money is but one way to measure how people make decisions to better themselves.

Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Clueless, Economics, End Times, Physics

Posted on September 11, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 1 Comment »

“For decades, environmentalists have been warning that human economic activity is exceeding the planet’s limits. Of course we keep pushing those limits back with clever new technologies; yet living systems are undeniably in decline.”

-Natural Capitalism

1. Environmentalists are interested in protecting the environment. Reactionary right-wing-wackos-in-sheep’s-clothing like Amory Lovins are interested in killing off technology.
2. In saying that we’re approaching the Earth’s carrying capacity, Lovins joins a parade of anti-technology kooks that goes back to Bobo the Caveman. How dare we assume that we know everything and have discovered everything? What entitles us to be so arrogant as to think that nothing else will ever be developed?

See also the August 3 Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, which covered a documentary that essentially said, “Human history has been a wonderful succession of new developments; whenever we thought we’d hit a wall, someone came up with something else. Now that we’ve figured everything out, let’s give up.”

Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, End Times, Energy, Environment

Posted on August 13, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »

“With the world’s greatest disaster already underway, the fight to contain and control the invisible killer was just beginning.”

-Chernobyl: A Nuclear Disaster

It’s not even the world’s greatest energy-production-related disaster. The Banqiao-Shimantan dam break in China in 1975 killed 171,000 people. Talk about a catastrophic failure.

Filed under Alternatives, Chernobyl, End Times, Health, International, Safety

Posted on April 23, 2006 by Stewart Peterson | 0 Comments »