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The Perfect Plate for the Nuclear Family Car

Posted by chrisd on from the nevada-is-americas-holster dept.

In what must be a dream come true for some, Nevada has approved a License Plate commemorating the Test Site and the connections Nevada enjoys with Nuclear weapons in the United States. The Associated Press article on the subject notes that a lot of people are up in arms about the new design, as Nevada is embroiled in controversy over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility. The license features an atom. a mushroom cloud as the background and the equation E=mc2 on the plate. I was unable to find a picture of the plate on the web (I saw it in my morning paper). I'm sure a picture must be on the web somewhere. I'll leave it to slashdotters to suggest the best personalized lettering for the plate. My entry: DUKNCVR?

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  1. Here's a photo by headkase · · Score: 5, Informative

    CNN has one here.

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  2. Other Nevada Plates by batobin · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found this page at Nevada's DMV sites. Doesn't have the nuke one, but it has others:

    http://nevadadmv.state.nv.us/platesmain.htm

    Someone else posted the new nuke one:
    http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/26/atomic . icenseplates.ap/story.nevada.license.ap.jpg

  3. Reno Gazette story w/pic by mellonhead · · Score: 4, Informative


    Mushroom cloud license plate to be tested

  4. It's not even so much the storage... by RyanFenton · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not even so much the storage of nuclear waste in the Yucca mountain are that annoys many - but rather the transportation of the material across the U.S.

    The current proposals to move said waste involve using barges across many waterways including the Great Lakes.

    Not only that, but a new transportation would be starting every four hours, using trucks that haven't even finished the design stage yet, designed each to move at only an average of 20-30 miles an hour, carrying 75 or 125 tons at a time

    Not that storing the material in one central area isn't a good idea - but moving it in this manner may be more dangerous than anything we've ever encountered with nuclear material - especially the responsibility is handed over to the private sector.

    Ryan Fenton

  5. Re:Nevada can't change its past by jimhill · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, Nevada played no role in the development of the weapons that ended the war. The Test Site was established afterwards when the cost of going out to the South Pacific to blow up islands got exorbitant and someone pointed out that we had a Big Empty right here at home.

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  6. Re:DUKNCVR by Ziviyr · · Score: 3, Informative

    call me stupid, but what does this stand for? (DUKNCVR)?

    DUcK aNd CoVeR. As in look at the pretty light, I'd better duck and cover because that will protect me from the car thats about to fly into me when it starts to get windy. :-)

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  7. Re:Nevada can't change its past by nukebuddy · · Score: 2, Informative

    dfn5 wrote:
    In Nevada's past nuclear testing happened. It led to a Nuclear weapon that helped put an end to WWII

    The Trinity Test was performed at Trinity Site, New Mexico. Nevada had nothing to do with it.

    (And, incidentally, the type of bomb dropped on Hiroshima was not tested before being used since it was of the simpler Uranium 235 gun type. The Trinity Test involved the Plutonium 239 implosion type which was the same as the type dropped three days after Hiroshima on Nagasaki.)

    -nukebuddy