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New Production of Plutonium 238
Saeed al-Sahaf writes "According to the New York Times (login req, but you can google for it as well), the Bush administration is planning the government's first production of plutonium 238 since the cold war. Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory. Officials denied that any of the classified missions would involve nuclear arms, satellites or weapons in space, but rather would power 'secret espionage devices.' Plutonium 238 has no central role in nuclear arms. Instead, it is valued for its steady heat, which can be turned into electricity. Nuclear batteries made of it are best known for powering spacecraft that go where sunlight is too dim to energize solar cells. For instance, they now power the Cassini probe exploring Saturn and its moons."
On behalf of all Americans
Uh.. You don't speak for me at least. I bet there are a whole bunch more of us you don't speak for either. If you did, we could build somehting like this somewhere else that wasn't out of everybody's way and on the border with another country.
Not to mention that you make that statement with no facts to back it up... I have a good idea! <sarcasm>Let's just kick ourselves in the asses on the off chance it'll please some other country that gives some small portion of our population an inferiority complex.</sarcasm> Or not...
Sorry, but I think it will take decades for the United States to recover from the damage that this president is doing to our country.
George managed to blow of the Kyoto Accord in the name of economics, but have pissed off most of our trade nations in the process.
George invaded Iraq and didn't have the intelligence to know that there was no such thing as Weapons of Mass Destruction there. Making us look like a bunch of fucking idiots.
George continues to deny that there is any such thing as a human contribution to Global Warning and as such is managing to piss off what few allies we have in Europe as they being experiencing another summer of heat waves and droughts.
And he thinks Pu is going to solve the problem with this nation consuming almost 80% of the worlds energy supply? Not unless he plans on making a Mr. Fusion for every car.
While we spend Billions on Fuel Cells, he forgets the concept of a global economy. Who in their right mind would purchase a Fuel Cell vehicle when the only place you can get Fuel for it is in the US? Considering that the American market makes up
I would like to see him sponsor something a little more reasonable as a fuel source, like bio-diesel. Check it out for yourselves, but it's just diesel from the sun. Good economics, proven technologies, easy to distribute, and you can sell bio-diesel fuel and diesel vehicles everywhere. What's better is we have the agricultural capacity to become a diesel fuel exporter nation.
But Bush seems to be totally ignoring all of this and all the while he's just pissing everyone off.
I'm in Toronto right now and whenever I get into a conversation with someone here, they are rather polite in expression how fucked up they think we are. Personally, I think we have made a lot more mistakes in the last 6 years than we have done things right.
No longer proud to be called an American, I have to apologize for our president and government policies.
So it's OK for the US to start making nuclear substances AT THE SAME TIME as they tell Iran not to?
Not just being hypocritical, they are having the gall to think noone can connect the dots.
AT THE VERY SAME TIME? I just can't believe it. How long will the rest of the world just stand there while you hold the gun America? We have a right to bear arms defending agaist (your) tyranny too, you know. (We just don't point it out to each other every day of the week.)
Can you honestly believe anyone else will listen while you try to monopolise weapons of mass destruction?
Pfft I could go on for hours rephrasing just how ridiculously stupid this is. I don't necessarily agree with their leader's social attitudes but it's about time somebody told you to back off.
I can see Bush's TODO list now: Finish of with Iraq and then raze Iran. If those guys ever decide to unite against you (and I hope one day they do) you will all be f*cked. But then, you already know that, which is why you need to cull the population install new dictators about once every 20 years.
C'mon people, you gotta get your transparent voting procedures back and vote that guy out (again).
Screw the lot of you, there is no inviolable universal law that says I give you the right to manage all the nuclear power and all the nuclear bombs for me. I think I'll try to convince the Australia government to set up its own arms programme.
Screw it, the pople that need to hear this message are chronically incapable of listening anyway...
It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.