While the damage caused by a nuclear catastrophy is much larger than that of a coal or oil burning plant
Wrong. For the PWR/BWR's that we have built in the United States, even the worse possible thing that can happen is barely anything.
Three Mile Island is a perfect example. Everything went wrong; you really can't get worse than what happened there. How bad was it? The highest individual exposed(who wasn't even a member of the general population) had a dose equivalent of 100 mrem (1 mSv), which is half of the dose you get from radon each year. The average dose for people within a 50-mile radius was 1.5 mrem, which is less than the extra dose you get from a round-trip flight from Los Angeles to New York from cosmic radiation!
In terms of everyday accidents (involving, for example, nonradioactive steam), nuclear power workers have one of the highest safety ratings of any occupation in the United States! You can't say that about coal or oil.
I'm afraid you've been the victim of misinformation and media hysteria.
Are you retarded? Bush is the most pro-nuclear president in the past 12 years.
If nothing else, Bush would be much better than Kerry would have been. Do you recall Kerry's idiotic position on the Yucca mountain repository? I can tell you as a nuclear engineer that it is Kerry who's putting ideology ahead of science, at least when it comes to that. Do you know what will happen if we don't have a place to put our nuclear waste? It's going to sit around in the reactor buildings. It will build up, until people (Greens/Democrats/idiots/whatever) start saying "oh no, we have nuclear waste that we can't get rid of, so we'll have to shut down the reactors!" They'd also prevent the building of new reactors, citing the self-imposed "inability" to dispose of waste.
Bush supports the repository. Bush supports nuclear power. Fact is, you're a baseless paranoid left-wing troll. Moving away from the energy safety of America and independence of the Middle East's supply of oil is a conflict of interest for the President of the United States.
Felis Catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature. Your visual, olfactory and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defences.
I find myself intrigued by your sub-vocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents:
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counter-balance. And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
Oh Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array, And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend
I none-the-less consider you a true and valued friend.
-- Data
(sorry, it was the first thing that came into my mind when I saw a review of "felis catus" on a page called "Dan's Data")
I don't think the parent was talking about resting on his laurels. He was saying that having government funding has done a lot, and that maybe it can do more.
Slashdot Mirror
(assuming you mean to "watch the hilarity ensue" whilst being alive)
You must remember that only Elvis has successfully faked his own death.
Moderate the ridiculous off-site voting system
Offtopic
Flamebait
Troll
Redundant
OUCH. I see you have discovered a method of inflicting pain over the internet.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to slashdot a server is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Three Mile Island is a perfect example. Everything went wrong; you really can't get worse than what happened there. How bad was it? The highest individual exposed(who wasn't even a member of the general population) had a dose equivalent of 100 mrem (1 mSv), which is half of the dose you get from radon each year. The average dose for people within a 50-mile radius was 1.5 mrem, which is less than the extra dose you get from a round-trip flight from Los Angeles to New York from cosmic radiation!
In terms of everyday accidents (involving, for example, nonradioactive steam), nuclear power workers have one of the highest safety ratings of any occupation in the United States! You can't say that about coal or oil.
I'm afraid you've been the victim of misinformation and media hysteria.
Are you retarded? Bush is the most pro-nuclear president in the past 12 years.
If nothing else, Bush would be much better than Kerry would have been. Do you recall Kerry's idiotic position on the Yucca mountain repository? I can tell you as a nuclear engineer that it is Kerry who's putting ideology ahead of science, at least when it comes to that. Do you know what will happen if we don't have a place to put our nuclear waste? It's going to sit around in the reactor buildings. It will build up, until people (Greens/Democrats/idiots/whatever) start saying "oh no, we have nuclear waste that we can't get rid of, so we'll have to shut down the reactors!" They'd also prevent the building of new reactors, citing the self-imposed "inability" to dispose of waste.
Bush supports the repository. Bush supports nuclear power. Fact is, you're a baseless paranoid left-wing troll. Moving away from the energy safety of America and independence of the Middle East's supply of oil is a conflict of interest for the President of the United States.
Wha...? Did slashdot just turn into engrish.com?
I'm surprised they don't block slashdot.
I find that the written comments for DVDanswers add a lot to the images, actually.
Moderate the stupid off-site "moderating" system:
Negative:
Offtopic
Flamebait
Troll
Redundant
Seriously. What's the point? You're never going to get a >1 signal:noise ratio.
His UID is less than 20% of yours. Don't you think he knows that?
Note the email address on the article submitter:
stuart@pocket-lint.co.uk
A little bit of self-whoring on his part.
Woohoo, sharp rise in linux market share by terrorists.
Yeah, those fascist commie liberal hippy pansy libertarians...
Why not just go here?
Did you not notice the background?!
you forgot poland.
Yes. I only know the first line and the second half of the second line by heart.
Thank you. I'd like to thank my producer, and my director of course, and lastly but most importantly, all my fans out there. I love you all.
-- Data
(sorry, it was the first thing that came into my mind when I saw a review of "felis catus" on a page called "Dan's Data")
I don't think the parent was talking about resting on his laurels. He was saying that having government funding has done a lot, and that maybe it can do more.
I believe YHBT.
Allahu Akbar! It's a trap!
Surely you concede they deserve it, what with all the tuition hikes.
High quality mirror of the movie in case of the likely slashdotting
It's very cool. The video is in German with English subtitles.
Yeah, but then they'd have to rename it to gin-dash.