07-08-2006, 02:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-08-2006, 02:17 AM by Occhidiangela.)
Quote:I've been wondering that myself. Part of it seems to be that the Nuclear Industry in the US refuses(d) to challenge the lies and half-truths that have been plastered by much of the Ant-Nuclear crowd. (Hell, they didn't even try to correct what was reported as the radioactivity at the plant gate of TMI when TMI-2 melted down. The reported radioactivity at the gates to TMI was the radioactivity at the pressure release valve on the pressuizer in the containment building, the actual radioactivity at the plant gate was the normal background level and all radioactivity was contained within the containment building.)I am unimpressed.
One of the things I find funny is that if you have an accident at a nuclear plant where a turbine throws blades, causes no injuries, does a little structural damage, and has nothing to do with the nuclear side of the operation, it makes front page news all over. OTOH, if you have a boiler explode at a Coal fired or Oil fired power plant, 40 works die, it languishes 10+ pages back in the newspaper or isn't even reported. It's sad that people dying is less newsworthy than some equipment being destoryed... :wacko:
I spent 25 years in Naval Aviation.
The media dumbacity in coverage of aircraft mishaps used to make me mad. Now, since I am retired, it makes me laugh. My status now allows me to call news reporters I meet at bars here in Corpus Christi the filthy names they have earned. I have been thrown out of 4 bars in the past 6 months on that topic alone, but I can no longer be chastised by my boss at work for doing so.
Go me! F*** them.
I can't tell you how much fun that has been. 26 year old morons dying to receive my boot up their backsides. It is like shooting carp in a dried up mill pond with an M-60.
The Fourth Estate now hires morons, I promise you. Therefore, it is no surprise to me that the Fourth Estate assigns morons to cover "nukular" issues. Most Fourth Estate / journalist c**ts know no more of reactor physics and industrial safety, nor logic and reason, than they do of fornication -- to badly misquote G.S. Patton, Jr.
Like Will Rogers, most people "only know what they read in The Papers" if they even know how to read . . . which is in question.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete