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To: ricks_place

Ah yes., I remember those halcion days of 35 years ago when the leftists said we were all gonna die from radiation, spent fuel rods, gloom and doom movies like THE CHINA SYNDROME if we didn't get rid of Nuclear power.
Strange, but back in the 1950's those same leftists were singing the praises of that same nuclear power.


2 posted on 05/15/2005 8:17:43 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

It's possible to design a reactor in such a way that it is impossible for it to melt down. The maximum temperature achievable by an uncontrolled reaction, according to the laws of nuclear physics, is less than the melting point of the fuel itself.


3 posted on 05/15/2005 8:34:33 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Strange, but back in the 1950's those same leftists were singing the praises of that same nuclear power.

Yes, and in the 1970s they were predicting doom because of global cooling. Here's an article from Newsweek, April 28, 1975.

24 posted on 05/15/2005 1:55:47 PM PDT by stripes1776
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