Posted on 05/23/2006 9:06:43 AM PDT by meandog
The United States needs to overcome its fear of nuclear power and embrace the technology as a way to wean itself from fossil fuels, Sen. John McCain told an audience in Manchester yesterday.
Nuclear power "is safe. The technology is here," McCain said, speaking to a crowd of about 200 at a breakfast hosted by The New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women. "It's a NIMBY (not in my backyard) problem, and a waste-disposal problem. It is not a technological problem."
McCain pointed to France, which draws more than three-quarters of its power from nuclear plants, and Russia, which has plans to build 40 new plants, as examples. "We've got to get over it, get over Three Mile Island," he said, referring to the 1979 accident at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant.
McCain, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, touched upon a range of subjects during a nearly hour-long address and question-and-answer session, including his displeasure with Google's decision to submit to censorship in China.
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LOL! Radiation ate your brain.
You are brave! :)
Everytime I see McCain I keep thinking of that guy that rode the bomb out of the fighter plane in that comedy movie..wasn't that Dr. Strangelove?
Considering the alternatives, you're right.
Yep, Slim Pickens, "Major Kong".
Well if you really believe that global warming is a problem and really believe we should do something about energy dependancy, nuclear power is the most logical answer. However, I have yet to see one greenie propose the most obvious solution. On this issue, the McCainiac actually makes sense, eventhough the global warming issue is grossly exagerated. Energy dependancy makes sense.
Which is funny because whenever I see Rumsfeld I think of George C. Scott in the same movie. This is a compliment, btw.
You think McCain is preferable to whom, exactly? (We're talking about other GOP candidates whose names have been bandied about, of course).
But has no displeasure over the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance law which is a much being hit on freedom of speech than anything Google could do in China.
Slim Pickens?
"Nuclear power "is safe. The technology is here,"
That's the most sane thing he's said in recent memory - it does not mean, however, that he should live in the White House.
One greenie does:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615902/posts
France, the nation we FReepers spoof most frequently as the kookiest of liberal democracies, operates nearly 80 percent its electrical grid by fueling it with nuclear power. In comparison this country hasn't built a nuclear power plant since the early 1980s.
OK, the exception that proves the rule. I bet that guy was kicked off the plantation.
I think they're forming plans to draw and quarter him.
I wish the voters in Arizona would nuke McCain. puhleeeeeeeeese!
That is why so many of the Euro-wennies love Kyoto. The CO2 emmissions baseline was set prior to many of these nuke plants coming on line. Many of the Euro-trash nations already meet their Kyoto requirements by doing nothing more than getting these nuke plants on-line. Meanwhile countries like the US, Canada, Japan, and Australia, are in that situation, and will end up costing those countries billions and billions and billions is carbon tax credits.
are = are not.......
Serious question: Where does France put their waste, their spent fuel?
[Bet they do not insist on a repository that will be "safe" for umpteen million years.]
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