Posted on 04/08/2008 5:04:40 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Oh, you mean like the super secret props that our own Navy let Google take pix of?
[HL&P South Texas Project]
No, it’s not Houston Lighting and Power if that is what you are referring to. This will be in the Refugio, Texas area.
No, REALLY it is about sharing technology with our enemies. Giving our enemies advantages that we alone once possessed.
The average American didnt decide anything sport. The corrupt politicians caved to the radical 60s nutjobs regarding nuke fuels. Kinda the squeaky wheel rule. The average American didnt have a say. We havent in awhile. Wake up!
Well yeah.
Even worse, a French company possibly!
Our water from the river is already being taken over by San Antonio north of us and nuke plants use HUGE amounts of water.
Do you want one in your backyard? I did a Google a few months ago and there are many more accidents at these plants than most people are aware of!
To be more accurate it was Koenigsberg a Norwegian subsidiary of Toshiba that sold sub propeller milling machinery to the Soviets.
See article at Imprimus; most info concerning nuclear power, even nuclear waste disposal, has been misreported.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=02
Sorry, d!psh!t, but Japan was not supposedly our "ally" on 12/07/41. For whatever it's worth, my wife & I have owned Mitsubishi automobiles (note the plural - & they didn't last as long as our American vehicles, even with extra maintenance/replacement parts, some of which was paid for by the Mitsubishi 'factory')...
Sharing technology?
If a private company develops technology which is necessary for the National Security, then the Federal Government has a responsibility to secure that technology.
Instead of protecting this industry, Americans did their damned best to kill it. The Japanese, our only real ally in Asia, preserved it.
I realize they are needed but as I just wrote to another, there are many accidents and leaks that happen.
They need to be situated far away from population and in Texas that is possible. I just don’t want to live near one and just discovered it will be much closer that what I wrote earlier.
Westinghouse sold its defense electronics unit to Northrop Grumman in 1996.
[ I have no worries.]]
I’m glad. The problem is - there never is a worry until something happens.
I grew up in Texas City, Texas, surrounded by chemical plants.
Assuming you're right (which might be a real stretch ;>), by all means feel free to duplicate "super secret props" from Google news photos...
BS. The American People paid for the "China Syndrome" ticket stubs that killed the political will to keep the domestic nuclear industry alive.
Spin the responsibility however you want, but the French didn't surrender after TMI.
Thanks for the correction (again, I assume you’re correct) - even though it makes no real difference to me. A subsidiary is a subsidiary is a subsidiary...
What Toshiba sold the Soviet Union was the multi-dimensional industrial lathes that were necessary for machining the quiet propellers. They weren’t selling them the propellers. Admittedly that was bad, but they were punished for it.
Yes it is. I had breakfast many times with the engineers, etc. They would laugh at us when we talked about potential problems.
These days, including today, I go fishing next to TMI. The small mouth bass seem to love the warm waters coming from the island. (no jokes about glowing and genetically mutilated fish are necessary, we have heard them all)
Got one. It's called Commanche Peak. I frikkin LOVE it.
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