Small Nuke Power

Something to consider...

"The Navy has deployed more than 500 nuclear reactors since 1948 and never experienced a reactor accident"

Here is an interesting read from the National Defense University using small nuke reactors to power military bases and forward deployed locations.  Better yet to remote locations in Alaska or other parts of the country!  Read the Business Week article or the Bloomberg Article.

Nuclear Power

It is kind of interesting, if  you do a google search for  "Japanese Nuclear power deaths" there are............. NONE!

The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 65,161 people a year worldwide die from too much sun, mostly from malignant skin cancer.  Compare this to the deaths directly attributed to the nuclear reactor accident which was caused by the way, by an earth quake followed by a tsunmai!

 (Most of the radiation is coming from the spent fuel rods then the reactor core!  Can you say Yucca?)

However, if you search for "Japanese earth quake deaths" there are according to Fox News.. "The number of deaths from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan rose Tuesday to 9,079, while another 12,645 are still missing."

Granted, radiation is not necessarily a good thing for individual humans;  however, there are still lots of people going to sunny climates in the winter to help up their doses of "solar" radiation

So you should ask yourself, do I feel safer living next to a nuclear reactor or living  under the sun in an earth quake zone?

Obama, Reid and Environmentalist to Blame (in part) for Jap Nuke Disaster!

Yes, President Obama by nixing funding and Senator Reid’s continual campaign against protecting the world from radioactive waste and the perpetual “what if’s” by environmentalists based on fear and not facts have helped lay the ground work for Japan’s Nuclear disaster.

"This is great news because it not only prevents Nevada from becoming the nation's nuclear dumping ground, it also protects hundreds of communities through which the waste would have had to travel in order to get to Yucca," said Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who represents Nevada, in a statement released Sunday on his website. (From csmonitor.com)

Japanese spent nuclear fuel (where there is more radioactive material then in the core) could have been safely transported and stored in one of the most researched and geological sound and safest places in America.  Instead of trucks, trains, boats and planes, a plume of radioactive dust will make its way to Yucca Mountain via the jet stream contaminating the Eastern coast of Japan and soon our American West coast and the Pacific Ocean.  

We could have even charged the Japanese for the storage of their waste.  Now we are going to spend untold millions to evacuate our citizens, move our ships and help clean up the mess!  Thank you Obama, Reid and environmentalists for being such great stewards of our environment, tax dollars and not listening to the professionals!

Drill here, drill now!

And while you are at it build some nuke reactors!! I would rather live next to a nuke that might pollute, for 50 years then a coal plant that does pollute.

Read a little from Newt!