An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Nukes NOW!
After fumbling over the Waxman-Markey initiative for several months, Republicans have finally hit their stride. Both House and Senate members are quickly falling behind the rallying cry, “100 New Reactors by 2030.”
“I think global warming is a real problem but I don’t think the solutions the Democrats are coming up with are going to accomplish anything,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), head of the Senate GOP caucus. “The only thing that’s going to allow us to cut carbon emissions is clean nuclear energy. We built 100 reactors between 1970 and 1990. We can do the same thing now. If global warming is the inconvenient problem, then nuclear power is the inconvenient answer.”
I gotta tell ya, every once in a while Alexander will do something that makes sense. Not often, mind you, but occasionally. I’ve never understood why France gets 90% of their energy from nuclear reactors, but we don’t do squat. Oh, wait a minute, yes I do. We have a large portion of the population that listens to a small portion’s blatant LIES! As for his buying into the gorebal warming, I wish he’d explain to me why, if the earth is warming up so much, the upper midwest and the New England area won’t be getting a summer this year? Even though numerous scientists have stated, with proof (not some made up “hockey stick”) that the earth is cooling, there are still those who have decided to continue the fallacy.
Alexander and three other Tennessee legislators were on hand Wednesday morning as Babcock & Wilcox introduced its new “mPower” 125-megawatt modular reactor that it will submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2011. The $750 million reactor will be built in a factor and shipped to the site by rail, where it would be completely buried underground and refuel only once every five years. “Everything in this reactor would be made in America,” said Republican Bob Corker, Tennessee’s other senator.
I would like to ask my 2 senators from the Great State of Tennessee…..if we build these reactors, is some moron going to come along and slap a stop sign on them……again? Like I said yesterday, TN had built 10 of them, and they were torn down, but that didn’t stop the state from having to PAY for them.
Congressman Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.) warned that the United States is falling behind other countries in nuclear technology. “What we’re talking about here isn’t just a revival of the nuclear industry,” he said. “We’re talking about an American industrial renaissance.”
First, get the moonbats and EPA out of the way! The new technology has made nuclear energy a lot safer than when Jane Fonda was sagless (The China Syndrome), and 3 Mile Island had a leak…..which by the way, seems not to have caused any damage. But “what about Chernobyl” you ask? Let’s face it, the Soviets never much gave a flip one way or the other if anything was all that safe, and the lives of it’s citizens was never a concern.
When Brat was a young sprout, I took her to Glen Rose to see the dinosaur footprints. One comment she made that has stuck out in my mind….”Why does the air smell so different?” After living in Dallas all her life, anything away would smell better. “But it smells kind of sweet.” We drove by the Comanche Peak Power Plant, and I responded, pointing at it, “That’s why!” Can you imagine how much different, and cleaner the air would be right now if the utterly irrational hadn’t slammed on the breaks of progress? And just why do they call themselves “progressives” anyway? Progress means you move forward, not backward. Sheesh!
Yep! I’m all for building new nuclear facilities. Contrary to what the left might want to believe, conservatives DO care about the environment. Where we differ is how to go about it. We put people first, and smelt last!
