- Bubbacub
- Apr 17, 2001
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The best part is, nuclear power is super natural. Setting aside the giant fusion reactor that we orbit (and the hundreds of billions of fusion reactors in our night sky), a natural fission reactor was discovered in Africa. The core of the earth is partially heated by radioactive decay of uranium and thorium!
Nuclear power has an amazing potential to help solve this crisis, but as with all the solutions, there are political and economic barriers that mean people will have to fight to make it happen. Fortunately, it is possible to convince many environmentalists that nuclear is good, but it does take some doing.
Is there a way to quantify how destructive uranium mining is vs. coal mining per unit of power generated?
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Nov 9, 2015 18:43
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- Bubbacub
- Apr 17, 2001
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JFC, at least during the Bush admin they were at least a little bit coy about doing this:
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers, his emails show.
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James Thurber, the founder and former director of the Center for Congressional Studies at American University, said he had never heard of an administration pressuring a witness, particularly a scientist, to alter testimony already submitted for the official record.
“It’s shocking and insulting to be told before you go in to alter your testimony to what the administration wants,” he said. “This just shows a certain amount of amateurishness about how these hearings work. They’re supposed to be places where you get objective views. You don’t go around telling people what to say.”
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Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the chairman of the committee, dismissed the accusations.
“It’s disappointing that the minority is politicizing what seems to be nothing more than a federal agency making sure that information provided to Congress is accurate,” he said in a statement. “Dr. Swackhamer and the Minority have repeatedly stated that she was testifying in her personal capacity and not in connection with her role as chair of the E.P.A. Board of Scientific Counselors. However, it is clear that the Minority invited her in an attempt to hijack the stated purpose of the Committee’s hearing on states’ role in E.P.A. rulemaking and shift the focus to recent E.P.A. actions involving the” Board of Scientific Counselors.
“Any attempt by E.P.A. to ensure that what Congress heard in testimony about official E.P.A. matters included the full breadth of information seems entirely appropriate,” Mr. Smith continued. “Unfortunately, the Minority has made the choice to waste taxpayer dollars as part of a politically motivated agenda.”
Also your daily reminder that Lamar Smith is a gigantic sack of poo poo.
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