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Re: Lybia - oil for atom bomb
What are you talking about? What this have to do with
anything on RADSAFE?
--- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Lybia's nuclear weapon program (from Khan) was
> traded for oil (and lower gas
> prices here, John) only because Qadafi was convinced
> Bush would do a Lybia
> Freedom war - and Qadafi would end like Saddam.
>
> What could Kerry's incredibility cost us - with Iran
> and N Korea?
>
> Howard Long
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>
> To: "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan@nmcco.com>;
> "Scoggins, Frank S."
> <FSSCOGGI@SOUTHERNCO.COM>;
> <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:32 AM
> Subject: RE: John Jerry editorial on Yucca Mountain
>
>
> > I have nothing against a politician, or anyone
> else,
> > changing their mind. What I worry about is being
> lead
> > into the path of an on-coming train.
> >
> > I also agree with Ruth, this election will not be
> > based on nuclear power or nuclear waste disposal.
> It
> > will be the economy. By the way, how are the gas
> > prices where you are?
> >
> > --- "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan@nmcco.com>
> > wrote:
> > > In what little experience I have had with Kerry,
> he
> > > will change his position with the direction of
> the
> > > political wind several times before he settles
> on
> > > what everyone else wants him to think. Let's
> face
> > > it, the guy's about as obsequious as they come.
> > >
> > > Floyd W. Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> > > [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On
> Behalf
> > > Of John Jacobus
> > > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 10:19 AM
> > > To: Scoggins, Frank S.;
> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> > > Subject: Re: John Jerry editorial on Yucca
> Mountain
> > >
> > >
> > > Interesting note:
> > >
> > > "Four years ago in a letter to Nevada Gov. Kenny
> > > Guinn, then-candidate George W. Bush pledged he
> > > would
> > > approve a nuclear waste repository at Yucca
> Mountain
> > > only if it was scientifically proven to be safe
> and
> > > secure. But before his first year in office was
> > > over,
> > > President Bush changed his position and approved
> the
> > > plan . . ."
> > >
> > > I wonder what Al Gore would have done? I wonder
> > > what
> > > John Kerry will do if elected?
> > >
> > > --- "Scoggins, Frank S."
> <FSSCOGGI@SOUTHERNCO.COM>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > John Kerry guest editorial on Yucca Mountain
> > > > This is not a joke. It was in the Sunday
> Edition
> > > of
> > > > the Las Vegas Review
> > > >
> > > > Journal. Use link below to get to page.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/May-16-Sun-2004/opinion/2388
> > > > 9849.html
> > > >
> > > > Not on my watch
> > > >
> > > > Candidate says Yucca a non-starter if he's
> elected
> > > >
> > > > By JOHN KERRY
> > > > SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > One of the biggest environmental and security
> > > > challenges facing Nevadans
> > > > is
> > > > the threat that Yucca Mountain will be turned
> into
> > > > the nation's nuclear
> > > > waste dump. I voted against the plan to
> dispose of
> > > > waste at Yucca
> > > > Mountain
> > > > -- and as president I will fight against it.
> > > >
> > > > Four years ago in a letter to Nevada Gov.
> Kenny
> > > > Guinn, then-candidate
> > > > George
> > > > W. Bush pledged he would approve a nuclear
> waste
> > > > repository at Yucca
> > > > Mountain only if it was scientifically proven
> to
> > > be
> > > > safe and secure. But
> > > >
> > > > before his first year in office was over,
> > > President
> > > > Bush changed his
> > > > position and approved the plan -- placing the
> > > > profits of the nuclear
> > > > power
> > > > industry above the safety of Nevada families.
> > > >
> > > > Today George Bush is still trying to move
> forward
> > > > with this misguided
> > > > plan,
> > > > despite the overwhelming opposition from
> Nevadans
> > > > and the scientific
> > > > evidence that it is unsafe.
> > > >
> > > > Two major scientific bodies have sounded
> alarms
> > > > about Yucca Mountain.
> > > > First,
> > > > an independent commission advising Congress on
> > > Yucca
> > > > Mountain determined
> > > >
> > > > that the metal to be used for the waste
> containers
> > > > would corrode,
> > > > leaking
> > > > nuclear radiation into the surrounding
> > > environment.
> > > > The Bush
> > > > administration
> > > > knew this when it approved the Yucca Mountain
> > > site,
> > > > but unfortunately
> > > > ignored it.
> > > >
> > > > Second, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
> (NRC) --
> > > > the final judge of
> > > > whether a safe waste repository can be built
> at
> > > > Yucca Mountain --
> > > > recently
> > > > warned the Department of Energy that its
> proposed
> > > > license to build Yucca
> > > >
> > > > Mountain was in inadequate shape. Apparently,
> > > > despite billions of
> > > > dollars
> > > > and decades of research, DOE still lacks the
> > > > technical and scientific
> > > > information required to even submit the
> license
> > > > application for review.
> > > > The
> > > > department's inability to produce information
> > > > supporting the safety of
> > > > the
> > > > project speaks volumes.
> > > >
> > > > Despite this scientific evidence, the Bush
> > > > administration is rushing to
> > > > meet
> > > > an arbitrary, self-imposed deadline of
> December
>
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"We cannot escape danger, or the fear of danger, by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com
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