On 06/21/2011 12:02 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > On 06/19/2011 03:30 AM, raunchydog wrote: >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu<noozguru@...> wrote: >>> I would suggest watching the video because it contains local TV news >>> reports. The article I put up for face value in case people wanted to >>> dig further. Yup, Sorcha Faal is a known spinner of tales (and not >>> identified in the Pakistani article nor the Salem reprint) but the >>> no-fly zone and the water way ban that the TV news reporter mentions are >>> curious. Also there has been some funny stuff going on about Fukushima >>> and radiation reports in the US. I'm sure the guvmint doesn't want the >>> sheeple to freak out and neither does big energy who smells money in >>> nukes. But we like to know what the Fukushima is happening. ;-) >>> >>> >>> On 06/18/2011 04:21 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: >>>> I didn't read the referenced articles or watch the Youtube that Bhairitu >>>> posted. Just googled "Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant". The Reuters article and >>>> another one were what I was referring to. Smells fishy. >>>> >> WBAI Pacifica Radio interviewed Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer and energy >> consultant for Fairewinds Associates and a former nuclear power industry >> executive. Arnie said the Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant could probably hold as >> it is now but if a damn breaks, all bets are off. The latest Reuters reports >> on water releases from dams: > Gundersen was also in that video I posted. The reason I posted this > stuff was because Thom Hartmann was talking about the mainstream media > not covering it last week. Mainstream media is having reduced revenue > issues and that advertising revenue from companies involved in nuclear > is quite lucrative. So expect coverage softballed. However at the top > of today's MSNBC page on the state of nukes: > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43475479/ns/us_news-environment/ > > Since I grew up around these things and knew people working at plants > I've always been wary about corporate owned nukes because we know the > fat boys in the gray suits will always scrimp to make bigger profits. > Ain't capitalism wunnerful?
And a Thom Hartmann report: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/two-u-s-nuclear-plants-under-threat-as-flood-waters-rise/
