[TheForge] nuke plants and other thoughts OT: POL:

[terry l. ridder]

hello peter;

reply intermixed below.

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, peter fels wrote:

> Terry;
> We have no kids and therefore my interest in the future of mankind
> is kinda abstract...but.
>
> While regular accidents can easily kill us as individuals;
> Nuke accidents can continue kill folks for the foreseeable future!
> That's a very different proposition.
>
regular accidents have a profound affect on the foreseeable future.
look at any workman's compensation claim filed in the state of illinois
to see that in full blazing technicolor.

the major income earner is unable to work or has been killed on the job
and suddenly the family is looking at a major downturn in their
lifestyle. if there are children, they are affected mentally and
financially. their schoolwork takes a nose dive and their futures take a
similar nose dive.

>
> If you only care about yourself...it doesn't much matter.
> If the future of mankind matters to you at all;
> Then you gotta take nukes much more seriously!
>

the one thing i have learned as a result of the accidents i have
endured. no one cares whether you live or die except you. the doctors
just want to play "god" and get paid. if you die bring in the next
victim. the legal system in the usa is a joke. you the victim are seen
as a profit center.

>
> Nuke plants tend to get sited where people will want to live
> long after anyone remembers the contamination is there.
>

Byron and Dresden were built in the middle of nowhere when they were
built. nothing but cows and farmland around them. now people being
really really stupid moved right next to those nukes. why you may ask.
those plants pay megabucks in property taxes and the small rural school
districts suddenly had megabucks to spend on schools and students.

why spend $3,500.00 USD per student per year when you can spend $7,000.00
USD per student per year. after all the more spent per student equated
to better educated students. ( that is not my thinking that is the
common denominator thought in the state of illinois. the chicago public
school system could spend $10,000.00 USD per year on each student and
the results would not be any better than they are now. ) more money does
not equate or mean better education.

>
> The reality is that no one will clean those sites up.
>

it is not in the profits.

remember loves canal?

many years ago there was a developer who wanted to build a subdivision
on a landfill site from the 40s and early 50s. the landfill site had
been used by a company which used thorium and radium in their wartime
productions. the landfill site had radition levels 400 times normal
background levels. it was only when the vast amounts of bribes the
developer was paying out to the zoning boards and their family members
did the state of illinois finally stop any plans for development of the
landfill site. they even went so far as to order the company to clean up
the site and seal the thorium and radium waste in concrete filled drums.

look at what the federal government spends each year on the superfund
projects. cleaning up companies' waste from decades ago.

dutch boy paint was origianlly the national lead paint company. just
google their history. how many children did dutch boy paint kill or
poison with lead?

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terry l. ridder ><>