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Aug 5, 2008

Campaign 2008

McCain Emphasizes Need for Nuclear Power

    • McMutant wants us all to glow in the dark. Is there no end to his insanity?

    • McOboma ’08 is McSpewing McGain

    • Radiation for our kids, That’s the solution. McCain, did you ever think of what homegrown terrorists could do to our nuclear facilities? Better yet, what will you do when one of these facilities has a meltdown? What will you do for our tainted water supply? What will you do for those in the surrounding communities that can no longer have kids and get terminal cancer? How will you protect nuclear facilities from Earthquakes? Tornadoes? Floods? Your idea is stupid because the costs far exceed the benefits. Meanwhile we have clean wind power at our fingertips that is 1/10th the cost of Nuclear and is perpetual motion energy. NEVER ENDING POWER SUPPLY. McCain is a RETARD!

    • Radioactive uranium has leaked from the Tricastin nuclear power centre in southern France into public waters. The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper criticises France’s careless conduct regarding nuclear technology. “The timing of the accident makes the incident particularly explosive. Just a few days ago German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood alone at the G8 summit in Japan because Germany is the only major industrialised nation that rejects the renaissance of nuclear energy. … The French have poked fun at the Germans for years for their resolve to scrap all their reactors. … Those who want to use nuclear power should not argue solely on the strength of the advantages this technology offers: cheap electricity and a relatively low level of greenhouse gas emissions during production. Reactors and the industry revolving around them entail considerable risks. Incidents like the one at Tricastin greatly damage the credibility of those advocates of nuclear power who are so fond of claiming that the West has everything under control.”

    • Mr. McCain, tear down those nuclear power plants.

    • Gee, Iran would have a legitimate beef if the US went ahead with this ‘energy plan’ (*wink, wink*).

    • No Nukes? Hahahahahahahahahh … what a bunch of backward pin heads. Not a brain cell amoung the lot of you. You people remind me of the throw-back anti-horseless carrage brainless pin heads; Your grandpaw, right? Gee … I wonder if you pinheads could grasp the idea that as in the evolution of the first cars, that technology can … possibly … improve? What? you want to go back to using horses? Right.

    • Oh yes, I forgot to mention the space program. Do you possibly remember that? You know, that bunch of people that put a man on the moon with slide-rules and first generation computers? With you no-nuke brain freeze clowns at the helm you’d still be beathing horse farts behind a plow … where you belong.

    • Substance aside, and petty as it is, John McCain’s podium has one of those cute little signs Oblahma likes to use at every event. I’m first to say I hate the sort of dumbing down that such placcards and their style of jingle-driving politics imply, but obviously dumb Oblahma supporters are deeply impressed by this sort of superficial windowdressing. Well, if looking the part is somehow as important to any voter as substance — then so be it. I’ll take it for what it is worth, a good visual. If dimwits think such stuff matters, whatever; it certainly can’t hurt. Though nuclear, on the other hand, unfortunately, talk about a necessary evil. At least McCain can provide real direct talk on issues — and tell the ugly truth: nuclear is on and must remain on our table of energy options.

    • Nuclear power done right is the way to go. Have a group of experts come up with the safest nuclear plant design pssible today and require that all new plants follow that standard design. That way when a problem is discovered in one plant they all can be upgraded because they have the same design. Also an operator from one plant could walk into any other similarly designed plant and be competent with its controls and operation. Carbon dioxide free nuclear energy supplying electricity to power electric cars. Thats the future.

    • 10,000 gallons of nuclear waste are floating in the rivers of France from 1 accident in July. The impact of this 1 accident is enormous. Cancer causing drinking water for the surrounding 25 miles of towns and cities. Loss of production of farm land, lack of clean drinking water. Your thick head can’t think past a balance sheet.

    • There is no “right” way of doing nuclear power. One accident is all it takes to destoy the lives of thousands. When you have access to wind power, why does nuclear even need to be considered?

    • Please read-Americans need to know!!!!!!!!

      NHTSA Hearings 8/4/08


      IMPORTANT FACTS: You will not believe what you are reading.



    • “To Ed”, we don’t have access to wind power. There isn’t nearly enough of it, and there won’t be.

    • This is one of the many issues that makes me so sick of liberal hypocrisy.
      They talk of conservatives as “superstitious religious nuts” and claim to be the party of “science and reason”. Yet here they are making wildly false unfounded allegations of mutating people and causing an apocalypse, thus resisting what is by far the best solution to our energy problems. Pure superstition. They won’t even hear a rational argument on the subject.
      Which is the party of religious nuts?

    • Give us the rational arguments for nukes.
      All we read is defensive shouting of insults from you boys.
      The days of Bush bullying are over.

    • Good grief!!!! I am sure France has the same nuke inspection process we do? NOT! How many reactors do we have in that states? How many have had issues like your one in France? Ok nuff said!!!

    • No nuclear power, no drilling off shore, no drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, No drilling in Alaska or in shale in Colorado, no natural gas because it still emits some carbon, no cleaner coal plants . . . so we sit around and keep paying the Middle East $750 Billion while we wait for bio-fuel cars and nationwide solar power . . . . oh yeah, and check the tire pressure on our cars and get regular tune ups!

    • To the nuclear Desperado.

      why dont you come to your senses?
      Come down from your fences, open the gate
      It may be rainin, but theres a rainbow above you
      You better let somebody love you, before its too late

    • one nuclear disaster is too many. We have already had one meltdown in the U.S. All it takes is one terrorist getting his hands on nuclear waste materials to ruin cities and states. Think for one second what would be the consequences of one terrorist dumping a few thousand gallons of nuclear waste into the Mississippi? Devastation.

    • Nuclear currently provides 5% of our electricity needs. At the current consumption economic Uranium supplies will be available for 100 yrs.

      If however we increase production to the point where nuclear makes up say 25% of our electricity needs, we will only be able to milk it for about 20 years.

      Not exactly a long term solution. We need a patchwork of _sustainable_ solutions for the long-term with nuclear / oil / coal etc being used to bridge the gap, but with the intent of phasing them out.

    • right for my family

    • The uranium and other active components of the nuclear power process are nowhere near weapons grade. They are incredibly safe, and if the red tape is removed and we can actually improve the plants, they will be even safer. The fact is that the incident at Three Mile Island caused 0 fatalities and has had no observable affect on the surrounding environment. If the Yucca Mountain project is actually approved it would take the most brilliant scheme in history for terrorists to get their hands on any good amount of nuclear waste. Nuclear power is safe. People concerned with meltdowns and Chernobyl have watched too many movies. America today runs things much differently than the Soviets did when Chernobyl occurred, I daresay our safety protocols are a bit more advanced. Do some research.

    • There really was a nuclear accident in France. Unfortunately, there is no one solution to our energy needs which are increasing along with the population of this country (US) and the world. There are 6 billion plus people living in the world. There aren’t enough natural resources for everyone. I doubt that wind and solar is the answer to our future energy needs. I have been doing a lot of reading on this and other topics. I now have my central air set on 75-78 degrees in an effort to conserve energy. I looked into putting solar panels on my roof, they don’t generate enough electricity to meet an average house’s needs and would cost $20,000 to $70,000 to install on a house, depending on the size of the house. Most people can’t afford to spend that kind of money on solar panels.

    • Just checked my facts, there actually was never a nuclear accident in France. Good day.

    • hi how are you i think……

    • The rantings of the ignorant and uninformed never cease to amaze me. Big oil poisoned the nuclear well back in the 50′s and 60′s by frightening everyone with false concerns for nuclear safety . The most unsafe reactor is a pressurized light water system because of the stored energy in large volums of high pressure, high temperature water and the stress and corrosive effects of circulating water. But, since this technology was the first developed for power production in naval reactors this is the legacy we are collared with. The answer to our energy problems is a fast breeder reactor design using the proven technology of EBR11 and it’s attendant fuel reprocessing options that have been proven safe and effective. This system can also consume the stored radioactive wastes now in storage.

    • i must agree that nuclear power is a horrible solution. i belive wind is to go but some idiots aruge other wise. rethink the situation then go talking


    • its not clean at all.. all the nuclear wastes and its 10000-20000x more potent than carbon dioxide

    • 1 pound of uranium will produce as much energy as 1 million gallons of gasoline. Wind energy does not create enough energy to fully cover what gasoline does. Nuclear energy is the only energy source that will be able to over power gasoline and create new jobs. There are so many safegaurds now. A big time meltdown is near impossible if they know what they are doing, which they do.

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