I haven't read Microdot but have been reading ENEnews regularly for a long time. This horrifying situation would be headline news had it been going on in Russia or some place other than an allied country operating US reactors.
Thanks for the linkage! I've been writing about renewable energy and the ongoing nightmare of nuclear energy for a few years now. I grew up in Detroit and vividly remember going on an educational grade school field trip to the Detroit Edison run Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant only days before it melted down and we almost lost Detroit, to quote Gil Scott-Heron. The rusting barrels of plutonium contaminated sodium are still there in a storage facility on a sandy spit in a marsh on Lake Erie, stored after almost 50 years because we all know the volatile nature of Sodium makes it too dangerous to move. No one has quite figured out what to do with it to this day.
btw, I still have my souvenir Reddy Kilowatt Mighty Atom button and the propaganda comic book published by the now long defunct Detroit Edison Company.
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I haven't read Microdot but have been reading ENEnews regularly for a long time. This horrifying situation would be headline news had it been going on in Russia or some place other than an allied country operating US reactors.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the linkage! I've been writing about renewable energy and the ongoing nightmare of nuclear energy for a few years now. I grew up in Detroit and vividly remember going on an educational grade school field trip to the Detroit Edison run Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant only days before it melted down and we almost lost Detroit, to quote Gil Scott-Heron.
ReplyDeleteThe rusting barrels of plutonium contaminated sodium are still there in a storage facility on a sandy spit in a marsh on Lake Erie, stored after almost 50 years because we all know the volatile nature of Sodium makes it too dangerous to move. No one has quite figured out what to do with it to this day.
btw, I still have my souvenir Reddy Kilowatt Mighty Atom button and the propaganda comic book published by the now long defunct Detroit Edison Company.
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