Danger, danger. Hillary lost. Trump won. Calls back to Hillary are ridiculous attempts to divert any honest discussion. Next we’ll be discussing pizza-gate.
Oh, dear. I fear that you won’t be helping us implement a sensible cost-saving single payer health care system in the future, will you?
Trump voters continue to insist that Trump was the least bad candidate. I’d love to hear the justification for that judgement call. What criteria are they using that leads them to draw the conclusion that they are better off with Trump vs. HRC?
I’m hoping the coal thing has been sufficiently addressed for postpic200. I concede that HRC used bad judgement with respect to the email server and deserved to catch heat over that. So now, I’m hoping we address the rest of Trump’s glaring character flaws and qualification gaps and see why they don’t rise to the level of concern that HRC’s shortcomings do. Perhaps postpic200 will oblige to explain where other Trump supporters have not.
Trump has a penis, HRC has a vagina.
They both have vagina, she owns, he rents.
One man’s character flaws are another man’s traits to be admired.
Did they call you on your obamaphone?
If you want a balanced budget, I’d think Bill Clinton is exactly the template you’d be looking for. The budget was balanced under his administration, and no amendment was required to do it.
It is a problem because we are left with what might as well be eternal nuclear waste. It doesn’t compare well with “normal” waste because it is not the same kind of material. I have read that around Chernobyl, dead things don’t decay because the bacteria that would break it down can’t survive the radiation. Is that claim true? I dunno. Would escaped nuclear waste create another Chernobyl? Dunno, don’t want to find out. Nuclear waste = Bad. NIMBY!
Your flip answer is as irresponsible as mine is alarmist. I would never trust you to make decisions on this matter. OTOH, if the other poster’s claim is true that new reactor designs burn off the actinides such that the remaining waste is only a threat for a few hundred years, I might be able to live with that. I will revisit the whole thing when that claim is verified and these advanced reactors are available.
As I recall, that tragic error was corrected with a nice top-down tax cut.
Actually, chernobyl is even odder than that. There are types of fungi that exist only there, and are thriving on the radiation. I’m not saying that’s better.
At least there aren’t any radioactive lizards, yet.
But the idea of vitrification is that it is incredibly stable. Pretty much as long as you don’t grind it down into dust, it’s not going to cause any environmental issues, nor be a danger to anyone that is standing more than a few dozen feet from it.
The “leaving them in the middle of the desert” part was a bit flip, sure, but the rest was pretty decent analysis of the situation. If they are vitrified into glass, they really are pretty stable. I would find somewhere more out of the way to store them, but other than that, yeah, just leave them as glass bricks. As far as using them in the future, the current reactors only use a few percent of the available fuel before the rods take enough damage that they have to be replaced, and current reprocessing methods are not quite up to separating out the actinides. In many forward looking nuclear communities, spent nuclear fuel isn’t considered waste, it’s considered fuel for the next generation reactors.
As far as my “claim”, it’s not my claim, it is the claim of others in the field, mostly to do with molten salt reactor concepts, which haven’t gotten very far off the page yet. We did build a couple prototypes back in the 60’s, but the project was cancelled to free up more funds for the ill fated fast breeder reactor concepts. But, given the claims of those who would like to see these built, the waste stream can be made pretty much entirely free of the actinides (as well as be available to retrieve a number of useful isotopes for medical and other sciences).
It is those actinides, the stuff that uranium transmutes into when it absorbs a neutron and doesn’t fission, that have the long half lives. OTOH, it is also that stuff that is more valuable in the reactor, as it is fuel. The other stuff, mostly the fission products caesium-137 and strontium-90, have a half life of around 30 years. 10 half lives, and it is “gone”, as in, no longer in any way detectable over natural background radiation, and maybe even less radioactive than that.
And I realize that this is a pit thread about trump, so I will say the one thing that I have heard positive about trump related to that, and that is that there are those in the nuclear community who feel that the new regulatory regime may make it easier to build and test new reactor designs.
It’s a good start. We still need a place to put it for those few hundred years.
Yes. And don’t forget the prescription drug benefit for seniors, passed without even an attempt to pay for it.
Oh, and a couple wars.
From another thread:
I’d like to hear why postpic thinks Hillary is Bill.
A balanced budget amendment is bad economic policy. In times of recession or depression, cutting taxes and increased spending is appropriate, even if it increases the deficit. Without that in the toolbox, the free market will go into a death spiral that could take decades to come out of.
True that.
And ‘power back to the states’ all too often is coded racism. ‘Let us pass our own discriminatory laws without interference from the damned courts!’
Yeah, how many non-white folks work in coal mines these days? Before getting coated in coal dust, that is.
Black (lung) Is Beautiful!
Once you go Black (lung)…
Let’s see 110 emails containing information that was classified at the time it was sent, including 65 emails deemed “Secret” and 22 deemed “Top Secret”. Given her extensive time in government she should have known that unmarked classified information should be treated the same as marked classified information.
"Now all in all the deleted emails Clinton’s staff received a subpoena for Benghazi-related emails March 4. An employee managing her server deleted 33,000 of Clinton’s emails three weeks later.
The FBI found no evidence that the emails were deleted deliberately to avoid the subpoena or other requests. Clinton’s team requested for the emails to be deleted months before the subpoena came. They also argued that all the emails that would be relevant to the subpoena had already been turned over to the State Department."
But here’s the rub, we will NEVER know what was or wasn’t deleted, we only have her word that the emails were personal or not. We don’t know what if any classified information accessed, but given that if they had been anybody else they’d be in jail.
And that whole women need to be believed ““To every survivor of sexual assault…You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed. We’re with you.” —Hillary” unless it’s about Bill, and the “Vast right-wing conspiracy” and on and on.
Sorry Hillary had way too much baggage for me to ever vote for her.