One of my colleagues at NEI just handed me the following statement from actor Paul Newman. Newman toured Entergy's Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant earlier this week, and after the completion of the tour, he issued the following statement which has also been distributed by Entergy and NEI:
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Statement of Paul NewmanWow. More in a bit as I get details.
Indian Point tour of May 21, 2007
I recently toured the Indian Point nuclear plant and I expected to be shown safety and security at the plant. But what I saw exceeded my expectations. No Army or Navy base I’ve ever visited has been more armored and I couldn’t walk 30 feet inside the plant without swiping my key card to go through another security check point.
There was security at every turn, and the commitment to safety is clear. One worker told me his family lives very close to the plant, downwind even, and he is very comfortable because of the plant's commitment to safety.
During my tour of the plant, I was amazed that a generator that is the size of two or three rooms of my home can provide electricity for 1 million people without producing any greenhouse gas emissions.
I know a lot of people are concerned about nuclear waste. All of the spent fuel rods at Indian Point from more than 30 years of generating electricity are stored in a pool that, in my younger days, I could jump across.
Indian Point is an important source of electricity for millions of New Yorkers today. Because it doesn't produce any emissions that cause global warming, Indian Point will be even more important in the future.
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Comments
Now, I don't feel any guilt in splurging on some Newman's Own spaghetti sauce!
This story has appeared overnight at MSNBC and in the International Herald Tribune, Forbes, and The Columbian (Washington State) , and a couple of other papers, via the AP!
Consistent support is right...isn't Newman still a big supporter of Yucca Mt as well, despite the fact that its surrounded by young volcanoes (the Lathroup Wells cinder cones) and criss-crossed with active earthquake faults. His advocacy has not done much for speedy up that failing process.
Here's an idea---maybe NEI can also convince the guy to start bottling nuclear waste in his "hot" sauce as part of your bogus dumping strategy. It makes about as much sense as some of your other schemes to dump and recycle nuclear waste into the consumer market.
I think its obvious that he doesnt want to be confused by the facts.
Anyways, I don't buy his products after finding out how misinformed he is on the nuclear waste fiasco. This just gives me the impetus to organize boycotts.
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But it's all moot anyway. There isn't going to be another airliner attack in this country. The heroes of Flight 93 proved that. No longer will passengers sit back and ride to their deaths passively. They'll rise up and kill those who would murder them before they allow themselves to become unwilling cannon fodder.
I think it would more cautious to think of these adversaries as "self-sacrificing" rather than "self-respecting." They are willing to destroy themselves, afterall.
Anyways, my concern is that it doesnt need to be a commercial aircraft if there is a next time.
Larger ground forces than the current piddelly revised DBT perhaps supported by multiple and larger truck bombs or explosive-laden private aircraft remain a concern. There are lots of airfields within 10 miles of these facilities. Getting into the Baghdad's "Green Zone" isn't exactly a cake walk, but it has been subject to suicide attacks.
BTW, since we are on this topic does Neuman's Own have a spaghetti sauce with Chernobyl mushrooms, yet?
Here's a more likely worrisome scenario. Some previously unknown and undetected space-faring race enters Earth's atmosphere completely unnoticed and goes around zapping containment structures with their deadly discombabmulationatory destructo energy beams. Hey, you can't prove that it won't happen. Better shut everything down.
Take that and stick it in your Chornobil mushroom tomato sauce. I'm tired of this crap nonsense.
why else would he support nuclear energy, i mean why would he choose clean, reliable nuclear energy over dirty coal and oil ? maybe he knows something we dont ?