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15 years ago @ KCRG - Iowa City West High St... · 0 replies · -3 points

So I guess the teachers are wishing they hadn't ramrodded that salary increase thru now. The money has to come from somewhere. You can have all the feel good rallies you want. In the end it comes down to money.

15 years ago @ KCRG - AARP Says Ad Opposing ... · 0 replies · -1 points

Plants of today? The USA has not built a nuclear reactor in 30 years. And it is true the reactors they are designing to be hopefully built have a lot more safety designs for the reactor, they still have no safety designed around the spent fuel pools.

15 years ago @ KCRG - AARP Says Ad Opposing ... · 0 replies · +1 points

You could fly a 747 into the REACTOR, which has a steel and concrete containment. The spent fuel pool sitting on top of the reactor has no such safeguards and has probably 5 reactors worth of uranium sitting in a pool of water protected by a standard sheet metal building. Fly a 747 into that, or even just turn the power off for 2 days and the entire state of Iowa would be uninhabitable, just like the spent fuel pools in Japan (General electric Mark 1 Boiling water reactor, same design and both built around 1974 as Duane Arnold in Palo)

15 years ago @ KCRG - AARP Says Ad Opposing ... · 3 replies · -1 points

I believe more nuclear power is the key to our future. However, the current designs for spent nuclear fuel is lacking any kind of safety, as is evidence the Japanese debacle. Please vote down any new nuclear facilities until such time as they design the spent fuel rod pools with redundancy, concrete and steel containment vessels, and a pla non what to do if things go wrong.

15 years ago @ KCRG - Cedar Rapids Holds Fir... · 0 replies · +49 points

A ten year extension would pay for the flood wall. Extending it for twenty years is not about the flood wall. Vote No on 2034

15 years ago @ KCRG - Wall-length Mural Unco... · 0 replies · +5 points

They stri..pp.ed the roads m.oney out of hte budg.et and said if you want ro.ads, vote for the new tax. Then they will use the m.oney they WOU.LD ha.ve spe.nt on ro.ads and sp.end it on bl.ank like this. Then use the n.ew ta.x to pay for the ro.ads.
Do you see the sh.ell g.ame?

15 years ago @ KCRG - Wall-length Mural Unco... · 0 replies · -1 points

of course. They stri..pp.ed the roads m.oney out of hte budg.et and said if you want ro.ads, vote for the new tax. Then they will use the m.oney they WOU.LD ha.ve spe.nt on ro.ads and sp.end it on bl.ank like this. Then use the n.ew ta.x to pay for the ro.ads.
Do you see the sh.ell g.ame?

15 years ago @ KCRG - Calls For Potassium Io... · 2 replies · +1 points

Unfortunately, there is so much misinformation out there I cannot find anything. However, it is a widely known fact that volcano ash circles the globe multiple times when a volcano go off. It stands to reason that an extremely hot radioactive fire could easily do the same.
Quote,"By far the more substantive climatic effect from volcanoes results from the production of atmospheric haze. Large eruption columns inject ash particles and sulfur-rich gases into the troposphere and stratosphere and these clouds can circle the globe within weeks of the volcanic activity." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=...

15 years ago @ KCRG - Calls For Potassium Io... · 1 reply · +1 points

The radiation spike WAS very noticeable. They evacuated all emergency personnel from the facility on Wed for a few hours. They have brought them back on a 50 person rotating basis to keep radiation exposure down. A normal contingent of workers if the plant is operating normally is 400. Does that tell you something?

The big problem is not the 6 reactors contained by 2 separate containment systems. The big problem is the 40 years worth of spent fuel rods for those 6 reactors that is sitting next to them. They are supposed to be under water to protect and keep them cool. The water is gone. They are open to the air and catching on fire.

15 years ago @ KCRG - Calls For Potassium Io... · 4 replies · 0 points

I was not proving your point, I was showing how inaccurate your statements are.

Hopefully there won't be much radiation getting to California, and even less getting over the Rockies to get to Iowa. But that could change if the fires restart in the spent fuel rod pools. If that fire restarts and continue for some time the temperature will jump so high and the radiation will jump so high that it could push lots of radioactive particles up above 30k feet into the jet stream, which would have a much better chance at getting to Iowa.

Please don't keep spouting off inaccurate information. You are worse then the gazette.

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