Keith Olbermann: Nuclear Power Plants Are “Doomsday Machines”
Posted by RB in Blog on March 15, 2011 2:30 pm / 9 comments
Look who else is running around his office, palms up, freaking out about nuclear power plants!
After I wrote here on Saturday – not to minimize the tragedy nor the nightmare of Japan and particularly the psychologically destabilizing crises at the various atomic energy facilities there – but that this was the death knell of American Nuclear Power, I actually got two snarky, condescending tweets.
One chided me for being a ‘typical liberal who tried to turn tragedy into politics.’ The other dismissed our risk of something similar to the fact that ‘flyover country was safe from earthquakes and tsunamis so cares about the coasts?’
Seriously. I’d quote them verbatim but neither was as non-scatological nor as concise as that. That’s right, I’m trying to turn tragedy into politics by pointing out that the super-safe Japanese Nuclear Power complex that even President Obama applauded while trying to pitch the same Doomsday Machines to us two years ago, turned out to be not so safe after all, and there’s no reason to assume our antiquated nukes are somehow even as impervious to disaster as Japan’s obviously weren’t.
Yes, Keith is trying to turn tragedy in politics. No amount of sarcasm and snark will hide the fact that deep down he is praying Japan goes Chernobyl.
First, he is a typical liberal. They don’t want oil, coal, natural gas or nuclear power / energy. They want solar and wind and magic fairy dust generated power. The crisis in Japan is a worst-case scenario for them. If Japan gets through this with a relatively minor nuclear disaster (like Three Mile Island), the Left’s campaign against modern energy is toast. How can you possibly argue against nuclear energy in the US when it survived a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and 30 foot high tsunamis and didn’t cause global fallout?
Second, there isn’t a chance in hell he hasn’t considered the fact that GE built the power plants in Japan and he’s still bitter they fired him. That’s how he rolls.
Anyway, the rest of Keith’s anti-nuclear power / attempt to prove he isn’t politicizing tragedy goes on:
Oh, and about ‘flyover country is safe so screw the coasts’? Read on…We associate American earthquakes with California, and to a lesser degree the Pacific Northwest. What most Americans don’t know is that the strongest series of quakes in the history of this country took place on the New Madrid fault line in a seven-week span in the winter of 1811-12.
“New Madrid” was in Missouri - which last time I checked was definitely in flyover country. On 12/16/11 (that’s right, we’re approaching the 200th anniversary off at the horizon) something around a 7.5 hit northeast Arkansas. Fortunately there was almost nobody living there, or in the future site of Memphis, Tennessee, which also rumbled. Liquefaction was reported – you know, when the solid ground suddenly turns into a kind of quicksand. It’s usually reserved for landfill and other unstable surfaces found in places like San Francisco’s Marina. Six hours later there was another quake of roughly the same magnitude. Then they had a month off, until 1/23/12 when a neighboring fault let go with another quake which would have scored at least a 7.0 on the modern Richter scale. The “big one” in the sequence hit on 2/7/12 at New Madrid, which was promptly wiped out. St. Louis was hit hard and the force was so strong (perhaps an 8.0) that it caused temporary waterfalls on the Mississippi River.
That’s right. Keith is using 200 year old history to explain that “nowhere is safe” for nuclear power plants. Let’s ignore the fact that the power plants in Japan withstood the earthquakes. It was the loss of power caused by the tsunamis, not the earthquakes, which triggered the meltdown crises. I’m no scientific historian, but I’m pretty sure we’d have to go back way further than 200 years to find when Missouri, Tennessee, or Arkansas were at risk for tidal waves.
Are we surprised Keith Olbermann is being a hysterical loon? Nope. Are we enjoying it? Oh, yes. Will Current TV be reclassified as a comedy network once Olbermann gets on the air there? It should be.
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Maybe we SHOULD go to wind-solar-pixie dust sources of energy. At least we wouldn’t have to put up with Olbermann any more because there wouldn’t be enough energy being generated to run the internet OR the media.
I wonder how many of the “sustainable energy” moonbats realize that?
” Nuclear Power Plants Are “Doomsday Machines” ”
I guess nuclear power plants are Democrats, then.
Keith Olbermann is symptomatic of the left-wing liberal media, only worse of the worst. The Washington Post and NY Times both have published articles recently telling the gullible public how the Reactors had “nuclear explosions” giving people the impression of a nuclear bomb exploding. They also have insinuated the containment vessels have been breached thus allowing the exposed rods to contaminate the whole Country. Here again this is nothing but lies to make American’s more anti-nuclear energy. The liberal Media is doing all they can to force their agenda on the American public. Of course the Democrats are doing their part as well by calling for a moratorium on building new plants.
The truth in all of this is that this is a very dangerous and scary situation, some reports of radiation levels as much as 300 times normal which is the point of causing severe injuries and even death if exposed. But this is not the norm, most radiation levels have been less than 100 times normal which is not considered to be critical unless exposure is for a long period of time. The radiation which has escaped hasn’t come from damage in the Containment Vessels but from the release of Hydrogen gas and steam to keep the pressure down preventing a large explosion. Although the cores are fully exposed on two reactors, the extreme levels are still contained. Of course nobody can say how this will eventually turn out, as something bad can happen at any time, so far damage outside the reactors has been minimal and the containment vessels have done their jobs.
As far as something like this happening in the US, it’s a slim chance. The quake isn’t what destroyed the Japanese Reactors it was the 30 foot wave that caused most of the damage. This is something we can eliminate by building new plants well inland and far away from large metropolitan areas. So as usual the big nuclear plant fear mongering is a big lie to promote the lefts green agenda. Although dangers exist, there’s still no reason for America to stop build new nuclear plants to help us meet our future electrical needs, solar and wind power will never be able to supply enough energy to meet our needs, we must have a mixture of nuclear, natural gas, oil and clean coal .
Keith who ?!?
Doesn’t he realize that UV ray for solar power causes skin cnacer, vibrations from wind turbines harm the nesting habits of the woozzle headed crested fart smeller, and I’m sure if you give enough pixie dust to a lab rat it will cause some kind of cancer
Identifying the individual leftist moonbats is great sport, but seriously…..we are so enmeshed in the leftist web at all levels that nothing short of a total, or near-total collapse will suffice to wake us up enough to claw our way free. That is well underway as we speak, and there will be a lot of suffering before it’s over. Good luck to all who played by the rules and expected a fair shake. You’ll need it!
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