The Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan deployed for a humanitarian mission off Fukushima and the results are horrifying:
Compounded ironies: a nuclear power plant fails and a nuclear powered aircraft carrier with nuclear bombs sails to the rescue where no one thought to turn on the radiation detection systems.
Well, another Achille's heel has just been demonstrated on aircraft carriers, and that is the ocean water uptake systems for the on-board de-salinization systems.
1. Get the state out of nuclear power. They exempt operators from liability, which means they are operated in dangerous ways. "Cheap" is not the only factor in cost.
2. We have aircraft carriers in the Pacific to protect our markets for nuclear power in places such as Japan. Bring all our forces home and we'd have a better economic balance.
3. End the poverty draft. Return to where the wealthy pay for an army they themselves raise.
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“We joked about it: ‘Hey, it’s radioactive snow!’ ” Cooper recalled. “I took pictures and video.”
But now “my thyroid is so out of whack that I can lose 60 to 70 pounds in one month and then gain it back the next,” said Cooper, fighting tears. “My menstrual cycle lasts for six months at a time, and I cannot get pregnant. It’s ruined me.”
The fallout of those four days spent off the Fukushima coast has been tragic to many of the 5,000 sailors who were there.
Compounded ironies: a nuclear power plant fails and a nuclear powered aircraft carrier with nuclear bombs sails to the rescue where no one thought to turn on the radiation detection systems.
Well, another Achille's heel has just been demonstrated on aircraft carriers, and that is the ocean water uptake systems for the on-board de-salinization systems.
1. Get the state out of nuclear power. They exempt operators from liability, which means they are operated in dangerous ways. "Cheap" is not the only factor in cost.
2. We have aircraft carriers in the Pacific to protect our markets for nuclear power in places such as Japan. Bring all our forces home and we'd have a better economic balance.
3. End the poverty draft. Return to where the wealthy pay for an army they themselves raise.
Feel Free To Email This To Three Friends.
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