Archive for September 15th, 2008

Rebuttal

I actually posted this article in an effort to get the ball rolling about nuclear energy and the pros and cons surrounding it - ie: waste issues and the time it takes to develop nuclear facilities. What caught my eye in particular was

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Monday, September 15th, 2008

All about the NPT

The purpose of the treaty is use nuclear energy in a more peaceful form than weapons of mass destruction. The treaty consists of two different categories of countries; nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapon states.

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Monday, September 15th, 2008

"It's a sacrifice for wearing my Castro hat."

That tour connected me with nuclear history. The B reactor wasn’t created for electrical generation purposes. It was the first “production” nuclear reactor - ever. And, it produced one thing: plutonium-239 for Trinity and Fat Man.

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Monday, September 15th, 2008