It's hardly surprising that people are so apathetic whilst political parties spend their energies on seeking and maintaining political power instead of fixing the structural issues with good policy. NASA is another in a long line of victims used for political expediency.

I long thought that it no longer matters who is the president of America Inc. The political system is being interfered with by political donations and private appointments of retired government policy makers. Voting is no longer enough to create change, only direct political lobbying by the shareholders of the American Government (actually *many* governments) seems to have any hope in out influencing the paid political lobby.

Yucca was a political solution that didn't meet the original DOE specifications for appropriate geology, until the specifications were revised. Recent research has shown that the original "Defence in Depth" approach the DOE were advocating was indeed the correct one, i.e. Granite. Radio isotopes that leak out of the containment are captured by the geology. Further - a granite containment is also the ideal place for a systematic reactor like IFR (Integral means the reprocessing is done on site) which also mean the energetic return of the reactor is improved by being able to dispose of the reactor in situ. Unfortunately Yucca is Pumice.

Idaho only got Yucca because one of their representatives didn't show up, so by default the vote went against them. A much better approach is a containment facility based on good science and engineering.

This is the standard procedure anyway, the spent fuel is thermally hot so it has to cool for many years before containment and transport is possible.

In any case a good burner reactor program has it's foundation in an strong containment policy. For example a facility like NORAD in the Rocky mountains would be a similar construction project that could include research and commercial burner reactors, fuel, reprocessing and disposal of fissile ash could all be conducted on site. However you only get the energetic return if you can dispose of the reactor by sealing it in the mountain thus avoiding all the energy spent when decommissioning the reactor.

Based on current estimates of the U.S's pu-239 and u-238 reserves, a program like this could provide electric power for America for roughly 5000 years whilst providing approximately one third more electricity than current reactor programs provide and a powerful option for worldwide Nuclear weapons disarmament.

Oh dear, just a tad aggressive aren't you, it seems all the chemicals you were exposed to in the womb has affected your impulse control. Yes I did read the article and made a mistake after a long day, sorry I'm not letter perfect, have you never made a mistake when you were tired you fucking intolerant asshole.

My original comment *if you read them* were based on the information in the article, so, yeah, I read it. It's only when I started digging that I uncovered the level of industrial pollution that the Rochester community has be left to deal with from Kodak, not that I care - it doesn't affect me - just everyday cuntish behaviour from some mega corporation who has offset their externalities onto the community, yet again. The HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM (happy asshole?) was just another act of disdain that I commented on. But by all means defend Kodaks actions until some mega-corporation does it to your community, then you can just be a hypocrite.

Wow, talk about the example of an ad-hominem attack. It must eat you up inside that people get to express freedom of speech, their opinions and observations when you are so right about everything and everyone is so wrong. It must be hard for you to contain all that senseless rage because it speaks volumes of your pointless empty life that you have to dump your aggression out on slashdot.

You should really consider a therapist of some kind.

Yeah I suppose your right, I mean after all the other industrial pollution they imposed on the local community what's a little plutonium between friends.

No one seems to get it. It's not the point that the substances were controlled, there wasn't much there or the level of harm, it's that they didn't give a rats ass what the community thought about it. They were going to do what they wanted to do and it's pretty much irrelevant what the community thinks.

Ask yourself if this is a example of good corporate citizenship when Kodak were not even prepared to respect the community by educating them and giving them a choice. Seems to say a lot to me about the relationship Kodak had with Rochester.

Whilst it's unlikely that anything would have happened Kodak went ahead and did what-ever it wanted to do regardless of any perceived or real threat to the local community for 30 years. That pretty much demonstrates disdain towards the community.

They also took away the right for the emergency services workers to be trained and know what they were dealing with in the event of a fire or other situation potentially involving weapons grade radioisotopes.

I mean seriously, haven't you found something worse to mod down

Your AC seems to disagree, seems to me to be a long line of disdain happening there. What did you do there - what was your job. Care to answer the AC's comments

Yeah, Kodak NEVER did any wrong right ? How about Rand Street ? How about the dead pets in the basements, stuff seeping up from people's basements, Kodak buying the houses on Rand Street, How about when they got caught and fined by the EPA for illegal dumpin? The high rate of ex employees dying of cancer and the childhood brain cancer clusters found with a square mile of kodak park ? Yeah they did a lot for Rochester.... They also laid off or fired 25% of their workforce at the end of every 3rd quarter like clockwork throughout the 90's to show a huge profit in the fourth quarter right in time for Christmas.... Then they would hire back temp workers to take the place of all they laid off. I know of a bunch of people that I went to school with whose parents worked 20, 25, & 30 years only to have a pinkslip one day for some b.s. reason. If your fired they dont have to pay unemployment! They ruined Rochester. The Rochester community turned a blind eye to all the pollution they did, bought only their product and were loyal an what did they do in return ? built factories in Mexico and shipped jobs out of the country! It may have been a great place when George Eastman was alive but after he died the greed came in and ruined it.

I'm just curious about what it's all about.I've learned that whenever someone says "Trust me" it's the last thing you should do, everything you have described speaks to me of a ongoing horror story and you've stepped up to defend the man. Sounds to me like the community there was just happy that Kodak has finished with them. Do you live there, in Rochester? How far away from Kodak Park?

FROM THE ARTICLE;

Company spokesman Christopher Veronda said he could find no record that Kodak ever made a public announcement of the facility. He also wasn’t sure whether the company had ever notified local police, fire or hazardous-materials officials.

So, uh, yeah, I think so.

There is always hope that a violent man will not be violent. There is no hope for a coward.

I'd be curious to your reaction if you faced 15 years jail time for protesting the rights of homeless people. Unless you can qualify your statements with the overt actions you've performed to defend democracy I don't think you've earned the right to call this guy a coward. It's fairly obvious he is not stupid.

Trial by jury is optional perhaps?

Whooosh...

and how would you deal with these nuisances, please feel free to express yourself honestly and in graphic detail.

These are all noble sentiments and I have participated and conducted such activities myself because I want to be free, not the illusion of free. History has shown, however, that these are the first people that are rounded up and disappeared when the shift in power occurs. I think the thing that people don't recognise is that anon is changing the landscape of information availability and that many of the things we know are being hidden from us can be made available. That because the vectors for this information availability exist some people are awoken to the possibility the they can be educated by this hidden knowledge and knowing is the prerequisite to the statement you have made, your call to action.

The tactics of asymmetric warfare doesn't just apply to bullets. Asymmetric *information* warfare is a new construct, what makes it novel is that it's shape is now amorphous, even if anonymous don't know it. Our entire society is controlled by information control, it's why apathy exists, because people are either too afraid or not informed enough to act. As our society begins to wake to this I suspect that more of what you propose will become probable because it becomes more possible.

Many will call their claims bluster, script kiddies etc, so what, they are doing something, it is their expression of democracy. I have no problem with *any* expression of democracy even if it is an idea that is still maturing. I hope it does and I wish them every success.

Indeed, Insightful++. Few people have the actual energy to type or formulate an opinion formed in *gasp* thinking. Which means it's even less likely that these people would even write to a politician in their own language expressing their will. These quotes spring to mind that resonant over today's society;

"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." - Joseph Goebbels
"Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction." - Adolf Hitler

This is the world we live in. The tools made to educate and free us are being subverted to brainwash and enslave us.

FTFY