Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Friday, March 11, 2011


Do I sense news hacks are ready to rub their hands again?

"If they can't get adequate cooling to the core, it could be a Three Mile Island -- or WORSE!!," said nuclear physicist Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, which is working to improve the safety of nuclear power. The loss of coolant at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania for only 30 minutes led to a 50% meltdown of the core in that 1979 accident. (Melting-down overemphasis and link added)

And we all know the CATASTROPHE that followed -- mostly in news hacks' MINDS. Of course this is a dreadful emergency, but the Japanese have probably suffered far worse losses in the tsunami than in even a worst-case incident at this plant -- for the people will be evacuated, and the radiation ultimately contained.

Can't we keep cheap boom-boom politics out of anything?

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