Legislation that backers hope will speed the process of building a second nuclear plant in Missouri is already in lawmakers’ hands.
Sponsor, State Senator Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, was one of the first lawmakers to file legislation for the upcoming session. His bill would allow power companies involved in an effort to obtain an early site permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to recoup through rate hikes the permit costs. The permit cost is estimated at about $40 million.
Image via WikipediaWE'RE NOT in the habit of writing movie reviews. But the recently released film "Fair Game" - which covers a poisonous Washington controversy during the war in Iraq - deserves some editorial page comment, if only because of what its promoters are saying about it. The protagonists portrayed in the movie, former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV and former spy Valerie Plame, claim that it tells the true story of their battle with the Bush administration over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Ms. Plame's exposure as a CIA agent. "It's accurate," Ms. Plame told The Post. Said Mr. Wilson: "For people who have short memories or don't read, this is the only way they will remember that period."People who have short memories or don't read!?! How big are the amnesia and preschooler demographics and what makes Joe Wilson think they would have similar taste in movies? The Post points out numerous factual errors with the film and concludes:
Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; "Fair Game" is just one more example. But the film's reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored. Mr. Wilson claimed that he had proved that Mr. Bush deliberately twisted the truth about Iraq, and he was eagerly embraced by those who insist the former president lied the country into a war. Though it was long ago established that Mr. Wilson himself was not telling the truth - not about his mission to Niger and not about his wife - the myth endures. We'll join the former president in hoping that future historians get it right.One wonders if the WikiLeaks document dump will shed any light on the credibility of Plame and Wilson.
President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy—provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.That's from the Washington Post (via Gateway Pundit). Last month, Gateway Pundit reported that an Iranian general thought that it would take only "eleven days to wipe out Israel." As I've implied before, if a cities start getting nuked, the migration patterns of the world will reverse: people will leave cities to live in suburban and rural areas. A side effect of that migration will be a reduction in urban wealth and an increase in suburban and rural wealth as property values are bid up outside cities and down in them.
The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground.It sounds like their solution to the disposal of nuclear waste may be to simply leave it encased in concrete underground, but then they do talk about refueling them every seven to ten years. Who knows...
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