Chernbyl

[LEMOOREACE]

Yes..an unorganized rant, and therefore the "joke" about the vodka....   

[Gumby]

Ukraine uses the Cyrillic alphabet (as does Russia and several other Eastern European countries). When translating, because there is frequently not a one to one correspondence between specific letters in Cyrillic and the Roman alphabet (used in English), words can frequently be spelled different ways. I have no idea whether "Chernybl" is considered appropriate or note, but I've seen it spelled several different ways, so I don't think there's one specific spelling that is considered correct.

Similar issues arise when translating into Asian kanji.

For what it's worth, the concept of a correct spelling is a relatively modern one. If you do a bit of reading from the time of the founding of the US, words are spelled in all sorts of interesting ways. They only things they have in common is that they were phonetic representations of the sounds of the words themselves. It's really only with the appearance of mass-produced dictionaries (e.g., Webster's) that the idea that there is one correct spelling for any given word started to become popular. This was early-mid 1800s.

OK. I'm more of a babbler than a ranter. That's cool. I'm a mute babbler from now on. lol.

[Gumby]

Sorry I even brought the whole thread up. I quit. Just tried to bring up something different. Ukraine. RUSSIA, japan, screw it. Sorry.

[ChallengerHK]

I was neither asking you to feel sorry or to apologize. Just trying to help you undertand some of the responses that you got.

[hemiken]

What has any of this got to do with power steering fluid for a transmission .................... Relax Gumby, you hot head you take care buddy This should cheer you up

[LEMOOREACE]

I'm sorry too.  I wasn't intending to be a troll and took offense at the idiot name calling.  I guess my joke didn't go over as planned.

Actually, watch Pandoras Promise when it hits Netflix.  It will talk about the need for nuke power going forward.  We can't keep up with the consumption much longer.  It was on CNN a few weeks back.  Eye opening.

[dutch]

imho  as long as this :



...is the result of not having everything under control, also when something goes wrong, And no one has a clue what to do with waste material, nuke anything should be banned.  I don`t have a solution for the energy problem, but man, you still cannot get anywhere near these sights. Back then they evacuated over 50000 in under 4 hrs... no one ever returned. I bet there are hardly any survivers amongst them by now.   Chernobyl looks a lot like Detroit these days, but Going to Detroit will at least give you a chance to survive. 


Keep em coming Jeff I love reading your stuff  and in this case I couldn`t agree more   

[Topcat]

What has any of this got to do with power steering fluid for a transmission .................... Relax Gumby, you hot head you take care buddy This should cheer you up

Does Gumby drink green beer? 

[hemiken]

Hey, i do not mind Gumby.  He is a good bloke

I really liked him as a cartoon too

[HP_Cuda]

I find it quite amusing when folks say "clean coal". It's like saying "free energy" or "military intelligence".

Yep folks look it up it's called an oxymoron!

 

[brads70]

    

Seems the 60's hippies are alive and well? Al Gore was a breeder...    I try my best to worry about the things I have control over.... just saying....

EarthFirst Mourning Loss of a Tree - Crying & Screaming

[71chmark]

I have worked in nuclear power for almost 40 years and one thing I have learned is you can't argue with the ignorant. Gumby do not believe much of what the sensationalism seeking liberal media prints. Most of the "facts" you have posted are simply not true. Chernobyl used a graphite moderator which caught fire. U.S. reactors use water for a moderator. Chernobyl had no containment building. Three Mile Island melted over a third of their core and released minimal amounts of radiation that harmed no one. You don't know what you are talking about. Just the fact that you resorted to name calling shows the level of your maturity and thus the level of seriousness one should give to your childish rantings.  If you are so concerned you should stop using electricity because every single source causes harm and potential harm to the environment. It's the price we pay.

[grimmey71]

. With all the money we waste on war, why can't we fix this stuff and build safe, reliable plants for everyone. There is a better use for our money. But people have to fight. Maybe Iran will screw up and nuke themselves to death. Turn the entire country into glass. One can only hope. We have many reactors in the USA that store spent rods on top like Fukashima. MANY. It could happen here.

Just read this the other day
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/08/how_tenacity_a_wall_saved_a_ja.html

[LEMOOREACE]

http://pandoraspromise.com/

Coming to Netflix soon...  December 3rd to be exact

Will debunk a boatload of environmentalist driven propaganda on the  impact of Nuclear Power and show the NEED for it going forward.  Will speak to the undeserved "bad name" given to the industry that now holding it back. 

No matter how much we try to conserve energy/power/electricity, we are finding new ways to use it at ten times the rate.  No "clean" technology will possibly be able to keep up at this time.     

[ChallengerHK]

As many of my friends point out to me, I tend to have harsh yet practical solutions to problems like this. I would require any company that wants to build a nuke plant to have at least one of its officers and his or her family living within a quarter mile of the plant. They'll be built well.