W Has Energizing Idea - Nukular Power

The Nero News Service, "As the World Burns"

In U.S. President Bush's Saturday radio address to the nation (2/18/06), he said that he has a plan to help us get off of our addiction to oil - nukular power. Yup, that's right, why smoke pot when you can shoot up heroin.

He reported that nukular engergy is "safe and clean" and it generates "large amounts of low-cost electricity without emitting air pollution or greenhouse gases." Concerned about protecting Americans and the world from the projected horrors of global warming, W is seeking ways of cutting down on greenhouse gasses.

"Look, greenhouse gasses can't be shot down out of the air like quail - heh heh. If they could, I'd have the Vice President take care of it for us, and I'd have him bring some hunting buddies along, like maybe John McCain and Hillary Clinton. We got us a problem. It's called Bovine Flatulence. Yep, that's right, cow farts. They are a major source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Now, I'm not proposing that Americans are addicted to beef or anything like that. After all, when I stop being president, I'll be making Got Milk? ads like everyone else. So, we have to come up with a plan. That plan is to make E-lek-tricity from nukular power. It's simple, clean, and Dick Cheney says its a great way to make lots of money."

The Plan: Taking a page from the Reagan White House's Star Wars, where a technology was proposed to save us before it even existed, the president has proposed two really good ideas, based upon the available and probably true intelligence from key sources in the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's lobbying and promotional outlet (see www.nei.org for W's nukular power speeches before he gives them). The first idea is to use smaller reactors in other countries that don't have the technology to build bigger reactors. Of course, the smaller reactor technology doesn't exist, but neither did Star Wars, and we still managed to spend a lot of money on it. Besides, the president found a drawing of a small reactor, so he figures the real thing can't be far off into the future, else, how would someone have been able to draw a picture of it.

There, isn't that a cute little reactor?

The next idea is for taking care of the tons of radioactive hazardous waste that comes out the other end of the greenhouse free power plant. Yep, that's right, no greenhouse gas emissions, but plenty of nasty highly radioactive crap coming out the back end of the plant. Well for that his answer is to return the used fuel (radioactive waste) to a fuel supplier nation and recycle it using a process that does not result in separated plutonium, according to the US Energy Department. The recycled fuel would then be used in advanced burner reactors in fuel supplier nations.

ONE LITTLE PROBLEM, sort of like the little problem with the small reactors....
<>The advanced burner reactors do not yet exist either. These fast reactors would consume transuranic elements - plutonium and other long-lived radioactive material with atomic numbers higher than uranium - while extracting their energy. Here, the word burn does not mean incinerate or combust, the Energy Department explains, it means to transmute or convert transuranics into shorter-lived isotopes. Do you get the picture???? Rope-a-dope, Mission Accomplished - again.


Yup, we're going to find ways to pay for the spread of nukular reactors around the world while we take decades to develop the new technologies to make this possible in the vision of W. Here's what our fearless leader, who one right-wing nutcase is calling, The Rebel In Chief (see book by Fred Barnes if you want) was told to tell us would happen...


"these countries would agree to use nuclear power only for civilian purposes and forego uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities that can be used to develop nuclear weapons."

and, remember, the weapons of mass destruction were hidden in Iraq....

Now, what this involves is nukular fuel reprocessing.

"If the Bush administration establishes nuclear fuel reprocessing the new policy would overturn a 30-year ban on the technology. Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1977 promised that the United States would not reprocess spent nuclear fuel.

The challenge, says the Department of Energy (DOE), stems from the fact that certain technologies used to separate out plutonium from used fuel, could be used to produce material for a nuclear weapon." (February 20, 2006 (ENS))

And this weeks double speak winner is: "more proliferation-resistant separation processes"


So, in the words of Charles Mingus, when the nukular explosion comes, "you can kiss your ass goodbye."

Someday, see the film The Journey by Peter Watkins, 1988. A 14.5 hour movie about the international war machine and the international peace movement.

Good night and good luck.

Be well, keep your feet on the ground most of the time, but jump for joy regularly.

For real news coverage, as opposed to the Nero News Service, see

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2006/2006-02-20-03.asp