Nuclear Meeting

2005-7-29 06:05:00

My Friends,

Last night I attended a town hall meeting where the department of energy is presenting plans to process Plutonium 238 in Idaho.

Many are mindlessly upset about this as they have been indoctrinated with propaganda. Without Plutonium 238 our deep space program will be crippled for it is needed to generate electricity on most missions beyond Mars and definitely Saturn and beyond.

Here is a letter I wrote my local paper. I'll let you know if they publish it.

Dear Editor

I went to the public meeting (July 28th) concerning the processing of Plutonium 238, which was sponsored by the Department of Energy.

You could have fooled me for the Snake River alliance and other anti-nuclear activists seemed to be in charge. As I went through the door I was met by a large anti-nuke poster which read: "Say no to plutonium. Say Yes to a clean and safe Idaho."

Then I entered the meeting room as it was about to begin and was given an amateurish anti-nuke flyer.

Then, thankfully, a government representative presented the plan but had extreme difficulty in proceeding because of the rudeness of the audience. I began to see how reasonable people could have been shouted down at the Salem Witch Trials, for the voice of reason here was like holy water on a vampire.

This emotional bunch wanted to give the impression that those attending were a representative cross section of area, but believe me they were not. These were not people I meet in every day life but mostly activists full of fear at a non existent bogeyman.

For some eye-opening information on safe nuclear energy go to:

http://www.freeread.com/Nuclear/