{"id":45607,"date":"2014-09-30T21:55:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/looks-like-nuke-times-again.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:46:51","slug":"looks-like-nuke-times-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/30\/looks-like-nuke-times-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Nuke Times Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

So what's most disturbing in this article?<\/p>\n

– A major radiation incident at the WIPP facility, leading to a shutdown and growing backlog of nuclear waste storage?<\/p>\n

– Investigations into same that indicate all sorts of problems with the operations at WIPP?<\/p>\n

– Proposals to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build many, many more plutonium triggers for thermonuclear weapons, at a time when we already have many, many plutonium triggers stockpiled and we keep paying lip service to nuclear non-proliferation and, supposedly, to reducing nuclear stockpiles?<\/p>\n

– That all the national nuclear labs are now being operated by for-profit LLCs that, surprisingly, keep coming up with proposals that involve spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build nuclear weapons that are not demonstrably needed?<\/p>\n

– That Congress seems more than happy, on both sides of the aisles, to keep those for-profit LLCs making plenty of profit and plutonium triggers?<\/p>\n

Time for more gin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nCongress pushes nuclear expansion despite accidents at weapons lab<\/a><\/span>
\nWeapons watchdog says government’s position ‘increasingly hypocritical’ as US prepares to increase production of warheads in spite of safety and environmental concerns\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So what's most disturbing in this article? – A major radiation incident at the WIPP facility, leading to a shutdown and growing backlog of nuclear waste storage? – Investigations into same that indicate all sorts of problems with the operations at WIPP? – Proposals to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build many, many … Continue reading “Looks Like Nuke Times Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","category-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":760,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/16\/fiddling_while.html","url_meta":{"origin":45607,"position":0},"title":"Fiddling while the drums burn","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Nov-01 9:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"Fiddling while the drums burn Okay, let's put aside the question of whether nuclear power is Good or Bad. 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