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Originally Posted by Oberon
Over here, you had to take the door off its hinges, fill up pillowcases with sand, fill up your bath-tub with water and cover it, put the door against the wall and put the pillow case sand-bags against it so you have enough room to crawl underneath it, get necessary food supplies, paint your windows white, take down your curtains, and get a bucket for waste...all in four minutes.
I think most people would have just got as drunk as they could in four minutes... 
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(long obnoxious laughter)
Sounds like you guys had more of a chance.
I hope one day we can look back at how we act today in response to percieved threats, and laugh at it like we laugh at the cold war percieved threats.
All jokes aside, nuclear is the future, as long as corners are not cut.
Which requires energy being nationalized. So it is driven by the needs of the country, and not the shareholder, who seek profits at all costs, despite safe operation, and paying for maintainance. Most of these places (3 mile Island) would rather pay to make it (regulators) go away, than actually fix things. Then you get shutdowns, and leaks.
I am within nuking distance of Oyster Creek Nuclear plant, and they run that place like a Bodega.
I advocate nuclear, but not ran by private industry, I am sorry, profits and stock prices have always been over safety
It is no wonder the treehuggers hate it.
Or we can make it so energy companies are banned from stock exchanges. That would make them serve the customer, and not the select few shareholders.
My ideas may suck, but I am at least offering solutions.