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01-23-01 | FRINGE | a response to Dubya
Are you Fringe? | Calling Congress is easy. Just contact: Speak Out! and find out how you can let Dubya know how large that “fringe” might be || Not online? Ask your local reference librarian how to call your legislators

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01-21-01 | Decommissioning Nuke Plants | A proposal
Inauguration | What can I say? Only 1460 days to go before the next presidential swearing in ceremony.

Annals of Absurdity: Connecticut Yankee is a person? | A recent issue of the Moodus, CT based Hometown Journal covers the the continuing saga between the locals and the shut-down nuclear power plant known as CT Yankee. In the latest installment, the blu-glo executives from the giant utility plan to take the little town of Haddam, CT to court. On what basis? Namely, that the town has violated CT Yankee's "civil right" to dump spent radioactive nuclear fuel rods (hundreds of 'em, actually) on their own land.

Seems that CT Yankee believes that its rights as an individual property owner have thus been wrongly adjudged by the Haddam Town Zoning Board because other people are allowed to do what they want on their property. Now, I know that the philosophical construct behind a business becoming incorporated it to be recognized as an individual, but surely, nobody in the CT Yankee boardroom seriously believes this crap, do they?
Already, one local group of citizen activists have protested CT Yankee's crass, venal and arrogant approach to bad citizenship. This group, the Citizen Awareness Network has petitioned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold a public hearing on this issue. Incidentally, when the storage containers start to break down they will leach into the shallow, sandy bottomed end of the Salmon River. A great fishing and canoeing spot, as well as a popular nesting area for wild swans. Nice, huh?

Citizen Awareness Network have outlined some of their objections to the CT Yankee decommissioning proposals at the Hometown Journals letters archive
A modest Proposal for Storing Nuclear Waste | As for me, I have an idea that might solve this vexing problem:
Basically, it is quite a simple one. In exchange for permission to store the fuel rods on land in the Haddam Neck area, the Chief Executive, Financial and Operating Officers, their families, the families of the entire Board of Directors of CT Yankee, and the principal stockholders of CT Yankee Nuclear shall agree to live ~for at least the next 25 years~ in homes built or placed directly over the area where the fuel rods are to be buried. This way this key group of decision makers could enjoy the beautiful views of the Connecticut River and the rustic farmland and forest within walking distance from their homes.
In this way, they would demonstrate to everyone else in close proximity that they are comfortable exposing themselves in such a manner. This would show the rest of us already living in the area that they are personally willing to take the same risks they want us to take.
Now, some may protest, and say this seems inhumane and harsh. But ~in the spirit of Jonathan Swift~ it seems quite reasonable. If they are willing to do this, then I'm all in favor of burying those fuel rods (and other nuclear waste) right on-site. If they balk, I'd like to have them tell me what they find so objectionable to this idea.
Incidentally, I already share the risk, living just down river from the plant for close to a decade now.
The citizen known as CT Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation presents its own perspective at the CT Yankee Nuclear website || Copyright and credit for the site map and the construction photo in the above paragraph: Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power

Out fer now! ~Will Brady

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