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Your figures and your thoughts indicate you are living in the very distant past.

Compare apples to apples and we may have an interesting conversation.

Polio was probably very dangerous in the 50's as well. You don't see many people wringing there hands over it now days.

Indians were dangerous to early settlers moving west. Not a real problem now though.

I haven't seen Chcago burn to the ground lately. Oh thats right they don't build everything from wood anymore.

I can provide more examples of historical things that are no longer a "real" concern. Well, for those of us who have moved out of the last century.

To N45BA, fatboy and others.
I could post a comment of great length. Instead I believe it would be better to keep it short and to the point. The citizens of Victoria County are NOT “scared people”, they are informed citizens. They put their families, friends and community before the “dollar”. And all it takes to become an “Informed Citizen” is to do your research on the following disasters. They have been trying to make nuclear energy safe for many years. They have yet to achieve that goal. These are just the “major” disaster, there are many more so called “minor” disasters. Please become informed before you place the citizens of Victoria on this list!

Dec. 12, 1952 - Chalk River Facility in Canada
Sept. 29, 1957 - Mayak Plutonium Facility in Russia
Oct. 10, 1957 - Windscale Nuclear Power Plant in England
Dec. 7, 1975 - Lubmin Nuclear Power Plant in East Germany
Mar. 28, 1979 - Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania
Apr. 26, 1986 - Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine
Sept. 30, 1999 - Nuclear Power Facility in Tokaimura, Japan

I don't think I'd buy a used vehicle from those folks. If you would, I've got a heck of a deal on a 1974 Volkswagen Thing, with a modified frame, a Chevy 350 and a 4:10 rear end guaranteed not to lay down for a few miles for...umm...twitch...flinch...a little body language...$12,000?

Ahhhhh...Freedom of the Press...don't ya just love it? Incidentally, yeah, that was cool. But all things aside, am I wrong to wonder why they're wanting to go after this uranium when they toss OTHER uranium under the bus? Eh? ("They" meaning our beloved Government) You still haven't given me a logical reason. Oh heck, nevermind. Everything comes to the surface sooner or later, no pun intended.

Yeah, everyone of those people looked pretty sinister. I'm like you I think they were hiding something, either that or they are all bank robbers, serial killers or of that ilk. Thanks for posting this and be sure and lock your doors and oh yeah, check under your bed.

On a personal note, can you detect when someone is not sure of what they're saying or flat-out lying? The tone of their voice goes up, their eyes get shifty etc. If anyone hasn't seen the latest Texas Mining and Reclamation Association's latest video, check this out. Oh, and forget comments or ratings...they disabled them. Also, listen for facts...because there aren't any.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewR-9...

"We don't want that stinkin' Iraqi uranium! Goliad uranium is much more attractive, even though we'll end up paying four times the cost or more of the Iraqi uranium and frying somebody's water supply! Can't see it from my house!!!"

OK, but why didn't the U.S. keep it? If Goliad County is estimated to have 5.3 million pounds, then why did our Government give away 20% of that? And then to potentially sell it back to the United States??? Come on man! This is the pot calling the kettle black.

It sounds to me like the Iraqi's sold the yellow cake to the Canadians and the USA just transported for them to get it out of the country. Yellow cake is pretty harmless as long as you don't eat it or keep it in an unventilated room.

The 550 tons of yellow cake would make about 55 tons of reactor fuel. A single 1000 megawatt reactor requires about 85 tons of fuel. One third of the fuel is change out every 18 months. Really it was not that much fuel or that big a deal. Although I would like to see the transportation cost reimbursed.

Perhaps, but what about the 550 tons, 1.1 million pounds of Iraqi uranium yellowcake the U.S. gave away? WHY??? Why allow the potential damage to our drinking water aquifer when the government won't even take the uranium that's put in their lap? This doesn't make sense except maybe somebody else got their pockets lined? This just doesn't add up.

Nuclear power will be our salvation. If we should fear anything it should be the liberal fascisim that is sweeping away our freedom.

Here's the link http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/iraq...

If domestic uranium is so important, then why did our government allow Iraq to sell 550 tons of uranium yellowcake to Cameco in Canada a couple of years ago? Just give it away? Our troops even helped load it up for shipping. This is all smoke, mirrors and lies with personal greed as the driving force.

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States secretly shipped out of Iraq more than 500 tons of low-grade uranium dating back to the Saddam Hussein era, the Pentagon said Monday.

The U.S. military spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of the uranium from Iraq to Canada, said Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman.

The shipment, which until recently was kept secret, involved a U.S. truck convoy, 37 cargo flights out of Baghdad to a transitional location, and then a transoceanic voyage on board a U.S.-government-owned ship designed to carry troops to a war zone, he said.

The "yellowcake" uranium transfer was requested by the Iraqi government at the encouragement of the U.S. government, Whitman said.

The uranium will be sent by truck to two processing plants in Ontario, Krahn said. Once it has been enriched for energy use it will be sold to power plant operators, he said.

The United States is Cameco's largest customer, Krahn said, but he did not specify if the Iraq yellowcake would ultimately end up in the United States.

Whitman said the Department of Defense's cost of securing and transporting the uranium from Tuwaitha to Canada was $70 million, and the government of Iraq had agreed in principal to reimburse the United States for part of that cost.

He said he could not say how much Iraq intends to repay the United States.'

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John, while we disagree on nuclear power, I grow increasingly impressed with your stand for protecting the interests of future generations. There will indeed be a special place in hell for this sick, selfish and perverse generation.

While we do not teach a proper work ethic to our children we turn around and burden them and THEIR children with a debt incurred by this generation trying to spend it's way out of trouble and staying consumed with our own comfort and self interest.

We are wasteful and selfish! We are wise in our own eyes and use little common sense in the decisions we make.

We should have been making electricity from landfill methane twenty years ago! We should be drilling for our own oil instead of living on imports. We should be importing uranium from Canada and Australia where it is mined far from people and hurts no one instead of importing from Russia or mining it in our own drinking water aquifers! We should be spending this ill-conceived stimulus money on the ERCOT grid needed to take power from windmills in West Texas that have been spinning for a couple of years now without being connected to the grid! We should be teaching our children chores, responsibility and work from an early age and perhaps we'd have a higher Gross Domestic Product and less time to run the streets with gangs leaving their sign on every cacant wall they can find!

I have no doubt that a nuclear power plant will be built in Victoria. I have no doubt that special interest groups will succeed in deregulating the nuclear power industry; in the same way they did the financial market. As we all know now, that turned out to be a whole lot of common sense.

I know this because I know that our country has lost its way and no longer represents the common interest of the people. If it did there would be no need to protest “taxation without representation”.

It may take 15 to 20 years after the whole country is under the thumb of the nuclear power companies for government to come face to face with the problems of deregulating the nuclear power industry, but “it will happen”.

It will be our children and grandchildren’s problems; they will suffer the bulk of our transgressions. There is going to be a special place in hell for us.

Fighting a losing battle did not stop those at the Alamo, and it will not stop those determined to see past their own interest, too those of our children.

The “line in the sand is drawn”, and everyone needs to decide for themselves where they stand. I’m a conservative and some might interpret us as cowards but I can assure everyone that it is false.

Part of being a conservative is being prudent, patient, and practical.

One of the reasons for moving away from using so much oil is that we import the vast majority of it thus making us dependent on so foriegn country for our oil.
Guess what, we import almost all of the uranium we use in nuke plants.
By the way guess from whom we import most of the uranium, RUSSA. Why should we create another industry dependent on some foreign government?

The Nuclear Energy Institute says that, "New nuclear power plants are large facilities and are expected to cost $6 billion to $8 billion each (2008 dollars)." Exelon has not discussed costs for a Victoria plant.

Eighty billion??? Barring a round of hyper inflation it will not cost 80 billion to build the Victoria nuclear power plant. It should cost something like 10 to 15 billion.

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST EDITORIAL I HAVE EVER SEEN IN THE VICITORIA ADVOCATE.

Our Government and the people in this country will realize soon that fossil fuels are not as cheap as Nuclear.

The people afraid of Nuclear energy will soon realize it is a harmless and efficient means of producing electricity.

The people screaming it creates too much waste will soon realize that the waste created by the production of Nuclear energy is nothing compared to fossil fuels.

Even if none of these things occur, Exelon will still build it's plant.

The only thing we need now is for our Government to realize that the stiff requirements put in place to regulate and control these Nuclear companies is so strict that it makes it almost impossible to reach the point of plant construction. We need to lighten up, let these companies build a reap the benefits.

Yes, regulate and monitor them, but stop the insane requirements of community meetings and pasifying all the scared people of the world.

build it.