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REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) Brian Mason
60%↑
30%↑
20%↓
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%↑
30%
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) Brian Mason
60%↑
30%↑
20%↓
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%↑
30%
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
February 17, 2025 10:14 AM UTC
23 Comments
Arrogant jackass in HS, arrogant and incompetent prick as energy Secretary
Sorry, but the coverup is ripped apart by the actual reaction.
If that were the case, there wouldn't be a broadly known effort to bring employees back.
I'm beginning to wonder how many are going to be WILLING to come back and how many of those who weren't pushed out might decide that conditions are just fine for them to retire or accept non-government jobs.
Meh.
Mump (or, is it Trusk?) knows just how a successful business genius quickly navigates these little personnel glitches. I mean, worst case he could always hire some temp staffing or short-term contract workers, like say maybe the North Koreans, to invade Canada, Greenland, and Panama for us and probably also at the same time provide for our nuclear deterrence too!?!? WWVPD, huh? Likely also get some yuge cost savings so we can have even more bigglier beautiful tax cuts!
Time to start thinking outside the box, people; thankfully in 2025 we now have American (eh, mostly) billionaires doing our thinking for us!
Hickenlooper and Bennet confirmed this clown.
I read that the firings caused a Broken Arrow incident.
oops.
But "clean" nukes are still gonna save the planet. . . now, with even less oversight, care, or competence. Just ask David Thielen.
Meanwhile the defunct Cotter uranium mill just south of Cañon City has been a Superfund site for nearly 41 years. It not only has never had its radioactive and toxic waste cleaned up, but a full environmental assessment of the site and surrounding neighborhoods has never been completed. And for bonus points, the impoundments at the site have waste from the Manhattan Project and from elsewhere around the globe – not just uranium mill tailings!
If you're tired of watching the news about Trump, watch this 46-minute documentary about the Cotter site!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h0Q0Yqf9R8&t=4s
Don't stop there KW, oppose Nuclear Medicine too. You know, like PET scans.
On a non-snarky point, you're smart enough to know nuclear weapons have nothing to do with nuclear power.
I do agree with you that removing federal oversight of either is a giant mistake. Move fast and break things works great in the startup world. It's a reciepe for disaster in a lot of governmental operations.
Nuclear weapons and nuclear power have EVERYTHING to do with each other – nuclear weapons needs plutonium which is an abundant byproduct of nuclear power plants.
Now, if we would just switch to Lithium reactors we can end both the component supply of nuclear weapons and the unobtainable task of storing nuclear waste….
https://cnduk.org/resources/links-nuclear-power-nuclear-weapons/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20the%20process%20of,countries%20to%20make%20nuclear%20weapons.
Conflating nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants is just wrong.
Nuclear weapons and the fuel rods for nuclear power plants both entail similar processes in extraction and processing of raw uranium. Both create waste, although modern nuclear energy waste creates less. Removing oversight from nuclear weapons poses a threat of nuclear warfare, while removing oversight from nuclear energy plants poses a threat of meltdown, contamination of water , land, and air – see China Syndrome, Fukushima plant, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl for examples.
Pick your poison.
And if you're reassured by the industry platitudes that all is safe, clean, and green now, I have some cheap land in Russia I'd like to sell you. The wildlife there is evolving, so it could be a tech startup!
Please tell me you're aware that China Syndrome is a movie and not real life.
Chernobyl was a fucking disaster. It could never have happened in any plant outside of Russia, even the original ones. But it was really bad.
Fukushima & Three Mile Island prove how safe nuclear is. The only deaths were 2 drownings at Fukushima and they have tracked the medical history of all involved and people who live in the areas and have no medical issues due to the plants. You get more exposure to uranium by walking around Boulder.
It's safe, clean, & green. You're one of the ones here yelling that the MAGA needs to review the facts (and I agree). Well same to you – review the facts on nuclear power.
I am in 100% agreement with you that it would be bad if they gut the NRC.
"safe, clean, and green…." Perhaps. Years were needed to clean up the left-over waste from uranium mining outside of Moab, UT. Ever hear of Uravan, Colorado? Nothing left now of that town along the Dolores River except for the foundations. Everything torn down in part due to contamination from nearby uranium mining.
There are a ton of superfund sites due to horribly bad practices mining pretty much every mineral. Uranium was no exception. But it's not germaine to nuclear power today as they no longer let the mining companies get away with that crap.
Yes, but as you know, not all that many superfund sites have a toxic half-life that can be measured in multiples of all of human existence, hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of years.
Really? How about when the state recently allowed the owner of a uranium mine and uranium mill (two sites, more than 100 miles apart) to walk away from their responsibilities at the sites. Ask who is now keeping (or trying to keep) contamination from the mine out of the water supply of Broomfield and other communities. Ask what happens when the AWOL owner of the mill site does not pay property taxes any more and the highly contaminated site is acquired at tax sales by owners who have no clue what they're taking on, because the laws are so weak. David, really, you need a little more curiosity about what's really happening in Colorado.
FFS David Fukushima is a win for nuclear power because no one died? The area is still massively contaminated, and has an exclusion zone only slightly smaller than Chernobyl that requires entry with special government authorisation, in protective clothing and with a dosimeter.
https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/accident-management/emergency/fukushima/environmental-consequences.html
Uh, you can take tours of the area. They are not allowing anyone to live there out of an abundance of caution. But it's nothing like Chernobyl.
I'll take all that over the number of people killed yearly from the noxious output of hydrocarbons. And I'll take that environmental damage over the damage caused by global warming.
The cancer rate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, near where Three Mile Island was operating, is much higher . According to the National Institute of Health,
I lost a dear friend from breast cancer. She was exposed to radiation during the TMI partial meltdown. Harrisburg is a working class, heavily minority town – just the kinds of people who suffer most from those pesky social costs of nuclear power. On the bright side, with Trusk gutting all health -tracking federal agencies, we may never know the social costs of nuclear energy if your dream of "clean green nuclear power" is realized.
Yes, I do understand that China Syndrome was a fictional account of a possible consequence of nuclear meltdown . The Three Mile Island partial meltdown occurred 12 days after the movie came out. Also, the term "China Syndrome" was coined by a nuclear physicist
“Harrisburg is a working class, heavily minority town….”
Harrisburg is also the state capitol, with all that entails. Perhaps you may want to clarify regarding the type of town it is.
At 72% minority (African American and Latine ) population and a median household income of $47K, I'll stand by my descriptors of Harrisburg, thanks.
From wikipedia:
There are discenting opinions. Just as there are discenting opinions that say the earth is flat.
National Institute of Health study, which I quoted above, differs from the industry PoV you cited.
And if it was your AI assistant that told you to spell it “discenting”, you may want to reprogram that AI.