The Miami Dade County Commission, lead by Pepe Diaz and Joe Martinez and Natacha Seijas, has rolled over for FPL every step of the way to construction of two new nuclear reactors at sea level in South Dade. Between a hundred year hurricane and sea level rise, it is a certainty that Turkey Point will-- one way or another-- be cut off from electric supplies required to operate back ups. Your elected officials see no problem with this, so I suggest sending the Miami Dade County Commission and let them put on the suits and gear to go in and get some on the ground experience by visiting the failing reactors in Japan. Let them get a taste of their own medicine. As for the seriousness of this video that just appeared on the net, I watched on CNN last night a shill for the nuclear industry explain how what was happening in Japan is not so bad. That the main problem is not radioactive emissions into the atmosphere, he said, but "fear". Since "fear" is something we can easily overcome, I say let's pay for the plane tickets for the Miami Dade County Commissioners to go to Japan right away.
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You know who else should be sent over to help with the rescue efforts; Jeffrey Bercow.
This would be a good purpose for the International Trade Council.
I will buy Pepe's ticket.
Just substitute: Turkey Point!
Whoops, there goes another ancient nuclear,
Bang, there goes another sea level nuclear,
Hey, there goes another storm surged nuclear power plant! Tah Dah!
Barry White
CASE/Citizens Allied for Safe Energy, Inc.
NE Japan is done. I can't imagine any rescuer or recovery team working anywhere near the disaster site because of the radiation levels. In order for there not to be a meltdown, the rods have to be continually cooled. With the water supply in shambles, the ability to do that is near impossible.
There are no words to describe the insanity of your post.
The hideousness of the situation in Japan is indescribable. Some of the people working near and around those power plants may die while others will die, and they know it. Tens of thousands of others in Japan are dying or already dead.
This isn’t material for satyr.
Satire is how you spell it and this is not satire anyway. No one is making a joke out of this here. We have been preaching the dangers of nuclear energy for years to the deaf ears of county commissioners just as we preached the dangers of offshore drilling before the oil spill. We don't make light of environmental disasters. We do sardonically point out the shortcomings of those oblivious to vision.
Read my numerous Chernobyl posts too...
Radiation levels at the Tokaimura nuclear fuel-processing plant in north-east Japan are 15,000 times higher than normal. 1pm
Doesn't anyone remember Three Mile Island? We should never forget how dangerous these nuclear reactors are and teach our children that nuclear plants aren't the way to produce electricity. I wish we didn't have Turkey Point in our community. That's a meltdown waiting to happen.
If ever there were a case for privatization it is this: that nuke accident needs to be cleaned up by the nuclear industry community. The thought that military troops from any country would go in there to help slays me. Those troops might have enlisted, but their unborn babies have not. What - they are going to go in and get baked and then go home and have irradiated babies? So, let's see the Nuke industry rise to the occasion. Yeah, let's see how SAFE they feel in going in and helping out.
100,000 people evacuated around one plant and 30,000 from another. This is an epic human disaster.
I think the Nuke industry should have their own international version of first responders. It is not our job to send our men and women over there to become exposed to deadly radiation. What are we doing - we are sending people over on the USS Ronald Reagan. This is not right.
The men and women going over there to help out are local fire rescue personnel. The ones that are continually demonized in local papers. City of Miami and Miami Dade County are on stand-by; LA County is enroute. Should a similar tragedy occur here, it would be the same group.
So if they are going to Japan why don't they pay their 6 figure salaries?
Its not a matter of demonization its a matter of sustainability, there are folks getting shot at every day in Iraq and Afghanistan making 1/5 of what most "heroes" make.
If your getting paid big bucks your not a Hero your doing the job you're getting paid to do. Stop Whining before I start on the pension scam.
(Response from the satyr-ist. I'm sorry about the misspelling. Phone auto-corrected.)
I have a friend who follows your blog daily. She really recommended that I follow it, too. So, today was my first visit. And, this ridiculous post followed by the equally ridiculous comments (I'm talking to you Fire Marshall Bill) is what I found.
I really thought that blogs would be the saving grace for people who appreciate transparency, honesty and who don't necessarily "believe what they read." Instead, many blogs--and, I'm sorry to say, yours included--are void objectivity or perspective--making them emotionally-based and often illogical rants about any- and everything and any- and everyone. (I spent some time today reading your archived posts--so I say this with confidence.)
Suggesting that the Commissioners be rescue workers so that they can experience the effects of nuclear winter so that you can say that you're trying to "preach about environmental disasters" can't be qualified as anything other than: stupid, cruel and lazy.
Maybe I shouldn't take my friend's advice on good restaurants, either.
Have you ever looked to see how many of those six figure personnel are former military personnel? What's that called - Veterans Preference?
Your local firefighter is your paramedic, hazardous material technician, technical rescue technician, rescue diver, all under the umbrella of one position - firefighter. Fund each of these needed postions with different personnel as is done in other areas of the country and tell me what you would be paying them.
There is no pension scam. It's local government opting not to fund their contractual obligations. By the way Bill, you used the word "heros" not me.
You strongly implied it.
OK so what justifies the 6 figue salaries for so many firefighters, you still haven't made a good argument for that or having people retire at 50 or mid 50s with 5 and six figure annual payouts for life (+drop).
I have two uncles that were VOLUNTEER firefighters, not saying it should be that way but it was and they were and are fine with that because to them it was really about service, not self service and/or self agrandisement.
Why are you using this tragedy to some how justify an unsustainable pay and benefits package that is crippling taxpayer?
Don't give up on us Satyrist...you will never agree with us 100% of the time. Take a look at my Thanksgiving post in 2008 and then decide:
Give Thanks for the Liquidators
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2008/11/happy-thanksgiving-kids-celebrate.html
Hay Satyrist I promise I will stop reeding and doing any math so I can be at your level.
stop picking on a potential for a new readers..
Yeah, that's right. Welcome to the blog. I agree. How did we go from talking about Nukes to talking about pensions?
I am hearing the news and chewing on the sound bites. Very interesting how the Ambassador worded his responses Sunday morning.
Time will tell as to how this all shakes out (pun intended). I still don't understand why there are six reactors on a major subduction site. This is globally irresponsible and now we are asking military, firefighters, and the like to go in and deal with "what ever."
I don't appreciate the carefully phrased words. I don't appreciate the position that these poor Japanese townspeople have been put in. If we know that a large quake can happen every 100 years - what? - does that make it OK to build nukes there?
Unfortunately, the voters put the wrong team in place. The Gov Scott, Attorney Gen Biondi, Sen DLP, Reps Bileca and Artillies, and best of all, commissioner Bell will find a reason to continue the mission of jobs at all costs, the excuse to strip those pesky regulations from fun loving and job creating FPL and get those new nuke jobs in place. Bell, in particular, has been a cheerleader for FPL.
These public figures will not learn from the Japanese disaster as they are not self-thinkers, they are place holding shills that will continue to move forward to place us at risk, in sustainability and even at risk of public health because that is where the short term dollars are to be found.
Soon those glowing reports from FPL in-house safety experts will actually glow!
I am sure that the pill-popping Rush Limbaugh can tell us how the disaster in Japan is not a warning not to reduce environmental or safety regulations, but is a G-D sent punishment to an entire country for something that makes sense only to those with less than a 9th grade education.
NRC/MMS: same problem, different industry, but hey - let's wait for an accident in South Florida to learn lessons we can take forward.
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