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Originally posted by Rekrul
technically they are fighting for humanity. Schools and our health system are complete mockeries. hospitals abusing the Hippocratic oath by needlessly not curing people just to get more money from them, and the schools. the schools! children should not be harmed but we are destroying their minds and making them as stupid as we all are now. all they do is tell the children lies anyway. i say down with the schools and the hospitals. we can always rebuild to make them better.
Originally posted by jimmyx
c'mon...this is a stretch even for the minds of the knuckle-dragging, slopped-headed, low-IQ'ers...the logistics alone would disqualify this from reality.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
But yeah, Al-CIAda doesn't have 160 nukes in the US. If they have, they have been supplied by China/Russia/US.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Three northeastern states sued federal regulators Tuesday for allowing nuclear power plants to store their radioactive waste at reactor sites for up to 60 years after each plant closes down.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the lawsuit was meant "to keep the pressure on the federal government to come up with a long-term solution" to the problem of nuclear waste storage.
"I am committed to forcing the feds to take the hardest look possible at the risks of long-term, on-site storage, before they allow our communities to become blighted and our families, properties, and businesses threatened by radioactive waste dumps for generations to come," Schneiderman said.
President Obama is supporting construction of more nuclear plants as a way to fight dependence on foreign oil. But funding has been cut for a proposed high-level radioactive waste facility in Nevada, with no alternative named.
"You certainly can't proceed to expand nuclear power, as the federal government is proposing, without dealing with this issue," Schneiderman said.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled in December that toxic nuclear waste could be stored in pools or dry casks at the nation's 100-plus nuclear sites for 60 years after a reactor shuts down. Until then, the limit was 30 years.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by jimmyx
c'mon...this is a stretch even for the minds of the knuckle-dragging, slopped-headed, low-IQ'ers...the logistics alone would disqualify this from reality.
not if it were a worm or a computer hack
on the cooling systems of the nuclear
storage facilities. It is theoretically
possible.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by dudly
Your source is the only remotely credible source I have found. There is no AP or Reuters. There are a couple of marketwatch blogs and survival blogs. Of course GLP is running with it.
I am thinking this isn't a threat whatsoever.
But what if by "nuclear bombs" they actually meant "dirty bombs"?
Someone not to good at English could easily confuse the two.
Just saying ...
Originally posted by Protostellar
"This is a suicide mission for us... They will be remotely detonated."
Written like a 10 year old.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
No way any organization outside of US, Russia, and China has 160 "Nuclear" bombs. The article says the letters are likely hoaxes, but even if they were real, we would be talking about dirty bombs, not nuclear bombs. 160 dirty bombs would be a huge inconvenience, and it would cause some deaths, but it would not bring down the country. Dirty bombs would kill a few people in each location, and disrupt normal lifestyles and commerce. The biggest damage would probably be economical damage!
Anyhow, I don't think there is anything to fear from this. I can say my office has received no notifications or any special instructions to take precautions, apparently the letters in Florida aren't being taken too seriously so far.
I'm thinking this is a hoax/prank, or an amateur attempt to extort some money.