Arkadyevitchizing America since 2006
By the time you panic, it is way too late -- Lee Raymond, New York Times, July 6, 2008
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who are hungry and not fed; from those who are cold and not clothed. This world-in-arms is not spending money alone; it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Dwight D Eisenhower, 11/16/53
Monday, August 27, 2007
Radioactive Nickel
So, reading the comics today. The Boondocks brings up news no one else does, which is why it's on my reading list. Apparently, the Department of Energy has decided to release hundreds of thousands of tons of surface-contaminated copper and steel from the Oak Ridge, TN uranium enrichment plant. The nickel project was resurrected -- seriously, this is the plan?
Now, with all deference to fears and frets, perhaps these are exaggerated? Should we care? How high is the likely radioactive exposure compared to background levels? Hell, I'm radioactively decaying as I write.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks for alerting us to the reintroduction of boondocks. I will be sure to write my local paper to ask for it back.
Sorry! That's from January 24th of 2006. Aaron McGruder has not returned. It's not clear where he is. There's some noise that this fall will see new episodes of the television show, but I think that's still just a rumor.
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