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Love how impactful Former President Carter has been.
by twiddling 4y ago
Love how impactful Former President Carter has been.
- ceejayoz 4y agoI hope he gets to see a year of zero cases before he goes. Quite an accomplishment.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y agoHis administration was before my time, but he always seemed like an earnest and levelheaded man.
- pkaye 4y agoHe also personally repaired a Canadian nuclear reactor in meltdown. https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-cana...
- elevaet 4y agoWow what an interesting story. It's notable that he's still alive at age 99 despite being exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation in his 20s, and a history cancer in the family.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoWoah. Repaired it, and had radioactive urine for the next six months. That's... wow. Words fail me.
- akiselev 4y agoHe spent those months navigating at night by dribbling just a little every few feet.
- buildbot 4y agoHe was also president during 3 mile island, and helped calm everyone by visiting: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nuclear-accident-at-three-mile-island https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nuclear-accident...
- landemva 4y agoCarter basically stopped the nuclear energy industry by prohibiting reprocessing of used fuel. Without disposal or reprocessing, where does it go? https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/rossin.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/read...
- Jedd 4y ago> Carter basically stopped the nuclear energy industry by prohibiting reprocessing of used fuel. Without disposal or reprocessing, where does it go? This seems like a stretch. From the article you linked: Ford initiated the policy a year before Carter signed the EO. While I'm sure some other countries adopted the position due to political pressure from the USA, it doesn't explain why the fission nuclear energy industry everywhere has failed to excel. The PBS article, written two decades ago, describes an event that's now ~45 years in our past -- but it's not clear why that policy hasn't since been upturned, or what / who is responsible for its continuation (other than the tritely obvious answer 'every USA administration since then').
- barry-cotter 4y ago> it doesn't explain why the fission nuclear energy industry everywhere has failed to excel. Isn’t French nuclear powering 70% of all their needs?
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoare they reprocessing spent fuel? That seemed to be the crux of the parent comment.
- Xylakant 4y agoThey have nearly half of the worlds reprocessing capacity in their plant in La Hague https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoIn some iraqui oasis, people forget about president bush already, but the absence of this worm, will never be forgotten... Good deeds conquer the world, conquerors are just a seasonal redecoration blown away with time..
- nix23 4y ago>In some iraqui oasis, people forget about president bush already Sure they don't forgot the 275'000 death's?
- qikInNdOutReply 4y ago4,424 soldiers died.. thats one american being worth 62 iraquis. One village killed for every soldier lost. They were not this draconion in the medieval ages. What a disgusting evil, murderous & godless monstrosity of an empire. Compare that to military civilian death rates in world war 2, with 25 million military deaths and 55 million civilian deaths. If were not for those alibi deaths, we would call it a mass execution.
- nix23 4y agoWell yes you are totally right...and that's what i try to say (that the people for sure not forgot bush's actions).
- andrewstuart 4y agoI had thought Bill and Melinda Gates played a significant role in this.