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When they interviewed him for the New Yorker, I was posting on Facebook criticizing him about how his favorite person was Hyman Rickover, and lo and behold he w
by selimthegrim 3y ago
When they interviewed him for the New Yorker, I was posting on Facebook criticizing him about how his favorite person was Hyman Rickover, and lo and behold he was mutual friends with a college friend of mine, and added his two cents on the comment thread complaining about the characterization in the article. I reminded him that his best buddy Rickover who made plenty of enemies in his own right thought in the end that nuclear power didn’t belong outside the military for (among other reasons) precisely because of what happened at Shoreham to the backup turbine generators as documented by Greg Palast.
- bmer 3y agoWhat's this about Rickover and Shoreham? Wikipedia doesn't say much, and at least nothing in connection to Rickover? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast#Energy_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast#Energy_companies
- selimthegrim 3y agoShoreham was cancelled ostensibly due to evacuation fears, in reality the locals knew what sort of graft, corner-cutting and union crap was going on in the construction. Palast helped leak the test results of the backup generators (sorry if I said turbines). My point is that sort of shit is why Rickover thought civilian nuclear power was an oxymoron.