YES! They learned how to keep ignoring the major risks.
24%
NO! Despite the risks they're still pushing for more nuclear plants.
76%
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
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Nuclear energy does supply the US with 9% of its energy. in Japan it is 13%. The problem in Japan was mostly because of tsunami, but a fair warning of nuclear disaster would be Chernobyl. That happened back in 1986 and since then world wide consumption has quadrupled. Based on these facts, I don't see the recent events in Japan to reduce our use of nuclear energy, but I am sure more safety precautions will be put into place. Interestingly enough our Congress just pulled an all nighter on climaate change, which I would infer to mean the reduction of oil, coal and natural gas as energy sources. Since these sources make up 85% of our energy expenditure and nuclear is next in line at 9%, it seems the emphasis will be on increasing nuclear, along with the the other minute sources like hydro and solar which combined are only 5%. The good news, based on Thom's teachings, is that the government is finally looking at climate change in a serious way.