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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (113282)	5/3/2008 11:55:25 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hey, if we kill everyone in Belize now, they will never be able to retaliate. <G> I seem to remember long lines for gasoline when Tricky Dick was President. But I guess the Republicrooks are now giving Jimmy responsibility for 1973. Why not? Their boy had to resign in disgrace. We could use safe nuclear power plants. We should ask the French to build them, as safety is not our thing. But they won't stop the energy crisis, they will only slow the disaster a bit.

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (113282)	5/3/2008 12:53:32 PM
From: bruiser98	Respond to of 132070

I had thought Jimmy Carter had killed the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project and reprocessing of nuclear fuel. He tried but failed. Strange that in my mind and that of your rocket scientist friend Carter gets the credit. en.wikipedia.org Ford issued a presidential directive banning recycling of plutonium, Carter affirmed, Reagan rejected. In October 1976, fear of nuclear weapons proliferation (especially after India demonstrated nuclear weapons capabilities using reprocessing technology) led President Gerald Ford to issue a Presidential directive to indefinitely suspend the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium in the U.S. This was confirmed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. After that, only countries that already had large investments in reprocessing infrastructure continued to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. President Reagan lifted the ban in 1981, but did not provide the substantial subsidy that would have been necessary to start up commercial reprocessing. en.wikipedia.org