The chilling thing is that I was attending a national conference of legislators in Chicago last week and the Nuclear Energy lobbyists had a booth there. Not surprising in itself but they had no flyer even acknowledging the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Nor was there any informational indicating the the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository was placed on hold by the Obama Administration.

There were "lessons learned" fromThree Mile Island and Chernobyl but nothing newer than 2010 and the people staffing the booth had nothing to say about Fukushima; maybe it didn't happen after all...

So I got a couple of sample nuclear fuel pellets to carry away for show and tell. Anyone want some?

Charley Noble, back in Maine