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2006-06-06 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Anon1 2006-06-06 00:10|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why do they want to build it there instead of somewhere safer?

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-06 01:40|| 2006-06-06 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 An accident at the proposed nuclear plant on Java would take just days to reach Darwin.

I wouldn't trust the Indons to run a sweet (lolly/candy) shop properly, but Hamilton is just making alarmist stuff up with the above. There's this thing called the Intertropical Covergence Zone that continually draws air into the tropics. Radiation might reach Oz in months through the upper atmosphere, but it won't be here in days.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-06-06 04:28|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-06-06 04:28|| Front Page Top

#3 It's difficult to see how anything short of a truly massive eruption would result in radioactive release, and were such an eruption to occur, the additional radioactivity for the plants uranium would be a tiny fraction of the radioactivity of the magma.

Everywhere has earthquakes. The biggest recorded earthquake in the continental USA was in Missouri and there are several nuclear power stations in the region.

BTW, Anon1 I agree with your sentiments moreorless but the word 'dirty' doesn't have the same meaning of dishonest and deceitful to an American, who would view the word simply as a racist pejorative.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-06-06 04:48|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-06-06 04:48|| Front Page Top

#4 anon1, you need to find another phrase that better conveys your meaning. How about "dirty Islamofascists"?

Your point that the threat isn't confined to the middle east is a good one - and one that regular Rantburgers understand full well.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-06 08:09|| 2006-06-06 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I bring to your attention the Islamofascist war does not just exist in the Middle East but also in Africa and South East Asia.

Thank you very much for stating that as most if not all Americans are ignorant of this FACT.

Posted by bk 2006-06-06 09:42|| 2006-06-06 09:42|| Front Page Top

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