http://reignofterroir.com/2008/07/28/radiation-leak-in-the-rhone/ Wine Blog Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:57:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://reignofterroir.com/2008/07/28/radiation-leak-in-the-rhone/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Administrator Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:59:30 +0000 http://reignofterroir.com/2008/07/28/radiation-leak-in-the-rhone/#comment-366 Excellent comment, Morton. Excellent comment, Morton.

]]> http://reignofterroir.com/2008/07/28/radiation-leak-in-the-rhone/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Morton Leslie Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:28:31 +0000 http://reignofterroir.com/2008/07/28/radiation-leak-in-the-rhone/#comment-363 Will drinking and collecting Rhone wine post 2007 require a geiger counter? We should be equally concerned about the fact that the operator of these facilities, Areva, has hired Spencer Abraham, retired energy secretary from the Bush Administration, as chairman of Areva's U.S. unit. Thanks to the revolving door expect to see some nice govt. subsidies going to Areva for nuclear power in the U.S. Given the Rhone now has radioactive waste in it, leakage has occurred into ground water around the plant... not to mention Three Mile Island and 90,000 contaminated square miles in Russia with 1/3 of a million people displaced 20 years ago, you would think we would just rule this out of our energy future. Problems are rare, but there is no such thing as "cleanup" afterwards. Will drinking and collecting Rhone wine post 2007 require a geiger counter? We should be equally concerned about the fact that the operator of these facilities, Areva, has hired Spencer Abraham, retired energy secretary from the Bush Administration, as chairman of Areva’s U.S. unit. Thanks to the revolving door expect to see some nice govt. subsidies going to Areva for nuclear power in the U.S. Given the Rhone now has radioactive waste in it, leakage has occurred into ground water around the plant… not to mention Three Mile Island and 90,000 contaminated square miles in Russia with 1/3 of a million people displaced 20 years ago, you would think we would just rule this out of our energy future. Problems are rare, but there is no such thing as “cleanup” afterwards.

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