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[NNadir]

I am very clear in stating that every single anti-nuke I encounter relies wholly and totally on ignorance to make his, her, or it's case.

For a long time, entrenched and agressively promoted nuclear ignorance has been causing great damage to the future prospects of humanity. In part this is a result of the difficulty associated with understanding nuclear science - 100% of nuclear energy's critics that I encounter are lazy little bourgeois brats who have never bothered to open a science book in their pathetic lives.

But look, the future will not belong to these old tired dogmatic farts - if there is to be a future - and that's why I'm pleased to see an entire symposium at the upcoming American Chemical Society meeting in Washington D.C. to nuclear education.

http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/238nm/techprogram/

The program:

Sponsored by: NUCL
Cosponsored by: CHED
Organizer: Jeff C. Bryan
1:30 PM 161 Academic and national laboratory collaborations for teaching nuclear materials chemistry
Peter K. Dorhout
2:00 PM 162 Introducing nuclear chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Jeff C. Bryan
2:30 PM 163 Teaching nuclear chemistry: A unique adventure in chemical education — trying to build an island of stability
Donald R. Neu
3:00 PM 164 Uranium to electricity: The chemistry of the nuclear fuel cycle
Frank Settle
3:30 PM Intermission

3:50 PM 165 Teaching nuclear chemistry at Washington University
Demetrios G. Sarantites
4:20 PM 166 Radiochemical experiments using exempt quantities of radioisotopes
Dale D. Ensor
4:50 PM 167 Nuclear chemistry education at SUNY Albany
Thomas M Semkow

There will also be sections on fuel cycles, and graduate seminars, including one that really looks cool on radiolytic conversion in the a solid/liquid phase matrix of insoluble silver oxide into even more insoluble silver iodide under radiolytic conditions.

Ignorance is tough to defeat and is entrenched, but education is the best way to defeat ignorance.