Richard Knabel
Will the NRC ever close Pilgrim? The apparent answer to that overarching question, despite the endless stream of disturbing news, is no.
Having lived for 35 years downwind of the Indian Point (IP) nuclear station on the shores of the Hudson River in New York, and teaching physical science at a college nearby, our proximity to Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has alarmed me, especially since the Fukushima catastrophe three years ago.
Friendship! Mysterious Cement of the soul! Sweetener of life! And Solder of society! Robert Blair, 1699-1746
I was 23, a senior at CCNY in New York city, on that Friday — again this year the date falls on a Friday — and had come home to our apartment after my morning classes for a quick lunch. The television was on in the background as I made myself a sandwich.
Last week’s Gazette editorial eloquently recognizing the one-sided results of the ballot questions on the roundabout was a welcome coda to this ongoing and vexing issue.
In my eighth decade of life, it is astound ing to read and hear day by day that, with the exception of Jon Huntsman, the entire field of self-proclaimed Republican candidates for President in 2012, led by Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann, do not accept evolution as a natural biological mechanism. Neither do they recognize manmade global climate change as real, which is arguably far more important. One has cause to wonder when they will deny the existence of gravity, electromagnetism, the spherical shape of the planet, or the heliocentric structure of the solar system.