…the name for slow leakage of nuclear radiation?  Since China Syndrome means a core meltdown (to China)…we have to come up with some name for slow leakage of nuclear radiation….that does as much damage (or dread the thought *more damage*)…

How about Radiation Mist Syndrome?  The radiation slowly flows in the air, over the land– making people ill but not dead.  See, the public only gets concerned when people start dying, but if it’s not that dramatic, then…apathetic shrugs.

This article states the ratepayers paid $671 million for this boondoggle.  Couldn’t they have foreseen that tubes rubbing together would cause a problem?  It’s probably a bit simplistic, but it would seem that friction would be the first lesson these scientists would be aware of? And why are these plants allowed such long licenses?  Shouldn’t they have to be renewed every five years or so?  But, no, we couldn’t have that–they might actually find something wrong with them after spending millions to build them…

Good God, the end of the article, they say these were built during the Reagan years…yeah, I’d been shutting those babies down.