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All throughout the medieval and Renaissance years, cathedral building was people's major activity that had lasting results.

I have seen a person or two propose building 100 or 1000 reactors for a complete overhaul of America's energy system. That would resemble the situation across Europe hundreds of years ago where almost everyone (mostly male) was a builder.

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Nuclear Energy saves lives, both by the energy it produces and because it is the safest source of energy. Au contraire to what Tucker Carlson said, it could be said that nuclear energy, based on the fundamental makeup of matter, is the energy source that God ordained. And, like Eve in the garden humanity encountered the question of good and evil at the dawn of nuclear energy.

I've been in my local cathedral when Dr. Fitzgerald (our organist) is playing a particularly glorious piece and I've thought, "Is this the time that the Lord has set for the rebirth of... industrial cathedrals?

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Nov 8Liked by Emmet Penney

MFBLS - love it!

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An additional Rickover Effect was his insistence that the AEC certify only the pressurized water design he put in submarines. He later relented and let them certify boiling-water designs. That excluded CANDU, and paved the way for rejection of sodium-cooled designs. Oak Ridge briefly operated the Molten Salt Test Reactor, but it also went nowhere. Thanks, Admiral.

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You can't trust people who fly-fish.

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I don't know what that was all about, lucy.

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