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December 8th, 2008

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Guess Who’s Building Nuclear Power Plants

Stumbled upon this old ad while reading about Iran’s nuclear program on wikipedia. As far as amusement and irony goes, this deserves a special award.

Good to know oil was also running out in the 70s and that 30 year safety record is pretty comforting too.

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Just An Australian
December 8, 2008
12:13 pm
Oil has always been running out. It will one day. But Peak Oil will come first. And to all those who tell me that we'll find a new evergy supply, when was the last one found? It's a matter of definition when nuclear power was found - I nominate rutherford during WW1.

As for safety - it's relative. Risk of accident is low, price of accident is frightfully scary. How does one decide?
Curzon
December 8, 2008
12:47 pm
Great find. Not sur if its ironic, but it sure shows how much things change and how much things stay the same -- perhaps that could be deemed ironic. As for our future energy sources, I have a post on that topic to be out very shortly. Answer in short: coal.
tdaxp » Blog Archive » About “Peak Oil”
December 8, 2008
2:21 pm
[...] that provided some of the links for this post, and to Coming Anarchy for a hilarious ad noting how oil has been running out for 30 years. « Review of “CJ7″ by Stephen [...]
Edgewise
December 8, 2008
4:27 pm
Doesn't this have anyone recalling the Paul Erdman novel, "The Crash of '79"?

From the the novel's ending:

"Their conclusions were unanimous: That madman, the Shah of Iran, had inexplicably used cobalt as the contamination agent in the six nuclear bombs which had exploded in the Middle East. Cobalt has one of the longest half-lives of any substance known to man. The oil fields of Saudi Arabia, of Kuwait, of Iran, would remain totally inaccessible for at least twenty-five years. The Arabs were through as a world power - and as a threat to Israel. Of course, the Western industrial powers were through too. For the world was now forced to live with a bank system that lay in ruins, with monetary chaos, and with the prospect of having to survive on half its former oil reserves. The lights, everywhere, gradually began to flicker and fade.

The Crash of '79 was complete."

http://www.allreaders.com/topics/info_30587.asp

http://www.amazon.com/Crash-79-Paul-E-Erdman/dp/0671812491

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/e/paul-e-erdman/crash-of-79.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdman