The Perfect Plate for the Nuclear Family Car 223
In what must be a dream come true for some, Nevada has approved a License Plate commemorating the Test Site and the connections Nevada enjoys with Nuclear weapons in the United States. The Associated Press article on the subject notes that a lot of people are up in arms about the new design, as Nevada is embroiled in controversy over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility. The license features an atom. a mushroom cloud as the background and the equation E=mc2 on the plate.
I was unable to find a picture of the plate on the web (I saw it in my morning paper). I'm sure a picture must be on the web somewhere. I'll leave it to slashdotters to suggest the best personalized lettering for the plate. My entry: DUKNCVR?
Here's a photo (Score:5, Informative)
Other Nevada Plates (Score:5, Informative)
http://nevadadmv.state.nv.us/platesmain.htm [state.nv.us]
Someone else posted the new nuke one:
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/26/atomi
Reno Gazette story w/pic (Score:4, Informative)
Mushroom cloud license plate to be tested [rgj.com]
It's not even so much the storage... (Score:4, Informative)
The current proposals to move said waste involve using barges across many waterways including the Great Lakes [lasvegassun.com].
Not only that, but a new transportation would be starting every four hours [ananuclear.org], using trucks that haven't even finished the design stage yet, designed each to move at only an average of 20-30 miles an hour, carrying 75 or 125 tons at a time [state.nv.us]
Not that storing the material in one central area isn't a good idea - but moving it in this manner may be more dangerous than anything we've ever encountered with nuclear material - especially the responsibility is handed over to the private sector.
Ryan Fenton
Re:Nevada can't change its past (Score:3, Informative)
Re:DUKNCVR (Score:3, Informative)
DUcK aNd CoVeR. As in look at the pretty light, I'd better duck and cover because that will protect me from the car thats about to fly into me when it starts to get windy.
Re:Nevada can't change its past (Score:2, Informative)
In Nevada's past nuclear testing happened. It led to a Nuclear weapon that helped put an end to WWII
The Trinity Test [fas.org] was performed at Trinity Site, New Mexico. Nevada had nothing to do with it.
(And, incidentally, the type of bomb dropped on Hiroshima was not tested before being used since it was of the simpler Uranium 235 gun type. The Trinity Test involved the Plutonium 239 implosion type which was the same as the type dropped three days after Hiroshima on Nagasaki.)
-nukebuddy