Hysteria in the American liberal media in it's hopes that Japan has a nuclear holocaust seems misplaced when Walter Cronkite and Andy Rooney couldn't give a puff of smoke care about the American guinea pigs in those future Reagan Blue States who were offered up like Hiroshima.
Pathfinder is a name I would wager Rush Limbaugh has no inkling of no more than B. Hussein Obama, but Pathfinder was a nuclear experiment in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, performed on South Dakotans which would provide the information for GE's Japanese nuclear power reactors.
There were only 6 boiling water reactors built in America in it's advent of the nuclear power age. Dresden 1 of Morris Illinois of Commonwealth Edison, aka the Bill Ayers family, would be the first in 1960. Following Big Rock Point of Michigan, Humbolt Bay 3 of California, Bonus in Puerto Rico and finishing off in LaCrosse in Wisconsin in 1969, would be this experimental set of breeding reactors, as experiments on the Enrico Fermi original 1942 reactor at Stagg Field.
Pathfinder though was unique in experiment as the farm tractor builder, Allis Chalmers, was the manufacturer of the superheater, which had major problems.
Is that not something, you always love to hear about a new nuclear power station in "major problems" were taking place?
Pathfinder only operated at it's first 60 MegaWatt strength for thirty minutes. It was converted to burn natural gas thereafter.
But the point in this was that it was Northern States Power, a Minnesota firm, which with investors put together this "proof of concept plan" unleashed on literally South Dakotans, Iowans and Nebraskans.
The reason I point this out is this is typical of the cannibal nature of Minnesota Al Franken liberals. This group operates coal burning plants in the Dakotas for Minnesota power. In other words, Dakota children can suck coal smoke, but Minnesotan elites can just use electricity in clean air.
Imagine this taking place today in one state's elites building a dangerous, unproven nuclear reactor in another state, just to see if it would work or blow up.
The Minnesotans would learn from their experiment and build Prairie Island and Montecello inside Minnesota after their nuclear experiments were complete.
These original 13 plants, some of them were light water breeders like Shippingport in Pennsylvania and Hanford in the Light Water Cooled Graphite Reactor have all past the test of time in their last doors closed in 1991 in Yankee Rowe in Massachusetts.
They though were the original tier of American nuclear experiments which created the GE designs which the west constructed, and while the Russian reactors brought about Chernobyl, it took a 9.0 earthquake and tidal wave to rock the Japanese reactors built on the American Guinea Pig experiments conducted in part by the Dr. Menglesotans.
South Dakotans are just too trusting and it why they spawn McGovern, Daschle, Johnson and Herseth Sandlin, and still are experimental material for the national socialists of Minnesota. These Dakotans are in the process of selling their health for the Gorilla Project, a massive oil refinery to steal their water and to give cancer and birth defects to their children.
Odd how Hiroshima is a rally cry for Martin Sheen in being anti nuclear like B. Hussein Obama, but the same Obama backers drool over a Japanese nuclear holocaust.........and no one seems to realize the crimes committed all across America when some South Dakotans had no idea their largest city was a nuclear experiment that if it had gone wrong would have given Chernobyl to Nebraska and Iowa in fall out.
Maybe the Japanese should consider converting their nuclear power to a form of solar microwaves, collected in geosync satellites in mirrors like a cold laser which would only heat up the reactor to produce the steam to produce the electricity.
Reagan America was offered up as nuclear hostages to the Soviets and nuclear experiments without one word about crimes against humanity for national security experiments.
I hope Japan has a better deal and outcome.
agtG