Collegiate Times

Is this english?

It's true, Number 2 has been running AREVA while I've been in a hyperbolic sleeping chamber. Now that I'm back I will mine uranium from VA, possibly exposing its population slowly to low concentrations of radiation, which over time could cause health problems...that is unless the leaders of the world will pay me ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

What a nut.

Good for Areva, bring us nuclear power and options for consumers to buy their power from different sources. Is AREVA hiring?

Why is this newspaper publishing articles by such a radical that is attacking perfectly respectable Alumni? Is there no editor to filter this crap? I contribute occasionally to the Clean Energy Insight website. I assure you that it has nothing to do with AREVA and everything to do with regular people that are knowledgable about nuclear energy bringing attention to the best possible solution we have for large scale clean energy on this earth. It is funded by the members of the website and is completely voluntary and wholly un-involved with AREVA. As a matter of fact AREVA has its own blog. Look it up on google if you want to know what they have to say. Personal attacks are the worst type of way to win an argument and a lawyer should know that.

Working for a "a multi-billion-dollar, multinational mega-corporation" is kind of like being a community organizer except that it's good for the economy and you have actual responsibilities.

Please do your research before writing on a subject in which the extent of your knowledge is inaccurate information from a google search. Remove the personal attacks and try again with an educated argument.

Consider the source? Has anyone Googled "Shireen Pansoms"? I'm pretty sure after glancing at her website personal attacks are her modus operandi. cleanenergyinsight.org seems to take a more fact based approach kudos to Eric and Carrington on the website and for catching CTs ridiculous graphic.

Hmmmmm who should I trust more....the engineers who are Hokie alums or the lawyer/community organizer of an environmental legal defense fund. Damn lawyers.

So let me get this straight, you are clearly against the new nuclear engineering program, but yet you took this perfect opportunity at explaining why it is bad for the university, and the state/country, and instead used it to bash what appear to be two well informed, educated alumns and "what motivated the authors to criticize that ingenious and appropriate graphic"? Frankly I don’t care who these guys work for, they offer some compelling facts both in their article as well as at their website, maybe you should try and take a closer look at it. Truth be told, the fact that they work in the nuclear industry is more comforting to me than not, I would expect them to know more than myself if that is their area of study and what they deal with on a regular basis. Oh, and finally, I have yet to understand what is so ingenious and appropriate about the graphic that you are so fervently defending. How about you try and explain how a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb has any true relevance in introducing the new nuclear engineering program? Oh wait, while youre busy organizing the community, maybe I’ll ask someone who might have a clue . . . maybe a couple engineers?

Ms. Parsons, You have proven yourself as a fine human being and upstanding member of the community by your letter. You have shown all that read your words that you have little to offer to the honest and factual debate of the original issue of the inappropriate use of a mushroom cloud to depict the peacful use of nuclear energy. You instead have chosen to attack two gentlemen who graduated from a fine institution which will help usher in a new era of clean, safe nuclear power through honest scientific research and debate. The letter which Mr Dillon and Mr Danner penned had nothing to do with the Coles Hill uranium site. However, you took the opportunity to attack these two gentlemen because they work for a company that happens to mine uranium in Africa and they enjoy educating people about the greatness of nuclear power through an internet blog. They simply wanted people understand that there is little connection between nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants and the propagation of this myth is what is holding us back from tapping a huge source of CO2 free domestic energy. It is the mark of a desperate person (and one of low intelligence in my opinion) who attacks the person and not the idea. In the future, please show some class and debate the topic not the people.

I wanted to copy and paste You Mislead's comment from below, so that it doesn't get lost as more and more opinions come in regarding the waste of internet space above. "Working for a "a multi-billion-dollar, multinational mega-corporation" is kind of like being a community organizer except that it's good for the economy and you have actual responsibilities."

I appreciate the ability of Ms. Parsons to redirect the subject being discussed to promote her own political agenda (i.e. Uranium Mining in Virginia). The issue being discussed by Mr. Danner and Mr. Dillon is the common misconception of relating the peaceful use of nuclear energy to nuclear weapons, which is clearly presented by your thoughts that the picture used was both “ingenious and appropriate.” Although Ms. Parsons opened the door to being unprofessional by calling Mr. Danner and Mr. Dillon “minions” on more than one occasion, it appears that these two are clearly focused on presenting facts. It is possible that Ms. Parsons feels the need to attack these two due to the objective evaluation and fact checking that Mr. Dillon conducted on a recent piece written by Ms. Parsons that exposed its subjective content and baseless claims.

Oh and FYI Ms. Parsons, I also contribute to the cleanenergyinsight.org blog on a regular basis. I assure you that it is not part of my job description. Are you retaining this information? I do it because I believe in the technologies and the possibilities that nuclear power provides to address the growing energy and environmental needs of our society. Also, this website is not propaganda. The website aims to provide objective facts and topics relating to the nuclear energy industry that are typically overlooked or misunderstood. I’ll end with a little piece of advice. When you want us to consider a source, please make sure to provide us one.

I'm a coworker with Danner and Dillion and couldn't ask for better coworkers than these two. I can tell you that AREVA does not pay us to do cleanenergyinsight.org. There is no bonus or raise or any monetary incentive to work on the site. I can also tell you that our employment does not depend on nuclear power. Demand for energy is growing, and more power plants have to be built. Solar thermal, wind farms, fossil fuel plants, nuclear power plants, hydro plants, it matters not which type of plant gets built, thousands of engineers will be required by whichever the A/E firm is. I'm not with AREVA for lack of anywhere else to go, I work with AREVA because I enjoy it; I give respect to my coworkers and I get it back. I know about the pros and cons of fossil fuels, nuclear power, solar power, wind power, etc. I believe in nuclear power because when compared to other alternative power sources, it has by far the best environmental benefit for the buck ratio. Some people think nuclear power is just as dangerous as nuclear weapons and that's completely untrue. Ignorance is the enemy of prudent public policy-making. Caring about the environment, and the well-being of society as a whole, I contribute my personal time to writing clean energy insight articles to educate the public with the facts of nuclear power.

(As you should be aware, Virginia Uranium also wants to construct a uranium mill on its land. Read on about what medical officials in Colorado think about mills there.) September 25,2009 Board of County Commissioners 161 S. Townsend Ave. Montrose, CO 81401 Dear Sirs, I am writing to you as President of and on behalf of Curecanti Medical Society in opposition of the proposed Pinon Ridge uranium mill. Members of Curecanti Medical Society include physicians in Montrose, Telluride and Gunnison. We as physicians feel that our role is not only to help our patients when they are sick but to encourage healthy behaviors. The environment plays a tremendously important role in health. The contamination of the water and air, which is a very likely result of this milling process, will adversely impact the health of our patients. Uranium mills and mines have poor records contaminating groundwater with tailings waste. Such contamination leads to increased in rates of testicular and ovarian cancer, leukemia, childhood bone cancer, congenital defects, genetic abnormalities and learning disorders. We oppose the proposed special use permit for the Pinon Ridge uranium mill. Thank you for your consideration, Christine Gieszl, M.D. Curecanti Medical Society President

As you well know, the entire cycle of nuclear energy is far from green or clean. Oh wait, I heard VUI wants to use a fleet of Toyota Pruis as they carve out a massive open pit uranium mine near rural neighborhoods and farms. Then they can truck the ore in hybrids to the uranium mill. Oh yes, and then there's the tons of "renewable" waste rock on site that will be buried underground in "renewable" state-of-the-art liners that will never, ever breach in the hundreds of thousands of years it will have to be contained. As for the even more toxic mill tailings, maybe VT can offer to store them underground on their campus.

Oh, Shireen, you big silly. I've already debunked your last goofball news article. You'll find that the students at Virginia Tech are much less likely to be fooled by your ridiculous and shabby fear mongering and blame games.

An additional note. The rules for posting on the CT website include: 4. Lacks any sort of structure. This is often the case with “spam” comments. If comments do not make sense when read, or simply ramble on, they should be deleted. --- Therefore, why is this article even on the internet?

This article aimed at personal attack on individuals and companies using totally baseless sentences and substandard language is a clear example of dangerous misuse of freedom on the internet. It is quite unfortunate that people do it and there is no control over it. To clarify CEI's goals, here is a link posted in May: http://www.cleanenergyinsight.org/about/

It is unfortunate that Shireen Pansoms took this opportunity to educate and turn it into a personal attack on individuals, AREVA, and the nuclear industry. One need not consider the source, but read the content of Pansoms' response to know it is off-base. It appears that Pansoms would prefer to perpetuate disinformation and fear than to have meaningful conversations. tisk tisk. As others in their responses have done, I encourage all to visit the CEI website for true facts about nuclear energy. http://www.cleanenergyinsight.org

It is really a shame the CT would allow something like this to be published on their pages. Printing this piece of spam that is an obvious personal attack against two VT alums is far from productive and really just poor. I hope the CT is taking steps to apologize for this less than respectable decision.

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