Elle Magazine (fashion) lists nuclear energy as a 2006 "cool, new thing"

[NNadir]

If you had any idea of how ugly and boorish I actually am, you would know that I don't read fashion magazines.

Still I found this bit really, really amusing:

When fashion magazine Elle lists nuclear energy among its top ten "cool, new things" for 2006, you know public opinion is shifting. Scott Peterson, Vice-President of Communications at the Nuclear Energy Institute, told an industry conference in Vienna that rising energy prices had triggered a more popular and positive view of nuclear power...

...According to Mr. Peterson in the United States at least, support appears to be growing for an industry long haunted by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident. A survey conducted last year by the Nuclear Energy Institute found that 70% of the 1000 American´s surveyed were in favour of nuclear energy. Two thirds of those surveyed said that they would find it acceptable if a new reactor was built at an existing site.

In a separate survey, the Institute asked over 1000 people living within a 10-mile radius of 64 nuclear power stations how they felt. Over 8o% were in favour of nuclear energy. While seventy-six percent of residents said it would be acceptable to add a new reactor to an existing site.

"The poll´s results show that support for new nuclear plants is strong among those residents who live near nuclear plants. This bodes well for the prospect of new plant construction, particularly for those companies considering adding new reactors at existing nuclear plant sites," Mr Peterson said.

As consumers are hit by escalating oil and gas costs they are taking a renewed look at nuclear energy, Mr. Peterson said. Other driving factors include: energy supply and demand; geopolitical consequences; climate change and clean air...

http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/News/2006/pime.html

Oh, and sorry girls, but nuclear power is not "new" for 2006.

[Ecumenist]

1. Peroxide poisoning....

pitiful...

[central scrutinizer]

2. skin sloughing off from radiation poisoning

new fashion trend - will soon replace tattoos and piercings

[NNadir]

3. I was wondering what that was. I see it all the time, radiation

poisoning and sloughing skin. It's very common. Almost everyone has it.

Do you see a lot of these cases?

Much worse than air pollution, that.

[Dead_Parrot]

13. Happens to me every summer...

Damn solar power...

[NNadir]

15. It is radiation, you know.

I have always found it curious how people lay on the beach hoping to get radiation burns. Somehow I find it aesthetically unsatisfying, but that's just my opinion.

Not a trace of melanoma on this babe, but wait a second, what are those little brown dots?

[Nihil]

17. Nipples?

Or were you meaning the really *little* brown dots?

:evilgrin:

[NNadir]

20. I was referring to the "freckles."

I have less prurient interests.

:toast:

This babe is just oozing with Melanoma, and I hate to speculate what those reddish blotches around her midriff are.

[jpak]

4. Shooting 78 YO men in the face and nucklear powr

are all the rage among the kool GOP grrrrls in Texas right now....

:rofl:

[htuttle]

5. "Nuclear power? That's hawt!"

Next up, Paris Hilton for Westinghouse.

[NNadir]

14. She's going to drape her sudsy body over an API-1000.

It will replace the Bentley.

[Dead_Parrot]

6. Ack!

I think I've just turned anti-nuke...

[NNadir]

8. You were easy to sway.

Please follow this link to an anorexic model: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12818708&dopt=Abstract

It might make you feel better.

[Dead_Parrot]

11. I am a fickle beast...

Don't worry, I'll lock myself up with some DEM software until I sway back... :)

[dcfirefighter]

22. Worst. Pun. Ever.

ack!

[hatrack]

7. Did they get Kate Moss on tape?

Gosh, I sure hope so!

:rofl:

[NNadir]

9. I think they got her on heroin charges. n/t

[hatrack]

10. Bah-da-BOOM!

Thank, I'll be here all week!

[Dead_Parrot]

12. lol. nt

[phantom power]

16. Tee hee hee! It's so rad!

[NNadir]

19. That Cerenkov stuff has that radiant glow.

[hatrack]

21. It's that distinctive shade of blue that you don't find on many runways!

:-)

[NNadir]

23. I agree. It's a color choice that can instantly light up a room.

A bright attention getter, bold, different, hot.

It's something of a shock, but one cannot help but to have one's eye drawn to the dyanamic charge.

[megatherium]

24. I liken the color to the blue of faded blue jeans.

It made a big impression on me when I was a freshman and toured the college TRIGA Mark 1 nuclear reactor. I actually started the non-credit course in reactor operation (which would have lead to my being licensed to operate it) but I didn't have time to continue with it.

[megatherium]

18. Gotta get the ad agency that did the GE "working in a coal mine"

campaign.