Reminder: John Holdren: "The most important environmental liability of nuclear fission is..."

[PamW]

4. Can you say HYPOCRISY???

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Holdren's statement is certainly out of step with his boss's policies.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Questioning-Obama-s-nuclear-agenda-3329783.php

While most federal agencies are being placed on an austerity diet, the Obama administration's 2013 budget for nuclear weapons activities is more than last year's appropriation and 20 percent higher than President Reagan's largest nuclear weapons budget at the height of the Cold War, adjusted for inflation. If fully funded, Obama's budget will be the biggest nuclear weapons budget in our nation's history.

Actually, the Obama Administration is being smart. While the Obama Administration provides the needed funding for the USA's strategic nuclear deterrent; you have your science adviser throw out little trite remarks like the one quoted in the original post in order to keep the anti-nuclear base happy.

Some people are so easily pleased / placated, by just a statement from a subordinate official.

PamW