Should we bring the nuclear age back into the U.S.?

I read " Approval Is Sought to Build Two Reactors in Texas" by Matthew L. Wald. I read htis in the New York Times/U.S./Washington. It is about an energy company called NGR Energy. They asked the Nuclear RegulatoryCommision to build two new reactors in Texas. The last time a new reactor since the 1970s because of the disaster on Three Mile Island. There are already 104 reactors that are working in the U. S. It says that the reason for bringing back nuclear power is because of the high demand for power and high price for natural gas. There is said to be three more companies to join in on building these plants. David Crane the chief executive said "Federal help would be important in persading investors to lend money." To prevent hazard NRG plans on building a the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor. There are reactors similar to these in Japan and are inactive for the time being because of an earthquake.

I wrote on tis article because I believe bringing back the nuclear age is a bad idea. The last time the U.S. focused on nuclear power the rest of the country was in fear of a nuclear disator or strike from the Soviet Union. How will we know what will happen when they bring back nuclear energy? Will we ignore the reactor or over react about it and try and get the plant removed. If the reactor works and saves energy cost I think it should stay but be under watchful eyes. If the reactor fails it will ruin many peoples lives and power. Everywhere in the world has some form of nuclear energy. The U.S. was the first creator of nuclear power and then The Soviet Union. If nuclear energy has been modified and controled safely then we should use what we already know well enough through experiance. Will nucler energy help or hurt the world?

What websites do we know we can trust?

" Shh! I'm Googling My Facts."I read an article on Google facts by David Warlick on two cents worth. It was about the websites displayed on Google aren't always the most trust worthy. The story in the article is a bout a kid who is looking for facts about 9/11 on Google. He came about a conspiracy theory website believing that the World Trade Centers were bombed not hit by two planes. This shows that the Internet is not the best place for the best facts and that it needs to be evaluated by the students. It is the number one complaint in the school. David Warlick said, " We have to practice what we preach, and we have to preach it out loud!" We should continue to use textbooks and reference books and databases but also we need to use evaluated and processed learning websites.



I believe this is important to the world because we all use the Internet on a daily basis at least I do. We use the Internet to look at sports and new technology. We use it for our leisure and for school work. How do we know what is wrong and what is right in the Internet when it is growing every hour? How would someone evaluate and process every website? Google has helpful information and websites but it doesn't have enough time to evaluate the information it collects or to tell the makers of the website that they are wrong especially when everyone has an opinion. They can't just deny the maker into the search engine just because they do not believe what the creator believes. I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion and can't be subjected to exclusion just because someone else doesn't believe the same thing. Can someone like the Google owners filter out something just because they don't believe that it is the truth? Would you bash someone elses beliefs and try and force yours upon them?

This article is on the personal learning networks. It was a blog created by Karl Fisch on the Fischbowl. He talks about how the networks would help teach people about the world and about what the person wanted to know. He said students would use this to create personal blogs. They would then present there blos in class. The class would then comment on that persons blog. He said there are two goals. One is to increase a students critical thinking skils, writing, reading, and presenting skills. Two is to help us students to build our own personal learning networks. He also said that students shouldn’t just be creating their networks but to become a part of other student’s networks.
Some connections I made were text to self. I saw in his blog he said he was having trouble explaing his ideas throhoughly which happens a lot to me. I found that he connected these networks to the world which would help everyone learn there own way. In a connection he talks about google and Pageflakes and Netvibes all offer feeds to make a personal learning network.

88 killed in a plane crash in Thailand

The author was Thomas Fuller. This article was about a plane that was coming into land at Phuket on Sunday. Thplane was landing as it rained and the wind was powerful. THe plane slid off the runway and crashed into a dirt mound. Many foreigners were on this plane and most were killed along with a few members of the crew. A few of the survivors said they didn't even here an explosion but when they were out of the plane they saw that it was on fire. From a video feed you could see that medical, fire, and police crews came to help the injured and to put out the fire on the plane. The plane was owned by a low-fair airline called One-Two-Go. There were 123 passengers on board. Chowalet Jitjamnong was one of the survivors who reported to TITV or Thai TV and told them about the crash.
In this article there are many connections to make. I made one text to self connection. I saw that the plane crash affected me because it showed me that nowhere is safe and we all eed to take a risk but the risks we take can help us or kill us. I made a text to text connection. This reminded e of United 93 even though the crash wasn’t cause by the same thing. I made a text to world connection. The world has the best and worst things happen to everyone the United States, Europe, and even Thailand. In these connections I saw the world makes a risk every day to try and improve the world. Sometimes these risk and helpeveryone in a country or even the world. Sometimes the risk back fires and it hurts people.