ARE YOU QUALIFIED TO DISCUSS……(humor)

stranger was seated next to a little girl on the airplane when the
stranger turned to her and said, “Let’s talk. I’ve heard that flights go
quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said
to the stranger, “What would you like to talk about?”

Oh, I don’t know”, said the stranger. “How about nuclear power?”

“OK,” she said. “That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you
a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat grass, the same
stuff. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty,
and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?”

The stranger thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea,”
To which the little girl replies, “Do you really feel qualified to
discuss nuclear power when you don’t know crap?”

Very Nice!!!

Thats a keeper!

Thanks I needed that one. A Long day a work.

I enjoyed that one.

nice

So Bret, what is the answer?

Hope this helps Brent, you might want to read it slowly

Nuclear power plants provide about 17 percent of the world’s electricity. Some countries depend more on nuclear power for electricity than others. In France, for instance, about 75 percent of the electricity is generated from nuclear power, according to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). In the United States, nuclear power supplies about 15 percent of the electricity overall, but some states get more power from nuclear plants than others. There are more than 400 nuclear power plants around the world, with more than 100 in the United States.
Uranium is a fairly common element on Earth, incorporated into the planet during the planet’s formation. Uranium is originally formed in stars. Old stars exploded, and the dust from these shattered stars aggregated together to form our planet. Uranium-238 (U-238) has an extremely long half-life .5 billion years), and therefore is still present in fairly large quantities. U-238 makes up 99 percent of the uranium on the planet. U-235 makes up about 0.7 percent of the remaining uranium found naturally, while U-234 is even more rare and is formed by the decay of U-238. (Uranium-238 goes through many stages or alpha and beta decay to form a stable isotope of lead, and U-234 is one link in that chain.)

Uranium-235 has an interesting property that makes it useful for both nuclear power production and for nuclear bomb production. U-235 decays naturally, just as U-238 does, by alpha radiation. U-235 also undergoes spontaneous fission a small percentage of the time. However, U-235 is one of the few materials that can undergo induced fission. If a free neutron runs into a U-235 nucleus, the nucleus will absorb the neutron without hesitation, become unstable and split immediately.
Nuclear radiation can be both extremely beneficial and extremely dangerous. It just depends on how you use it. Nuclear materials (that is, substances that emit nuclear radiation) are fairly common and have found their way into our normal vocabularies in many different ways. You have probably heard (and used) many of the following terms:
• Uranium
• Plutonium
• Alpha rays
• Beta rays
• Gamma rays
• X-rays
• Cosmic rays
• Radiation
• Nuclear power
• Nuclear bombs
• Nuclear waste
• Nuclear fallout
• Nuclear fission
• Neutron bombs
• Half-life
• Radon gas
• Ionization smoke detectors
• Carbon-14 dating
All of these terms are related by the fact that they all have something to do with nuclear elements, either natural or man-made.

I’m more interested in the crappy answer

Too many big words for me.

I found it rather interesting,

damn it, I should have paid attention that day in class.

Now that Bret spilled the beans, the government now has to come and shoot all of us who read his post for knowing too much!!!