Sioux Falls’ Nuclear Experiment  Posted: Saturday, March 19,
2011 at 4:41 pm By: Doug Lund Comment | Trackback Bookmark and
Share   I suppose I’m just going to have to give in and jump on
the wind generator bandwagon as an alternative energy source now
that the disaster in Japan has soured public opinion on Nuclear
energy even more.  Steve Hemmingsen, who lives in the shadow of
a gazillion of those unsightly(my opinion) electric generating
whirligigs spinning away on every southwest Minnesota hillside,
recently reminded me about how Sioux Falls was once a real
pioneer in the development of nuclear power; a “Pathfinder” in
both name and mission.  Back in the 50’s and 60’s about all we
knew of atomic power was the fact that Russia and the United
States had a bunch of intercontinental ballistic
missiles pointed at one another promising mutual annihilation if
either side got too pushy.  atomic plant oneBut there were
others at the same time trying to downplay the bombs and tout
the POSITIVE side of nuclear energy