Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity
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Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity
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#2While the safest, the waste will be with the Earth for a long time to come. Longer than any corporation will be around, or government agency. There has to be a clear cut plan to deal with the waste of nuclear power that accounts for it's life span, and possible natural disasters. Currently all waste is stored at the power plants and the only current plan is to encase the waste in concrete. But where to go with that concrete? How to label the concrete to make sure future generations know that it is dangerous? How to ensure constant security and safety of the waste? We cannot move forward with nuclear energy until the problem of its waste is dealt with.
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#3Great.
I can't drink milk, had to avoid water for a day or two, having problem finding relatively uncontaminated meat, 20 km or so of this country is probably going to be left unlivable and so on.
I find it incredibly offensive to see the Americans on this board downplaying the damage from Fukushima. Mod me down all you want. I will be happy to pay attention when someone purchases land at a fair price near Fukushima #2 and raises his children there.
Until then, you are handwaving for industry or for some vision of "environmentally friendly power". Put money on the table, or frankly, your opinion is worthless.
We need nuclear power. Unfortunately, the culture of misinformation and understating danger around nuclear power means it is going to be impossible for it to supply the majority of our power. What this means in terms of loss of quality of life is not lost on me.
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#4While the safest, the waste will be with the Earth for a long time to come. Longer than any corporation will be around, or government agency. There has to be a clear cut plan to deal with the waste of nuclear power that accounts for it's life span, and possible natural disasters. Currently all waste is stored at the power plants and the only current plan is to encase the waste in concrete. But where to go with that c…
That consideration is the biggest.
Nuclear power is safe, intrinsically. Nuclear waste is devastation waiting to happen (if not now, in the future).
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#5While the safest, the waste will be with the Earth for a long time to come. Longer than any corporation will be around, or government agency. There has to be a clear cut plan to deal with the waste of nuclear power that accounts for it's life span, and possible natural disasters. Currently all waste is stored at the power plants and the only current plan is to encase the waste in concrete. But where to go with that c…
That consideration is the biggest. Nuclear power is safe, intrinsically. Nuclear waste is devastation waiting to happen (if not now, in the future).
It's a bit much to say that a system that requires multiple elaborate systems of safeguards is "intrinsically" safe.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
That consideration is the biggest. Nuclear power is safe, intrinsically. Nuclear waste is devastation waiting to happen (if not now, in the future).
It's a bit much to say that a system that requires multiple elaborate systems of safeguards is "intrinsically" safe.
"Intrinsically safer" was probably the better term.
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#7While the safest, the waste will be with the Earth for a long time to come. Longer than any corporation will be around, or government agency. There has to be a clear cut plan to deal with the waste of nuclear power that accounts for it's life span, and possible natural disasters. Currently all waste is stored at the power plants and the only current plan is to encase the waste in concrete. But where to go with that c…
The current storage facilities for nuclear waste proposed or otherwise are quite unreal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_re...
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#8Great. I can't drink milk, had to avoid water for a day or two, having problem finding relatively uncontaminated meat, 20 km or so of this country is probably going to be left unlivable and so on. I find it incredibly offensive to see the Americans on this board downplaying the damage from Fukushima. Mod me down all you want. I will be happy to pay attention when someone purchases land at a fair price near Fukushima…
Nuclear power is cleaner than coal or oil.
We just need to build stronger and safer reactors.
Personally I'm glad OP posted this article. Fukushima was tragic, but it didn't give everyone the right to abandon rational thought.
I used to work for a state pirg banging on doors to complain about nuclear power. Spreading fear by barking "3 mile island, chernobyl" etc. Then one day I knocked on the door of a nuclear physicist and he explained to me why I was wrong.
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#9Seth Godin made the same point last week--with a neat graphic:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-...
(He got his image from here: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/visuali...)
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#10While the safest, the waste will be with the Earth for a long time to come. Longer than any corporation will be around, or government agency. There has to be a clear cut plan to deal with the waste of nuclear power that accounts for it's life span, and possible natural disasters. Currently all waste is stored at the power plants and the only current plan is to encase the waste in concrete. But where to go with that c…
that waste can be burned in another types of reactors. Unfortunately, because of extremely high entry barrier, there isn't much chances for these or some other new types of reactors to be developed and put into production. Ie. we stuck with almost 60 year old technology [pretty much the first generation with some slight modifications] of nuclear energy production.