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[doeton]

. Sure, there is a 1 in 100 chance a plant may have a problem large enough to cause some leakage (probably less with the newer technology still coming) but with only a few plants the chances of it occurring in your neighborhood are even less.

are you really this stupid?

it's only a problem if the leak occurs near your neighborhood?

 

[nukeman]

. Sure, there is a 1 in 100 chance a plant may have a problem large enough to cause some leakage (probably less with the newer technology still coming) but with only a few plants the chances of it occurring in your neighborhood are even less.

are you really this stupid?

it's only a problem if the leak occurs near your neighborhood?

Tell ya what why don't you go and measure the water down stream from ANY hospital and tell me what you find. Iguarantee it is a hell of a lot worse than anything you will find from a nuclear reactor....

 

[KittenKoder]

. Sure, there is a 1 in 100 chance a plant may have a problem large enough to cause some leakage (probably less with the newer technology still coming) but with only a few plants the chances of it occurring in your neighborhood are even less.

are you really this stupid?

it's only a problem if the leak occurs near your neighborhood?

Tell ya what why don't you go and measure the water down stream from ANY hospital and tell me what you find. Iguarantee it is a hell of a lot worse than anything you will find from a nuclear reactor....

Hell ... your own grocery store has higher radiation.

 

[Old Rocks]

Much of the book focuses on the public relations issues as the NRC, White House, state and local officials, reporters, company representatives, their critics, and the public sought to determine how dangerous the accident truly was. The worst of the crisis was over by Monday, April 2, 1979, but the political consequences lasted much longer. Not surprisingly, anti-nuclear opinion soared. The presidential commission on TMI blasted the designers, owners, operators, and the NRC on training, design, management, communication, safety, licensing, and "complacent attitudes" (p. 212). Both the government and industry instituted a number of changes to remedy these defects. Walker writes that the "most serious, or at least the most visible, failure in the decade after Three Mile Island was the discovery in 1987 that plant operators and shift supervisors routinely slept while on duty" at the Peach Bottom reactor (p. 224), but concludes this section with a quote from The New York Times which supports the notion that things have changed since TMI.

In fact, there have been a number of other failures on the part of both nuclear plant operators and the NRC. (For example, in the mid-nineties, it was revealed that Connecticut's Millstone plant was illegally off-loading its entire fuel core at once. The problem was not addressed until whistle-blowers went public after being repeatedly rebuffed by the NRC.) Walker's underlying optimism leaves some unanswered questions. While Walker is mostly even-handed, his discussion of the health and environmental issues is quite limited. His summation of the medical research on TMI suggests that there has been little health impact, yet a recent Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article challenges this same research for its limitations: "Nothing exists in the literature on infant mortality, hypothyroidism in newborns, cancer in young children, or thyroid cancer, even though data for all of these were routinely collected in 1979. All of these conditions are especially sensitive to ionizing radiation."[1] In addition, the footnoting in the book is inadequate, with many paragraphs uncited.
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[Old Rocks]

Prior to Three Mile Island, we were told that this kind of accident was impossible. And after the accident, the severity of it was down played. No, there was no release of radiation. But it was a far closer thing than at first was admitted. The American Public decided that they could not trust industry with this kind of responsibility.

Today, there are designs that use Thorium, and cannot melt down, and the half lives of the resultant waste are very short. Instead of trying first or second generation designs, we should go directly to fourth and fifth generation reactors.

 

[Meister]

Prior to Three Mile Island, we were told that this kind of accident was impossible. And after the accident, the severity of it was down played. No, there was no release of radiation. But it was a far closer thing than at first was admitted. The American Public decided that they could not trust industry with this kind of responsibility.

Today, there are designs that use Thorium, and cannot melt down, and the half lives of the resultant waste are very short. Instead of trying first or second generation designs, we should go directly to fourth and fifth generation reactors.

This goes to show that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

 

[KittenKoder]

Anti-nuclear morons are not even as smart as an 11 year old:
Nuclear power compared to coal power

 

[KittenKoder]

Oh, and the envirnuts should be interested in this one:
Coal Use Rises Dramatically Despite Impacts on Climate and Health | Worldwatch Institute

 

[Sinatra]

Agree with all those who see nuclear as a quite viable alternative fuel source.

Burns clean, creates enormous amounts of power, and should be far more utilized than current levels. The anti-nuclear propoganda is so tired.

If the regulatory process can be made far more efficient, within 5-10 years nuclear could realistically be producing up to half of the energy needs for America. Natural gas, coal, and then hydro could take up the remainder of the electricity grid, leaving our own oil resources for transportation fuels. We then continue to explore viable alternatives for transportation fuels, while greatly reducing the oil imported from parts of the world who hate our guts, thus greatly reducing their income revenues and thus influence, on thier own regions.

Ah, but instead, the current political leadership in this country is wasting time chasing proverbial windmills...