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Freedom for Fission
skyman8081:
This is the thread for friends of Nuclear Power to fight the forces of mass hysteria against nuclear power.
San Onofre will NOT explode in a Hiroshima style mushroom cloud. Coal Plants release more radiation than a fission plant. And the US Capitol building is far more radioactive than any Nuclear Plant is ever allowed to be.
Nuclear Power, is the safest, most economical, and most efficient power source that is currently available.
worker201:
As a guy who used to live next to a Superfund cleanup site, I have to say "whatever".
Radiation is one thing. Strontium-90 that seeps into the groundwater and causes fish to grow extra heads is another. And there is nothing anyone can do to prevent toxic leakage. It can be minimized, but not prevented.
And what do you plan to do with all the leftover shit? "Rocket it to the moon, dude". Uh, no.
Nuclear power does have its advantages, but its faults cannot be ignored.
skyman8081:
Correct, but they shouldn't be overstated.
You're right that rocketing it to the moon is a bad idea. That's what Yucca Mountain is for.
And in the future, rocket it into the Sun.
You are right that Strontium-90 seepage is a problem, but one that can be solved.
piratePenguin:
I've got a better solution: use the strontium-90 to get high.
worker201:
I think if you're going to have nuclear power, you have to do it right. Consider France for example. They've been using nuclear power for a long time, and haven't had an accident yet - plus, people trust the nuclear plants as totally safe. One reason for this is the standardization. All the plants in France are based on a singular model, which has been approved as 100% safe by the government atomic agency. Contrast this to the US, where every power plant is designed by some individual corporation, with very little government oversight. Standardization would be like socialism to these cats. Since the French method works so well, I think that any place considering nuclear power ought to study how they did it.
Yucca Mtn - I can't wait until there is a 1,044-car pileup on the interstate, caused by a drunk driver and a toxic waste transport truck. That will sell you on Yucca Mtn.
FYI, the disaster at 3-mile Island was caused by a burned-out indicator bulb. One of the selling points of coal is that the county doesn't blow up if an indicator light burns out.
The disaster at Chernobyl was human error. And we get plenty of that in the US.
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