Nuclear Power is safe. Fuck you if you disagree.
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I sure hope you didn't pay much for that class...! Was it on the HuffPo website as a freebie, perhaps?
Nuclear power is more popular than ever and many European countries like France have nukes supplying the vast Majority of their power. Even 2nd-world countries over there like Romania have better Nuke plants than we do here.
Why? Scaredy-assed media-slaves like the people teaching your class. It's all politics and fear-mongering.
We don't have to take this shit anymore though; for years the numbers were kinda scary, especially with the major fuckup known as chernobyl... But Now we've got plants like Terrapower Inc's waste-recycling plants, new for 2011, that actually consume the nuclear waste from other plants... Less fuel needed, no storage for waste ever again. (!!!)
The new generation of nuke plants is by far the safest, cheapest, & cleanest of ALL sources of power. -And it does in fact have the highest profit margin from an investor's standpoint, too!
Hopefully, when nobody dies from this Japanese meltdown, these stupid extremest Americans will smarten up just enough to see that no oil rig would hurt so little after being slammed with a 9.0 earthquake and withstand multiple tsunamis...
Then they can start to see all the VAST advantages to Nuclear that they won't listen to now.
I had question on the test:
what's the most dangerous radiation rays?
a) beta rays
b) alpha rays
c) some other rays
what was the right answer?
what's the most dangerous radiation rays?
a) beta rays
b) alpha rays
c) some other rays
what was the right answer?
1. Very Thick Walls.
2. SecureID badges at gates to said walls.
3. Internal drills and contingency plans.
4. As you can see, a meltdown doesn't spread shit anymore.
5. Better question is: How do we protect any of the Thousands of oil platforms from the terrorists?
Never in any nuclear physicists' wet dreams could a terrorist attack do as much damage to this country by attacking a nuke plant as the Deepwater Horizon screwup did. Not even close.
Producing it isn't more expensive really, coal is only cheaper for non-coal producing states like WV and KY. The fuel rods are currently stored on site at the plant, and hopefully Yucca Mountain finally comes through for waste storage.
My power rates are $0.08 per kWh..super cheap, I live 5-10 mins from a major nuclear plant - Oconee Nuclear Site is the highest producing nuclear plant of all time in the US, the first one ever to reach 500 million megawatts produced.
+1
Infact you talked about everything being contained and theres little chance of it spreading...
These reactors were built in the 70s. And they aren't storing spent fuel rods properly. They basically have the spent fuel rods on an upper level of the building under 30 feet of water. Also there is no containment vessel if things go bad. Chernobyl didn't have a containment vessel either and look how that turned out.
c) some other rays. Gamma radiation is the highest energy radiation. Alpha radiation is just helium particles. Beta radiation is high energy electrons or positrons, which is ionizing but not as dangerous as gamma. Gamma is super high energy photons that are ionizing and can cause major cellular damage.
wut? All US reactors are inside of containment vessels, period. There are no reactors without containment in the US, all PWR/BWR designs are contained. We don't use shitty RBMK reactors like the Soviets. You have no clue what you're talking about. Yeah the Gen III+ reactors are designed much better than the ones we have now, and there are several brand new reactors/plants up for review to be built.
Containment is a requirement for licensure in the US and has been since the inception of the NRC.
Spent fuel pools are within the containment building, and it's not an "improper" disposal method. The spent fuel pool is for cooling of the spent fuel for 1-2 years until they can be stored in Dry cask storage:
Dry cask storage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As for the casks:
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAq-siGEXgY]YouTube - Penn & Teller on the fear of nuclear waste[/ame]
Yes. This was an old reactor designed by GE, but it was a BWR within containment. There are no reactors in the US or Japan without containment. The only reactors still in existence without containment are in Russia, of the RBMK design, unless NK is using these without us knowing.
Most US reactors are newer than this one and of the PWR design, and better contained, but it doesn't change the fact that these reactors in Japan are contained. If they weren't this would be MUCH worse already.
thats not what this guy is saying.
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/03/15/exp.ac.old.nuke.design.cnn
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/03/15/exp.ac.old.nuke.design.cnn
AFP: New fire deepens disaster-hit Japan's nuke crisis
"Amano reiterated that unlike Chernobyl, the Fukushima reactors have primary containment vessels, and had also shut down automatically when the earthquake hit, so there was no chain reaction going on."
here's the basic design of fukushima:
I think the problem he was talking about wasnt the reactor, but how they were storing spent fuel rods. If something goes wrong there is nothing to contain the spent fuel rods that are being stored in the facility.
I live less than two miles from a nuclear power plant, and I'll take my chances. I live in for the most part a middle class town, but the amount of money this plant brings in for our town it doesn't look like that. The town is kept very nice, with parks, schools and such it looks like a high-middle class town, when really it's not. Low taxes make it available for people with lower income jobs to live in a nice area. To live in an area like this with all the benefits from the plant is, in my opinion, well worth my "risk" of exposure from an accident.
There has never been a nuclear incident in the US that has caused health problems too. Which plant are you near? Even if it does become a problem, all residents within the 10 miles range are required to have access to Potassium Iodide for free just in case.
So who here is making bank on potassium iodide supplements?
Sales of Geiger counters and potassium iodide spike after Japan earthquake. - latimes.com
Sales of Geiger counters and potassium iodide spike after Japan earthquake. - latimes.com