On 28/03/2011 10:00 p.m., Paul McNett wrote: > On 3/28/11 3:41 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: >> There was a great deal of love talk about radioactive power generators >> over the past years. >> >> Where do you stand now? Still want one for your power? >> >> Personally I have been against them for over 32 years now. > I've been against nuclear for my entire life, but the Japan incident has > forced me to > think again. I'm pretty impressed with how little radioactivity has entered > the > environment given the age of the reactors and the magnitude of the > quake/tsunami. > > All in all, I'm still against, because I don't think we have a good answer on > where > to hold and how to transport the spent fuel rods.
Send them to space? But then you'd have a real figure to add to the cost of generating nuclear energy and then maybe it would be too expensive. I'm not opposed to nuclear, but I don't like it as it is. If everything works as expected it might be ok but for the fact that there are hidden expenses, that is, when they calculate the cost of production they don't include the cost of *properly* disposing the spent rods. My view is that if you are hiding something then you are trying to cheat, and the only reason I can think for cheating on this is that costs are not as good as they seem. Then there is the problem of when things don't work as expected. Then you have a Chernobyl. Of course this won't happen every year, but just once every century is too much. I give you Japan is handling the problem, but there has been and there is a lot of risk involved. That means there was a considerable probability that they would have had a big disaster in their hands. That it did not happen is anecdotal, just one roll of the dice. I think the risk is too high, and that there is the possibility that it is not as cheap an energy as advertised (they hide the fact that disposing of the residues is part of the cost). _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
