Yes, billions of TAX PAYERS DOLLARS. Nuke Energy is not COST EFFECTIVE.
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr
Erie PA
Linux and Metric User and Enforcer
Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑
Erie PA
Linux and Metric User and Enforcer
Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑
On Mar 15, 2011, John M. Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110315/ts_yblog_thelookout/japanese-nuclear-plant-workers-emerging-as-heroic-figures-in-tragedythe workers do have protective gear, dosimeters and are rotated out when they reach their maximum safe dose. I assume they will have to avoid exposure for a considerable period of time to avoid exceeding an annual average, but the article is too devoid of data to tell. The article is also lacking in explaining what levels unevacuated citizens (30 km from the plant) are exposed to, but logic says it is less than at the plant.Since you think there is no safe storage, perhaps we need to dig up all radioactive material on earth and launch it into space (half the rockets would probably crash). It is usually regarded as safe enough if we had left it alone in the ground, although it goes through essentially the same decay cycle in the ground. It is just spread out. That suggests to me the spent fuel could be stored in the ground. We spent decades and billions preparing Yucca to be that repository, but reactionary, emotional positions like yours have wiped that out and unsafely left waste stored above ground. (That in-ground storage requires, in my view, recycling the spent fuel rods to recover the uranium and plutonium and recycling it into new fuel rods. That saves digging up as much ore, and radically reduces the half-life of the waste.)Obviously, the earthquake has caused a BIG problem with these nuclear plants, but a properly running nuclear reactor emits less radiation than is in the coal a coal burning plant burns. Japan needs to recover from this mess, but then all nations operating reactors need to learn from it.
--- On Tue, 3/15/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:50039] Re: Putting radiation levels in perspective
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 5:57 PM
I find it interested how arrogant certain to persons are along with the republicans when it comes to the safety and the well-being of workers and citizens or soldiers, when people are right this moment are being contaminated with radiation. You can not just shower it off, all these people are not prepared in handle radiation, nor have protective gear. There is no decontamination, of the lungs, after breathing in radiation dust. Well if they die, oh well, its the good of the all that matters as long as I have my power NOW. Nukes in any form is not safe. There is no safe location for storage, perhaps we can use the backyards of the 'supporters' homes for storage space, hell why not, they would be paid handsomely with tax payers money for hundreds of years to come, they probability get a tax write off to boot.
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr
Erie PA
Linux and Metric User and Enforcer
Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑
