Tanada wrote:Hawkcreek wrote:KaiserJeep wrote:The conclusion remains the same. Nuclear energy is the safest form of power generation by far. If Ibon built a dam for his Hydropower (not always necessary in the mountains) then he has a fairly dangerous power plant. But even my rooftop solar is 4400X more deadly than commercial nuclear power.
Some might be more concerned about the potential for harm, rather than the historical record of harm. Your rooftop solar probably has a limited potential to harm anyone, whereas a nuke, given the right circumstances (natural calamity, terrorism, etc) , can harm many. You can't always make decisions based only on what happened in the past.
That sounds nice as far as it goes, but Chernobyl was about as bad as a nuclear power accident can get and it killed under a hundred people. Coal and Natural Gas and Diesel pollute the air in a way that kills many asthmatic people every year, and can even induce asthma in people who have not had the condition from an early age.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Cog wrote:There are a bunch of "Green" people who have opposed nuclear power generation since its inception. They must love coal, oil, and gas since they hate the one thing that does not contribute to global warming and is relatively safe, all things considered.
dohboi wrote:Ah, nothing like name calling and false equivalence to make a point...how very convincing.
EnergyUnlimited wrote:Nuclear energy is all fine, but doesn't do any good for Japanese.
First 1945, then Fukushima, now (possibly) Kim.
Everything looks very well until something goes pop!
EnergyUnlimited wrote:Not much went pop! by now.
One in Ukraine, 3 in Japan and one pop! was mostly contained in US.
It seems that odds for any given nuke reactor to go pop! is about 1% as globally about 500 are working.
That is during time of prosperity.
I suspect that during more difficult times which are coming right now about 5% will go pop! due to lack of resources for proper maintenance.
And if we engage in nuke war, what looks more and more likely, most of them will go pop!
On the top of it waste storage sites will go splash!
Regarding CO2, I agree.
But you see, our entire civilization is bound to go pop!
If not because of nukes then because of GW and if not because of GW then because of overshoot and resource depletion and if not because of resource depletion then because of progress of medicine and associate genetic degeneration compounded by superbugs and other nicieties alike.
Ever wondered about Fermi paradox?
jupiters_release wrote:Maybe my memory's getting fuzzy but thought you used to be a cornucopie?
Don’t mind the cloud of radioactive pollution floating over Europe – it’s harmless, the French nuclear safety institute IRSN said Thursday. Officials in Europe said they began detecting unusually high levels of ruthenium 106, a radioactive atom that does not occur naturally, near France in the last week of September. The IRSN immediately “mobilized all its means of radiological monitoring of the atmosphere and conducted regular analysis of the filters from its monitoring stations,” the agency said in a press release. IRSN director Jean-Marc Peres told Reuters that the leak likely came from a nuclear fuel treatment site or center for radioactive medicine in Russia or Kazakhstan, not a nuclear reactor. The radioactive cloud poses only an “extremely low” risk of contaminating mushrooms and other foodstuffs that are imported into France, the IRSN said in a statement. “The potential health risk associated with this scenario
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