Nuclear Power Plants

[Teatownclown]

Keep humping the nukes, dbeck....

[custosnox]

Keep humping the nukes, dbeck....

He points out that your source may not be what he claims to be, and your response is a personal attack.  Nice

[Hoss]

He points out that your source may not be what he claims to be, and your response is a personal attack.  Nice

He's just the left wing version of Gweed.  Always has been.

[custosnox]

He's just the left wing version of Gweed.  Always has been.

Just had to make a comment on it.  Just gets me when some seem to think that is how to "win" discussions like this

[patric]

Japan abandons plans to add new reactors, will focus on renewables:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/11/japan-nuclear-power-expansion-plans-abandoned?intcmp=122

[Teatownclown]

 They've been lying all along. Whatever they tell the world, be assured that the situation is worse.

TEPCO Admits Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 'In State of Meltdown', Fuel Rods Exposed

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8520

OPS: "...a meltdown occurred...." BS! The meltdown IS OCCURRING! it's no where near past tense

So, who here can explain the eventual outcome at Fuckushima?

[Teatownclown]

Next they will probably raise the "allowable' dose of radiation a person can get. Then, we will see the Nuke industries in other countries quietly raise THEIR 'allowable' limits too.

Japan left with no choice but to widen nuke evacuation zone
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/japan-widens-nuke-evacuation-zone-but-unlikely-to-punish-those-who-stay/story-e6frf7lf-1226056432864


Without knowing what is really going on we cannot estimate the potential danger to the US and other countries.

[Teatownclown]

America's New Nuke Showdown Starts Now!

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/16-3


"As Fukushima continues to leak and smolder, what may be the definitive battle over new nukes in America has begun.

The critical first US House vote on a proposed $36 billion loan guarantee package for reactor construction may come as early as June 2. Green power advocates are already calling and writing the White House and Congress early and often, gearing up for a long, definitive showdown."


This timely thread unfolded rather nicely thanks to the sad affair in Japan. WSJ even had a story this morning on the need to reevaluate all the systems necessary to stop a catastrophe.

Spent fuel rods. Bad locations. $36 Billion....throwing good money after bad.

[nathanm]

If it weren't for the retarded greens (can I say that?) we'd have a place to put the waste. Instead, the morons have destined us to continue storing it on site. Not awful, but worse than the alternative of putting it in a paid for cave. This is one of the many things I disagree strenuously with Obama on, and one of the reasons I wish Harry Reid had been thrown out of the party years ago.

Democrats are stupid..they're just less stupid than Republicans.

[Teatownclown]

Yes, Nevada deserves those radiation storage caves.

[nathanm]

Yes, Nevada deserves those radiation storage caves.

I'd be happy to have them in Oklahoma. Maybe we could put them under one of the "mountains" in south Tulsa. Or under my house. Put a few thousand feet between me and the casks and I quite honestly don't give a smile. Nuclear waste isn't magic. As long as it's immobilized so it can't be absorbed into the body, it's pretty much harmless. That's why the plan was to vitrify it.

Take the concept of the half-life as one example. By virtue of having a long half-life, a substance is radiologically pretty much irrelevant to humans barring its ingestion. Substances with short half lives are, on the other hand, generally quite dangerous as they emit lots of radiation in a given period of time.

[Red Arrow]

Democrats are stupid..they're just less stupid than Republicans.

Cherry picking your examples again I see.

[nathanm]

Cherry picking your examples again I see.

On the nuclear issue, Republicans are in general much less stupid than Democrats. On so many other things they've gone off the freakin' rails it's sad. I'd quite honestly like to have a choice, but when the Republicans are in favor of trampling the Constitution and otherwise screwing me, I might as well pick the Republican-lites who will at least use a little lube while shoving the crap down my throat.

Unfortunately, the Tea Partiers are even worse than the mainstream Republicans, what with a few prominent "members" advocating only allowing land owners the vote.

We desperately need vote reform in this country, whether it be with instant runoff or preference voting or one of the several other similar systems that don't end up locking out third parties. It would be good for pretty much everybody but the establishment Republicans and Democrats...and the business interests that donate heavily to both of them so as to make sure their position is represented no matter who is in power.

[Teatownclown]

You do know Chernobyl is still smoldering and will be forever. And Fuckishima could become a whirlpool of radiation that makes burying rods in Turkey Mountain a kin to summer nights inhaling refinery emissions.

Glad you feel safe choosing to pollute Mother Earth for the next 4000 generations....given we as humans make it past this current era.

But I do see your point.

[nathanm]

Glad you feel safe choosing to pollute Mother Earth for the next 4000 generations....given we as humans make it past this current era.

I'd feel better if we stopped using 1950s-era nuclear technology.