Nuclear Power is Still The Best for NOW
No new nuclear power plants have been built in the USA since 1979, since the 3-Mile Island accident. In that accident, no measurable radiation escaped the facility, and nobody in the community was hurt in the least. In the 30 years since then, there have been no other accidents, and the nuclear power plants that were in operation at that time are still in operation today, producing 20% of our electricity. That 20% displaces 370 million metric tons of greenhouse emissions EVERY YEAR!
What about the nuclear waste? Over those 30 years, the entire sum of waste nuclear fuel is 3000 tons, which is .0008% of the carbon-based emissions that would have been produced from either coal or natural gas power plants (for that same 20% of supply).
What about the environment around the nuclear power plant? From the outside, a nuclear power plant has no more impact on the environment than an inert lump of concrete. There are fewer emissions from a nuclear power facility than there is from a pile of freshly dug up dirt.
What about the cooling water? All natural substances contain radioactive material, in fact BEER contains 13 times more radioactivity than the cooling water from a nuclear power plant has. The water coming out of a nuclear plant is no more radioactive than when it went in!
Let's get off our rumps America and stop letting the loudmouthed, uneducated fear mongering idiots hiding behind environmentalist agendas determine our destiny as a nation. It is time for the silent majority to wake up, scrape off the sludge of apathy and demand more nuclear power plants!
What about the nuclear waste? Over those 30 years, the entire sum of waste nuclear fuel is 3000 tons, which is .0008% of the carbon-based emissions that would have been produced from either coal or natural gas power plants (for that same 20% of supply).
What about the environment around the nuclear power plant? From the outside, a nuclear power plant has no more impact on the environment than an inert lump of concrete. There are fewer emissions from a nuclear power facility than there is from a pile of freshly dug up dirt.
What about the cooling water? All natural substances contain radioactive material, in fact BEER contains 13 times more radioactivity than the cooling water from a nuclear power plant has. The water coming out of a nuclear plant is no more radioactive than when it went in!
Let's get off our rumps America and stop letting the loudmouthed, uneducated fear mongering idiots hiding behind environmentalist agendas determine our destiny as a nation. It is time for the silent majority to wake up, scrape off the sludge of apathy and demand more nuclear power plants!
posted by Anthony Barney @ 7/20/2008 11:54:00 AM
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You're thinking like a humanitarian and missing the point. We only have power because someone can make a profit by delivering it to us.
I'm willing to bet that oil companies provide funding to nuclear protesters. And why shouldn't they? To do anything less would hurt their earnings, lower their share price, and be considered fiduciary misconduct.
No one's pockets are lined by nuclear power. It's too efficient and too clean. Since oil can't compete on price, they lobby.
Oil companies aren't any more threatened by wind power, than Coca-Cola is by my kids' lemonade stand - so both wind and lemonade are ignored.
On a related tangent. Your average congressman knows nothing about nuclear energy. How then did they know how to write complex bills dealing with nuclear energy? They follow the recommendations of a special government task force.
Who is on the task force? If a congressmen has a background in energy, they aren't allowed to participate because they might have conflicts of interest. So task forces generally consist of people who knew nothing about the topic.
Fortunately, they don't remain ignorant for long, because lobbyists are on hand to educate them. Which is why nuclear energy is blackballed.
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