Also, the additional safety features probably to be required for all plants will drive the cost of nuclear power up dramatically. Think about it: why isn't there any sort of failsafe where the power company can easily dump a mass of some substance ( not saltwater) on the reactor to end the reaction quickly?
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Is Nuclear Power Too Dangerous?
- Thread starter bearice
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GlobalPost: How much of a health threat is that?
Gundersen: But the nasty isotopes â the cesium and strontium will remain for 30 years. And theyâre volatile. Within 90 days, the iodine health risks will disappear, because that will decay away.
After Three Mile Island, strontium was detected 150 miles away from the reactor. That ends up in cowâs milk and doesnât go away for 300 years. The releases from these plants will last for a year, and will contain elements that will remain in the environment for 300 years, even in the best case.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/.../japan/110314/japan-nuclear-meltdown-disaster
Gundersen: But the nasty isotopes â the cesium and strontium will remain for 30 years. And theyâre volatile. Within 90 days, the iodine health risks will disappear, because that will decay away.
After Three Mile Island, strontium was detected 150 miles away from the reactor. That ends up in cowâs milk and doesnât go away for 300 years. The releases from these plants will last for a year, and will contain elements that will remain in the environment for 300 years, even in the best case.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/.../japan/110314/japan-nuclear-meltdown-disaster
Other members:
TV pundits are already preparing brainwashing by discussing how small amount of radiation is OK. This is a lie.
My father told me long ago that even a single atom of plutonium Cesium can give you cancer. There is no "safe dose" radiation will increase your chances of cancer
I think it has been at least a 6 for at least 2-3 days now, maybe even a 7, but they dont want to release the news just yet, they know its a lot worse than they say it is.
As for the winds, its blowing all of it over the pacific to the California area, as if California already had enough trouble.
My father was a nuclear technician on a Soviet Submarine, Real Facts for Japanese Reactors.
Breach of containment has definitely happened as you can see from recent sat photo. Notice the white smoke this is a 100% sign that Cesium and others are escaping and have already escaped in mega numbers.
My father says that Japanese government has only one card they play. Because Winds are taking the radiation into pacific toward Hawaii Japanese can say there is no radiation.
The Fact is if winds were taking radiation westward entire Japan would already be irradiated and Authorities wouldn't be able to lie
Don't make the same mistake people of Ukraine made, believing lies of government. This is serious matter coming to air near you
My father guarantees that you will be able to see higher radiation in Hawaii a week from now and even higher than normal radiation on West coast of United States
TV pundits are already preparing brainwashing by discussing how small amount of radiation is OK. This is a lie.
My father told me long ago that even a single atom of plutonium Cesium can give you cancer. There is no "safe dose" radiation will increase your chances of cancer
I think it has been at least a 6 for at least 2-3 days now, maybe even a 7, but they dont want to release the news just yet, they know its a lot worse than they say it is.
As for the winds, its blowing all of it over the pacific to the California area, as if California already had enough trouble.
My father was a nuclear technician on a Soviet Submarine, Real Facts for Japanese Reactors.
Breach of containment has definitely happened as you can see from recent sat photo. Notice the white smoke this is a 100% sign that Cesium and others are escaping and have already escaped in mega numbers.
My father says that Japanese government has only one card they play. Because Winds are taking the radiation into pacific toward Hawaii Japanese can say there is no radiation.
The Fact is if winds were taking radiation westward entire Japan would already be irradiated and Authorities wouldn't be able to lie
Don't make the same mistake people of Ukraine made, believing lies of government. This is serious matter coming to air near you
My father guarantees that you will be able to see higher radiation in Hawaii a week from now and even higher than normal radiation on West coast of United States
Will 3/11 tragedy put breaks on new nuclear plants in US?
Ranking Member Markey on Nuclear power plants near fault lines
Do you believe investors will walk away from new nuclear plants in US due to fallout from 3/11 tragedy in Japan?
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmxzhiCxcl8&feature=player_embedded#at=26
Put brakes on new U.S. nuclear plants: Lieberman
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is calling for a halt to permitting for new U.S. nuclear power plants until the scenarios that led to the serious reactor problems in Japan are determined.
" I think we've got to kind of quietly -- quickly put the brakes on until we can absorb what has happened in Japan as a result of the earthquake and the tsunami and then see what more, if anything, we can demand of the new power plants that are coming on line," Lieberman said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0311/Lieberman_put_brakes_on_new_US_nuclear_plants.html#
Ranking Member Markey on Nuclear power plants near fault lines
Do you believe investors will walk away from new nuclear plants in US due to fallout from 3/11 tragedy in Japan?
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmxzhiCxcl8&feature=player_embedded#at=26
Put brakes on new U.S. nuclear plants: Lieberman
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is calling for a halt to permitting for new U.S. nuclear power plants until the scenarios that led to the serious reactor problems in Japan are determined.
" I think we've got to kind of quietly -- quickly put the brakes on until we can absorb what has happened in Japan as a result of the earthquake and the tsunami and then see what more, if anything, we can demand of the new power plants that are coming on line," Lieberman said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0311/Lieberman_put_brakes_on_new_US_nuclear_plants.html#
Nuclear weapons are for destruction whereas nuclear power plants are for creation/growth.Quote from dcraig:
bearice,Arne't you the idiot that was telling us not so long ago on another thread that a full on nuclear war would not be so bad and the forests would regrow from the ashes?
Now if creation causes destruction then shut down all nuclear power plants.