Nuclear Power Plants are the future?

Sellafield was called Windscales, and you've probably heard about Seascale...a village close by, because of the leukemia clusters there. Low level radiation waste is buried at Drigg, a place now rich in wildlife as no-one is allowed within it's boundaries. Amazing what they bury there, vehicles, the lot.

Greenpeace is a dirty word to some around here, but it's thanks to them that this particular plant was made to clean up its act. They pumped real shit into the sea at one time, but you know Greenpeace...tenacious, to say the least.
When you work for BNFL you have to sign the official secrets act, but people talk and some of the tales they relate are scary.
At present they are de-comissioning the plant where the accident was, and it's going to take they reckon 100 years. My kids were never allowed in the sea, in fact we visited the beach only rarely. Joke around here is, if you fish, try your luck around the waste pipe, fish that feed there are twice as big...except this is no joke, it's true!

 

It seems that almost anyway we get energy it just hurts us more, power plants can benefit for awhile but there is always a chance for a meltdown....not worth the chance if you ask me.

 

just imagine if the money america has spent on the iraq had been spent on renewable energy. in terms of the american economy if a billion dollars was spent on renewables every day it would be a drop in the ocean. one hundred and fifty years after this problem was identified we are still talking, still debating about something with a solution that is patently obvious and achievable with even the most meagre of government expenditure.

 

exactlY!!

my point is, NOBODY WANTS A NUKE PLANT IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD! but everyone's ok with it being somewhere else. THIS thinking is selfish and immoral. why would you want something so toxic and deadly nearby to ANY living thing?

its ridiculous. and for these people saying solar panels are so expensive to make--that's as outdated as saying that nuclear energy is "THE NEXT BIG THING" if you ask me, nuclear energy is just The next big disaster waiting to happen. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001739.html whoever said that all that money we spent on Iraq could've been spent on renewable energy.... so true. think of how many solar panels we could've made with that money. or wind energy, or building more efficient public transportation..... the list goes on.

to alll you people who just seem to love nuclear energy, why don't you live by one?

 

oh yes and to reiterate, nuclear toxic waste that has to be safely stored, has a half life of a least a few hundred years. what a lovely responsibility for our future generations to have to deal with.........


one earthquake, storm, war, explosion, or Terrorist attack is all it takes to spill that nuclear waste in to the enviornment and in to the ecosystem and in to our WATER TABLE

yeah sounds like a great plan guys

 

The moon, that's thinking too big- try the Third World.

 

ha! the truth hurts though