I've never been very educated on mutations due to nuclear waste and all cause i never needed to be.. sooo naturally i've never been too educated on that incident in Chernoble [spelling?] years ago. well, yesterday in class we had to watch this documentary film called Chernoble Heart. I was truly and completely disturbed the film was mainly about orphins whose parents abandoned them because they were born many years later and deformed. i'm talking COMPLETE deformities. there was one little girl whose brain wasn't in her skull but attached to her back and she was only living because her spinal chord was attached... and thats only ONE example of what these children were born like. nuclear power plants are wrong. i understand it's the easiest, cleanest way to generate electricity and all but in that case will we ever win? we do need electricity nowadays it is necessary but what's the lesser of two evils here? personally, i think nuclear power plants are horrible. theyre completely dangerous and for them to make an impact so large on a society is an abomination to me.. i was so soooo moved after seeing this film. honestly, i'm raelly not familiar with things like this, this was just my venting about that aweful film. if i'm wrong about the plants then enlighten me but after seeing children that have to live that way, i couldn't think of anything else.
Chernobyl was entirely different to the reactors of today. The reactor was of a type specifically designed to make weapons grade nuclear material. In this case, electricity was a bi product. Additionally to that, the course of events leading up to the meltdown was a particularly stupid process that woud never even be considered by anyone with a right mid today. Reactors of today are almost entirely designed to generate power first and formost, they are extremely safe in their operation. Accidents are extremely rare, and can be contained extremely effectively for the most part. Nuclear power is by no means the easiest method of generation, just attatch a dynamo to a turbine powered by a water wheel and hey presto, electricity! It just so happens though that it does provide electricity incredibly efficiently. I am not a particular fan of nuclear power, but I do view it as a necessity in the face of building more fossil fuel generating power stations. Nuclear fuels are too runnning out, but not as fast and not with the same environmental chaos caused. I see nuclear power as a stopgap to bring us up to the fusion age, in combination with new tidal, wave, solar, geothermal and wind generation technologies to come soon.
personally, i think nuclear power plants are horrible. theyre completely dangerous and for them to make an impact so large on a society is an abomination to me.. i was so soooo moved after seeing this film. My brother was a nuclear power plant operator and we had many long discussions on this subject. Chernobyl and its effects were indeed a horror. It's my understanding though that it's basically impossible for American-designed power plants to do what Chernobyl did, which I guess is some consolation. I think the biggest issue with nuclear power isn't so much the actual operation of the plants as it is the nuclear waste that's left when the fuel is spent. This stuff is a nightmare and it stays radioactive for many years. What the hell do you do with it? As of yet there is no real satisfactory solution to this problem. Another issue is the cost and complexity of the plants themselves. They are hugely expensive and take a decade or more to build and license. In my opinion it makes much more sense to spend the money and effort on things like solar, wind, tides, etc. We'll never run out of those things and they don't produce waste products that we'll have to deal with for generations.
