Nuclear Power Plants

I live a couple of miles from a nuclear power plant. I've been watching the news with much interest. I've learned that 25% of the plants in the US either have a current leak, or have leaked in the past.

The government renews licenses for these plants for 20 years at a time. Many of the plants in the US are outdated and should never have their licenses renewed.

There are much safer choices now.

 

The largest to date is being constructed in S California. It will take 4500 acres and produce enough to service 278,000 homes. So it is being done.

The disadvantage is the amount of land required to meet the needs and to have the trunk lines to bring it in.

I do think it will be developed further in the future and will become more relevant as alternatives. I do not think it will replace nuclear though instead it will be used to compliment what is already there.

 

this chick rode around Chernobyl taking pictures
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

 

Well there’s one less plant because last year the vermont state senate voted against re-licensing the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant because of leaks.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnEbYyD85KU"]YouTube - Vacation in Chernobyl

 

It's not the nuclear power that I don't trust, it's the people running it. One fuck up and a whole town is at risk. I live 10 miles from a nuclear power plant and it freaks me out during times like these, supposedly it's built to withstand a category 5 hurricane.

 

There is no way to make nuclear plants 100% infallible. I am sure the Japanese plants were deemed safe and strong enough to hold up against a natural disaster, but look what happened.

For this reason I believe it is in the best interest of mankind to invest the time and money into finding viable alternatives, for the sake of our health, the health of the environment, and to prepare for an unlikely but possible "what if" situation.

I understand why proponents of nuclear energy believe it to be the best available source of energy to date, but scientific advancement has always driven the human race. Japan will be dealing with the consequences of this for a very long time. The world could potentially be in serious trouble if something similiar were to happen just a couple of times in the next 100 years. Nuclear waste and radiation is not something that just goes away eventually. We need to be driven by scientific advancement and find a better energy source.

On a personal note, I'm freaking out a little bit about nuclear energy. Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about the mountains of garbage that is accumulating all over the world. Since the earthquake happened, I've been lying awake at night thinking about nuclear waste. It really freaks me out.

 

It was rated up to a 7.6 earthquake or something.

 

Those Japanese plants were incredibly outdated.

With technology like it is today, you don't even need people at the plant to keep the reactor cool.

 

How many people do you know that understand Nuclear energy.. Better yet, know where Electricity comes from?

 

The problem was this was a 9.0 and the Richter scale is logarithmic so any whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude

They were fucked from the start



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