Should the US go Nuke?

Valde Bovis

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When someone says we ought to build more nuclear power plants in the US what are your immediate thoughts?


I asked 12 people over the past week this question:

If the US was to build a nuclear powerplant that could supply all the power to the top half of the state (CA) for the coming years would you vote to allow it to be built in this town?


All but one said NO-WAY!

I inquired as to why, and got three similar answers from the 11 people- (I'll share later in this thread)


Same question to you then?

Would you accept the building and operation of a nuclear power plant near your city and if not why not?
 
Lemme guess - they cited Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, right?

Hmmm, I'll have to imagine that it would even be allowed this close to the nation's capital but I would say....maybe. :D

I used to live in OH and the nearest nuclear power plant was Davis-Bessie near Toledo. I lived just west of Cleveland. I was fine with it being 'over there' but I guess I don't want to see it. Never mind the fact that any serious accident woulda affected me anyway.
 
NIMBY :willy_nilly:

I wouldn't be so worried about an accident nowadays, but more so in a terrorist attack.

But it's getting to a point that something needs to be done and this is one of the viable options. So go ahead and build it here - we're moving in a couple of years anyway :D
 
Valde Bovis said:
When someone says we ought to build more nuclear power plants in the US what are your immediate thoughts?


I asked 12 people over the past week this question:

If the US was to build a nuclear powerplant that could supply all the power to the top half of the state (CA) for the coming years would you vote to allow it to be built in this town?


All but one said NO-WAY!

I inquired as to why, and got three similar answers from the 11 people- (I'll share later in this thread)


Same question to you then?

Would you accept the building and operation of a ncuelar power plant near your city and if not why not?
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can I fix your typo? *please*
 
There is only one real obstacle to nuclear energy. The huge piles of radio active waste that will be around for thousands of years that no body wants. A while back I did some research on France, thinking of all the countries they would have the problem whipped, but guess what? Nobody there wants the waste either.
 
Minor Axis said:
There is only one real obstacle to nuclear energy. The huge piles of radio active waste that will be around for thousands of years that no body wants. A while back I did some research on France, thinking of all the countries they would have the problem whipped, but guess what? Nobody there wants the waste either.
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yeh there's that too!
 
Minor Axis said:
There is only one real obstacle to nuclear energy. The huge piles of radio active waste that will be around for thousands of years that no body wants. A while back I did some research on France, thinking of all the countries they would have the problem whipped, but guess what? Nobody there wants the waste either.
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And what did you find in your reasearch? In a nut shell- Im not asking for links or anything.
 
canidae said:
NIMBY :willy_nilly:

I wouldn't be so worried about an accident nowadays, but more so in a terrorist attack.

But it's getting to a point that something needs to be done and this is one of the viable options. So go ahead and build it here - we're moving in a couple of years anyway :D
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Ok so we have one Yeah- possibly 2 with CoralRose...

What if I told you it produces less radioactive 'fallout' than coal fired power plants?
 
I lived the first 20 years of my life with one in the backyard, and I also did my work experience in high school there.

Lucas Heights Reactor in SYdney.

I've never heard of any accidents, not even a minor little hiccup there, so I would vote yes actually.

I'm also guessing any new reactors built would have a lot more safety features than the older facilities still around...Lucas Heights has been there for over 40 years.
 
cam elle toe said:
I lived the first 20 years of my life with one in the backyard, and I also did my work experience in high school there.

Lucas Heights Reactor in SYdney.

I've never heard of any accidents, not even a minor little hiccup there, so I would vote yes actually.

I'm also guessing any new reactors built would have a lot more safety features than the older facilities still around...Lucas Heights has been there for over 40 years.
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They would- one very respected scientist in the US (CA Bay area Dr. Bill Wattenberg) states that any new reactors should be built next to reserviorswhich would both warm rivier water for the fishing environments and vertually illiminate any possiblity of nuclear accident because a failsafe cooling mechanism can be built using river water.

It actually kills two birds, dramitically enhances the fishing environment with slghtly warmer water and cools the reactors naturally.
 
I cant remember if they want to refurbish (for want of a better word) Lucas Heights or build another one.

I know it caused a furore when the government first floated the idea, and I had to laugh, because we'd had one in the backyard for so long, and people were against the idea of a safer and more efficient facility.

I still remember my week there, even though its 30 years ago.

I had to help with a study on the effects of hypothermia in lung fish:willy_nilly:
 
cam elle toe said:
I cant remember if they want to refurbish (for want of a better word) Lucas Heights or build another one.

I know it caused a furore when the government first floated the idea, and I had to laugh, because we'd had one in the backyard for so long, and people were against the idea of a safer and more efficient facility.

I still remember my week there, even though its 30 years ago.

I had to help with a study on the effects of hypothermia in lung fish:willy_nilly:
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good god I got to go look up what the heck a lung fish is now!:D
 
Valde Bovis said:
And what did you find in your reasearch? In a nut shell- Im not asking for links or anything.
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The same kind of fights were going on in France about where to store nuclear waste similar to the U.S. government trying to force the citizens of Nevada to take it. Nobody want its close to them.

Now if they could just come up with the reactor that uses reprocessed rods over and/or never needs rod replacements, don't remember what that is called, but it is experimental. That might work.
 
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