Lets go through it again, shall we?
We'll keep it simple, and not even wander into the economics of it.
First of all, human beings make mistakes. You simply can't argue with that -- no one can argue with it. Historically proven beyond all doubt. Therefore, having humans run devices that (when they go out of control, for instance windward of a large population center) can kill literally millions of people is a mistake. A bad idea. A seven-year-old can tell you that. This is what gave us Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Secondly, Mother Nature can (I hope you'll forgive the phrase) kick our asses any time she decides to. Anywhere she pleases. And to any degree she feels like.
"We're engineered here... we're prepared for a 7.0 earthquake and the biggest that's ever happen here was only a 5..."
...which is fine until she does a 9.6. That kind of thinking gave us Fukushima.
Third (and this is the one my son James wrote a song about):
We have NO PLACE to put nuclear waste.
None... 0.0... zip... zilch... NONE.
He saw in the paper that there was a contest to find the right words for a sign to be put on Yucca Mountain in Nevada, which is where they want to store all the nuclear waste in America if they can ever figure out how to get it there. And the sign is supposed to say to whomsoever shall show up in ten thousand years: "Don't. Dig. Here."
On the face of it, that sounds like a good idea. They did run into a kind of a problem though trying to figure out what language to write it in. My suggestion, of course, is cockroach. My son James wrote a pretty wonderful song about it, called "Don't Dig Here", which I invite you to listen to here:
The sign-writing contest eventually arrived at a winner -- Ashok Sukumaran -- whose proposal was to cover Yucca Mountain with fields of genetically mutated yucca plants that have a vibrant blue color. A marker of mutant plants warning of the mutant elements buried below, the way poisonous animals sometimes warm predators with iridescent colors on their skin.
Here's how it might look:
Yes, it's whimsical. And ironic. Yucca plants aren't naturally found on Yucca Mountain. Blue or any other color.
Meanwhile, the energy companies who have their heads buried in the sand while they count the money are still just holding their nuclear waste right next to the reactors (see Fukushima and over a third of the nuclear plants in the United States based on the same blueprint).
The result is that waste is currently scattered all over the country -- which is, by the way, a terrorist's dream... pre-made dirty bombs... just... waiting... while every hour the sun spills more energy onto the surface of the Earth than is needed to satisfy the entire world's energy requirements for a whole year.
We have but to gather it.
- Croz
Crosby-Nash are now touring in Europe, and their latest live performance DVD will be released on October 11th.
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Yes, all is well avec moi. And you?
Good to see you.
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That is why I coined this: Nuclear Fascism*
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The Internatio
Look at me! I'm smart too. 123@#$%^^4
Pure science. I'm a genius. I write numbers and type and type and type.
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard K. O'Neill
It explains why man MUST move into space if we do not want to over heat the Planet!
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I'll be in and out today!
I had hope like many we would be able to live in at least Space by now!
I think most folks agree that Naval reactors are much safer that land based reactors because of the reduced threat of Quakes and other Nature caused problems but it is also good to remember there have been many Naval reactors problems also:
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Nature can destroy any land based reactor any place anytime 24/7/365..
We cannot afford a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disast
Ask The Japanese!
That to me should be a Wake UP Call in this country.
Instead we see protests on the Tar Pipeline, Wall Street ect.
All very NOTEWORTHY
And how the same could very well HAPPEN HERE in any one of these Plants.
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We are all aware that the evil twin of nuclear weapons lurks behind the facade of the peaceful atom, etc. We live under the cloud of potential destructio
Tin soldiers and Obama are comin'
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We're finally on our own
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This summer I can hear 'em building
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Five new reactors on the Gulf
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Gotta' get down to it....
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Nukes are cuttin' us down
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Should have been long ago....
(Gm)
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FEBRUARY 10, 2009
Nuclear Waste?
Just ship it wherever without telling the Public.
Out of Sight, Out of Their Minds
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COURAGE IS CONTAGOUS
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Guest Column: The Lessons of Fukushima (full length)
by Roger Johnson
Sep 22, 2011
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Suffering from atomic bombs did not end in 1945. Over 2,000 Japanese continue to die every year from medical problems directly related to when they were irradiated as children. While the suffering from Hiroshima and Nagasaki lingers, the suffering from Fukushima is just beginning. Some nuclear engineers predict that as many as 500,000 Japanese may eventually die from Fukushima radiation poisoning. The radiation from Fukushima spread thousands of miles. We can only hope that the lessons learned will spread just as far.
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"It is not surprising that the simple matter of trust is why many oppose the nuclear power. The more one looks into our checkered history of nuclear adventures
The folks in San Clemente will become political activists when they realize that the value of their real estae investment is tied to nuclear safety. That idea alone "radicaliz
After seeing three reactors in Fukushima meltdown and through, the myth of nuclear safety was burst. The same people are saying that, "It can't happen here." These were the same people we trusted for the past sixty-five years.
Just tell they that the beach will be ruined and that there is no (real) way to escape if the event of a meltdown. Those truths speak volumes.
The Sun the the biggest nuclear fusion reactor in the solar system, without its 'nuclear power' none of us would be here, be stardust, or be billion year old carbon...
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Both are 'nuclear energy'.
Crosby might as well have said, destroy all automobile
You dont throw the baby out with the bathwater.