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12-20-2011, 10:55 PM
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Battle of Chernobyl
Complete playist - this is over 1 hour of videos http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...B&feature=plcp This is a most relevant issue facing the entire world, not just Chernobyl, but nuclear power plants altogether. Not a political issue... a crime against mankind. This is about Chernobyl, but to date there have been several meltdown accidents in USA and now Japan. Last edited by nearmiss; 12-21-2011 at 03:10 AM. 
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12-21-2011, 12:35 AM
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12-21-2011, 03:44 AM
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...and a Merry Christmas to you, too!
Half-life of 250,000 years... Give or take... Couldn't this wait till the new year?  But joking aside.  We need to invest everything in solar power... Before the supernova... But thanks for the link... These facts are undeniable, but not to be used as an excuse for upping fossil fuel production! ...Now canada is threatening the USA with sales of oil to china, if the pipe-line isn't ok'd!! What's this world coming to?! Oh, yer... 2012... Hehehaha! Last edited by retrojet; 12-21-2011 at 03:52 AM. Reason: Coz I can...?
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12-21-2011, 03:54 AM
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When I started reading up on Nuclear Power, the way they manage waste, etc. It is a nightmare beyond anything imaginable. Before it is done the damage at Fukushima,Japan will make Nagasaki and Heroshima look like firecrackers for damage compared to meltdowns in three reactors. I can't imagine any country wanting nuclear anything. When they have an accident the consequences are un-imaginable. Note I said, "When". I find it interesting how quiet the media has become worldwide about the Japanese meltdowns. The Fukushima meltdowns will probably within the next 30 years be responsible for killing millions. The land for miles from the reactors will be a dead zone for thousands of years. It is unbelieveable that any government could embrace such a technology with "eternal consequences" for failure. Fossil fuels have their problems. The amount money dedicated to Nuclear energy research if applied to fossil fuels would have resulted in cleaner fuel by now, it just wasn't expedient to do so. Last edited by nearmiss; 12-21-2011 at 04:37 AM.
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12-21-2011, 04:30 AM
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It's sad, it's scary... But unless cold fusion is more than just wishful thinking, nuclear energy is not going away... I am just glad I dont live next to it!
You're so right to be concerned/outraged... But it's like the global financial meltdown... The little guy doesn't have a say! He just gets to suffer the consequences!! One day, when it all goes pear-shaped, those responsible will just move on to mars... Once the atmosphere has been altered per their specifications... I'm sure there are people working on it... That's what progressive thinkers are for... oh! ...and a Happy New Year!... ...live each day like its your last! Because you never know....! 
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12-21-2011, 04:48 AM
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About all that can be done is to keep governments from allowing anymore to be built. Since 3 mile island meltdown in USA not another plant has been built. The energy money grubbers are licking their chops, patiently waiting for the chance to build more.
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12-21-2011, 04:53 AM
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@nearmiss
What do you suggest for cheap energy in Japan? What affordable alternative do they have? Therein lies the problem....affordable? "Clean/renewable" energy is so expensive....nobody can/will afford it.
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12-21-2011, 05:01 AM
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12-21-2011, 05:14 AM
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It's not a sane world... And never will be... It makes me wish that the film 'the day the earth stood still' would become science fact, not science fiction...!
We need to be taught a 'BIG' lesson because of the greed and devestatiion we cause...! It's a shame the dinosaurs got wiped out... I'm sure it would still be a paradise with them in the drivers seat, instead of us... We would just need to run and hide... More than what we do now...
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12-21-2011, 07:15 AM
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I personally was indifferent towards the problem for a long time up until I got to know that at least in Germany, NPPs are insecureable (Means, if one blows up, the taxpayer has to take care of the damage. I am also worried about the implications, that securers obviously deem the prevailing risk as too high to take any chances. Would be interested to know how that situation is in the UK or the US, for example). Also, Europe is a densly populated place, if a plant goes up here it will potentially effect millions. Add that to the problem that to this day no definitive nuclear waste site has been found to store this stuff for the next million years and you have some problems you can't just ignore. Add to that the huge construction plans for nuclear sites all over the globe and you just create another dependent infrastructure that repeats the old oil cycle of having to secure ressources to make sure you do not run out of fuel (not to talk about the huge amounts of subsidies going into nuclear plants not only in Germany, but all over the place, that could be very much used for alternatives). IMHO nuclear sounds good on paper but in practice simply makes too much trouble in the long run. "Affordable" in this regard is a very relative term.
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Cheers Last edited by Bewolf; 12-21-2011 at 07:31 AM.
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