Battle of Chernobyl

[nearmiss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwern8d-iPY

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.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

This is probably the most relevant issue facing the entire world, not just Chernobyl, but nuclear power plants altogether.

Not a political issue... a crime against mankind.

Atm we have exactly ZERO alternatives to NPPs.

[retrojet]

...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!

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by retrojet

...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...

No one is talking about nuclear energy. The New York Academy of Sciences recently released a report indicating Chernobyl has already cost over 1 million lives.

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.

[retrojet]

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....!

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by retrojet

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....!

Germany has plans to cease use of nuclear power within the next couple years. Germany has experienced nuclear radiation from Chernobyl and the they dont' want more of the same from their own plants.

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.

[Pudfark]

@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.

[onchas]

Originally Posted by swiss

Atm we have exactly ZERO alternatives to NPPs.

That doesn't excuse the choice of Light Water Reactors (the predominant uranium reactors used in the world; sometimes called "solid fuel reactors") over Molten Salt Reactors (Thorium Reactor; sometimes called "liquid fuel reactors").

http://www.wired.com/magazine/tag/thorium/

[Sternjaeger II]

The whole thing with Rossi is a bit of a clever loophole: if his claims are real,the discovery could change the face of modern economy. Frankly I'm really curious to see what's gonna happen with it: if the man disappears one day it'd be the evidence it works...

Frankly though I'd put all of the economic matters aside and make a donation to humanity: here's the solution to our energy problems, but then again I'm not
him..

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by onchas

That doesn't excuse the choice of Light Water Reactors (the predominant uranium reactors used in the world; sometimes called "solid fuel reactors") over Molten Salt Reactors (Thorium Reactor; sometimes called "liquid fuel reactors").

http://www.wired.com/magazine/tag/thorium/

That's capitalism getting in the way again..