[Mr. Silverback]

Bump!

[freebird5850]

Nuclear power has one fault I see.....the waste. It remains toxic for centuries. Once there is a way to re-process it I’ll feel safer.

[PATRIOT1876]

Even though it seems that the Japanese govt didn’t release all the information (hard to tell in our own country what is true when dealing with government information), it looks like the newer nuclear plants held up pretty well considering they were hit with an earthquake and tsunami damage.

It sounds a whole lot safer than continuing to buy oil from people who want to kill us all, especially since we have an administration that doesn’t want us to drill our own oil. We are also saddled with the burden of a nonsensical EPA that says our exhaled breath is a toxin and pretends to believe in the bogeyman of global warming/disruptification/climate change to control our every movement.

[Noob1999]

The forty year old nuclear reactors operated flawlessly the moment the earthquake hit. Each reactor immediately shut down as designed and planned.

The problem was that the plant designers placed the emergency generators only 33 feet above sea level, and were wiped out by forty foot high waves of water. Once there was no power, all the other stuff happened.

This was just like Katrina where the engineers placed the emergency generators to run the emergency pumps to pump out the city in the event of a levee breach just feet above sea level, and once the water wiped out the generators the city was doomed.

Or the engineers who designed the emergency power for the NOLA hospital, and placed the gensets on the ground next to the hospital. Wipe out.

We don’t have a nuclear power problem, we have an emergency generator siting problem!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for this. If you have a Bjorn Lomborg pinglist, please put me on it. I like to read everything he writes.

My only small sadness is that he's gay. I wish he'd get a nice Danish lady (a somewhat mannish one, if that's the way he likes 'em) and make a bunch of little Bjorns.