My father was a contractor (valves, meters, flow equipment) for the Midland, Michigan “nuclear” plant that was forced to go to coal-fired after billions were spent.
Such a waste.
come again.... Since when can uranium be held in your hands with no adverse effects?
I recall living in the Northeast when Shoreham got deep-sixed. There was another nuclear reactor outside of Boston that suffered a similar fate, if I recall correctly.
At the same time this was happening, I remember
- New York and adjoining NE states would not permit a new gas pipeline from Canada (Iroquis) to be laid (NIMBY)
- refused to consider any coal plants from being built for power generation
Since this time, we have the unhealthy Senator from Massachusetts blocking wind-power generation in his state.
Result? NY and the NE remains hostage to burning fuel oil to generate power and heat. Those inpower chose to ignore the plight of the ordinary person there and give in to the extremism called Environmentalism.
Why are any of the people in leadership still in power? Of course it is convenient to blame “Big OIL” (that is actually very, very small nowadays) rather than their own misguided policies.
Ummm... you don’t want to hold uranium in your hands.
There are stories out there about a few of the nuclear accidents. One happened, I believe, at a Navy reactor. The techs had been trained over and over about how quickly they could remove the control rods. Well, something happened. So a tech went in and I guess removed a control rod too fast - and the reactor went critical, there was an explosion.
It was shut down, and after alot of cleanup and suiting up they went in. He was gone. They looked everywhere.
Finally somebody noticed him pinned to the ceiling dead, pinned to the ceiling by a control rod.
Go out to Wiki and read some of the stuff that happened at Chernobyl. It’ll scare the socks off of ya!
But regardless, reactor tech has vastly, vastly improved in the last 3 decades or so. So much so that I would feel safe having one in my house to generate power, but that’s not an option.