Posted on 03/30/2021 7:13:55 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
"Chernobyl," HBO's five-part mini-series about the 1986 disaster at a Soviet atomic reactor. This film is reasonably accurate historically, well worth watching, and horrifying. Don't watch it right before bedtime! One expert in the film comments that atomic power is wonderful ... when working normally. It emits no heat-trapping carbon dioxide and generates large amounts of electricity. The film, however, depicts the tremendous dangers when something goes wrong. This disaster resulted from reactor operators' mistakes combined with a design fault in the reactor. It rendered the city of Chernobyl and around 1,100 square miles of surrounding land uninhabitable for centuries. But it was nearly much worse, potentially depopulating all of Europe. Drastic actions organized by the Soviet government prevented total disaster, but shortened or destroyed the lives of many workers sent onto the highly radioactive reactor to minimize the damage it would cause. Modern civilization requires lots of energy, all sources of which have costs and risks. But energy sources don't all have the same level of risks. The Chernobyl disaster suggests that atomic power is neck and neck with hydrocarbon fuels — coal, oil, natural gas — as prime threats to the human race. To protect ourselves from a runaway climate we must phase out hydrocarbon fuels as soon as possible. To avoid massive reliance on atomic energy, the obvious replacement is the fusion reactor only 93,000,000 miles from earth — the sun.
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Technically, solar is nuclear
Which happens very seldom, with all the protective systems that have been developed from the experience of the few that did. Subs and carriers with mostly twenty-something crews have outstanding safety records even compared with conventional power systems.
The biggest threat I can envision is sabotage.
You'd have us in rolling blackouts 24/7.
I have read a few books on Chernobyl. It was an old reactor design with no containment vessel. They has already had incident with a RBMK reactor outside of Leningrad. Add poor materials, poor construction, arrogant scientist, and bureaucracy that cares little about anything except results and it is a disaster waiting to happen.
Just for fun, research the number of people who died as a result of the earthquake and tsunami versus the number of people who died from the nuclear plant.
No argument from me.
Big wind, sleazy solar, suppress nat gas.
The cornerstones of the Biden energy plan.
I think the only positive is to figure out how to tap into that 3 bil plus green stim on the way.
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