Posted on 04/15/2023 8:26:05 AM PDT by dennisw
Where will they obtain the fuel? I suppose not Russia anymore. Btw, the US neither.
I would like to see someone study how many deaths have been caused by not embracing nuclear energy 60 years ago.
Not just from the blue-collar workers getting the energy out of mines and the ground and such but also the estimated deaths from too high-priced energy among populations from winter cold and summer heat.
More people died in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile than died at Three Mile Island.
Alec Baldwin killed more people than died at Three Mile Island.
The reactor takes up far less space then solar or windmills and provides more power and runs 24/7 at full power.
The uranium for Olkiluoto is primarily mined in Canada, Kazakhstan and Australia and manufactured into fuel assemblies in Germany, Sweden and Spain.
I remember while living 40 or 50 miles south of Three Mile Island spending a few days worrying about what might happen. I went out and got Iodine tablets to reduce danger of radioactive damage to my thyroid.
Does anyone know if this new Finish reactor is close to or far from populated areas? Finland does have vast areas of nearly uninhabited forest, so building away from people could be planned.
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