Damn the no-nukes people with their scrubby beards, their stinky sandals and their Jackson Browne T-shirts. We should have 7,000 nuclear plants online by now and if we did, we wouldn't be worried too much about those smelly people over in the Middle East with their camels and women shrouded in black cloth.
And just what was the big deal with Three-Mile Island? A little leak and pretty much nobody died. How many people have died since in gasoline related explosions? A lot, I can tell you that.
There is no doubt that if we continue on our course with nuclear power, we would have made it safer and there wouldn't even be minor accidents like Three Mile Island.
We could be energy independent today if we continued to pursue nuclear power. But no! We had to give in to the radicals who threatened to stage more Jackson Browne rock concerts if we didn't pull the plug on nuclear energy now. Well, I would have gladly tolerated the shrill voice of Jackson Browne in exchange for more nuclear power plants and if we had done that, we wouldn't be "Running On Empty" today if you know what I mean.
Good Post SamAdams! Pretty well sums it up.
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What we should do here in the United States is go back to nuclear power in a big way. We use nuclear power to send our submarines and aircraft carriers hurtling through the oceans of the world. Why not have nuclear power plants here at home lighting up our cities and powering our economy?
Damn the no-nukes people with their scrubby beards, their stinky sandals and their Jackson Browne T-shirts. We should have 7,000 nuclear plants online by now and if we did, we wouldn’t be worried too much about those smelly people over in the Middle East with their camels and women shrouded in black cloth.
And just what was the big deal with Three-Mile Island? A little leak and pretty much nobody died. How many people have died since in gasoline related explosions? A lot, I can tell you that.
There is no doubt that if we continue on our course with nuclear power, we would have made it safer and there wouldn’t even be minor accidents like Three Mile Island.
We could be energy independent today if we continued to pursue nuclear power. But no! We had to give in to the radicals who threatened to stage more Jackson Browne rock concerts if we didn’t pull the plug on nuclear energy now. Well, I would have gladly tolerated the shrill voice of Jackson Browne in exchange for more nuclear power plants and if we had done that, we wouldn’t be “Running On Empty” today if you know what I mean.
Nobody died. As the old saying goes, "In the USA, fewer people have died in nuclear power plant accidents than in Ted Kennedy's car."
You look at accidents in the coal and petroleum industries, and there is no doubt that nuclear is safer, even per unit energy produced.
Thank the China Syndrome movie and Chernobyl for irrational fear of nuclear power. The Chernobyl type reactor was an irresponsible design never used outside the Soviet bloc. We know how to design safe plants and protect their perimeter.
I once heard Edward Teller give a lecture on nuclear power safety. He said that a man standing at the perimeter of a nuclear plant gets only marginally higher radiation exposure from the plant than he gets from sleeping with a woman (due to the decay of the radioactive potassium naturally occurring in her body). He added that he would caution against sleeping with two women, however.
My late Father was a construction manager and when the first nuclear sub, USS Nautilus, was launched in 1954, Dad said that if the reactor design was successful, it would lead to every small city having their own providing electricity.
I agreed with him being only 7-years old, but as I grew older I fully expected it to come to pass. My Dad passed on it 1971 and the small nuclear plants design based on the ones driving our subs is still dead. As dead as the brain matter of all tree hugging Liberal Democrats!
I’m not in any way anti-nuke, but Three Mile Island was not a minor accident. It was literally minutes from melting out when one very smart operator figured out what had caused it and took action about 10 minutes before it wouldn’t have mattered.
It was a series (tradition you know) design flaw.