Posted on 03/21/2011 12:33:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
He is on a small rope with me lately. Teeter toter
No kidding.
This guy has to be a mole for the Left the way he’s been acting lately.
He’s wrong.
Just that.
Wouldn’t “human error” include putting nuclear reactors in a high-risk earthquake/tsunami zone?
What’s happened to Charles?
It’s getting close to the time when we should buy uranium mining stocks. Let ‘em drop a little more and then get in. In the long run, we won’t have much choice if we want to keep the lights on.
I spent most of my life in the Generating biz, All base load generation should be Nuke.
Charles Krauthammer: Liberal double-agent or garden variety idiot?
There is a place in Texas that invented reactors big enough for only a small city, all self contained with a box that you bury in the ground.
After 20 years the fuel is used up and you dig it up and replace it.
Mega-sized nuclear plants are dangerous (IF something goes wrong)
Small ones could be the answer
C’mon Kraut! Stop being a jerk!
And the living in caves, eating nuts and berries, with a national population of 50 million or so. We could do that, I guess.
Help! Help! I'm afraid of technology! I can't handle it!
WTF, Charles?
Nowhere did Mr. Krauthammer say that nuclear energy SHOULD be dead. He’s just giving us the bad news.
I hope he’s wrong, but American leftists don’t fail to disappoint. They’ll fight any new plant, tooth and nail.
Bet on it.
I thought he was smarter than that. I guess not.
Which makes it all the more amazing that all of those plants (including the ones damaged by the follow-up events) shutdown safely (control rods inserted, cooling systems started) for an event that was five times greater than that they were designed for. The design basis earthquake for those units was 8.3, so the 9.0 meant 0.7 stronger, which works out to a factor of about five on a log10 scale. You won't find many engineered artifacts or systems that can handle that kind of overstress.
The weak point in the system was that the diesel fuel oil tanks were exposed on the docks in front of the plant to the tsunami effects. The tanks washed away, water got into the fuel lines, and that disabled the diesels. The plants themselves survived intact and would have been okay (and most of the units were okay) if the diesel generators were not damaged.
Yeah and drilling is dead too after the BP debacle. Oh, and airlines are dead after that accident last year.
Why?
Economies of scale.
You still have to protect and support the small reactors.
Bigger reactors give you a much better return.
Stop thinking *anyone* on TV or in the media is “your friend.” I think Rush may be the only one who is not bought and paid for. Fox Al Waleed is as bad as the rest. They cover for Obama. The public is stupid.
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