Posted on 05/09/2017 10:04:24 AM PDT by Enchante
BREAKING NEWS
WASHINGTON STATE TUNNEL COLLAPSE TRIGGERS ALERT AT PLUTONIUM PLANT
Hundreds of workers took cover after a tunnel in a Washington plutonium finishing plant collapsed Tuesday morning.
The tunnel at the Hanford plant near Richland was full of contaminated particles, including radioactive trains that transport fuel rods, KING5 reported.
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Reid’s out of the senate. Time to open the nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain and build more safe nuclear power plants. This Hanford story gets the headline of the day because it says “nuclear” and scares people. Nobody will be injured.
>>The US is full of failed reactors (a large percentage designed by Babcock & Wilcox) and there is no plan for what to do with them.
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Full? From where I sit, I can’t see one and I’m 10 stories up right now.
Crunch the numbers on every other type of fuel, then get back to me. Nuclear wins hands down. And nuclear is only going to get better and cleaner. We are essentially skating on 1960s and 70s tech in the nuke industry. We spent 535 million on Solyndra alone. We spent billions on just one oil spill in Alaska. The deepwater horizon blowout is over 61 billion so far.
There ain’t no free lunch sparky.
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You’re not even looking, and your voluntary total blindness has become commonplace.
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Yeah right- let’s let a poorly designed Japanese nuclear installation kill off our nuclear industry.
Why not throw in Chernobyl while you’re at it?
“After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP.
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Hanford is one of our nuclear weapons plants.
“Nuclear power is crazy. But watch me get nuked for saying it.”
That must be why all of our submarine crews are dead from radiation. They live mere feet from the reactors.
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This was a government run weapons facility? Has nothing to do with the civilian nuclear program.
This was a weapons facility. Nothing to do with nuclear power reactors.
This was a weapons facility. Nothing to do with nuclear power reactors.
This was a weapons facility. Nothing to do with nuclear power reactors.
“Why was the plant not designed with better foresight?”
Ask the Japanese, they built it. They chose to run all of their emergency controls for the several plants through one site making them all vulnerable to a single failure.
“The answer is that none of them ever are”
Expertise garnered from watching The China Syndrome?
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Garnered from watching more than a dozen plants in the US fail for foolish reasons.
I don’t believe that there is a single plant left up and running on the West coast.
What a load of CRAP. My late father in law was in charge of building the Nuke plants for Florida Power and Light in Miami for about thirty years. He literally BUILT the Turkey Point Nuke plant in Miami. He held an SC.D in Nuclear Physics, a higher degree than a PH.D because it has all math and science instead of the usual Humanities and philosophy regimen in the other. The Fukishima nd Chernobyl disasters (and Three Mile Island for that matter) were a direct result of corner cutting to keep costs down. Properly built, the nuclear power option is the only hope for powering this nation's future.
So in other words you have no expertise and your opinion is shaped by what you read in the MSM.
I don’t disagree with ‘guns equal freedom’.
Nuclear fission technology is dirty and unsafe. We often don’t know what the freak we’re doing with it. Meltdowns happen, everyone runs around like chickens with their heads cut off, and people get sick and die. I understand nuclear fission technology is necessary for weapons but it is not essential for energy. We have plenty of better, safer alternatives for energy.
What is needed is breakthroughs in FUSION technology which is clean and safe. but so far they have’t overcome the issue of such high temps to make fusion a practical alternative.
In the meantime, I think fission nuclear power plants are stupid and unsafe. I find that people who argue for continued fission nuclear reactors sing a different tune if a plant location is proposed to be next door to them. Nobody wants a fission nuclear power plant near them. Some have had to accept it but nobody likes it because they are potentially risky and dangerous.
Thanks for telling the facts about the nuclear industry. For years, I listened to the great nuclear scientist/inventor/Professor Bill Wattenburg on his late evening radio show Sat and Sundays. He fought the Calif bureaucrats on everything under the sun. His voice is missed because like your father-in-law he was the man who built these things. And knew that clean nuclear energy was the solution to the “energy crisis”. Mistakes will be made. The nuclear industry overall has a tremendous safety record.
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Your reply is a nonsequitur.
What did I offer from the MSM?
Some folks would say yes to most of that.
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