[gunsequalfreedom]

After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP.

[Enchante]

This plant hasn’t produced plutonium since the 1980s. It is all on a kind of maintenance and clean-up basis, I understand, but it is a prolonged, expensive, and difficul process to deal with plutonium.

[Enchante]

I don’t agree at all the nuclear power should all be shut down. It makes a lot of sense but new generation reactors should be deployed.

[Safetgiver]

EXACTLY why?

[Steely Tom]

After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP.

This is nuclear weapons industry.

PUREX was last plant built, but is still the legacy of WWII.

[CharlesWayneCT]

After Tacoma Narrows you’d think we’d have stopped building bridges and shut them all down.

[hoosierham]

BS. Nothing is unconditionally safe.Shall we ban cars because of crashes?Aircraft? House because people die in fires? Natural gas use? Windmills chop up birds make noise and spoil the views. EVERY energy source has consequences.

Morenew nuclear plants ,quite possibly thorium fueled is a better stategy.

[backwoods-engineer]

After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP.

Your position is irrational, and I oppose it strongly. Nuclear power is far safer, per megawatt, fuel to distribution, than any other method of power generation.

[CharlesWayneCT]

After the South Fork Dam collapse (killed 2200 people), you’d think we’d have shut down all the dams and stopped building them.

[bagman]

The Hanford reservation is a defense facility and is not related to the commercial nuclear industry,

[wastedyears]

Get rid of an entire sub-industry and put thousands of people out of work?

[fishtank]

[Dr. Sivana]

After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP.

I would venture that MANY more lives have been lost, and many, many more shortened (black lung, anyone?) by both oil drilling and coal mining than by nukes, INCLUDING both Chernobyl and Fukishima put together. Men make things, and sometimes you get sick or even die from getting things done. Women also die in childbirth or from things related to childbirth. It is the human condition. We have made mining, drilling and childbirth safer, we can do the same with nuclear energy.

[stanne]

Nuclear power is crazy. But watch me get nuked for saying it. The women on Long Island stopped GE from being completed with the argument that evacuating 15 million in case of an accident couldn’t be done

[ctdonath2]

The nuclear industry would be fine IF people would stop freaking out over the fact that materials naturally break down thru a “bomb suitable” stage - to wit: if you just keep using radioactive materials in a safe & sensible way (modern highly-contained & self-limiting designs), it will degrade into waste at a relatively safe stage. It’s the “OMG bomb-grade!” attitude that leads to fragile designs producing high-intensity waste.

[Solson]

Are you really this stupid? Shut down the entire industry even though its safety record is so much better than other plants?

How much of the base energy generation do you think Nukes take care of in the United States? How about France? UK?

Please leave the ignorance off this forum. Sheesh.

[Ancesthntr]

“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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If that happens, then you are condemning the world to many more, and more destructive, wars than we currently have. You see, nuclear weapons degrade over time (particularly, and most importantly, the tritium triggers for thermonuclear weapons). Once most of them are gone, our deterrence will be gone with them. Yeah, when push comes to shove we will prevail...but at what cost?

Think, don’t give in to fear-mongering.

[Bender2]

Re: After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP.

You'd think anyone using... 'guns equal freedom' as their FR ID--

Wouldn't be so stupid as to think a tidal wave... was caused by the nuclear industry-

[DCBryan1]

After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP.

[DesertRhino]

No, shutting down the nuclear industry would be a panicky childish response to Fukishima. Fukishima ignored American advisors or numerous issues for years.
It is proof of the Japanese mentality, not proof that nuclear power should end.

[Pelham]

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?