I don’t understand why the enviro extremists are so against nuclear. Nuclear plants produce zero greenhouse gases.
Yes, we know about Three Mile Island and Fukishima and Chernobyl. Why are we letting fears from such events dictate our official energy policies?
And, refresh my memory, didn’t the safety protocols at Three Mile Island function as designed, which prevented a worse accident?
We need to balance risk and benefit with all of this, in my opinion. I would love to have nuclear plants everywhere, if the alternative is sitting in the dark, or sweltering in the heat of summer. But we seem incapable of balancing risk and benefit. Instead, we take a zero tolerance approach, we say there were nuclear accidents which happened, and because of that, we just shouldn’t have nuclear any longer.
“And, refresh my memory, didn’t the safety protocols at Three Mile Island function as designed, which prevented a worse accident?”
The safety-related emergency feedwater valves were closed and not noticed. Regs require plant to be shutdown before disabling both feed lines.
The safety-related PORV stuck open and not noticed by operators till new shift came on.
Yes they did. It was the human intervention that screwed things up, and that little matter of the faulty relief valve.
Yep, and with those failures, nuclear is still by far the safest way to produce electricity. The whackjobs just have people scared of a nuclear boogeyman.
The media is nothing but vicious, despicable liars.