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Merged nuclear power safe?

r-j said:
Not to me. I'm interested in nuclear issues, safety and the truth about radioactivity. Not some nobody who lies about it.


I've read many lies from liars about how almost nobody died from Chernobyl, they repeat it like a mantra. They simply can't accept reality when it comes to nuclear accidents. They even try to besmirch somebody who was there, who lived through it. It's like they are scared of the truth.
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You are not interested in "truth." You are interested in finding biased bits of opinion that confirm your beliefs.

And everyone knows that about forty people died at Chernoboyl. We also know it is irrelevant.
 
LOL

I ran into an article about Nuke energy in the Guardian.

The Guardian has a whole section devoted to green issues, called the Guardian Environment Network.

All the nuclear energy articles are heavily anti nuke, I recommend reading all of them.
Not for the articles, which are biased and chock-full of bad science and outright lies.
But for the comment section under each article, which is a home-entertainment-centre in it's own right.

Why? Because the Guardian readers tear each article to shreds.
These seems to be a real downside to having an educated readership.

Check out their piece on Thorium reactors.
Its a hoot.
 
Travis said:
You are not interested in "truth." You are interested in finding biased bits of opinion that confirm your beliefs.

And everyone knows that about forty people died at Chernoboyl. We also know it is irrelevant.
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No, that is just something you said. There is no authority behind it, no study, no medical records, no science, no evidence, nothing. It's a myth.

Repeating it won't make it true.
 
"It's why the nuclear industry is dangerous. They want to deny the dangers."
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The "nuclear industry" isn't a single entity, and far from all experts on nuclear power are employed by the "nuclear industry".

I believe her. I don't believe you at all.
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What if we found survivors telling different stories? Who would you believe? Would you simply label all those who disagreed with you liars?

What about the 9/11 eyewitnesses who saw cruise missiles smash into the towers?
 
Well, I had to wait a minute between posts. Three times in a row is a tremendous waste of time. What is the point of it?
 
r-j said:
Do you think repeating a lie will make it believable? You know, unless you present some evidence, there is zero reason to listen to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_reactor#Nuclear_reactions_with_thorium

I wish breeder reactors and thorium reactors could be made to work.
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The Fort St. Vrain Generating StationWP here in Colorado ran on an Uranium Thorium cycle. It had some serious technical problems with the liquid cooled helium circulator pumps, but the fuel cycle did work. The plant was shut down and converted to natural gas years ago.
 
For those who just tuned in, here is a brief recap:

r-j said:
Are you a nuclear engineer? Of course not. Did you ever work at a reactor? No. Do you actually know anything about radiation and nuclear accidents? Of course not.
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r-j said:
"It's why the nuclear industry is dangerous. They want to deny the dangers." I believe her. I don't believe you at all.
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r-j said:
But you act like you know something when you don't, and then you try to degrade people who do. Pathetic really.
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So only the opinions of nuclear engineers should be considered.

All nuclear engineers are liars.

Those who degrade people who actually know things are pathetic.

Have I got that right, R-J?
 
r-j said:
I wish breeder reactors and thorium reactors could be made to work.
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Already done. The Aircraft Reactor Experiment ran for 1000 hours in the 1950s. The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment ran from 1969 to 1974. A the first breeder reactor in the world was built in less than a year in 1943 and ran for more than 20 years.
 
Same for plutonium reactors. If they could get that to work and not be dangerous beyond belief, we would all have our own nuclear power sources and electricity would be as cheap as air.
 
Safe Nukes or I told You I was Snake When You Let Me In

I dare anyone who thinks nuclear power is safe to help themselves to a nice plate of Fukashima Sushi or Chernobyl Borscht.

Have a few nuclear plants for reaserch purposes out in the middle of noplace and use them to provide some power and medical isotopes and study advances in the next generation of power ... fusion.

j.r.
 
ufology said:
I dare anyone who thinks nuclear power is safe to help themselves to a nice plate of Fukashima Sushi or Chernobyl Borscht.

Have a few nuclear plants for reaserch purposes out in the middle of noplace and use them to provide some power and medical isotopes and study advances in the next generation of power ... fusion.

j.r.
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What in particular leads you to think a fusion plant will be safer than a fission plant?
 
shadron said:
What in particular leads you to think a fusion plant will be safer than a fission plant?
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You can do the usual Wikipedia search, but heres the essential bit:


Fusion power is believed to have significant safety advantages over current power stations based on nuclear fission. Fusion only takes place under very limited and controlled circumstances. For this reason, a failure of precise control or cessation of fueling quickly shuts down fusion power reactions. There is no possibility of runaway heat build-up or large-scale release of radioactivity, little or no atmospheric pollution, the power source comprises light elements in small quantities which are easily obtained and largely harmless to life, the waste products are short-lived in terms of radioactivity, and there is little overlap with nuclear weapons technology.

j.r.
 
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ufology said:
I dare anyone who thinks nuclear power is safe to help themselves to a nice plate of Fukashima Sushi or Chernobyl Borscht.
j.r.
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I've eaten things that are 8 times more radioactive than normal background levels here in Alberta. I've even touched the outer wall of the nuclear reactor here in Edmonton. Nuclear energy is completely safe.

I notice it says you live in Alberta. You should compare what you and I are doing every hour with our power usage versus our countrymen in Ontario (Ontario saves more than 8,000 tons of C02 per hour just from nuclear energy alone).
 
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