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Merged nuclear power safe?

In an effort to educate people about radiation, since everyone's attention is focused on it now, I suggest you all take some time to calculate your own personal radiation dose. Once you go through that calculation and see all of the sources (both natural & artificial) that you're exposed to all the time, then you will see how much the media is hyping this stuff.

Knowledge is power, folks. Learn about radiation, and it will cease to be as scary as the media is making it sound. As I like to say: "Know nukes!" :)
 
angrysoba said:
Indeed, Edge of Darkness's main point does seem to be that Man has turned its back on the fruits of Gaia and will be destroyed for it. And unfortunately the show seems to rejoice in this possibility with the "optimistic" idea being that once humans are all dead the Earth can get back to doing whatever it was that makes Gaia's life worthwhile. The moral message is piffle but the soundtrack is great.
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It's been a long time since I saw the show, but from what I recall, I didn't take away that message from it. I just remember it being about a father trying to find out what really happened to his daughter, and Joe Don Baker's radioactive act of revenge towards the end. I also recall it being a very well-made program.
 
Some good observations in this thread. Having worked in Health Physics (radiation safety) I'd say that no form of large scale energy production is "safe", but nuclear is among the safest of the methods currently in use. However conveying the concept of risk to a public fearful of anything involving dreaded radiation is tough. (Wonder if we'd still be lighting our houses with kerosene lamps if the electric chair had been extensively used for executions well before Edison and Tesla came along to electrify our homes and businesses?)

The Health Physics Society, of which I am a member, has some excellent info on their web site, particularly under "Experts Answers" under the Ask an Expert section. And for anyone who wants a good overview of nuclear health risks, grab a copy of Petr Beckmann's excellent if somewhat irreverent, "The Health Risks of NOT going Nuclear."
 
bikerdruid said:
i live simply, with solar power, wood heat and cooking and haven't had running water for many years.
the best my water can do is walk from the spring to the house, in a bucket, at the end of my arm.:)
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What do you do with your waste? I presume you have an outhouse?


Nosi said:
Turkey Point nuclear power station: A nuke plant in Florida that's a hideaway for American alligators.
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Are the alligators now three hundred feet long and rampaging through cities yet? :D
 
bikerdruid said:
no.
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Yes. There is a reason we no longer allow human waste to be dealt with in septic systems in populated areas. It becomes pollution.

When we were homeless like the other beasts, before we settled down and started farming, our numbers were small, and our wastes were scattered all over our range, and were not a problem.

As soon as you dig a pit and keep defecating and urinating in it on a constant basis you have are polluting the soil and the groundwater. No escape from this.

If you want to be green and not deal with a sewer, get a Clivus Multrum composting toilet. Those actually are green. Outhouses with a cesspool underneath are very much NOT green.

See; http://www.clivusmultrum.com/
 
bikerdruid said:
ii ride an 35 year old soviet motorcycle that i maintain myself.
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I hope you bought that used.

Because otherwise, you gave money to histories 2nd bloodiest genocidal regime and the one responsible for the most and the worst nuclear disasters.

i drive a 30 year old toyota truck which i maintain myself.
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Built with nuclear energy and farts gobs of carbon with every mile driven.
 
bikerdruid said:
oh, i was....didn't you notice my use of the inclusive pronoun 'us'?
that includes me, therefore, i was speaking for myself.
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So, BD, what's the Earth doing that's so important, that it'd be better off doing it if you weren't around?

And if the Earth really would be better off without you--as you claim--then why are you still around?
 
MattusMaximus said:
Speak for yourself, pal.
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GOd, he is sounding like the villians in Tom Clancy;s original "Rainbow Six" novel,where a fanatic billionaire Earth First Econut develops a virus that will wipe out 99% of the Human Race,thus preserving the enviroment.
 
BenBurch said:
Yes. There is a reason we no longer allow human waste to be dealt with in septic systems in populated areas. It becomes pollution.

When we were homeless like the other beasts, before we settled down and started farming, our numbers were small, and our wastes were scattered all over our range, and were not a problem.

As soon as you dig a pit and keep defecating and urinating in it on a constant basis you have are polluting the soil and the groundwater. No escape from this.

If you want to be green and not deal with a sewer, get a Clivus Multrum composting toilet. Those actually are green. Outhouses with a cesspool underneath are very much NOT green.

See; http://www.clivusmultrum.com/
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And they stink like hell...........
 
MattusMaximus said:
In an effort to educate people about radiation, since everyone's attention is focused on it now, I suggest you all take some time to calculate your own personal radiation dose. Once you go through that calculation and see all of the sources (both natural & artificial) that you're exposed to all the time, then you will see how much the media is hyping this stuff.

Knowledge is power, folks. Learn about radiation, and it will cease to be as scary as the media is making it sound. As I like to say: "Know nukes!" :)
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Many anti-nuke people don't take a second thought about throwing a burrito into the microwave, a very tiny nuclear device.
 
BenBurch said:
However, if you want a device that everybody uses and few people think of as a radiological device, look up; Most smoke detectors have an ionizing source that is Americium, about one micro-curie of it.
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Actually, you forgot the punchline to that joke. The only viable source of Americium is in nuclear reactors. Its the only element that is industrially produced.
 
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