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Merged nuclear power safe?

Economics of nuclear power, post-Fukushima

Chris Huhne, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change "conceded that the Japanese disaster was likely to make it more difficult for private investors to raise capital to build the eight new reactors planned by the government. 'There are a lot of issues outside of the realm of nuclear safety, which we will have to assess. One is what the economics of nuclear power post-Fukushima will be, if there is an increase in the cost in capital to nuclear operators.'

He said that after the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster in the US 32 years ago, it became more difficult to raise money for nuclear investment. 'After Three Mile Island in 1979, nuclear operators found it very hard to finance new projects.'"

'Nuclear power may become less attractive option for UK'
 
Skwinty said:
It just shows to me how fickle the human species is. In the 50's uranium was almost commercially worshipped as a god. Just google uranium ice cream and you will get the idea.
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Ann Coulter has an interesting take on it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20110317/cm_ucac/aglowingreportonradiation
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.
This only seems counterintuitive because of media hysteria for the past 20 years trying to convince Americans that radiation at any dose is bad. There is, however, burgeoning evidence that excess radiation operates as a sort of cancer vaccine.
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a_unique_person said:
Ann Coulter has an interesting take on it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20110317/cm_ucac/aglowingreportonradiation
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.
This only seems counterintuitive because of media hysteria for the past 20 years trying to convince Americans that radiation at any dose is bad. There is, however, burgeoning evidence that excess radiation operates as a sort of cancer vaccine.
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It's not Coulter's take. I attended a presentation on it at a CNS conference in 2009.

Ann Coulter unsurprisingly managed to mangle the delivery. Don't read her article, go to the one I linked instead.
 
What's with all the fake outrage over Cesium? If you're talking about safe levels of radiation in food, does it really matter where it's coming from?

It's almost like someone is trying to cause a distraction...
 
What does the Government say to do to protect yourself from cesium137?
 
r-j said:
What does the Government say to do to protect yourself from cesium137?
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:confused:

What can I do to protect myself and my family from cesium-137?

Cesium-137 that is dispersed in the environment, like that from atmospheric testing, is impossible to avoid. However the exposure from cesium-137 in the environment is very small.

Serious exposure is unlikely. People most likely to accidentally encounter a cesium-137 source typically work in scrap metal sorting, sales and brokerage, metal melting and casting, and in municipal landfill operations. They may unwittingly encounter an industrial instrument containing a sealed cesium-137 radiation source.

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JihadJane said:
Cars really were bad idea, though, and still are! Their needs have caused an immense amount of damage.

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Japan is experiencing blackouts. Are people there calling for more nuclear power?
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Too early yet.
 
bikerdruid said:
a crushed factory will not likely endanger the millions that live in that entire area.
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It's not millions, but a train derailment in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, in November of 1979 resulted in the evacuation of 218,000 people due to the possibility of a cloud of chlorine being released from damaged rail cars. It's still the largest civilian evacuation in Canadian history.
 
Corsair 115 said:
It's not millions, but a train derailment in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, in November of 1979 resulted in the evacuation of 218,000 people due to the possibility of a cloud of chlorine being released from damaged rail cars. It's still the largest civilian evacuation in Canadian history.
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This is why we need international bans on swimming pools.
 
This is getting better...

http://nei.cachefly.net/newsandeven...anese-earthquake-and-reactors-in-that-region/

UPDATE AS OF 8 P.M. EDT, SATURDAY, MARCH 19:
Powered by an emergency diesel generator, pumps are circulating cooling water in the spent fuel pools of reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, according to reports. The company also added water to the used fuel pool at reactor 3 after elite firefighters from Tokyo spent 13 hours operating a high-pressure spray truck that pumped seawater into the pool....
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r-j said:
It's as if somebody claimed that all food contains raw human feces, in very small amounts. That is how disgusting it sounds.
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Disgusting, but probably true to a degree.

Do you know nothing about chemistry ?

Healthy food does not contain any of the dangerous nuclides from reactors. You might as well say milk contains traces of Strontium 90 and Plutonium 239. That is so disgusting.
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Are you just trolling, now ? Or are you so completely out of arguments that you need to use the word "disgusting" in every post ?
 
qarnos said:
What's with all the fake outrage over Cesium? If you're talking about safe levels of radiation in food, does it really matter where it's coming from?

It's almost like someone is trying to cause a distraction...
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That's what I don't understand. Saying that he didn't believe that there was any of it in milk (I don't know whether or not there is, and don't care. Trace amounts don't bother me.) But he went on a kind of crusade as if he had been personally insulted by the very notion that there could be. Odd.
 
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