Nuclear Waste Transport Held Up By Protestors

[Azraele]

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What is everyone's opinion on Nuclear Power, Weapons etc. Pros? Cons?

 

[warcleric]

NIMBY's, everyone benefits from the services that produce this waste, noone wants the responsibility of it.

 

[cipher00]

If it's good enough for Homer Simpson, it's good enough for me!

 

[vi edit]

Ok, here's my question - if this nuclear waste was so overpowerfulling aweful, wouldn't you want it to pass through your area as fast as possible and with as little resistance as possible.

This idiots are lucky they didn't cause the train to derail spilling this stuff over the country side killing all wildlife for miles. Morons.

All that I can think of is the PETA incident where they put the orange vests on the deer and it just made it easier for the hunters to shoot them.

That said - nuclear power GOOD. Nuclear weapons BAD.

 

[Phil21]

nuclear power is by far the cleanest energy source we have, that is economically viable. Hydro, wind, and solar should all be used whenever possible but it's unrealistic to think we can rely soley on those sources.

The solutions to the california "power problem" is to build some damn nukes, and be done with it. We have two stations in MN, and there has never been an incident. The US just needs a nice big secure waste storage facility, and there needs to be some serious funding to go to research to figure out how to speed up the decay of these. Perhaps shoot them off into space.

peace,

-Phil

 

[NFS4]

There are always a few in the bunch...

 

[JimmyEatWorld]

we need to come up with a cheap rocket, possibly itself fueled by nuclear power. If we found a way to do this safely and cheaply, then we've found a way to get rid of nuclear waste. Just send it on a collision course to the sun. But then again maybe in the future we might find some use for it, so maybe we should send it to an uninhabitable moon on another terrestial planet so we could retrive it later. Pipe dreams, I know. But so was nuclear power.

 

[JasonG]

Until we have a way to dispose of this nuclear waste, we shouldn't be generating it.

Should we just continue to generate tons of this waste with nowhere to put it???

 

[BoberFett]

<< Until we have a way to dispose of this nuclear waste, we shouldn't be generating it. >>

You're right. Forget nuclear power, let's get those coal burning plants cranking! Acid rain here we come! Woohoo!

 

[Viperoni]

I'm 50/50 for nuclear.
It's cool, but deadly.

 

[JasonG]

Boberfett-

Does that mean we can store the nuclear waste in your house?

As usual your reply is just stupid Republican/conservative banter!

What is your solution to the nuclear waste problem?

That's right, you don't have one.

 

[warlord]

I personaly agree with figuring out a way to lauch nuclear waste at the sun, but if you think the risks are even moderate now, what do you think the risks are of lauching it. If that rocket were to explode before it left the atmosphere, the result would be catastrophic to say the least.

 

[BoberFett]

<< Does that mean we can store the nuclear waste in your house? >>

How much are you willing to pay me?

<< As usual your reply is just stupid Republican/conservative banter! >>

Where did this come from?

<< What is your solution to the nuclear waste problem? >>

Seems to me that there are huge areas of uninhabitable land. It wouldn't be hard to bury it deep in an area where the nearest people are hundreds of miles away.

<< That's right, you don't have one. >>

As opposed to the Democrat/liberal solution of standing in the way of a train. I can see how productive that is.

 

[Shantanu]

JasonG: The environmental impact of nuclear power is nothing compared to the impact from your average coal burning plant. What a lot of environmentalist nuts don't realize, that in their crusade to prevent nuclear power plants from opening up shop in the U.S., the environment has gotten much more polluted. The energy demand needs to be fulfilled, and this demand sure can't being fulfilled entirely by solar and hydroelectric power (most of it is gas, and coal burning).

Here in the U.S., all used up nuclear waste gets stored under a mountain in the Nevada desert, several hundreds of miles away from the nearest city. In the unlikely event that an earthquake swept through this region, cracking the mountain open, and was followed by a tropical storm causing a flash flood, little more than a few cacti and rattlesnakes would be affected.

Before you go all nuts on Republicans/conservatives, let me point out that nations with very left-wing, &quot;environmentally concious&quot; governments like France, Germany, etc. get over 50% of their power from nuclear power plants, whereas here in the U.S. we only get about 20%.