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[Wolfie]

The Rues as stated in the last thread:

Right, a few rules before we start this time. No flaming. No intolerance of anybody else's viewpoint. No deciding you don't like the topic, and trying to tell people what they can discuss. This goes for everybody from now on.

Other than that, enjoy your discussion

[minque]

   

Why don't we just cover the world in renewable energy generators, we've managed to cover the world in railways, roads, pylons, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

Because we do not have enough of renewable energy generators!! We can´t cover the world in windmills.....or can we?

I view Nuclear power as a mixed bag. We have the pros that Minque mentioned, environmentally friendly etc, but it has it's cons as well.
For instance the half life on some of that stuff is several thousand years, and it remains highly radioactive the whole time. Then there's the horrible effects if something goes wrong, for instance Chernobyl. Who's to say something like that wont happen again? You can take as many precautions as you want, but you can never guarantee that something like that wont happen.

Just my semi-coherent 2 cents

Sure, everything has pros and cons! If you read my earlier post I said that we f ex have a program for handling of those nuclides that have a very long half-life, we have a plan for final storage. it´s called "the swedish model" It´s well known..

And Chernobyl...well one of my friends (german)worked there some years ago, writing a safety-report for the facility as it is now. He lived there for 5 years, spending almost the entire time close to that wreck of a plant. He has some pictures I say! The plan now is to cover the whole area in concrete...they´ll build a mountain out of concrete on top of it!

But..of course...you can never guarantee anything.....now the probability of a nuclear melt-down like chernobyl..is well not very high....in fact it´s very low.....very low

There's a nuclear power plant around where I am. I think everything is pretty safe. You can't get within a mile of the place without having an m16 pointed at you.

Ahhh that´s neat! But seriously it´s like that here as well....sort of....safety is number one issue.....safety against outside threats as well as radiological safety

All in all.....I think it´s safe enough....btw Danny what´s the name of that plant near you?