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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]

Nuclear power plants emit radioactive energy that cause genetic problems, like cancer and mutations.  At every nucealr power plant animals recorded to live near the plants have had recorded mutations, mostly cancer, but also spawning eggs two weak for the embryos to survive, or random, strange mutations.

It is NOT environmentally friendly.

I don´t know exactly how you control your plants in US. But I can assure you yhose emissions are very thorough recorded and documented here. The authorities do have stated limits for air- and water emissions of radioactivity. We are not allowed to exceed these and we do not! I can assure you. We also control the animal-life nearby and the only thing we noticed was that the fish living in the cooling-water outlet is a tad bigger than normal, but that´s due to the higher water temperature!

I still say that nuclear power is environment friendly....

First off, Chernobyl wasn't an accident.  It was a deliberate simulation of wartime conditions, for which several layers of safeguards had to be disabled, and the uninformed personnel prodded into doing things that they would normally never let happen.

Secondly, Chernobyl is a wildlife sanctuary today.

Yes Chernobyl accident was a test performed that went wrong and the reactor went overcritical and so the core melted down. There were also a couple of explosions that lifted the reactor vessel cover and turned it aside before it fell dowen again.

Not the whole area. There are still huge numbrs of people living on heavily irradiated soil, and cancer and mutations are high

The very site where the plant is is pretty clean today, but the city nearby is abandoned due to contamination. But a new city is built some distance away.

The cancer and mutations are higher in the area yes...and that is very sad indeed.