What do advocate of Nuclear power have to say to me about my experiences?
Al S asked:
I grew up in Londonderry Township PA in the 1970s, I was 8 years old when I was yanked of a school bus by my mother because of an accident at nearby 3 mile Island. Are these people who so advocate nuclear power going to want them right beside them? Are they willing to have their kids remember that terror for the rest of their lives? Or worse be harmed by an accident?
I grew up in Londonderry Township PA in the 1970s, I was 8 years old when I was yanked of a school bus by my mother because of an accident at nearby 3 mile Island. Are these people who so advocate nuclear power going to want them right beside them? Are they willing to have their kids remember that terror for the rest of their lives? Or worse be harmed by an accident?
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McCain is a hypocrite. He has publically stated that he is Pro Nuclear, but he refuses for nuclear waste to be even transported through his home state–b/c it is so dangerous.
And how many people died of, or were even afflicted with radiation sickness there? That’s right, not one.
We MUST have viable alternatives to burning coal for electricity. Our coal-fired powerplants dump more radioactive waste into the atmosphere than ALL of the nuclear powerplants in the world combined since they began operations.
Nuclear power, like all forms of energy, has evolved greatly in the past 40 years. The chances of another Three-Mile Island incident happening again are highly unlikely. Furthermore, the incident at that nuclear facility wasn’t bad at all or detrimental in any way. Nuclear energy is safe, efficient, and clean.
Almost no one to live near a nuclear plant but they all want the benefits. Of course someone posed that question the other day and all the neo-cons said they wanted one in their backyard.
I don’t believe them, but that is what they said.
oh you experienced “terror” ?
harden up. 3 mile island was nothing. nimby-ism is ridiculous in my opinion.
Wah, Wah, Wah. I used to do nuclear bomb drills and have to hide under my desk at school, **** it up and build those nuke plants.
That’s it? You remember having to leave the area because of an accident? Now you’re traumatized?
I’m calling my shrink, cause I we had to leave my house because of a gas leak and I’m not traumatized? I feel so cheated.
Nuclear safety has come a loooooong way since the 70s.
Take a look at the air in Bejing. That’s the alternative to not investing in nuclear power.
Yes I live very close to the Monroe Michigan Atomic Power plant and we have not had anything happen to us.
I am 63 and I have spent my entire life withing three miles of this plant and it is very safe.
So don’t be a scare monger.
That we can build nuclear reactors today that are much much more safer, fuel efficient (uranium core designs have improved greatly since then) and can generate less waste byproducts than we could/did back in the 1970’s.
Irrational fears often get the way of an honest evaluation of risk. Each year in the United States alone over 40,000 people are killed in auto accidents and hundreds of thousand crippled. We seem to accept the risk of gasoline powered automobiles in fact we just keep making more of them. The fact is you are more likely to be killed or injured in your car or struck by lightning than by living next to a nuclear power plant. The candles we will be forced to burn without an expansion of nuclear energy to support a growing population and the energy demands that go with it will kill more people than nuclear power plants.
Coal Plants dump thousand of tons of radioactive Uranium and Thorium into the atmosphere every year.
The ash piles are also highly radioactive. Many of the ash piles from Coal Fired power plants have such high concentrations of Uranium and Thorium that they are considered ore grade for the purposes of extracting Uranium and Thorium for the purposes of providing fuel for nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons.
All of those ash piles are left out in the open and exposed to wind an rain which forther contaminates the surrounding area with what is essentially nuclear waste.
Prior to the Three Mile Island Accident, we had a plan to build over 2,000 nuclear power plants in the United States of America for the purpose of making us independent of imported oil.
Unfortunately due to the emotional and irrational hysteria of ignorant people after the Three Mile Island accident, the plans those neclear power plants were cancelled.
The money that Muslim Terrorist states such as Iran receive from the export of oil is used to fund Muslim Terrorism all over the world and will be used to fund the purchase of Uranium enrichment technology on the Black Market.
Once Iran succeeds in purchasing the technology and equipment to enrich Uranium to weapons grade, that weapons grade Uranium will be given to Muslim Terrorists to build crude nuclear weapons that will then be smuggled into the United States of America and detonated.
You are complaining of something that is not a serious risk (nuclear power plants) and ignoring a very big risk (Muslim Terrorists smuggling and detonating crude nuclear weapons in the United States)
Nuclear power is the only source of affordable energy that can replace coal fired power plants.
Wind power is too unreliable and solar energy is much too expensive. The cost of solar energy is over 10 times the cost of nuclear energy and is far too expensive for most people.
Only the very wealthy can afford electricity that is produced by solar photovoltaic cells.
Nuclear power plants are the only source of affordable energy that we can use to replace the use of oil.
The only way to shut off the money that is flowing to the Muslim Terrorist nations is if the United States, The People’s Republic of China and India convert to nuclear power plants for most of our energy needs.
We currently have over 100 nuclear power plants in the United States that have been operating safely for over 40 years.
Rational and knowledgable people agree that nuclear power plants are much safer and much more desirable than the alternatives.
So almost 40 years ago you were scared because you didn’t know what was happening and the adults around you behaved like they were going to die?
How many deaths occurred during this massive terror? Oh yes; ZERO!
But how many deaths have we had since then from nuclear power plants? I believe that would be another ZERO!
So now let’s bring up Chernobyl (another quality product of communism) — Chernobyl-type plants have not been and cannot be built in the U.S.)
And so besides Chernobyl, how many deaths worldwide have we had since your “day of terror”? Again we have ZERO.
However, since that tragic “day of terror” we’ve had over 10,000 children die from buckets (it’s about 300/year – notice the warning label on them today).
Luckily you managed to escape the deadly bucket and now you are an adult. Either grow up and act like an one or go get some therapy.
Advocates of nuclear power know that it is actually the safest form of energy we know of.
But we don’t have any answer for irrational fears.