HIROSHIMA (26)
patmac: Of course Radiation is a problem but the reaction you have to the event is over the top.
Look at Hiroshima today.
We know how bad and dirty that Bomb was.
This even had far fallout and radiation problems.
Also the fact the Power stations survived the fifth largest Earthquake ever shows how well planned they were.
Sadly the Tsunami on top did the damage but it is no way as bad as Hiroshima and the knee jerk reaction to the event without all the details and the references to the alternate power sources. Well this shows you disagree with Nuclear power and the critique before the total amount of damage is assessed really shows your point.
Folk are doing what they can to stop any further damage and I am sure the other 50 odd power stations will be upgraded by the Japanese to prevent this happening again.
I agree with wind/solar/wave power but it is not the whole answer as it is in no way Guaranteed.
Nuclear power is inevitable unless we can find a way of harnessing the elements and guaranteeing they will always work.
As always JMO...
Exactly!Look at Hiroshima today.
We know how bad and dirty that Bomb was.
This even had far fallout and radiation problems.
Also the fact the Power stations survived the fifth largest Earthquake ever shows how well planned they were.
Sadly the Tsunami on top did the damage but it is no way as bad as Hiroshima and the knee jerk reaction to the event without all the details and the references to the alternate power sources. Well this shows you disagree with Nuclear power and the critique before the total amount of damage is assessed really shows your point.
Folk are doing what they can to stop any further damage and I am sure the other 50 odd power stations will be upgraded by the Japanese to prevent this happening again.
I agree with wind/solar/wave power but it is not the whole answer as it is in no way Guaranteed.
Nuclear power is inevitable unless we can find a way of harnessing the elements and guaranteeing they will always work.
As always JMO...
The Screamers here have become deafening!
Seems they are trying to set aside a Vote by the people of Berne to extend an existing Nuclear Powerstation!
Has become the Rage lately!
The People approve something by a Majority,and the Losers go to Court to have the Vote set aside!
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SUNSHINEB0Y: ps
with the weather being what it is there at the moment and the trade winds blowing, who would be stupid enough to believe that this pollution will be localised to japan?
If the western economies had all the money that has had (and is having)to be spent because of the effects of chernobyl we would all be a lot better off.
Chernobyl was a totally different Reactor,and blew out under totally different Circumstances!with the weather being what it is there at the moment and the trade winds blowing, who would be stupid enough to believe that this pollution will be localised to japan?
If the western economies had all the money that has had (and is having)to be spent because of the effects of chernobyl we would all be a lot better off.
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patmac: Of course Radiation is a problem but the reaction you have to the event is over the top.
Look at Hiroshima today.
We know how bad and dirty that Bomb was.
This even had far fallout and radiation problems.
Also the fact the Power stations survived the fifth largest Earthquake ever shows how well planned they were.
Sadly the Tsunami on top did the damage but it is no way as bad as Hiroshima and the knee jerk reaction to the event without all the details and the references to the alternate power sources. Well this shows you disagree with Nuclear power and the critique before the total amount of damage is assessed really shows your point.
Folk are doing what they can to stop any further damage and I am sure the other 50 odd power stations will be upgraded by the Japanese to prevent this happening again.
I agree with wind/solar/wave power but it is not the whole answer as it is in no way Guaranteed.
Nuclear power is inevitable unless we can find a way of harnessing the elements and guaranteeing they will always work.
As always JMO...
Look at Hiroshima today.
We know how bad and dirty that Bomb was.
This even had far fallout and radiation problems.
Also the fact the Power stations survived the fifth largest Earthquake ever shows how well planned they were.
Sadly the Tsunami on top did the damage but it is no way as bad as Hiroshima and the knee jerk reaction to the event without all the details and the references to the alternate power sources. Well this shows you disagree with Nuclear power and the critique before the total amount of damage is assessed really shows your point.
Folk are doing what they can to stop any further damage and I am sure the other 50 odd power stations will be upgraded by the Japanese to prevent this happening again.
I agree with wind/solar/wave power but it is not the whole answer as it is in no way Guaranteed.
Nuclear power is inevitable unless we can find a way of harnessing the elements and guaranteeing they will always work.
As always JMO...
as I understand the bombs over hiroshima and nagasaki were exploded very high to minimise the fall out. also I don't see how anyone can over react to a situation like this if it costs even one life, what if it were the life of your son or daughter, how would you feel? it very well may be the life of your grandchild! chernobyl is still polluting the world so how can you think you will ever know the final damage? I have several relatives in scotland who have passed away due to cancer and one whom is very close to it, who's to say they weren't a result of chernobyl, when chernobyl went up the government came up with figures, expecting so many more thousands of cases of cancer in the next twenty yrs, I'd love to know how close they were to being right.
I don't understand how we cannot derive enough power from the sea, it's there and constant. when I was at school I did a project on canada, at the time it was 100% hydro electric, now there are nuclear power stations everywhere
You are perfectly correct in saying I don't agree with nuclear power, but I live in Ireland, we are nuclear free, nuclear power is only inevitable if the people that want the plutonium for their bombs get their way.
Another thing that is often not revealed when they push through the paperwork to get these places built is the fact that the companies that then run them don't want the cost of shutting them down so they are pushed well beyond the intended lifetime. when decommissined these sites are to be left for 100 yrs before they ever go near them to clear them up, obviously this hasn't happened anywhere yet, and the housings that contain the reactors get more brittle as they get older making them more and more dangerous. I view them as time bombs and the lates events show exactly what I mean.
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Conrad73: Chernobyl was a totally different Reactor,and blew out under totally different Circumstances!
and is still polluting the world today.....it doesn't matter what the circumstances are if someone close to you gets killed, you can't bring them back whatever. We have enough trouble in the world without making more for future generations.
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woodstock1: the usa tv and radio news outlets have absolutely refused to say this word since the japan disaster.....this can only be because of white house orders.....
and you were there when the orders were given?
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Even without factoring in all the technical data and human error, natural disasters, etc; it's a pretty safe bet to say that if we have nuclear plants and nuclear bombs, sooner or later ther will be nuclear pollution.
It's no different from saying that if we have roads and cars, bycicles motorcycles etc, sooner or later there will be road accidents.This is not a legacy I'm happy to be a part of leaving for future generations and I very much hope that the powers that be will wake up and contain the thirst for more and more plutonium.
We've done more than enough damage already and we've gained nothing for it, they don't even seem to be cost effective.
for island nations like japan and britain to be haveing nuclear power, that costs huge amounts, when we can have constant very low cost power from the wave power in the oceans arround us is just crazy in my estimation.
Of course Radiation is a problem but the reaction you have to the event is over the top.
Look at Hiroshima today.
We know how bad and dirty that Bomb was.
This even had far fallout and radiation problems.
Also the fact the Power stations survived the fifth largest Earthquake ever shows how well planned they were.
Sadly the Tsunami on top did the damage but it is no way as bad as Hiroshima and the knee jerk reaction to the event without all the details and the references to the alternate power sources. Well this shows you disagree with Nuclear power and the critique before the total amount of damage is assessed really shows your point.
Folk are doing what they can to stop any further damage and I am sure the other 50 odd power stations will be upgraded by the Japanese to prevent this happening again.
I agree with wind/solar/wave power but it is not the whole answer as it is in no way Guaranteed.
Nuclear power is inevitable unless we can find a way of harnessing the elements and guaranteeing they will always work.
As always JMO...