The Future of Nuclear Power ( Archived) (56)

Radiation In Massachusetts Rainwater Likely From Japan



"BOSTON -- Trace amounts of radioactive iodine linked to Japan's crippled nuclear power station have turned up in rainwater samples as far away as Massachusetts during the past week"

"The low level of radioiodine-131 detected in precipitation at a sample location in Massachusetts is comparable to findings in California, Washington state and Pennsylvania and poses no impact to drinking supplies, public health officials said.

Air samples from the same location in Massachusetts have shown no detectable radiation.

"The samples are being collected from more than 100 sites around the country that are part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Radiation Network monitoring system."

Gee, I guess all those "whacko" "tree hugging" environmentalists that the right wing gets so much pleasure out of bad mouthing are doing a valuable service for us all.

It's early yet lol I didn't know he went BK so often either so we both learned something.

Back to nuclear power.

I was coming home to Virginia from NY and I stopped for a toll booth on the highway and there was a flatbed tractor trailer off to the side with what looked like the wing from a Boeing 474 on it. The thing was over hanging the back of the trailer by about 15 feet and those flatbed trailers are 53 feet long. As I went by slowly trying to see what it actually was it dawned on me, it was 1 blade of a wind turbine. I had no idea those things were that big. A blade that big has a tremendous amount of power.

Another time I went to an air show that was just closing up for the day and there was a WW2 B17 bomber there and I over heard a very concerned party of workers discussing the fact that a storm was coming and they were concerned that the wings of the bomber had so much lift that a very strong gust of wind could lift the empty plane right off the ground. So they parked 2 WW2 jeeps under the wings and strapped the wings to the jeeps to help keep the plane on the groung. Such is the power of wind.

Nuclear technology should be limited only of deep space energy requirements . Its extremly dangerous, will have radio active residues with half life spanning millions of years . You are burdening our future generation to safe-keep these wastes as well.Thats pure selfishness.

Would be great to phase out Nuclear Power sometime in the Future,but where is the Real Estate to put all that Solar,Wind,etc?
And guess who will be the first one to complain when everything is covered by Wind- and Solar Farms?

.and the Battery-banks feeding the Inverters are a Sight to see!

Conrad my friend, I think you over estimate the acreage needed for a wind turbine. The footprint is only about 1/4 acre, about the size a typical house would take up. This area would be totally lost to crop production but why would anybody think that a turbine MUST be located on fertile farm land when there are millions of acres of land unsuitable for growing crops? Here is something I found through google that's pretty interesting even though it's at least 5 years old. I imagine wind power has advanced way beyond this in 5 years.

The REAL fun lies with the Storage Batteries!

Wait for the Tree-Huggers,they'll tell you what land is valuable!

I prefer the toast buttered on the darker side. It helps mask the burnt taste.

What storage batteries? With all due respect I suspect you don't know how an electrical grid works. When a wind turbine goes offline for whatever reason, maintenance/repairs/no wind, other units are online from other locations including nuclear power plants, gas, coal, oil, etc. The whole of America and Canada are interconnected on this electrical grid. There are no storage batteries. This is why the whole northeast had a massive blackout several years ago because the grid went down.
Something tells me you already knew that though.