I challenge any of you Lib nuts to go a week without using ANYTHING that requires fossil fuels. Oops….you already lost….your computer or smartphone requires electricity to recharge…
Yes, the US should by using natural gas as a interim fuel until we can build sufficient nuclear plants to become independent of coal and oil for electrical generation. We would then have the cheap electrical power to produce hydrogen for portable fuel and get off gasoline almost entirely...But not for the Progressive Left with their idiot ideas that sunshine, whirligigs, and choo choo trains will solve our energy problems.
The nuclear plants scare me! How can the waste be stored safely? What about another Three Mile Island, or Chrenoble, or the event in Japan? Nuclar power is DANGEROUS!!!!
A blog?! Okay… Well, the Ronald Reagan (CVN) example is utter … That stuff. I was in the naval nuclear power program. There is no dosemetry records to back up the claims. There is no indication that radiation aboard the ship was higher than normally expected.Potable water as well as feed water is checked daily by the RLT’s (Reactor Lab Technicians) for radiation along with a large number of other things.Dosemetry is in place on the ship and all nuclear and plant operators wear personal dosemetry for all intents at all times aboard ship. The records are official and kept by dozens of different personnel. They would be difficult or impossible to forge or “lose.”So, the article starts with a vauge and incorrect supposition and then builds on that sort of vauge unsourced nonsense..One thing is correct in it: Cancer does not appear rapidly after low levels of exposure. If exposure were severe the problems caused by radiation would vastly outweigh the possiblity of cancer in any case.
The real danger with nuclear: My son went to nuclear power school, we had a uranium mill in town in the early ’50’s and mines in the hills across the valley, years before we moved here, they were gone, he had the highest “background” radiation level in the class. A kid who lived his entire life just outside the fence of a nuclear power plant had among the LOWEST levels in the class!
It’s the mining and processing that is most dangerous, not the actual operation of plants, or disposal of that wast, most of which is actually very low level garbage.
Fossile fuels ARE a finite resource, and like it or not, there will come a day when options are no longer options.
Don Winchester Premium Member about 10 years ago
I challenge any of you Lib nuts to go a week without using ANYTHING that requires fossil fuels. Oops….you already lost….your computer or smartphone requires electricity to recharge…
Enoki about 10 years ago
Yes, the US should by using natural gas as a interim fuel until we can build sufficient nuclear plants to become independent of coal and oil for electrical generation. We would then have the cheap electrical power to produce hydrogen for portable fuel and get off gasoline almost entirely...But not for the Progressive Left with their idiot ideas that sunshine, whirligigs, and choo choo trains will solve our energy problems.
archimedeslives about 10 years ago
try a little research there are 25 oil refineries in Canada. But don’t let the facts get in the way of a good rant
woodwork about 10 years ago
The nuclear plants scare me! How can the waste be stored safely? What about another Three Mile Island, or Chrenoble, or the event in Japan? Nuclar power is DANGEROUS!!!!
rossevrymn about 10 years ago
Wow! This is really not pertinent.
Enoki about 10 years ago
A blog?! Okay… Well, the Ronald Reagan (CVN) example is utter … That stuff. I was in the naval nuclear power program. There is no dosemetry records to back up the claims. There is no indication that radiation aboard the ship was higher than normally expected.Potable water as well as feed water is checked daily by the RLT’s (Reactor Lab Technicians) for radiation along with a large number of other things.Dosemetry is in place on the ship and all nuclear and plant operators wear personal dosemetry for all intents at all times aboard ship. The records are official and kept by dozens of different personnel. They would be difficult or impossible to forge or “lose.”So, the article starts with a vauge and incorrect supposition and then builds on that sort of vauge unsourced nonsense..One thing is correct in it: Cancer does not appear rapidly after low levels of exposure. If exposure were severe the problems caused by radiation would vastly outweigh the possiblity of cancer in any case.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member about 10 years ago
There is really no clean way to make that much energy. There’s no getting away from it; we need to use less energy and recycle plastics.
…but that’s not the american way…
Reality,really? about 10 years ago
Not viable in your lifetime. Or any lifetime.
Dtroutma about 10 years ago
The real danger with nuclear: My son went to nuclear power school, we had a uranium mill in town in the early ’50’s and mines in the hills across the valley, years before we moved here, they were gone, he had the highest “background” radiation level in the class. A kid who lived his entire life just outside the fence of a nuclear power plant had among the LOWEST levels in the class!
It’s the mining and processing that is most dangerous, not the actual operation of plants, or disposal of that wast, most of which is actually very low level garbage.
Fossile fuels ARE a finite resource, and like it or not, there will come a day when options are no longer options.