What do you think about chernobyl?!

[Aurimas]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEgkG...eature=related
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WEO9JA...eature=related
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What do you think about this? I think it is terrible. The similar electricity station is in my country. And I am really afraid even though they planning to close it.

Just watched this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=101OEaksU0s Do you think the radiation is still effecting us?

And this video made me really sad: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pjo43Tk4318
Look at the girl who is holding a cat in her hands at 5:32 - 5:55? Do you think cats feel radiation better?

[Draco]

I don't.

[PARANOIA]

Chernobyl was a lamentable disaster, but nuclear technology has improved since then, and a Russian disaster from bygone years is no reason to picket nuclear plant construction; a cleaner, plentiful, and more efficient source of energy than oil.

[Gregori]

I think an accident like this was inevitable. Nuclear Fission isn't a safe way of producing power. I think its only a matter of time before another major nuclear disaster happens. Its just takes a two or three things to go wrong on tthe same day to cause a nuclear accident.

I think its about time we started putting some hardcore funding and research into Solar, Wind, Geothermal and Wave power. Because of it's potential for producing Nuclear Weapons, the Nuclear industry got enormous funding without parrallel.

If humans want to travel through the solar system and colonise it, we should be developing Nuclear Fusion.

Originally Posted by PARANOIA

Chernobyl was a lamentable disaster, but nuclear technology has improved since then, and a Russian disaster from bygone years is no reason to picket nuclear plant construction; a cleaner, plentiful, and more efficient source of energy than oil.

Its not more plentiful since the primary fuel for it will be exhausted by the end of the century.
Its also not "cleaner" since they can't properly dispose of the waste which can stay radioactive for thousands and millions of years. I've never heards of any deaths from CO2 exposure. Despite that, Nuclear Energy is much more expensive that oil. No matter how improved nuclear technology gets, the potential for a disasterous accident is always there, so people have pretty good reasons to picket.

Keeping the Nuclear Power industry alive means keeping Nuclear Weapons alive. This increases the potential for disaster for the humans race in the long run. Nobody in the international community would support Iran's civilian nuclear power program because they know Iran's is pursuing it for the same reason as themselves.

[PARANOIA]

Nuclear Fission isn't a safe way of producing power.

Prove it.

[scion05]

Well it was 20+ years ago It doesn't really bare thinking about
LOL

[Kamrusepas]

Well around where I live people were worried, because it happened shortly before I was born. Thus mine and many other parents were afraid of giving birth to mutated kids. But, we seem to be more or less fine.

[Gregori]

Originally Posted by PARANOIA

Prove it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_accident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...lear_accidents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...lear_accidents

[PARANOIA]

Originally Posted by Gregori

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_accident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...lear_accidents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...lear_accidents

Notice that the majority of catastrophic disasters were by Soviet Russia, or any nearby provinces. All later disasters are anecdotal and reach as high as Level 4 from the outside countries (if even that), and no significant level in the United States. Three Mile Island is peanuts compared to Chernobyl. Nuclear power is plentiful because it can be generated by a chemical reaction. Even then, there's always hydrogen power.

If we continue developing on nuclear power, we'll have less accidents, and we'll get hydrogen or even fusion power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power

Wind and solar power: One would need billions and billions and billions of solar and wind power generators to power an entire country. The expenses would be astronomical.

[SamReeves]

"Aye Captain, the future ye know is matter and anti-matter!"



Until that day, it's coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro for us regular folk.