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Originally Posted by retrojet
...and a Merry Christmas to you, too!
Half-life of 250,000 years... Give or take... Couldn't this wait till the new year?
But joking aside. 
We need to invest everything in solar power... Before the supernova... |
No one is talking about nuclear energy. The New York Academy of Sciences recently released a report indicating Chernobyl has already cost over 1 million lives.
When I started reading up on Nuclear Power, the way they manage waste, etc. It is a nightmare beyond anything imaginable.
Before it is done the damage at Fukushima,Japan will make Nagasaki and Heroshima look like firecrackers for damage compared to meltdowns in three reactors.
I can't imagine any country wanting nuclear anything. When they have an accident the consequences are un-imaginable. Note I said, "When".
I find it interesting how quiet the media has become worldwide about the Japanese meltdowns.
The Fukushima meltdowns will probably within the next 30 years be responsible for killing millions. The land for miles from the reactors will be a dead zone for thousands of years.
It is unbelieveable that any government could embrace such a technology with "eternal consequences" for failure.
Fossil fuels have their problems. The amount money dedicated to Nuclear energy research if applied to fossil fuels would have resulted in cleaner fuel by now, it just wasn't expedient to do so.