GOOD: Nothing sounds good about a power source that creates waste that is volitile for 400 THOUSAND YEARS! Nothing sounds good about an energy source that creates a biproduct that can insinerate a couple hundred thousand people within .076 seconds!!! Nothing sounds good about a couple hundred thousand people dead after a decade of cancer eating their body tissues... NOTHING!!!

BAD:

San Luis Obispo is one of the most beautiful areas in the world... If you ever get a chance to visit take the scenic drive to MORRO BAY. You're overwhelmed with the beautiful countryside... then, you come around a corner and BOOM, right straight in front of you, blocking the ocean is the most god awefulll ugly, grotesque "corporate mentality" power plant ever built. It truly disgusts you and you pass within a few hundred feet of this testiment to "how concerned the energy department is about preserving the beauty of our coastlines".

( NOTE: Morro currently burns natural gas but you know they'll be building nuclear plants just a hideous )

BADDER: Nuclear "experts"... insist they will only build nuclear facilities in "unpopulated areas"... Oh my god... This is the lamest statement ever. Yea, places like Morro Bay, Three Mile island are unpopulated TODAY... But, take a trip through Los Angeles and count the baby carriages... The polulation is growing and it's almost safe to say ANY PLACE WILL BE POPULATED IN 20-50 YEARS!!!

Our "advanced" human civilization has been on earth for about 3,000 years give or take a theory or two... WHAT RIGHT DO WE HAVE TO PASS ON NUCLEAR WASTE TO NOT ONLY FUTURE GENERATIONS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FUTURE CULTURES?... we don't.

No society has the right to create a toxic waste that will last 400 THOUSAND YEARS!!! Just take into consideration how many civilizations have been born, flourished and become extinct in just the past 2,000 years... Roman, Midieval, Renaissance, Industrial, Technological, etc. Imagine a geologist digging therough a ruin in the middle of a future desert called 'New York City"... and unburying N-waste and having his skin melt. What a great society will we become!

UGLY: Nuclear waste must be buried in the middle of "somewhere" encased in cement, in the ground, below mountains some place down below water tables. Current plans are to "store" N-waste in the middle of the Nevada desert (and other lucky locations) If you don't live in Nevada you probably think this is a good idea. But, it's not.

UGLIER: N-waste must some how be transported from nuclear "time-bomb plants" to "bury-and-forget" locations. This commonly is done by trucks, trains, ships and other imperfect means. So far, there have been no mishaps, well, at least that we know of??? Many rumors have been heard of shipments becoming "temporarily unaccountable" somewhere between points. This is also referred to as being "lost". There is no aspect of that scenario that is acceptable. But, those are just rumors....right?

WORSE: Nuclear accidents cause 300,000 degree burns...

WORSER: Terrorists could hijack airplanes and crash them into a nuclear facilities, causing ruptures of radioactive ducts, storage units, core reactors... resulting in MASSIVE LARGE SCALE MELTDOWNS. Results would be:

A: Short term burning of body tissue within live humans within possibly tens of miles.

B: Long term effects of radiation poisoning inflicted upon MILLIONS OF PEOPLE within hundreds of miles. People would then die slow agaonizing deaths caused by cancers. The lucky ones would die sooner.

C: Massive loss of power sources to cities, but this is the best case scenario... if you're still alive.

(RESEARCH: Russia, Chernoble 1986, USA, Three Mile Island 1979 - and a whole bunch of accidents the public did not hear about)

UNSPEAKABLE: THE "EXPERTS" WANT TO BUILD 100 OR MORE NEW NUKE PLANTS!!! This is just an estimate, they actually will need even more to power the ever growing populations, millions of homes, and 500 million additional cars of the future.

DISGUSTING: RIGHT NOW THERE ARE BRILLIANT MINDS WORKING ON A NEW NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY CALLED "FISION". THIS BASICALLY CREATES A NEVER ENDING EXPLOSION THAT IF CONTAINED, AND WE REPEAT IF CONTAINED...

SORRY, AGAIN, IF CONTAINED

... WILL CREATE A NEVER ENDING SOURCE OF POWER. BUT, IF THEY ARE WRONG ABOUT THIER CONTAINMENT ( YOU SEE, SOMETIMES EVEN SCIENTIST MAKE MISTAKES, YEA TRUE! ) THIS REACTION WILL BECOME "INFINITE".

THIS MEANS A MASSIVE EXPLOSION WILL CONSUME ALL MATTER UNTIL ALL MATTER IS EXPENDED.

TO PUT THIS IN SIMPLE TERMS... A MASSIVE FREAKIN FIREBALL WILL TOTALLY ENGULF THE PLANET... YOU KNOW THE PLANET WHERE WE ALL LIVE, WELL WERE LIVING ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONCLUSION: While some scientist insist nuclear power is "safe" they truly don't take into account the "what ifs"... We say "what if we set aside a thousand square miles of Nevada where the scientists will live, with their families and bury the waste under their homes, and let them experience cancers"... What if they pay for their mistakes, not the rest of us?

Instead of burning billions of dollars building N-plants, these efforts could be used to develop clean, safe, environmentally safe SOLAR POWER, DUH!!

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Peter Bunyard explains the Chernobyl Accident

On Saturday 26 April 1986, at 1.23 am the Number 4 reactor at Chernobyl blew aside the 1,000 tonne lid of a massive steel vessel and blasted through the surrounding concrete containment structure. Bits of graphite, chunks of uranium fuel, and pieces of control rods were strewn around the reactor building. The red-hot graphite still inside the reactor burst into flame as the air rushed in, and like coke in a blast furnace it began to burn vigorously.

Two men died in the first moments of the blast, one from falling masonry and one from burns. Over the following months some 30 others were to die, most of them firemen who battled heroically to prevent the fire from spreading to the reactor in the next building.

All died from radiation burns and radiation sickness following exposure to strong gamma and beta radiation from the broken reactor core. In addition to radiation from outside their bodies, some had also been exposed to large internal doses from breathing in radioactive particles.

Over the next few days Soviet authorities marshaled their resources to evacuate 135,000 people, all of whom lived within 35 km (19 miles) of the power station - an area of nearly 3,000 square miles. Livestock had to be moved and attempts were made to control the contamination that was settling out by covering soil and buildings alike.

Meanwhile, the fire in the reactor had to be put out, and the reactor itself smothered to prevent the escape of even more radioactive material. Helicopters, flying 24 hours s day, were used to dump 5,000 tonnes of material onto the burning core.

This included 800 tonnes of dolomite - a limestone rock - to generate carbon dioxide gas to quench the fire; boron carbide - a neutron absorber - to insure that the nuclear chain reaction remained shut down; 2,400 tonnes of clay and sand to help seal off the fire. The strategy worked and by May 6 the temperature of the core had fallen, and the release of radioactive materials had fallen sharply.
The Soviets believed that between 30 million and 50 million curies of radioactive substances escaped, amounting in all to a few percent of the total inventory in the core.
Moreover, it was the more volatile substances such as iodine and caesium that escaped in relatively large quantities, while inert gasses such as krypton and xenon escaped in their entirety.
The estimate is that 20 percent of the radio-iodine was lost from the core, and approximately 12 percent of the radio-caesium. These substances would later fall-out over much of Europe, contaminating food and water supplies.

Fallout was significantly high over the first couple of weeks after the explosion that many thousands of people received substantial radiation doses through gamma and beta radiation. The Soviets used a comparatively large dose as a criterion for evacuation.
The Soviets stated the official annual limit for individual exposure to radiation as 5 rems (50 millisieverts), which is ten times the ICRP limit and equivalent to more than 25 times the natural background radiation dose.
Even so, towards the end of May some villiages and small towns in Byelorussia several hundred km away from Chernobyl had to be evacuated, in addition to those in the 30-km zone around the stricken reactor.

The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a runaway chain reaction of the kind that creates an atomic bomb explosion. In addition, the fallout from Chernobyl was many times greater, possibly by a factor of a thousand, than would occur after a Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb blast.
Heavy rains over Scandanavia and Western Europe washed out considerable quantities of radioactive substances. Some of these area received several hundred times the fall-out compared with those areas remaining dry. Radio-iodine and radio-caesium were by far the most significant isotopes. Milk products and vegetables were quickly contaminated.

What needs to be known at this point is how a certain level of radionucleotide such as caesium-137 - in the air, on the ground, or in the water supply - is likely to behave in terms of its getting into the food chain and ultimately into human beings. Caesium on pasture translates into such-and-such a dose to infants, children, and adults. At a dose equivalent of 50 millisieverts to the thyroid gland, the authorities should seriously consider whether the public ought to be given stable iodine tablets to prevent the uptake into the thyroid of radio-iodine. By the time the dose has been put to 250 millisieverts action should have already been taken.

An estmated dose of 5 millisieverts to the whole body, or 50 millisieverts to the skin, thyroid, lungs, or other individual organs, ought to have alerted the authorities to the eventuality that the public should take shelter. Once those doses have reached 25 millisieverts to the whole body and 250 millisieverts to any one organ, shelter should have already been prescribed.

During 1-5 May 1986 the maximum radiation concentration in the air at Cadarache in France was found to be 18.5 becquerels per cubic metre. Meanwhile Cadarache received 10 milliliters (less than a half-inch) of rain and the fall-out levels on the ground were measured at 14,200 becquerels per square meter. At Cruas (63 miles from Cadarache) the maximum air concentration was 8.7 becquerels per cubic meter. It rained more than 30 milliliters (1.2 inches) during the same days and the deposition on the ground was 250,000 becquerels per square meter. This was twenty times more radioactive deposition than at Cadarache, demonstrating the importance of weather conditions. Also the Eastern part of Corsica was badly hit by fall-out from Chernobyl. Corsicans, Britons, Swedes and Lapplanders, measured high radioactivity in livestock which increased six months after the initial fall-out. Because of the initial weather conditions, the levels of radioactive caesium in livestock continued to increase during 1987.

Obviously, not all localities are measured for fall-out, and some areas will be entirely missed (especially in the countryside) and people who live there left in ignorance.

What we have learned is we should be on our guard if it rains heavily at a time when the radioactive cloud is somewhere in the vicinity.