bipolarber -> RE: The Paris Response Ad (8/7/2008 7:37:13 PM)
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I have lots of reasons to distrust nuclear plants. Everytime I hear that they've been "engineered with a 0 fault capacity" I keep thinking of the Titanic as being "unsinkable." Where do you put the waste? It's dangerously radioactive for the next 10,000 years... we're going to fund it's storage for that long? When you transport the waste, by railcar, thorugh god knows how many cities and small towns across America, can you be absolutly certain that nothing can happen to those cannisters? Like terrorisim to derail the train and deliberate attempts to crack them open? (It's often said that you can engineer against accidents, but never against deliberate malice.) Earthquakes, hurricanes... any sort of natural disaster that could rob a core of it's cooling would cause a metdown and the spread of radiactive steam and fallout. Did anyone else catch the TV special "The Earth Without People?" The producers of that show went to a russian town that was near Chernobyl. It had to be evacuated when that plant went supercritical, and the "unsinkable" containment dome leaked. They dis so, because it was the best example of how a city would decay after being abandoned for 20 years... if it repeats, try to catch it. It's really facinating TV, and as those scenes pan by, just keep repeating to yourself, "John McCain want 47 new plants put up on the fast track... John McCain says they'll be safe... John McCain wants 47 new plants put up on the fast track..."
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