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rockspider -> RE: but but but Nuclear power is dangerous! (2/7/2010 4:57:55 PM)
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It is quite obvious that the posters here have no real experience in either the coal based or nuclear generating field.
Looking at the coalbased it is probably the biggest polutant on this planet. When it comes to personel safety issues it has killed more people than any other industri. In China alone over 2000 people gets killed in coalmining accidents annually. In South Africa it is over 1000 annually. This takes in to account only those directly killed, not those who die or have their health seriously impaired from diseases as the dreaded coallung. In the UK a few years back there was made a report over the health of ex coalminers and their health. Over ½ had their health serious impaired and that is in a country, who for many years have been quite safety conscious. I wonder how that report had been loking like if it was made in Poland, Russia, South Africa, China, Columbia or many other less developed countries with a coal mining industri.
Another thing about the coalmining and the use of coal is the enviromental impact. The asset rain, sulphur and phosfor fall out. I have seen hundreds of square kilometers of land who probably never recover from that in the Witbank - Middelburg area in South Africa. There is also lakes there who have an PH of 4, totally excluding any form of life in them. This is very concentrated as they have a great number of big powerstations in a very small area. But the effect is generally the same anywhere these stations is just more diluted. I invite anybody to go and take a look at the socalled stripmining methode of mining coal. It is a horendous view and also go and see what the ashproduction of a 4000 ton an hour looks like and what we can do with that in the future.
Nuclear power has had 2 major incidents in its history. Three Mile Island which was bad enough, but in reality the damage was contained in the plant and no one outside got hurt in any manner.
Chernobyl, if you read the accident report all the way you will find that it should never happen again. It was a hopelessly outdated plant, run in a manner which can only be described as totally reckless and with no regard for any form of engineering standards as can only happen in a country where corrupt politicians can override the responsible engineers (which was few and far between at Chernobyl). It was an extreme rude awakening call for the former eastblock and i think the rest of the world and i seriously doubt anybody, even in Russia, would want to go even cloose to that again. Besides that reactor dessign was abandoned over 25 years previous to the disaster happening. Modern reactor types can simply not have that kind of accident.
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