07-03-2006, 04:54 AM
Here is a piece from Alternet giving the quick case against nuclear power. It begins with the claim that mining and transporting uranium nullifies gains made in greenhouse gas production. (I doubt that.) And then goes into the stupidity of using fission to boil water.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/38261/
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/38261/
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Getting Off Our Nuclear Power Fixation
By J.A. Savage, AlterNet. Posted July 1, 2006.
The vice president would have you believe nuclear power is clean and safe. Here's everything you need to know about just how unclean and dangerous it really is.
By J.A. Savage, AlterNet. Posted July 1, 2006.
The vice president would have you believe nuclear power is clean and safe. Here's everything you need to know about just how unclean and dangerous it really is.
To get you started, just read this:
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The government/industry's plan is to contain all that nasty, deadly fission by building a huge box around it. The boxes, the reactor vessels, are made of thick carbon steel, lined with stainless steel. "That oughta keep 'er," some engineer figured. After decades of operation, though, it doesn't. The lesson happened in 2002 when the Davis-Besse nuclear plant's reactor head was found to have been worn away -- from a two-feet-thick exterior to a 3/8-inch layer of stainless steel. Even that last bit had bubbled outwards from the pressure of keeping radioactive action on the inside. The plant, near Toledo, Ohio, had a hole in its reactor head wide enough and deep enough to put a fist into, according to former Nuclear Regulatory Commission member Victor Gilinsky. Corrosion on that part reduced the head by 70 pounds of steel. Workers found the problem inadvertantly, leaving the reactor perilously close to unleashing a jet of radioactive steam from the pressurized vessel.