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Originally posted by CranialSponge
Einstein put it best when he said, "Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water."
Love how that man was always so concise in getting his point across.
Yup, nuclear power is a friggin joke.
"Duh... Let's boil water to make steam to spin a turbine to make energy. Oh look boys, a steam powered engine !"
Pfft. Neanderthal technology.
We really are still swinging around in the trees, aren't we ?
Originally posted by Nosred
For the energy required to mine and transport uranium to power nuclear plants they use, guess what, nuclear energy!
Like I said, we should have started converting to nuclear power years ago. The facts are that
nuclear power provides a cheap alternative to fossil-fuel-based sources of electricity. With comparable capital and operating costs, and a mere fraction of the fuel costs, it can provide electricity at 50-80 percent of the price of traditional sources. It is extremely reliable, and is by far the cleanest of any viable energy source currently known.
In the midst of power shortages and rising energy costs, nuclear power would be a practical solution to our energy problems.
Nuclear power provides a cheap alternative to fossil-fuel-based sources of electricity. With comparable capital and operating costs, and a mere fraction of the fuel costs, it can provide electricity at 50-80 percent of the price of traditional sources. It is extremely reliable, and is by far the cleanest of any viable energy source currently known.[1]
Kuro-Kuro
In America today the nuclear industry ranks among the safest places to work. It experiences only 0.34 accidents resulting in lost work time per 200,000 workers compared to an average of 3.1 throughout the private industry. In the past 40 years, hundreds of thousands have died as a result of coal mining and other forms of energy production, yet there has not been a single fatality, or even a serious injury, resulting from the operation of civilian nuclear plants in the United States. The annual probability of radiation leakage for the newest reactors is estimated at less than one in a billion--a level of safety no other source of energy can even approach.
Its safety record is also exemplary.
In America today, the nuclear industry ranks among the safest places to work. It experiences only 0.34 accidents resulting in lost work time per 200,000 worker-hours, compared with a 3.1 average throughout private industry. While during the past 40 years, hundreds of thousands have died as a result, directly and indirectly, of coal mining and other means of energy production, there has not been a single fatality, or even a serious injury, resulting from the operation of civilian nuclear plants in the United States. The annual probability of radiation leakage for the newest reactors is estimated at less than one in a billion–a level of safety no other source of energy can even approach.
Knol
The truth here is that
the opposition to nuclear power is based not on science, but on hostility to science and technology.
The opposition to nuclear power is based, not on science, but on a hostility to science, technology and capitalism.
Ayn Rand Center
Originally posted by CranialSponge
Time to wake up and smell the economic factor.
Originally posted by thorfourwinds
Would you happen to have sources, links, and factual evidence to back up this assertion? Nuclear-powered mining equipment and nuclear-powered vehicles? We would actually be interested in this technology. Please share it with us.
Originally posted by Nosred
Originally posted by thorfourwinds
Would you happen to have sources, links, and factual evidence to back up this assertion? Nuclear-powered mining equipment and nuclear-powered vehicles? We would actually be interested in this technology. Please share it with us.
en.wikipedia.org...
Quite a few ships are powered by nuclear energy, in fact the USS Enterprise has eight nuclear reactors.
en.wikipedia.org...
For the energy required to mine and transport uranium to power nuclear plants...
Originally posted by CranialSponge
Apparently you're power engineering expertise is unfamiliar with hydrinos, or Rossi reactors, or temperature differentials between electrodes, or....
Eventually the nuclear proponent shills and their billions of dollars in revenue will get voted off the island.
Originally posted by thorfourwinds
Greetings:
Just for once, please attempt to stick to the point you made, and answer the question, if you can.
Well, I spent three weeks following that Fukushima story doggedly... then in the end I found out three things...
1) Except for a handful of people and those that live in the area... NO ONE CARES...
2) We are still here... 1000's of nuke tests (especially near my home town) medical radiation, space radiation, CME's, cell tower radiation, microwave radiation... etc etc.. and we are STILL HERE.. and world population is increasing exponentially
3) Radiation is good for you