What do ya think bout nuclear plant?

Question

Many ppl reject it coz it`s quiet dangerous, but it can produce a lot of energy. So... Any resolution?

Answer 1

Best source of clean, reliable energy at a low cost.

Answer 2

Like anything that is powerful, nuclear power must be managed with care, or it can be dangerous.
Current technology is reducing the quantity of waste being produced by nuclear processes and can convert some of the old waste into energy, thereby reducing the waste already stored.
Safety problems are essentially resolved as long as the facilities are properly maintained and secure.
The need for energy will DEMAND a nuclear resolution. It is just a matter of time.
We need environmental groups to hold our feet to the fire when it comes to the issues involving being "cheap" about safety, but NO LAWSUITS please!
They are a waste of money!
Instead of fighting nuclear power, the greenies should be making recommendations regarding where to place the power plants. The same is true for refineries.
Don't just protest!
Tell us where YOU want them, and we will place them accordingly.
Let's cooperate and we will ALL be better off.

Answer 3

Nuclear power is just one solution for producing energy and is clean. It has a very bad connotation because of disasters like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, but if all safety precautions are taken then these disasters would not happen. Nuclear produces clean energy, but also produces a lot of hazardous waste and uranium (I always forget which number it is) is a nonrenewable resource. But Europe uses nuclear energy and I think that if all the safety precautions are taken Nuclear energy would be a good TEMPORARY solution.

Answer 4

Nuclear power is the best hope we have for a clean reliable source of energy. The French have been quite successful with this technology, No disasters have been reported in France, in fact despite the hand wringing over 3 mile island it should be remembered that no one was killed in that incident. Too many people have gotten their info on Nuclear power from watching the China Syndrome movie. The very idea that anyone could claim Nuclear Power is dangerous despite that fact that not one person has lost their life due to a nuclear accident in this country speaks volumes to the power of propaganda employed by the eco-nuts and their fellow travelers in the Luddite movement

Answer 5

Dangerous no.
Three Mile Island the worst possible disaster that could even be thought up and didn't come close to a major release.

It is safe but people who get their science about nuclear power from 1950 scifi movies are hard to educate about the subject.

It doesn't produce green house gases like coal plants.

Yet people like the Union of Concern Scientist who don't even have clue are running the show.

Need an example I work at power plant and we decided to build a baseball field. According the NRC license we could change the local grounds.
So we apply for a license change to build the baseball field in step Union of Concern Scientists saying we were making unsafe changes to the license and needed to be shut-down.

I do have more examples another one comes to mind.
At the Three Mile Hearings in Congress they were talking about the quality of water they discharge back into the river. The TMI rep. said they get the pH as close to 7 as possible.

When the environmentalist jump up and said, "Wait if you can get the pH to 7 why not get in down to 0 or 1?"

The TMI rep. said, "See Congressmen these are the people who we have to deal with daily."

BTW: If you don't understand why the was a dumb question. I am not going to explain it to you.

Answer 6

I love Nuclear plants - A little water & fertilizer go a long way....seriously we have one at Turkey Point in South FL.
A nuclear plant called turkey...what were they thinking?

It has been very safe and a clean source of energy.
France has the best nuclear waste solution I was told but for some reason it cannot be implemented in the USA

Answer 7

We are running out of choices, I sat in on a guest speaker who talked about this at Okalahoma State. He was the nuclear saftey guy for the U.N. He said that a nuclear revolution was pretty much inevitable. Other sources of energy just arent developed enough. He said that with the current technology for solar panels, if you were to cover the entire country of Italy with them, they still would not produce enough electricity to supply the number of people that live there. I think it would work fine if it is regulated properly. It just has to be done right or we're screwed.

Answer 8

All I can add to this series of answers is that the average person can't come close to understanding nuclear fission, so they rely on crap like "The China Syndrome" and even Springfield Nuclear Plant on The Simpsons to tell them its unsafe.

Ever notice that people always mention the failure of one reactor at Three Mile Island and never mention that the other 3 adjacent reactors have run safely and reliably since 1979?

Answer 9

Nuclear power is one of the most disturbing inventions since plastic. It takes 'that which can kill you' and uses numerouse complex proccesses 'which can kill you at once or by repeated exposure' to boil water (I love how all our classic power systems involve boiling water) and leaving a waste product 'which can kill you or the land where it is deposited for an unknown length of time, often measuered in centuries.
There are other solutions. While uranium is a rare but natural element no nuclear solution should be viewed as a natural healthy or safe solution.

Answer 10

I think it sounds like an ideal solution, and in the future when we've developed safer nuclear plants it might be a really good choice. but at the moment the safety risks are not worth it. probably everything would be fine, but it's not worth the risk.

also, long term it's really not that much better for the environment. yeah, there's less air pollution and stuff, but where do you dump all that nuclear waste? it gets buried under mountains and such, and needs to be left undisturbed for tens of thousands of years. between earthquakes and human development, there is no way it will be undisturbed for that long.

Answer 11

Nuclear power provides clean, effecient, and relatively inexpensive power. It is a shame the greenies have used ignorance and fear to dismantle the US nuclear power industry.

The only problem I have is the byproduct of nuclear waste, which has a half life of tens of thousands of years. If there were some way to dispose of it or neutralize the harmful effects, I would be full bore, pedal to the metal, hard core in favor of building as many nuclear plants as we need.