2007-07-23 12:42:39 · 111 answers · asked by Judas Rabbi 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
A nuclear power plant is one of the safest industrial places in the world to work. Plant personnel are regularly taken off normal work to attend safety classes. Spills are avoided by careful maintenance. If the collection sumps receive as little as 1 gallon a minute from all sources, there is a "find the leak(s)" program. Many plants do this at 1/2 gpm. Most of this leakage is piped to the sumps and is not runoff. The air is continuously sampled in areas that could potentially become contaminated. Radiation levels are checked very often as are personal dose meters. If a person goes into a radiation area (defined as an area being able to deliver the same radiation dose in one hour as one would receive from a flight between New York and Florida), additional dose meters are worn and these are read within minutes of exiting. There is no chance of a nut case entering the site with a weapon seeking revenge. Everybody is screened for sanity and convictions before being allowed on site. Even with the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident, Three Mile Island Unit 2, nobody on site received a radiation dose in excess of the yearly legal limit. (Doses to people off site were too low to even measure.) Would I work at a nuclear power plant? Absolutely!!
If you are worried about radiation, please be advised that a person who smokes one pack a day receives as much radiation effect each year as the legal annual dose for a nuclear worker. That dose comes from the radioactive polonium in the tobacco.
2007-07-23 13:06:39 · answer #1 · answered by MICHAEL R 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
I have no desire to change careers....smiles!
I am a K-9 Trainer for the Mi State Police and I love my job!!
Nuclear Power
Two strangers are sitting in adjacent seats on an airplane.
One guy says to the other, "Let's talk. I hear that the flight
will go faster if you strike a conversation with your fellow passenger."
The other guy, who had just opened a book, closes it slowly, takes
off his glasses and asks, "What would you like to discuss?"
The first guy says, "Oh, I don't know; how about nuclear power?"
The other guy says, "Okay, that could make for some pretty interesting
conversation. But let me ask you a question first; a horse, a cow
and a deer all eat the same stuff, but the deer excretes pellets; the
cow, big patties; and the horse, clumps of dried grass. Why is that?"
The first guy says, "I don't know."
The other guy says, "Oh?... Well then, do you really think you're
qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don't know crap?"
2007-07-23 12:54:38 · answer #2 · answered by Me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No matter HOW safe they claim Nuclear energy is, I could NOT work in a Nuclear Power Plant. I see shades of Long Island and Chernobyl. I would never want the responsibility involved or the consequences of a 'meltdown' to be on my shoulders. To be the one responsible for the deaths of many and the eventual malformations of infants and rendering the land unusable...It would be even more dreadful than anything I could possibly think of.
2007-07-23 12:51:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I would not want to work in a nuclear power plant.
2007-07-23 16:26:57 · answer #4 · answered by Tony M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had an offer when I was younger to work in a nuclear power plant and I had to turn it down, so no I would not. =)
2007-07-24 11:07:21 · answer #5 · answered by spiritcavegrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No thanks.
On the news today in Dallas texas, there was a place (not even near nuclear) plant that caught on fire but it contained gas tanks in the building. It continued to blow up for about 3 hours.
Think about a nuclear plant if it caught on fire. You'd never see light again (except for heaven)
2007-07-25 16:16:23 · answer #6 · answered by -----> over here 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! I don't even want to live near one. Both my children were born in San Luis Obispo County where the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is located. Promptly thereafter I moved my family 381 miles north, partially because I didn't want to live so close to the plant.
2007-07-23 20:27:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not at all.. way to much freaky gasses floating around. I already have to deal with enough gas while i'm around my boyfriend. Besides i don't really want my kids to be born with like 12 fingers and 5 legs.
2007-07-27 01:12:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a downwinder from nuclear weapons testing in Nevada. My birth defects are many, as are my daughter's. I could write a book on this subject.
Yes, I glow in the dark.
Ditch the nukes before we have no planet left.
2007-07-26 18:41:14 · answer #9 · answered by Saffernellie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It seems to work for Homer Simpson..... so yeah... sure, I'd love to work in a nuclear power plant. (Will doughnuts be served?)
2007-07-23 12:58:49 · answer #10 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋