Modern-day Tower of Babel

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Yes, I do understand. There was no support in Congress to go to war with Russia over the Crimean peninsula.
 
Yes, part of my extended family is Japanese and they are almost anti-Christian. They truly wouldn’t care what the pope thinks and in general they are very skeptical of Christianity. They think people are Christian (or Islam etc) for the most part because of being raised to be so by their parents 🤷‍♀️
 
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That makes zero sense. We have let Russia have access to a LOT of plutonium/nuclear potential which makes Russia even MORE of a threat to surrounding countries. But it wasn’t Trump that arranged that, it was during the Obama administration. That transaction puts the prior admin a lot more “in bed” with Putin than the current one, wouldn’t you think? So based on your theory no recent admin would be helping and the prior one may have even helped contribute to Russia being more of a future threat.
 
The problem is “abandon nuclear power and climate protection” is mutually exclusive.
The only reasonable solution we have nowadays to reduce polution from coal, etc. power plants is to use nuclear power.
The renewable energy sources can be used only in addition. Germany tried that and what? They closed nuclear power plants, build lot of wind turbins and … had to re-start some old coal power plants when there was not windy enough.
 
Gingersnaps4, we know there is a love thing going on between Trump and Putin.
 
Nuclear power is unsafe. What happened in Japan was inevitable. The meltdown after the tsunami. Earthquakes can happen anywhere.
The real danger is the dumping or radioactive waste.
There is no safe place to bury it where it will not eventually leak out.
 
YourNameHere said:
What happened in Japan was inevitable.
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Well, yeah, if you build a nuke power plant on the seashore, in an earthquake / tsunami zone. Duh! Building it just five miles inland would have avoided all those problems.

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Only because so few people understand radioactivity. Honestly, the NRC throws a conniption over extremely minor things, thereby requiring the nuclear industry to have a safety culture bordering on paranoid. Radioactivity is detectable at extremely low levels, and we will go so far as to confiscate a worker’s clothes and wash him down if he has even a small amount of radioactivity on him. This is not because it is necessary for safety, but because it is necessary for public relations that we not allow any artificial radioactivity to escape into the public. I have touched radioactive waste, and I have received less radiation over my lifetime from my occupation than I have from airline flights, and perhaps even from old CRT TVs and computer screens.
 
Tell me: What was the purpose of flooding Fukushima Daiichi with seawater?
 
Because it can’t be turned off in the summer. Of course, there’s no reason why the fission products can’t be entombed on site at the power plants, especially if the non-radioactive decay products are separated.
 
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Gingersnaps4, we know there is a love thing going on between Trump and Putin.
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If you say so! :smiley:but with love, I think actions speak louder than words. So I would say other U.S. government officials must love (and trust) Putin a lot more.

I doubt Russia would ever decide to give up their nuclear arms, so I wonder as well if it would be beneficial for other countries in the area to have one; maybe it would make them think twice.
 
Oh, I see, earthquakes don’t happen inland. 🤣
Tell that to people in Turkey, China, and other places where they have had devastating earthquakes. :roll_eyes:
And where does the nuclear waste product get placed? This radioactive, toxic junk will be lethal to human beings for hundreds of years.
 
Nearly all of the nuclear power plants in the U.S. have already run out of storage space, because these pools were not designed to be long-term containers and enough room needs to be preserved in case of a crisis such as a meltdown. In the absence of a long-term solution (such as burying the waste deep inside Yucca Mountain), the nuclear industry has turned to so-called dry cask storage.

This involves immersing the radioactive used rods in helium or some other inert gas and slotting them into a steel container that is further encased in a concrete cask—at a cost of roughly $1 million per cask. The encased rods still manage to emit roughly one millirem of radiation per hour and heat the outside of the 100-plus ton concrete casing to as much as 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).

“These are placed in rows on a concrete pad for stability. They’re essentially out in the air,” says NRC’s McIntyre. “Generally, they are putting them within the controlled area of the reactor site so they are protected under the physical security of the plant.”

Some 9,000 metric tons of spent fuel rods are already stored encased in some 900 such casks—the bulk of them stored vertically in concrete casks but some placed horizontally into concrete bunkers. Their makers—companies like New Jersey-based Holtec International and AREVA’s Transnuclear, Inc.—and the NRC maintain that such dry cask storage will last for at least a century, if not longer. “They’ve had an excellent safety record over the past 22 years they’ve been in use,” McIntyre says. “All signs are that they are safe and secure.”

But some environmentalists and other nuclear power critics contend that such dry casks present a tempting target for terrorists and a disaster for the environment if ever breached. In fact, the San Luis Obispo, Calif., chapter of Mothers for Peace has successfully sued the NRC and power utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co.—owners of the Diablo Canyon power plant—for failing to take into account the impact of a potential terrorist strike when assessing the environmental risks of a new, proposed on-site dry cask storage area.
 
The public is against nuclear energy. They realize the dangers involved. That is why new reactors will not be built in this country.
The future is renewables. Wind farms and solar farms are the big thing right now. Everywhere you go you see them being built.
No one wants to live anywhere near a nuclear power plant.
Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Fukushima. These are names the public associates with radioactive disaster.
Fukushima may wind up costing Japan over $500 billion. And that is just in terms of loss and clean up.
What most want to know is where they are putting the radioactive stuff they are trying to clear from the area.
 
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