Since Fukushima is back in the news more again and many are screaming about the predicted irradiated water washing up now on the West coast I am hoping maybe some normally sane individuals will take another look at the disaster in waiting these plants are. Or more particularly the left over waste that is still being stored on site is the real danger.
Thanks Again Obummer for deep sixing the deep storage of spent fuel rods.
Why is it that so many level headed people out there are ready to just swallow the koolaid put out about the pro-Nuclear crowd? Any criticism of nuclear energy is immediately followed by comments claiming how safe and redundant the plants are. How nothing can ever go wrong. Or if one does cause a major accident it's always "That was a different type of plant it can't happen here".
Yet no one can deny that if you remove the human factor and there is no one there to take care of the plant it will destroy everything around it for miles and miles.
They just claim.....
That will never happen.
My bet is some Roman Axillary soldier was sitting on Hadrian's wall one day saying the same thing a few thousand years ago.
It can happen and unless we get up in arms about it it probably will someday. Just how long do you think these plants are going to keep pumping water and buying diesel fuel for their generators after a financial collapse? How many of those employees are going to just live on site and continue operations when they are not being paid?
My hope is that all though this long slow collapse is worse on us as individuals just maybe collectively this far reaching problem may get some focus.
In my opinion the technology is not complete unless it also includes the permanent and safe disposal of the by products.
I hope I am not the only one who feels that way.
Keep Prepping Everyone!!!
Just another accident wanting to happen...tic, tic, tic
ReplyDeleteRob - Ya and one that NEVER goes away either. Even strip mining and pollution eventually heals but not this radiation as we are seeing.
DeleteThat's the best argument for slow collapse I've heard. I guess unfortunately we're better off doing the hard slog that our forbears have bought their way out of for so long. I realize now in that respect a desire for quick collapse is just another manifestation of my lingering consumerist worldview. Let's get it, get the new stuff, and then we can move on. Facing the long, slow, arduous task of keeping this thing together so it can be properly shut down (modern society as well as Nukes)? That's the most depressing thing I've considered in some time.
ReplyDeleteAnon - I agree. Maybe shutting the nuke plants down was about the only good side to a slow collapse I can see. It's not even a good bet they will but maybe.
DeleteWhen I first moved here, I was really careful to be sure there were no nuclear plants anywhere around. Then, about five years or so ago, I was bragging to my brother who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains about how good a location this was. He said it was fine until the two nuclear plants to the west of me blew up. That's when I found out that a neighboring state had built two plants directly up wind from me. Even better, that particular state is earthquake prone, along the tail end of the New Madrid fault. All I have to counter with is a hand held Geiger counter.
ReplyDeleteHarry - We have one close bye as well. It's down wind but within the thirty mile danger area they admit too. Not close enough to be within the automatic calling evac area though. If it melts down we will become refugees that's for sure.
DeleteI have one upwind of me, though a fair way off. All I can hope is that we have a Lucifer Hammer scenario and it winds up being helpful.
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