Larry, The U.S. Navy has run nuclear reactors on submarines and other warships for decades, accident free. Not easy to translate that success to a civilian agency, and certainly not nearly as cost-efficient as private industry.
My point is that nuclear power can be done safely and provide clean electrical power at very competitive costs, but in our country the debate has been completely subverted by hysterics and fear-mongers. Even at Fukishima, the second most serious nuclear accident to date, there were zero deaths from radiation. A hand-full of workers received very high radiation doses, and another hundred or so are at increased risk for cancer. Two or three died from physical trauma from the tsunami, not from radiation. The tsunami which caused that accident is a once-in-a-thousand years event (and the tsunami itself killed over 10,000 people). The Fukishima site had been identified as requiring additional tsunami counter-measures, but the regulatory agency and the site operator had not decided to implement those counter-measures when the tsunami struck. In other words, keeping a little perspective, the natural disaster caused over 10,000 deaths, and it also made a mess of the nuclear reactors. The nuclear reactors will take time and lots of money to clean up, but those 10,000+ dead can never be brought back. The article that Gerry linked to the Tampa issue, again no one has died, just a big mess to clean up at great expense. Clearly the decision-makers and CEO of that plant need to all be fired, and I think the investors need to pay for the repairs, but again let's keep some perspective: No one has died from radiation. Fear-mongering about nuclear power by the enviro-wackos will only cause MORE people to die early from inhaling the radioactive particles spewed into the air by our coal power-plants. -Max On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:22 AM, LarryT via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Private industry? Surely you aren't saying government run industry > doesn't need the same or even greater oversight? Sorry, but I am not very > trusting of government organizations.... > > LarryT > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
