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Nuke coMMunity, sorry for the typo
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I found an interesting article today about the dangers of living near or working at a nuclear power facility, but it seems like so many people here don't have open minds to consider anything more than the media hype the multi-billion dollar nuke industry spoon feeds us. I think its time for us to do a little investigation of our own before we buy their sales pitch hook, line & sinker.
If even 1% of this article is correct and backed by good science, we should be screaming at our officials that we've had enough of this industry here.
http://nukefreetexas.org/downloads/health_risks_nuclear_power.pdf
One thing you can bet on & that we have learned from past experience (think GM, Enron, etc.) Big industry WILL take care of itself and its execs, they WILL get rich and they don't care who they step on or who they hurt in the process. The nuke industry IS backed & funded by billions in taxpayer (aka: you & me) subsidies, taxpayer-backed insurance (they have extremely limited liabilty even in the case of a major catastrophy)
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Look and see who stands to gain the most by throwing a wrench into the works. Nuclear does have it's drawbacks but I'd take it any day over strip mining for coal, ash lagoons that poison everything around them with the mercury and arsnic levels found in the fly-ash, and the problems with oil and gas burning facilities and getting the product out of the ground, etc. There are a lot of companies out there with a vested interest to actively cloud the waters. Who wouldn't if they stood to lose billions in revenue?
I'd have to agree - a little bit of common sense goes a long way. This is no different than the oil and the automotive industry holding back innovation. A normal engine has hundreds of moving parts. An electric motor only has a couple. All of those dealership service calls go down the toilet as does the aftermarket industry for those engines. No wonder they talk about possibly leasing the batteries for electric cars - anything to keep us on the hook and shelling out money.
Anyway, while I am not a huge fan of nuclear energy, we need to move forward. Renewables are on the table but we need something to tide us over until then.
January 29, 2010 at 3:35 p.m.Stumbled onto your post and looked at your reference material. First of all; if you search Matagorda Tax records you will notice that NRG pays $9 million a year in taxes. Next if you believe the reference material that has alarmed you,the two units now operating would be releasing 77,000,000 gallons per day of "primary cooling water" to the enviroment. Where do they get that amount of water to just throw away? Even if the part that is suppossedly returned to the reservoir can be reused, that still leaves 38,000,000 gallons/day released as steam. Where does all of this water come from? You can't use just any water in a primary system. It has to be demineralized so that it contains no impurities. The people writing the article you reference are just using scare tatics to sway the unimformed. Just ask yourself how something with a half-life ( the amount of time for 1/2 of an isotope to reduce to 1/2 of it's original activity) of 12.5 days be dangerous for 120-248 years? Not much in your reference material stands up to close scrutiny.
September 23, 2009 at 8:24 a.m.