"I do not expect this post to change anyones mind that is already made up. All I am asking for is a rational look at the issue"
nuclear accidents" 13 March [1980]
SAINT LAURENT DES EAUX, FRANCE - An accident occurred at the second reactor at Saint Laurent des EAUX. No official description was given but it was admitted that repairs would take several weeks. It was reported that there was a break in the protection around the fuel charges. A similar accident there in 1969 led to a shutdown for a year. (W.I.S.E. Ibid)......
27 March
CHOOZ, FRANCE - The Chooz nuclear power plant closed until the end of May due to a damaged reactor. (W.I.S.E. Ibid) ....
...15 April
LA HAGUE, FRANCE - France came very close to a major nuclear accident when fire caused a breakdown of the cooling system at the waste dump and reprocessing plant at La Hague.
April
LA HAGUE, FRANCE - Divers completed repairs to a faulty undersea pipeline which carries radioactive water from the nuclear treatment plant for the second time in a month. This time the breach occurred in calm water and spilt radioactive water into the channel. This is the 39th time the pipe has broken......
April
FESSENHEIM, FRANCE - According to Mr. ETEMAD, a nuclear expert who used to work with the French reactor building company FRAMATOME, there are cracks in the Fessenheim nuclear power plant where ten relatively minor accidents have occurred. The Director of the plant had to admit that faulty parts had been built into the reactor"
and thats just in the first few months of 1980.
safe? hardly h
igh standards? hardly
potentially disasterous? hell yes.
more nuke stations more chance of something catastrophic going on. and thats not even mentioning the everyday contamination from the likes of
Sellafield in Englad site of numerous nuclear mishaps, oopsies and boo-boos, right accross the Irish sea from me. Ireland is non nuclear and yet we still get the ill effects from our neighbours use of it. they regularly pump radioactive water into the Irish sea and have done so for decades.
and the leukemia custer
and the leukemia cluster nearby correlation is not causation i know but then this is a hell of a coinkidink "Childhood Leukemia in Germany: Cluster Identified near Nuclear Power Plant"
Irrational fear? no, a great big dangerous bloody problem on my doorstep.
this is no abstract fear Ken,
its only a matter of time before we have REAL fish fingers the benefits using of nukular power are not worth the risk.
ok even if we take the obvious risks out of the equation its still not worth it.
how long would the uranium last were a large proportion of the worlds energy derived from it? 100 years? more less? are we not just postponing the energy crisis that will come from the coming shortage of fossil fuels? we will then be faced with the uranium shortage? even with the recycling of nuclear weapons? (at last a decent use for them)
does it not make more sense that we take the billions that would go into developing new plants and disposing of the waste, and use that for developing fuel-less sources of energy on a large scale?
wave, wind and solar in particular. how much more developed would these technologies be i wonder the iraq war money had been pumped into R&D?
i wonder how much further advanced they would be had renewable power companies recieved the subsidies the oil and coal industries get.
