It's one thing to report the news, it's another thing to blow something out of proportion.(I saw today when this was aired on tv that one anchorlady said that the reactor was going to meltdown. What in the world would the reactor meltdown with when there's no fuel in the reactor?!) You're looking at a form of power generation that accounts for close to 20% of all power generated in the US. Sitting here watching some cable news channels lately makes me feel disgusted because of the knee jerk responses from several people -- people want to shutter things over a single accident in the past 20 years. What about the Gulf oil spill? What about miners getting trapped farming for coal? Anyways, what would happen if you shut all those nuclear plants down here in the United States? What would they be replaced with? Everything has some form of risks, and they have to be taken for people to live comfortably. Renewables? I do have a lot of faith in them, but it takes time for technology to mature. When you're looking at things like solar panels and wind turbines, they take space. People want renewables but then don't want to deal with the space they take up, or the fact that it "disturbs the natural view. So what do people really want to do about this? That is the real question.
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I can imagine this getting abused rather quickly, like someone important getting tricked into clicking a link.
It's one thing to report the news, it's another thing to blow something out of proportion.(I saw today when this was aired on tv that one anchorlady said that the reactor was going to meltdown. What in the world would the reactor meltdown with when there's no fuel in the reactor?!) You're looking at a form of power generation that accounts for close to 20% of all power generated in the US. Sitting here watching some cable news channels lately makes me feel disgusted because of the knee jerk responses from several people -- people want to shutter things over a single accident in the past 20 years. What about the Gulf oil spill? What about miners getting trapped farming for coal? Anyways, what would happen if you shut all those nuclear plants down here in the United States? What would they be replaced with? Everything has some form of risks, and they have to be taken for people to live comfortably. Renewables? I do have a lot of faith in them, but it takes time for technology to mature. When you're looking at things like solar panels and wind turbines, they take space. People want renewables but then don't want to deal with the space they take up, or the fact that it "disturbs the natural view. So what do people really want to do about this? That is the real question.