Fearmongering
Jul 11th, 2010 by David Anderson
In today’s News Journal a headline says that more nuclear power puts the region at risk. The facts are the real risk is in doing nothing. Nuclear power done properly is the best alternative energy source in existence. It provides safe, nonpolluting, plentiful energy. What we really need is to get over our irrational fears by looking at the facts. We need to set up reprocessing centers to recycle the waste.
Didn’t you know that Progressives fear progress?
Look at France…environmentally sensitive, yet 80% nuke power.
France has been relying on nuke power for decades.
The lily libs still trying to make that stupid movie from decades ago the law of the land?
Nuke power IS the way to go.
The pubs, ever sensitive to mussed head hairs, scratched nail polishe, God forbid a splotchy suntan, need to grow a pair and get out there and bang the drums for nuke power.
Having worked for Gannett Communications as a Freelance reporter or as they like to call it a “stringer,” for a number of years, I know that fearmongering is certainly not beyond their capabilities, if it will prove a leftist point. Motivation by fear for the NewsJournal, as Rick so aptly states it, works and it works quite well.
Nuclear energy should be the wave of the future. It is both clean, efficient and reliable. I wonder why they their publication would state otherwise. We should also be diverse by promoting solar and wind energy.
Let’s see, we put nuclear reactors in ships that we keep on patrol underwater for months at a time and have had zero accidents. Since the environemental whackos insist on crippling this nation and they don’t trust private providers, let’s contract new reactors to the United States Navy. Their record is unexcelled world wide.
Nuclear power could be a big deal if we offered one simple thing-where to store nuclear waste?
I have no faith Obama will do a thing about it.
Other Presidents have danced around it also but let’s face it no one in Washington cares enough to deal with the matter.
Mike Protack
Nuclear reprocessing solves a great deal of the problem of what to do with nuclear waste, because nearly everything recovered from the reactor can be reused. Modern techniques such as PUREX are able to chemically seperate uranium and plutonium separately for re use. The plutonium extracted by the procedure tends to contain too much Pu-240 (as opposed to Pu-238) and cannot be used for nuclear weapons and is easily stored, or used in breeder reactors.
Most people don’t realize that nuclear fuel is now reusable to a great extent, solving a large part of the problem of where to store the waste. As for what must be stored, modern reprocessing techniques are capable of greatly reducing the “alpha” emissions of the waste. This is the most common type of radiation emitted and also the most easily shielded.
Michael is right on the money: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/debunking-myths-about-nuclear-fuel-coal-wind-solar?click=pp
Send it to Zimbabwe.
France is actually looking for more waste to reprocess then they will likely sell it back to us. I am surprised that some of you missed the note on reprocessing in the post. Thank you Michael for expanding upon it.
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