I really thought Japan would do a much better job than the Soviets or even the 3 Mile Island people did, but I am starting to worry Murphy is speaking with a Japanese accent this month. Seems everything they do goes wrong.
Hopefully America has overestimated the danger.
Side note: NPR did a story on American nuke plants and noticied that one of them actually had a 30 foot tsunami wall.
I hope other coastal plants are considering the same wall.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Indeed we via 104 plants generate more power that other nations. Get used to it, get over it.....it is the future. The best we can do is to minimize the probability of future accidents. Solar/wind.........tooo small to have any impact on our (400 million USA souls) need for power. We all cannot live in old VW buses, smoke dope, and whine.......those folks (few remain) will be dead really soon.
deltamrey wrote: CG - some nuclear plants are sited near faults.
Indeed we via 104 plants generate more power that other nations. Get used to it, get over it.....it is the future. The best we can do is to minimize the probability of future accidents. Solar/wind.........tooo small to have any impact on our (400 million USA souls) need for power. We all cannot live in old VW buses, smoke dope, and whine.......those folks (few remain) will be dead really soon.
So its either one or the other? That seems a rather foolish point of view. I don't trust nuclear power and don't want it in my back yard or, for that matter, anywhere close to where I live, but I don't live in a VW and smoke dope.
Hey, I was not making a judgement just posting info. Personally, I feel that if people want to complain about power plants they need to stop fighting regulations that could help. Look at your microwave, DVD player, Stove, TV, radio, computer. If they are turned off they probably still have an unneeded light on. When they made refrigerators energy star compliant they saved several power plants from even being built. You cannot complain with no alternative.
Businesses are fighting regulations on power controls for rechargeable devices as well. Those lights that run when the device is turned off take a ton of energy and if you look at it like whole power plants that are being saved it makes alot more sense. And they could create the plug in devices to stop taking power when not on and just plugged in. (even having them plugged in takes power)
Business does not want the regulation because in many cases it will cost them more. Decide where you want the savings---- Nuclear powerplants (health) , make the businesses pay more to create items (money) sleep in the cold with no TV (comfort). You have to pick one.
I am not trying to start a lib vs rep fight but that is a pet peeve of mine. There is some hypocrisy in the green circles that fly jets all over and talk about inconvenient truths.
Hopefully this catastrophe will wake people up into making some real changes.
Interesting chart. Personally I thought Japan had much more nuke power production.
And interesting to see Ukraine, Chernobyal site, still produce so much nuclear power.
When we were traveling France by train, nuke plants were all over the place, but I can't remember the last one I saw in America.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
deltamrey wrote: CG - some nuclear plants are sited near faults.
Indeed we via 104 plants generate more power that other nations. Get used to it, get over it.....it is the future. The best we can do is to minimize the probability of future accidents. Solar/wind.........tooo small to have any impact on our (400 million USA souls) need for power. We all cannot live in old VW buses, smoke dope, and whine.......those folks (few remain) will be dead really soon.
:thumbsup: side note: I do smoke weed to help me sleep, I race VWs, and occasionally whine about my feet, and came close to death a couple times last year
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
:thumbsup: side note: I do smoke weed to help me sleep, I race VWs, and occasionally whine about my feet, and came close to death a couple times last year 
