please then , for thebenefit of the 'slow' readers here, can you summarize rhe facts/itemize them brielfy----as tis is seriousAvatar said:One thing you learn to do when studying in university.
I constantly have to read huge articles and court documents.
Spot the facts, skip over needless details.
The four points above boil down to:Avatar said:...<span class="verd_10_b"><big><strong>Nuclear Power</strong></big></span>
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RMI's position on nuclear power is that:<ul><li><strong>It's too expensive.</strong> Nuclear power has proved much more costly than projected—and more to the point, more costly than most other ways of generating or saving electricity. If utilities and governments are serious about markets, rather than propping up pet technologies at the expense of ratepayers, they should pursue the best buys first.
</li><li><strong>Nuclear power plants are not only expensive, they're also financially extremely risky</strong> because of their long lead times, cost overruns, and open-ended liabilities.
</li><li>Contrary to an argument nuclear apologists have recently taken to making, <strong>nuclear power isn't a good way to curb climate change</strong>. True, nukes don't produce carbon dioxide—but the power they produce is so expensive that the same money invested in efficiency or even natural-gas-fired power plants would offset much more climate change.
</li><li>And of course <strong>nuclear power poses significant problems of radioactive waste disposal and the proliferation of potential nuclear weapons material</strong>. ...
OK - I do not attack people. I was attackking the ignorance in those four points. That widely spread ignorance is a large part of the US's energy problem.Avatar said:Those are not my points at all!
Read the post, I merely copied data from Rocky Mountain Institute,
because duendy had trouble navigating that website with his tv setup.
so tell. what survives nuclear pollution?draqon said:actually nuclear energy is most enviromentally friendly energy of them all...people you see are parasites...they will live in a certain place, then trash that place...and that will go on for millions of years...whereas when people use nuclear energy to the full extent...all of the people die...thus no more problems for nature since all people are gone now...So yes, nuclear engineering is the safest of them all, it saves nature, yes there might be a nuclear fallout...but that all passes and new life arises, whereas human=parasites are now gone.
Following a recent research expedition to the Chernobyl region, a U.S. Department of Energy official asked us to assess the ecological impacts of the April 1986 Chornobyl disaster on populations of animals. We replied that, although a quantitative assessment is difficult, the net ecological impact has been positive. After a long pause, the perplexed official asked how it could be possible that the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, releasing between 100 and 200 million Curies of radiation into environment, could produce positive ecological consequences. The answer was simple - humans have evacuated the contaminated zone.
Mention of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster usually brings thoughts of death, destruction, cancer, massive economic loss, and other negative images. Clearly, the economic impacs have been devastating for the Ukrainian economy, and the harmful effects such as elevated cancer rates in humans [1-3] and the killing of the pine trees in the Red Forest are real [4,5]. However, the sum effect for the flora and fauna in the highly radioactive, restricted zone has been overwhelmingly positive in favor of biodiversity and abundance of individuals [6]. Our 12 expeditions to the most radioactive areas of these zones reveal that animal life is abundant. Parts of the 10-km zone exclusion zone around Reactor 4 are strikingly, yet deceptively, beautiful (Fig.1). Only the clicks and whistles of our electronic equipment indicated that the habitat was contaminated with radioactivity.
I read the text...being a Russian I know a bit more then anyone else around here about the accident...I also know that some individuals whose names I do not know have used the Chernobyl accident for their advantage, they planted opium plants, which were much larger then the regular opium plants. There are fields of opium hidden in the forests around the Chernobyl.Avatar said:So what? Are you green and have grown a couple of antenna?
Read the text.