Still MIA… Worth a thread Necro!
You are president…or P.M.
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Expensive to start up, but the reactor lasts a long time, uses almost no fuel (very little Uranium is used), and creates a massive amount of energy. Once the original plant is payed off, it can power large areas for the cheapest price available.
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And what about the environment and the chance of disaster?
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We’ve had 2 disasters in 50 years. Ever think of the envirmental effects burning, drilling, and spilling oil results in?
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Although nuclear disasters are terrible (I’ve been reading up on chernobyl lately), with contaminated food supplys and increased rates of cancer, specificly thyroid, in children, disasters on this scale are hard to get with modern reactor technology. Human contact with the control rods has been reduced to virtually nothing, they can no longer be pulled out past the minimum safety limit, and new technology makes it nearly impossible for radiation to be spread even if the core was breached.
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Very true bossk, but the potential effects of another nuclear disaster are much worse than the potential effects of oil disasters. I agree that the risk has gone down alot, but there is still the chance, as there is a chance with anything, that a disaster can happen.
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some great advances in fusion power are being made, but we aren’t there yet.
As a side note, I have a friend who lived in Hungary (spelling?) during the Chenobyl accident, and they weren’t allowed to eat anything that grew out of the ground for a year. I don’t know why though.
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Radiation effects everything, even the plants that were planted during and possibly after the blast.
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radioacitice isotopes were spread throughout most of eastern and northern europe, travling through the atmosphere and eventually ending up in the ground. Plants growing there then absorbed the isotopes and presented then in a consentrated form for human consumption. When enough of the radioactive atoms collect in various points of the human body enough x and gamma rays can be produced to mutate the structure of the sorrounding tissue creating a nice cancer.
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The only potential disaster we cannot be protected against involving Nuclear technology is terrorism. If we abandon Nuclear technology because of terrorism, the terrorists have won.
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Human error. The new nuclear power plants will probably be run by computers, but who runs those computers? Humans? Most likely. Computers can’t be run by computers, which in turn are run by computers. Eventually, there is a human involved and there is the risk of disaster.
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[ This Message was edited by: Disclaimer on 2002-05-14 16:48 ]
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There are literally hundreds of safeguards in a nuclear power plant. If you wanted to overheat the reactor, you probably couldn’t.
Computers can run computers easily if everything is standardized.
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On 2002-05-10 15:10, Disclaimer wrote:
As for myself being president, I don’t think I would be able to handle the job because I would crack under the power.
You’re also too honest. (Which is a good thing)
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Thanks yourbuttocks, I’ll work on my lying for you.
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On 2002-05-14 18:58, Yanny wrote:
There are literally hundreds of safeguards in a nuclear power plant. If you wanted to overheat the reactor, you probably couldn’t.Computers can run computers easily if everything is standardized.
If anyone wanted to cause another nuclear disaster by any means, then it can be done. As far as everything being controlled by computers, one could hack a system quite easily. It’s not that hard. So a computer running the nuclear reactor all of a sudden crashes, and so does the backup server. “Pop quiz hot shot,” what are you going to do?
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Disclaimer is right, nuclear power makes up for number of enviormental problems in severity.
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Simple, require manual control (key) to override the system. In fact, make it require 2 keys, by two high level, and high paid, officals.
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Which in turn can be corrupted and bribed to kill thousands of innocent people by detinating a manual over-ride when it’s not needed.
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It’s a simple saftey system, maybe we should stop going in and creating terrorism instead of stopping progress of the biggest innovation of man kind since fire?
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We don’t create terror. it’s a combination of economic, than political factors.
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We definatly create terror. You don’t see Terrorists coming from the poor countries of West Africa, or Southeast Asia? Terrorists only hit us from the place we are economically interested in, the Middle East?
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