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.
Radiation effects everything, even the plants that were planted during and possibly after the blast.
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.
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.
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.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We dont allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?–Joseph Stalin
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.–George Orwe
[ This Message was edited by: Disclaimer on 2002-05-14 16:48 ]
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.
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)
Thanks yourbuttocks, I’ll work on my lying for you.
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?
Disclaimer is right, nuclear power makes up for number of enviormental problems in severity.
Simple, require manual control (key) to override the system. In fact, make it require 2 keys, by two high level, and high paid, officals.
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.
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?
We don’t create terror. it’s a combination of economic, than political factors.
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?
Yanny. has a point, we should pull out of Saudi Arabia.
But who would protect our vital oil interest?
Oh yeah, if I was president, I would make Axis and Allies our national pastime. :smile:
Read the thread, our Vital oil interests have one answer, screw Oil. We need to invest in Alternative Energy.
I’m all in favor of alternative energy and conservation, but the problem is the amount of cost and time it would take to implement it on a nation-wide. Also, if these difficulties could be overcome, you still have to deal with the American people. Remember in April 1977, Carter called for legislation to improve energy conservation, especially by curtailing the manufacture of large, gas-guzzling automobiles. However, these proposals met a firestorm of controversy by the people. Of course you can always so into drilling into ANWAR. Expert predicts that the wealth of oil in there that can easily supply all of America’s oil needs (regularly imported from the Middle East) for the next 20-25 years.
Ha, broke 600 post. 400 more to go. :smile:
