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I wouldn't mind living within 1 mile of one, as long as it isn't noisy. An interesting fact: a nuclear plant emits less radioactive material into the atmosphere than a coal plant, because there is a small amount of naturally-occuring radioactive material in most coal.
If Nuclear plants are so unsafe that no-one should live within 10 miles of one, than they probably shouldn't be built anywhere, right??
They can put one IN my house if they're willing to pay the rent. I'm not concerned about any potential safety issues - these things are about as safe as anything can possibly be. I'm more concerned about an engine falling off a jet and hitting me than I am about a modern nuclear plant going critical...
Our future home is located just a little bit away from the Oak Ridge National lab, the home of the famous Manhattan Project. I ain't skeered, though I wouldn't want to live right next door I guess...
My father is a retired nuclear engineer and specifically worked with safety, storage, and conversion of nuclear waste all over the U.S., and studied sites in France and Russia. He is an avid environmentalist as well, and is adamant that nuclear energy is the path to energy independence and pollution reduction in our country. It is one of the most highly regulated industries in the U.S., if not THE most, making it safer and cleaner than even clean coal technology. I asked him about wind and solar recently, and he said that the amount of land/habitat you would have to destroy to create solar/wind farms to reach the same level of nuclear energy output of one reactor is enormous. Not to say that solar and wind aren't an integral part of the puzzle, but the efficiency of nuclear energy can't be beat right now. It's CHEAP, and if the U.S. were to build more reactors it would create thousands if not hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs. I say go for it.
My father is a retired nuclear engineer and specifically worked with safety, storage, and conversion of nuclear waste all over the U.S., and studied sites in France and Russia. He is an avid environmentalist as well, and is adamant that nuclear energy is the path to energy independence and pollution reduction in our country. It is one of the most highly regulated industries in the U.S., if not THE most, making it safer and cleaner than even clean coal technology. I asked him about wind and solar recently, and he said that the amount of land/habitat you would have to destroy to create solar/wind farms to reach the same level of nuclear energy output of one reactor is enormous. Not to say that solar and wind aren't an integral part of the puzzle, but the efficiency of nuclear energy can't be beat right now. It's CHEAP, and if the U.S. were to build more reactors it would create thousands if not hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs. I say go for it.
YES!!! Thanks for this post, great insider perspective. And for the record, I'd also love to see one in my backyard. Of course, anyone would want to ask questions, know details about safety plans, that's just common sense. But I'd welcome one with open arms.
The overwhelming response here seems to kind of put a stymie on your assumptions, doesn't it crystallblue?? I think if you do some serious study and research, you'll find that Enviro-Nazis may becoming a dying breed whose credibility is disappearing down the proverbial drain pipe really quick! Again, the problem is, those guys never seem provide us with many viable solutions; only "peace, love, save the polar bears" crapola which does nothing to address the practical issues of energy production in this country.
They can put one IN my house if they're willing to pay the rent. I'm not concerned about any potential safety issues - these things are about as safe as anything can possibly be. I'm more concerned about an engine falling off a jet and hitting me than I am about a modern nuclear plant going critical...
I totally agree!
What they should do is offer free utilities to anyone within a 10 mile radius and sign me up as a life long resident of the Nuke Zone.
Nuclear Power is my livelyhood, so it wouldn't matter if I lived near one, I already work for them!
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