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Yeah, it's just a coincidence that Hanford is leaking and this is where it's happening.
The future is in fusion. The faster we get it = the faster we can end this stupid energy debate
And, tell us something. What do conservative deniers here and elsewhere hope to gain by accusing their opponents of holding their beliefs and opinions in a religious manner? The action is more than a little dismissive of religion in general. Are not most of you Christians?
I can "fathom" all sorts of things. I simply think that believing in anything based solely on faith and despite evidence to the contrary (like the God, Jehovah, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Allah, the Hindu Pantheon or any other divinity) is stupid. But, hey, to each his own.
It just seems to me that if you're going to get on someone's case for (as you all suggest) believing something under just those circumstances, it's more than a little hypocritical when a major part of your personal lives involve precisely such behavior.
Elektra, you may have worked at Hanford, but you are showing yourself to be damned ignorant of what radiation is. Alpha is emitted by Plutonium in massive amounts. One speck of Plutonium in your lungs, and you are going to develop cancer. Plutonium is one of the elements created in the use of Uranium to fuel the commercial reactors.
Plutonium
Over one third of the energy produced in most nuclear power plants comes from plutonium. It is created in the reactor as a by-product.
Plutonium has occurred naturally, but except for trace quantities it is not now found in the Earth's crust.
There are several tonnes of plutonium in our biosphere, a legacy of atmospheric weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s.
In practical terms, there are two different kinds of plutonium to be considered: reactor-grade and weapons-grade. The first is recovered as a by-product of typical used fuel from a nuclear reactor, after the fuel has been irradiated ('burned') for about three years. The second is made specially for the military purpose, and is recovered from uranium fuel that has been irradiated for only 2-3 months in a plutonium production reactor. The two kinds differ in their isotopic composition but must both be regarded as a potential proliferation risk, and managed accordingly.
Plutonium, both that routinely made in power reactors and that from dismantled nuclear weapons, is a valuable energy source when integrated into the nuclear fuel cycle. In a conventional nuclear reactor, one kilogram of Pu-239 can produce sufficient heat to generate nearly 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.
My statement below is 100% accurate, its a fact, so I am not sure how you think this is an ignorant statement?Alpha is emitted by Plutonium in massive amounts.
If the AGW nuts were serious, they would advocate building a 1000 nuclear power plants today.
But they are simply, nuts, fools, idiots, activists, anti-american progressive revisionist assholes.
The only solution to the con-job AGW is pure Nuclear Power with a low tax policy that entices Industry to settle and develop in the USA.
Instead, the AGW crowd has chosen to destroy third world countries endlessly/constantly using the natural resources of the world at an every increasing rate.
AGW is a con job, the Green/Renewable conard is the spike through the heart of the USA that kills us, forever.
Nuclear is part of the solution. But only a part. First of all it is far the most expensive of the ways of generating power. Second, sited in a subduction zone, it is a constant source of danger. Third, it must be engineered to be completely fail safe. A disaster in a PV generating plant means no juice. In a geo-thermal plant, damage to the plant and maybe a few acres around the plant. A coal fired plant, damage to the plant, same for natural gas. But disaster in just one nuclear plant could contaminate a whole state. Or more.
Wind is now cheaper than coal in almost all applications. When the grid scale batteries are available, it will be even more useful. PV has come down in price to the point it is competative with nuclear, and far easier to install, and much safer. Geothermal is just starting to come into the picture, and will be a major player as time goes on. It has the additional plus of being a source of important minerals.
As for the rest of your stupid rant, grow up, do some real research, quit being such a fool.
Nuclear cannot be part of the solution. We have babies being born without brains around Hanford. Nuclear waste is leaking and causing problems. Japan is dumping 300,000 gallons of nuclear water into the pacific ocean everyday. This cannot go on. There are other, cleaner alternatives without the global disasters. I don't care if solar costs more money, no one had birth defects due to solar power.
