The Ukraine's government, along with the European Union and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is building a gigantic new shell to cover Chernobyl's exploded reactor ... 

Anybody thought it is just something that  happened a long time ago?  And what are they going to do in Fukushima?

Apr 26, 2012 -- 9:58PM, Ironhold wrote:

Ever actually read up on the details of what took place there?

The reactor was the perfect storm of poor design, poor construction, poor training, and poor management.

Even by Soviet standards, the reactor was a disaster waiting to happen.

Don't judge all reactors by this one (albeit shocking) outlier.

They are all the same. If it was built by  human beings, it will eventually misfunction. It's Murphy's law.

  After every disaster, we hear the " never again" BS.  Maybe never again exactly the same problem, but there will be other problems, maybe even worse. Count on it.

Yes ... EVERY Technology or Device is FALLIBLE ... 

Periodically, e.g., an Airplane CRASHES, often with loss of Life ... that, DESPITE our best Engineering Design Efforts, skilled Maintenence, Air Traffic Control Arrangements, extensive Pilot Training, etc. ... BUT the Fact is ... that MOST Airplanes -- the vast MAJORITY of Airplanes -- virtually ALL Airplanes -- go through an entire Cycle of Working Life WITHOUT Crashing ... So, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY FEW Persons die in any given year due to an Airplane Crash ...

And even FEWER Persons die -- or have EVER died -- from a Nuclear Power Plant Failure ...

Facts ...

Apr 27, 2012 -- 7:41AM, arielg wrote:

Apr 26, 2012 -- 9:58PM, Ironhold wrote:

Ever actually read up on the details of what took place there?

The reactor was the perfect storm of poor design, poor construction, poor training, and poor management.

Even by Soviet standards, the reactor was a disaster waiting to happen.

Don't judge all reactors by this one (albeit shocking) outlier.

They are all the same. If it was built by  human beings, it will eventually misfunction. It's Murphy's law.

  After every disaster, we hear the " never again" BS.  Maybe never again exactly the same problem, but there will be other problems, maybe even worse. Count on it.

Apr 28, 2012 -- 1:34AM, solfeggio wrote:

Sweeping generalities about the dangers we all face just going about our lives have nothing to do with the very real dangers posed by nuclear power.

www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/nucl...

www.ehow.com/about_4759852_dangers-nucle...

Nuclear power is not the answer to the world's energy needs.

Clean, green sustainable, renewable sources of energy are the answer.

 

Let's see.Nuclear is too dangerous,even though the French happily toodle along making so much of their electricity from it they sometimes have to shut down on weekends because they can make more than they use.Good news for them when the fringe Germans scare their country away from nuclear,they can just starting exporting power to Germany and the rest of Europe that runs scared.The French can become the major power player of western Europe by becoming the main supplier of it's electricity.Piss off the French,sit in the dark!.Hydrocarbons pollute and cause global warmng.Hydroelectric ruins rivers and nature.Wind turbines kill migratory birds.Any ocean tide based technology will be found to have killed fish,along with more lovable sea life like dolphins and seals.That leaves us powering the world with solar.

Good luck with that.

The future SHOULD be nuclear fusion,but when the alarmists scare the world away from nuclear fission,the advancement to fusion will die as well,and we'll all learn to get by in a world in which only rich people who can afford massive solar arrays have electricity.

When it's not cloudy.

No one has suggested that Nuclear Power is "THE Answer to the World's Energy Needs ... "

Obviously, we need a MIX of Technologies -- INCLUDING "Nuclear" ...

Apr 28, 2012 -- 1:34AM, solfeggio wrote:

Sweeping generalities about the dangers we all face just going about our lives have nothing to do with the very real dangers posed by nuclear power.

www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/nucl...

www.ehow.com/about_4759852_dangers-nucle...

Nuclear power is not the answer to the world's energy needs.

Clean, green sustainable, renewable sources of energy are the answer.