Occam wrote:


Do you think deaths from nuclear power will ever exceed that for windmills?

FirepotPete wrote:


There is no reason to expect the next disaster to follow the same sequence of failures. There are thousands of combinations and permutations of events that could lead to a disaster. Making and operating a truly safe nuclear reactor costs more than anyone is willing to pay, and that is ignoring all the downstream problems of waste disposal etc. You can count on more accidents to follow over the next several decades.

Occam wrote:


Are you saying Japan didn't get a ROI in 40 years?

Maybe a Soviet style economy, which Obama is attempting to replace ours with, isn't such a good idea, and installing Party members to run a nuclear power plant wasn't either.

"You can count on more accidents to follow over the next several decades."

And next year....40,000+ die on American highways, 100,000+ abortions, 250,000+ from alcohol abuse, probably another 10,000 getting hung up on the southern border fence and 500,000 die of stupidity.
That's just next year in the U.S.
I'll take my chances, only have received around 200 zoomies so far this year, years ago it would have been closer to 500 for my work. Closer to 1500 for the year, don't get anywhere near that anymore.

I said I would take my chances too, but don't sugar coat it.

Records Show 56 Safety Violations at U.S. Nuclear Power Plants in Past 4 Years
Mishandled Radioactive Material and Failing Backup Generators Among the Violations


abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-nuclear-power...=13246490&page=1

I don't accept these uneccesary risks. UNACCEPTABE

How do you weigh this kind of human impact in the comparative risk of different energy sources?

www.charter.net/video/play/520540

...devastating

Wow

gizmodo.com/5806709/germanys-scrapping-a...power-plants-by-2022

Germany’s Scrapping All Nuclear Power Plants by 2022

Kat Hannaford—Following the Fukushima disaster, Germany's decided that its 17 nuclear power plants will either stay closed, or be shut down in the next 11 years, despite relying on nuclear power for almost 23 per cent of its energy.

Widespread US Nuclear Plant Tritium Leaks

Leading Cause: Aging and coroded cooling pipes of reactors now past their design lives.

www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ap-impact-...um-leaks-983015.html

usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/22/96...s-new-reactor-design

US OKs new reactor design