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"radiation sounds scarier". JA (none / 0)

I've personally traveled to Belarus and seen firsthand the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the children there (where 2/3s of the rad cloud went) and in the Ukraine. The deadly radiation is effecting thousands today and its not that it just "sounds scarier", nuclear power is deadlier and the effects of a spill will be with us for thousands of years! Don't talk like that idiot NeoFascist Kristol.

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by JamBoi on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 10:10:03 PM EST
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Re: "radiation sounds scarier". JA (none / 0)

YEa, but as the poster points out, the reality of nowadays technology is hardly Chernobyl-like.

by Jerome Armstrong on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 12:06:10 AM EST
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In fairness (none / 0)

1. Of course we're not the Soviet Union. By the mid-80s, Soviet technology was so ass-backwards that they were a pariah nation in many regards.

The Soviets held a genuine disdain for the environment, and largely saw no wrong in killing or mutating a few hundred thousand people. Hell, that was progress versus what was done under Stalin!

Nothing changes the fact that nuclear power always carries with a base risk of catastrophic failure. Whether or not we are the Soviets, our technology only shields us from so much.
Large-scale development, especially rapid development, inherently carries with it an increased risk, due the pace of development, and the spread of qualified people across more projects.

Can these things be controlled? To a limit, yes. But no one can ever rule out the possibility than an American reactor could face a catastrohpic failure.

by jcjcjc on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 02:35:44 AM EST
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Re: "radiation sounds scarier". JA (none / 0)

You're kidding yourself JA. Very little has changed. Nuclear radiation is as dangerous as it ever was. Renewables are the future for an energy independent and clean America, not toxic radioactive waste.

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by JamBoi on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 04:36:40 AM EST
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