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Japan.\u00a0 Nuclear power.\u00a0 Climate change.\u00a0 Not a pretty picture.\u00a0 I don’t know about others, but I want to like nuclear power.\u00a0 Its non-carbon emitting energy production has a potential role in staving off the worst effects of global warming.\u00a0 However.\u00a0 With no place to store the waste permanently, the waste gets stored temporarily near the reactor in which it was used.\u00a0 This seems safe.\u00a0 Look at Prairie Island.\u00a0 After all these years, still no trouble.\u00a0 Then again.\u00a0 How many years do we have to have in a row with no trouble?\u00a0 25,000 or so, I believe.\u00a0 That’s a long run.<\/p>\n
That’s not all.\u00a0 Situations develop, human error, mechanical failure, maintenance scrimping, natural disasters with unforseen confluences, say an F5 tornado and a once in a century flood.\u00a0 Could happen over the span of over 25,000 years.\u00a0 Probably will.\u00a0 Three Mile Island and Chernobyl had become objects in the rear view mirror, errors, mistakes, but over with.\u00a0 Until Fukushima.<\/p>\n
Now, suddenly, they begin to look links in a chain, a nuclear chain.\u00a0 Remember Godzilla?\u00a0 Them?\u00a0 The 50 Foot Woman?\u00a0 Radiation.\u00a0 Now there’s radioactive iodine in the sea.\u00a0 I want to like nuclear power, but I’m having a hard time.\u00a0 The stakes of mistakes seem too high.\u00a0 At least for now.<\/p>\n
Wish somebody would get a good fusion reactor goin’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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