Radiation Leak at 3 Mile Island

[airplane wizard]

....yeah, windmills and solar panels are destroying the natural landscape, but NUCLEAR is the way to go! So clean... So efficient... So "neon" green....

I'd rather have a windmill in my back yard, than a NUCLEAR reactor in the same state!

Everyone complains about high energy prices, but no one wants a reactor or any other type of power plant anywhere near them.

 

[Salukipilot4590]

they don't have to spend half their freaking GDP to some freak-ass ragheads to power their country.

:sigh:

>.<

 

[G2T]

Everyone complains about high energy prices, but no one wants a reactor or any other type of power plant anywhere near them.

NIMBY's!!!!!

 

[timeless]

Coal Propaganda

 

[LearLove]

Coal Propaganda

there is no/zero/nada/zipo way to burn coal "clean" no matter what some old coal money West Virginian on TV tells you.

C+O2=CO2 (in simple form - see below for expanded form). Every 23g of coal (C) combusted yields 44g of CO2.

It is pure science, if there was a "clean" way to burn coal we (the US) would have figured it out years ago.

Expanded and balanced shows how for every one coal we get almost 2 times the co2, as shown above with the 23 to 44 relationship (2g lost for thermo inefficiencies)

2C10H2 + 2102 --> 2H20 + 20CO2

the small print on "clean coal". when that old coal money WV get on TV and tells you coal is cleaner than ever he/she isn't exactly fibbing but like airline management isn't telling you the whole tale. Yes coal is cleaner than in the past, however this is because of increased effencies in turbine technolgy which convert the combusted coals' steam into energy. This results in more energy output (less mechanical loss) per gram of coal combusted.

It does not however change physical science in the fact that when you combust coal the byproduct is and will always be carbon gas.

 

[great cornholio]

That's not flood lights.

I've always thought that...wonder how they get it to not look so green????

 

[great cornholio]

MDT stands for Melt Down Town!

hahahaha nice... PA is a messed up state. Just saw something online a few months ago about a town in PA I think it was called Centralia where there is an underground coal mine fire that has been going for like 50 years. The town is ghost town due to toxic smoke and firey sink holes. Anyways they say that there is enough coal left to burn for over another 200 years.

 

[Hovernut]

....yeah, windmills and solar panels are destroying the natural landscape, but NUCLEAR is the way to go! So clean... So efficient... So "neon" green....

I'd rather have a windmill in my back yard, than a NUCLEAR reactor in the same state!

And when the wind stops blowing and it's cloudy...then what? Hey, that coal plant puts more radiation out its stack than a Nuke plant will ever give off. Thorium-232, baby....most abundant radionuclide in the Erf's crust!

Those guys got 15mR..millirem. Big whoop! You'll get more than that LAX-NRT!! I've worked in radiation fields two orders of magnatude greater than that piss-ant event. Drawn 500mL water samples off the accelerator that read 10R/hr 10,000mr for those of you in Rio Linda.

Fact is, Nuke power is the only big-horsepower energy source we have to get ourselves off foreign oil, reduce commercial gas usage to drive the cost back down to the consumer, and placate the Algores of the world to reduce eeeevil carbon. In the meantime, the international community will continue fusion research at ITER and hopeychangey get that endless supply of energy off the ground!

...Nuke rant over...back to downgrade duties...