Cycloptichorn wrote:edgarblythe wrote:3 Mile and Chernoble are figments of the imagination.
Naturally, no. But compared to the 4 million tons of radioactive uranium let out into the atmosphere by burning coal every year, three mile island doesn't seem as much of a disaster.
Cycloptichorn
Engineer delivered the facts of both incidents accurately. Chernoble was an accident waiting to happen when it was built. It would never have been licensed here, with or without fear mongering. 3 Mile Island wasn't a disaster at all. It was a shining example of fail-safes working effectively. As Engineer said; camping out at the fence perimeter would have damaged you NOT AT ALL.
Some of today's designs are literally walk away safe. In at least one design; you can literally, deliberately, switch off every single one of the safeties, let her go and head out and get some lunch with ZERO worries. Yet another gets buried in the ground like a giant battery, for many years at a time, without any human intervention at all, and can serve up to 50,000 people.
Just believing nuclear=scary is the product of ignorance and propaganda, and can easily be overcome by anyone interested in laying their fears to rest, simply by learning what they're talking about. A half hour on Wiki would probably suffice.
