Twenty five years ago in May I received from the State of Oregon a packet that contained all the readings that they had taken after Chernobyl. It was 25 pages long. It was terrifying.
Chernobyl was a partial melt down of one uranium reactor.
Fukushima involves four reactors each with forty years of spent fuel rods resting on top of the reactors. Plutonium is involved. With the added detriment of a MOX fueled reactor. To top it off you have two loaded reactors with stored spent fuel to add to the equation. Six reactors. Do you really think nothing is coming our way. That is like driving a car with your eyes closed.
It may be too late to demand simpler ways to turn a gear. What people need to know is a nuclear reactor is just a steam turbine. The technology that has the ability to sterilize human beings, create cancer, human deformities and so much more is just creating steam.
Nuclear elements are man made. There is nothing as deadly for so long as man made radio nuclides.
They are unstable in atomic form so they are constantly changing, moving, decomposing until they finally reach a stable form lead. Some change very quickly days and because of the fast movement are picked up by devices even in small particles. Some very dangerous ones are slower moving and take many thousand years to stabilize. Plutonium released into the atmosphere will be ready to kill any human that breaths it into their lung for 25,000 years.
Clearly simple common sense would suggest that nuclear power is not worth the danger. Historically the industry is one in which corruption runs deep and accountability does not exist.
Chernobyl was a partial melt down of one uranium reactor.
Fukushima involves four reactors each with forty years of spent fuel rods resting on top of the reactors. Plutonium is involved. With the added detriment of a MOX fueled reactor. To top it off you have two loaded reactors with stored spent fuel to add to the equation. Six reactors. Do you really think nothing is coming our way. That is like driving a car with your eyes closed.
It may be too late to demand simpler ways to turn a gear. What people need to know is a nuclear reactor is just a steam turbine. The technology that has the ability to sterilize human beings, create cancer, human deformities and so much more is just creating steam.
Nuclear elements are man made. There is nothing as deadly for so long as man made radio nuclides.
They are unstable in atomic form so they are constantly changing, moving, decomposing until they finally reach a stable form lead. Some change very quickly days and because of the fast movement are picked up by devices even in small particles. Some very dangerous ones are slower moving and take many thousand years to stabilize. Plutonium released into the atmosphere will be ready to kill any human that breaths it into their lung for 25,000 years.
Clearly simple common sense would suggest that nuclear power is not worth the danger. Historically the industry is one in which corruption runs deep and accountability does not exist.
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