Nuclear power thread
- Thread starter Aldarion
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Robovski
Well-known member
Firstly, some oppose real solutions to problems because then you have to find a new cause. Secondly, radiation scary! Who can trust those eggheads not to doom us all! Third, there are vested interests that would be harmed and they have a lot of money and the support of the previous two points.
Not that I agree that this is the way it should be, but because it is that way it's not just an uphill battle but a rampart to be scaled.
Not that I agree that this is the way it should be, but because it is that way it's not just an uphill battle but a rampart to be scaled.
TheRomanSlayer
Kayabangan, Dugo, at Dangal
Nuclear power is a great thing, but as Fukushima showed, building it at a disaster prone area would be a literal recipe for disaster, unless if there is a special building technology that could resist earthquakes of all levels on the Richter scale. That's why BC has banned the construction of nuclear power plants.
Wasn't the quake got Fukushima, twas the tsunami shutting pumps down.
And BC is being stupid. Nuke is the way to power aside from natty gas.
And BC is being stupid. Nuke is the way to power aside from natty gas.
PLus, they have plenty of lakes that could act as water supplies on the interior, away from the quakes as well.
TheRomanSlayer
Kayabangan, Dugo, at Dangal
We have our own nutty Greens to blame for BC banning the construction of nuclear plants, and banning uranium mining as well.
bintananth
behind a desk
To elaborate on your three points ...
A lot of people don't want the problem solved. They just want to bitch about it.
Most people don't understand radiation and would be screaming bloody murder if they knew that a wall with a 2hr fire rating has one more layer of drywall than the walls of a hospital nuclear medicine lab.
The powers that be have a very vested interest in making sure that their apple carts do not get overturned.
TheRomanSlayer
Kayabangan, Dugo, at Dangal
From what I heard, the ones who don't want nuclear energy to become common might have a larger stake in the current profit making energies (oil and gas).
On the other hand, if we're also talking about the future construction of space colonies, I would suspect that they'd build a floating nuclear reactor that would be built on the side of the colony cylinders.
On the other hand, if we're also talking about the future construction of space colonies, I would suspect that they'd build a floating nuclear reactor that would be built on the side of the colony cylinders.
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
Yeah, what I don't understand however are useful idiots such as greenpeace and other eco-morons.
bintananth
behind a desk
They see the trees. They don't see the forest.
Simonbob
Well-known member
I was once told that OPEC and China and the USSR paid for Greenpeace to get it's start, and directed it into it's current horror direction.
I can't find any proof, though.