I don't mean to rant, I never do, but this issue hits a little close to home for me. Don't get your information from people who don't understand the subject matter.
Gah! I tend to love you guys, but this is stupid! I know you're not nuclear engineers, but come on! "The plants are only supposed to operate for about 40 years"? There's no such thing as retrofits or upgrades? People act like there's a guy shoveling in "nuclear stuff" into a big cast iron reactor. And the fact that people are still comparing the CHS-style reactor (like Chernobyl) to modern reactors is just painfully stupid.
I'll admit, I could only make it halfway through this video. I don't need people who know nothing about nuclear power to read articles to me and add their sarcastic comments at the end. By the way, a collapsing cooling tower means absolutely nothing. Coal plants have cooling towers. All they do is cool down water before returning it to the river/lake/ocean or the plant itself. Fukushima is the result of poor location. You don't build one of these things on the ring of fire where you can have hu
@totoritko Actually, the plant's flood walls weren't nearly high enough and it's backup diesel generators weren't in a waterproof room. If they had used a little bit more regulation then the plant would have been fine. Read up on it if you like.
I remember saying in an open forum once that I'm against all nuclear power and this was AFTER Fukushima. And I got an insane amount of personal abuse for this and lots of people thought I was crazy or retarded. (And I guess some would. Although I think they got it backwards if they think that's ME having that problem.)
Green power for the win *I* say. Clean and renewable and lots of possible sources. I'd say that's what development money's gotta go to.
I remember hearing about how some of the planets were adjusting their BFPL limits!! That's absolutely horrible. They are opperating closer to the limits where the core components can undergo brittle fracture!
in nuclear history, there has been 103 Nuclear accidents, out of those 103, 51 of them were in the US. lol the US isn't safe, and you wonder why people no longer tour to the US. why would I want to go to a place that has psychopathic police that would beat you for basically no reason at all, you have politicians that would sell their own familys for a quick buck. and the goverment is to corrupt to even fix your nuclear reactors! sorry america, i'll spend my tourist money in sweden instead...
I like TYT, but this was a piece of bad reporting. Fukushima didn't have "a simple power outage". They had a natural catastrophe the likes of which the US has never seen. Several kilometers of shore over a stretch of roughly 200km across, gone, practically carpet-bombed. The plant could have survived a power outage if it weren't for all the destruction around it.
The points about regulation and corruption though, fully agree. We need to boot corporations out of the governing business.
@telemetry9 I never said that I think nuclear is great & unlike you, I don't need to use fallacious arguments to support my conclusions. I'm free to go wherever the evidence leads me. I don't see reactions taking place inside the nucleus of an atom as evil, much as I don't perceive chemical burning to be. It depends on what you do with it. Nuclear energy has its fair share of problems, but framing a technical question on its usability for energy production as a moral one is dishonest
@telemetry9 People die because of people. Malice, spitefulness, negligence and, yes, evil, are all human qualities. Technology is the conduit, not the source. How many people die every day from cutting or stabbing with sharp tools, yet we don't think of the act of cutting something as evil. In London alone in 2007 there were ~12500 knife-related crimes. Just like everything else, it depends on what you do with it. Btw: appeal to emotion is a dishonest debate tactic.
Are you seeking truth? Search for "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then click on "The Present" to open it. What it says will blow your mind.
... Well Japan is on a very fragile tectonic plate and is KNOWN to be prone to Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
Don't totally outrule nuclear power. It is a great potential, clean and efficient energy source. You just need to build it in appropriate places. The further Inland and away from tectonic plates the better.
... Well Japan is on a very fragile tectonic plate and is KNOWN to be prone to Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
Don't totally outrule nuclear power. It is a great potential, clean and efficient energy source. You just need to build it in appropriate places. The further Inland and away from tectonic plates the better.
@playgrrrr You do know that because of that one mistake the entire area around the Fukushima plant will require decades if not centuries to clean up right? And that's just cleaning to government standards. For the radioactive isotopes to totally disperse from the environment will take millenia. There's a reason nuclear fission is powerful enough to power the sun for billions of years. When it comes to using something that powerful, there is zero margin for error. Otherwise, you get Chernobyl.
@danielcontoro =There's a reason nuclear fission is powerful enough to power the sun for billions of years.= Fission doesn't power the sun.
=Chernobyl.= Chernobyl was so badly designed that it was basically made to fail. You realize that the Fukushima mistake happened @ 44yo plant + had nothing to do with nuclear power, but with avoiding flooding, right? You also realize that modern (integral fast/non light water) reactors don't overheat bc of different cooling systems+negative void coefficient?
@danielcontoro The sun is powered by fusion, not fission. The Earth is powered by fission.
"Dispersion" (decay, actually) depends on the isotopes emitted. I131: ~80 days. Cs137: ~300 years <- that's ugly one. AFAIK there were no other emissions.
I agree the way we do nuclear today is flawed -the reactors were never designed to run past the 80s. Research was underway on cleaner, safer alternatives. Unfortunately, corruption+green nuts in the 70s stopped it entirely 30 years ago.
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fucking stupid, its really too bad people like this can thrive from peoples fears of things they don't quite understand, and its too bad people know so little about nuclear power.
@kazekage321414 I'm not feeling sorry for myself, cunt. In fact, like George Carlin once said, I take a kind of disconnected amusement from our own self destruction. But the more human part of me is feeling sorry for the species. And you are delusional about the safety of nuclear reactors. Look at Chernobyl, it's killed millions accumulatively. Governments lie, Japan is lying. They simply raise the 'safety levels'. Cancer didn't exist 100 years ago.We're killing ourselves. Accept it.
@Hammerhead547 The known number of deaths directly attributable to Chernobyl are in the 30s. Neutral organisations such as WHO put the increased incidents of cancer attributable to Chernobyl in the hundreds. Also improvements in nuclear plants’ safety have been made since Chernobyl.
@595o Indeed, not a desirable outcome, but also not the catastrophe many people make radiation exposure out to be. Furthermore, when measured against the benefits of nuclear energy and the fact that every industry has accidents we see how blown out of proportion public / media reaction to the Fukushima incident has been.
Spot on, you look at how many people die every year from traditional power generating sources such as coal, gas, and oil and yet you hear no one complaining about the cost of life for those forms of power. Its amazing, you go to France and the average person there understands more about nuclear energy than anyone average person here in the US. France should be the example. Instead, we have ignorant people complain about a system and process that their very complaints created.
They still are not fixing the Fukushima problem properly, there are going to be hundreds of thousands to millions of people dead from the radiation as time goes by. This is because the total amount of radiation is comparable to Chernobyl, and the Japanese population is of high density. But the way it seems now, probably allot of people in the region which includes Japan and the surrounding area will be affected.
companies are cheap and will run to failure any part that co$ts money. The problem is that major components that need service take the plant off line, and so its a double whammy.
typical mainstream fear mongering for the NWO. 'stop using nuclear power. stop developing 4th generation clean nuclear technology and solve the energy needs for 6 billiob people. there are too many people. we nee to get rid of the people.'
@seanncali You idiot. If anything the NWO (utter bullshit, to say the least) would be in favor of nuclear energy to make themselves look like the people worried about the environment when in reality nuclear energy in it's current form (no regulation, remember?) poses a great threat to both the population AND the environment. Nuclear energy is anything but clean when it produces waste that takes hundreds of years to become benign. Anything else, conspiracy theorist?
@seanncali Generation IV reactors (Gen IV) are a set of theoretical nuclear reactor designs currently being researched. Most of these designs are generally not expected to be available for commercial construction before 2030...
Did I miss something or are you just dense. Try responding to the issues at hand before asking me to do research for you. Lazy is a much kinder word than what I had in mind to describe what you are.
@mecher3k Nuclear meltdown, radioactive waste, 60 year old power plants, corporate greed. I can come up with unexplained words and phrases too, buddy.
Try making a response containing more than a sentence or two (if one can even call what you write proper sentences) before you call me an idiot, you dunce.
@mecher3k Seriously, what's the point of calling me an idiot in my understanding of nuclear energy when you can't even make a rebuttal to at least present your argument. It's just baseless name calling at that point so don't waste my time. Either try and prove the point you don't seem very eager to make or grit your teeth and move on.
@mecher3k If worrying about potential meltdowns due to greed and gross negligence makes me a "greenfag", then a "greenfag" I am. Take your childish insults elsewhere. You obviously have no rational argument to present.
if we know now that our so called nice leaders are psycopatic scum ..it is a reason to worry ow ...maybe we have to spend energy to do something .... again again ......................it is like a cd that repeat and over with fear .... again again
If your job is to regulate a certain industry then it should be illeagle for you to EVER work in the industy your regulating. Just dirty pool otherwise.
This system is designed not to regulate = fascism.
Original intent as prescribed by the constitutions of the 13 colonies was designed to allow the sovereign citizen to regulate through the common law courts. Once we allowed the "legal profession" to take over, the people were barred from seeking relief.
If you want to see things change go to your local sheriff and tell him that he had better re-open the courts of common law. They were all closed by the judicial system we now suffer under.
Regulations are selectively enforced. Big corporations get away with literal murder or at least manslaughter. Small businessman and farmers get crucified by regulators all the time. But, the MIC, Wall St etc. have no oversight at all. Not to mention all the corporate welfare. Regulation means nothing without enforcement.
Its part of global depopulation plans. Its going to be like a newer pearl harbor.Flase flag nukes might get called a false flag,but a meltdown will make you obedient to their sick Dalmeresque agenda. TSA is still Xraying sheeple and smart meters and cell phones are messing you up.They never mention that,only what they want you worried about. If it comes from the MSM dissect it as lies.Get your news off the internet from several sources.You got bigger problems actually happening.Never trust MSM.
Notice they mention 17 Million, they mean the Long Island/NY metro area, for evacuation. When it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, smells like a dcuk, its a duck. They are talking about the Long Island/NY metro area. Its not going to be Nuclear its going to Biological, 1000%.
why do TYT keep saying evacuate 17 million? Fukushima should result in the evacuation of all of Tohoku AND Tokyo AND other regions as becomes necessary. We're talking tens of millions. Tohoku (northern Honshu) and Tokyo metro combined is more on the order of SIXTY million people. The West Coast of the U.S., not that it's limited to that, is 40 million easily.
The government CAN do anything that is necessary WHEN the government is the CITIZENS. When the government is nuclear power profiteers and their shills and lackeys enmeshed in the U.S. government, military/covert orgs, they simply don't want to do what is necessary to protect people. Protecting people, rather than exploiting off of them and then poisoning them (as is happening NOW), would have made far less billionaires and would require a system that is FAIR to workers. Gee fair treatment?
Jesus...When I drive to and from my home, I go over a bridge and from that bridge, off in the distance down the river, I see the towers of a nuclear power plant.
I lived here through the twin hurricanes of 2004 but I never seriously considered moving to a different state until now.
I love your videos but this is a piece of crap. I worked with the NRC and the folks at the top are some of the most respected experts in the world. They worked in the nuclear industry? Sure, how the hell else would they become experts on nuclear energy and plant operation. On a more pragmatic point of view, these reactors are very freaking expensive, nobody wants to lose them. If you were the most heartless bastard you´d still want to avoid dealing with the consequences.
@hard2findu unfortunately nothing. But I would gladly get paid to do it! In fact if anyone in the nuclear industry is reading this, ask me for my resume. hard2findu, I´m sorry at your puerile comment. It would be good to have a mature debate about nuclear energy, how it should be made safe, and what that would mean for the environment. But I guess you can keep insulting me. No one cares really.
There is no mature debate, Nuclear energy, is deadly, unlike so many other forms of energy we have no safe way of disposal, once it is in the system it can do damage for centuries. It will be the pit bull that tears the human race apart. maybe if humans where smart enough to use it that would be another story, but I guess it will take 3mile island, Chernobyl or Fukushima event to show you in glow in the dark terms that it is an unsafe energy source, said the bunny with no ears.
@hard2findu You must know a lot about nuclear energy to make those statements, or maybe you are a charlatan. Suggestion: if you are interested in less use of nuclear energy use 20% less electricity. That means reducing all your consumption by 20%: public transportation, consumer products, computer, etc. Carbon emissions will be reduced in proportion to what you reduce in addition. Unless you are not interested in reducing emissions. Nuclear energy is safe when people are informed. Fear won´t do.
AS A MATTER FACT, YES, I KNOW QUITE A GREAT DEAL ABOUT IT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I would give you decay rates of several radioactive particulates, how ever that would be a waste on you, of that I am sure.
Emissions can be reduced by the use of Natural gas instead of coal. Wind, wave and solar all need to be further explored for the creation of Electricity, bio fuels need more use. What does not need to be explored is the deadly effect of radiation poising, been there done that.
@hard2findu Haha, "you would give me the rate of decay of several radioactive particulates". First I know you don´t know anything in general cause you wrote "where" instead of "were" earlier. 2nd, I know you don´t know anything about nuclear energy because you say rate of decay. The term people who know use is half-life. 3rd it´s called a particle. But thank you. You did make me laugh.
@EconosPhylos Oh I will admit you have me quite upset and in doing so, I type way to fast for what I am thinking. I will slow down a bit, so you can get the full effect of what I am trying to say. You are a smooth lying ASSHOLE, to focus on syntax shows just that, so from the bottom of my heart you FUCKING SHIT STAIN, I hope you die a slow death while you skin sloughs off and you live to scream for help that will not come. May the souls of those in Japan find your dreams. to make you scream
@hard2findu I feel truly sorry for you. I too have a hope for you, that one day you become fully intellectually developed. That day after you apologize you will be allowed at the grown ups table.
You can call it safe all you want, that is a LIE and YOU know it, if it is so good please do me a favor and head to japan and when you get to the reactors please stay long enough so that what you pass for a brain MELTS OUT OF YOUR NOSE.
@EconosPhylos "I may not like what you say, but I would fight to the death for your right to day it." When did people just outright stop respecting other people's opinions?
@YoshimitsuBloodPedal Actually the real question is when did people start respecting, or at least tolerating each other´s opinion. The treaty of Westphalia? And that just meant that they´d stop slaughtering each other.
@hard2findu ^And what did econos lie about in those comments?? That no one can have a mature debate on nuclear energy? You are proof of that statement, as respect is something that MATURE people have for each other and their opinions... Dumb fucks just go around acting like "how much were you paid to say that" is a real rebuttle to a comment.
Unless these US reactors are hit by an 8+ earthquake followed immediately by a huge tsunami, they won't have a 'Fukushima type' nuclear meltdown. That isn't to say that they won't melt down if they're abused too hard for too long, but Fukushima did get a rather unique double whammy.
"Here's the thing, we have a whole regulatory commission.. but here's the thing, everything is deregulated, because when push comes to shove, all you need is a little bit of funds, and the commission that is supposed to regulate doesn't do its job".
with all do respect, that's not "deregulation"... that IS regulation.
The fact there are 40-50 year old reactors in the US, not replaced by newer, safer and more modern designs, is due to the victory the anti-nuclear movement won after 3 Mile Island. Counter intuitively, safety has not improved.
New reactors in France, China and Scandinavian countries are built with Core Catchers ... in the event of a core meltdown, Corium (melted core) is dealt with and stored in a specially built bunker under the reactor. It can't escape.
i worry more about terrorists getting access to a nuclear plant than i am the safety issue...i saw a documentary once on how easy the security is to breach...that's what scares me...
I'm disappointed with TYT here…I thought you were all reasonable, logical people that didn't scare easily!! The risk of nuclear power comes from the people running it, not from the fuel rods that do nothing more that HEAT WATER to power steam engines! Please, stop this nuclear power fear mongering!
I did a paper on Nuclear Reactors in America for school. I learned I live near two of the top three most likely reactors to have meltdowns in the U.S.... I really need to move 0.o
I did a research paper on nuclear energy a few semesters ago. I came to the conclusion that nuclear is an acceptable alternative to fossil fuels under some conditions. If they are completely non profit, government run agencies and you don't build them on a fault line, then they can be safe and while not cost effective, they can at least satisfy energy needs without adding greenhouse gasses. Not exactly practical in the USA. France has some okay nuclear energy though.
@hard2findu Hey genius, I just said that nuclear power generates energy without adding greenhouse gasses. I did not get into any argument for or against greenhouse gasses. Whether or not greenhouse gas emission was a laudable concern was outside the scope of my paper. But, while I have not researched it myself, every scientist not being paid oil or coal companies agrees that human-caused greenhouse gas emission is a bad thing.
Nuclear was sold to us as cheap, clean energy. It's anything but. Aside from plants costing many times what's been estimated, tax dollars subsidizing the industry and paying cleanup costs after a disaster, and the costs of mining radioactive ore, there's nothing cheap or clean about storing nuclear waste. Nuclear energy is neither cheap nor clean, and Three Mile Island, Chernobl, and now Fukushima prove that it's not safe, either.
@ShogaNinja Because it's the only pronunciation most people hear. Besides, it's normal, no matter your language, to pronounce foreign words using your own language's rules. When the Japanese adopt English words, they add a Japanese "flavor." I used to watch Japanese TV, and one game show gave the female contestant's measurements: busto, waisto, hipzu. Handbag became handubagu. Helicopter became hericopiter. I didn't get bent out of shape. I thought it was cute.
It's pronounced Foo-KOOSH-ma da-EECH. And as for the other things you said: Japanese has limited letters and already many of their words are like Hawaiian in the sense that they have like 14 syllables! So instead of further polluting their (limited/inferior(sorry it's true)) language with new japanese words they add engrish words. They aren't adding "flavor", their 2 letter system is stringent and they need to say them that way in order for them to work in their language. konpyuta!
@ShogaNinja Interesting. I wanted to learn Japanese, back when I watched so much Japanese TV, but I never did. Now I'm into Korean shows, so there's another language I'd like to learn but never will. Oh well. I envy people who learn languages easily.
@ncurran1987 Imagine millions of people with radiation sickness needing medical treatment costing billions and how that treatment will boost the economy. Given the perverse incentives of for-profit healthcare, dirty-bombing the population with stochastic poison dumps is indeed a coup of brilliance.
We aren't allowed to make new reactors, and only 1-3 in is the west.
These were made in the 1960's.
Think if we could put like 7 more in the west, with TODAYS technology. Much safer, more efficient, cheaper energy... They are afraid it will be hurtful. If we opperate 30 or so in that condition, what if we make new ones? With new technology? You really think that would be bad?
I don't know about anyone else, but if I live within a 50 mile radius of a nuclear power plant and said power plant has had a problem that has escalated to a point where the media knows about it, I'm getting the hell out of there. I don't need the government telling me whether it's safe or not.
Those nuclear plants have adequate safety precautions in place, as proven by the 3 mile island "incident". Fukushima was hit by a massive earthquake, and any emergency response was extremely limited thanks to tsunami destructioni. If it did happen in the U.S. our resources available and response time would be superior to a shocked, weakened Japanese response. It's no fault of the Japanese, large parts of their country were practically in ruins. Usually I agree with YT, but not here.
Good show, with the money invested in these reactors we could have developed and covered the southwest with insanely huge solar panels. Imagine the progress we would have seen in solar technology.
@mecher3k - The sun is a free fusion reactor. Why do we need to reproduce it earth? There is no reason except to keep people dependant on the energy giants and their murderous wars.
@mecher3k - On second thought.. its true. Someday the power to fuse atoms in any manner will be an incredible tool. As for now though, we have free energy, we simply choose to disregard it for the aforementioned reasons.
I don't mean to rant, I never do, but this issue hits a little close to home for me. Don't get your information from people who don't understand the subject matter.
mrmikerotch 1 week ago
Gah! I tend to love you guys, but this is stupid! I know you're not nuclear engineers, but come on! "The plants are only supposed to operate for about 40 years"? There's no such thing as retrofits or upgrades? People act like there's a guy shoveling in "nuclear stuff" into a big cast iron reactor. And the fact that people are still comparing the CHS-style reactor (like Chernobyl) to modern reactors is just painfully stupid.
mrmikerotch 1 week ago
So much misinformation in this video...
TheDarkEmporer 1 week ago
I'll admit, I could only make it halfway through this video. I don't need people who know nothing about nuclear power to read articles to me and add their sarcastic comments at the end. By the way, a collapsing cooling tower means absolutely nothing. Coal plants have cooling towers. All they do is cool down water before returning it to the river/lake/ocean or the plant itself. Fukushima is the result of poor location. You don't build one of these things on the ring of fire where you can have hu
Plautzy77 1 week ago
american population 320 million, 17 million is nearer 5% of population.
CHEESYhairyGASH 1 week ago
@totoritko Actually, the plant's flood walls weren't nearly high enough and it's backup diesel generators weren't in a waterproof room. If they had used a little bit more regulation then the plant would have been fine. Read up on it if you like.
xssRavenssx 1 week ago
@TheSkunkCat Nuclear power is green. All we need to do is make it more regulated and it would be a great power source.
xssRavenssx 1 week ago
I remember saying in an open forum once that I'm against all nuclear power and this was AFTER Fukushima. And I got an insane amount of personal abuse for this and lots of people thought I was crazy or retarded. (And I guess some would. Although I think they got it backwards if they think that's ME having that problem.)
Green power for the win *I* say. Clean and renewable and lots of possible sources. I'd say that's what development money's gotta go to.
TheSkunkCat 2 weeks ago
I remember hearing about how some of the planets were adjusting their BFPL limits!! That's absolutely horrible. They are opperating closer to the limits where the core components can undergo brittle fracture!
MzBUZZKILINGTON 3 weeks ago
take a look at the documentary: uranium-is-it-a-country
Just type it into google or youtube and watch the true and diabolical nature of nuclear "energy".
telemetry9 4 weeks ago
in nuclear history, there has been 103 Nuclear accidents, out of those 103, 51 of them were in the US. lol the US isn't safe, and you wonder why people no longer tour to the US. why would I want to go to a place that has psychopathic police that would beat you for basically no reason at all, you have politicians that would sell their own familys for a quick buck. and the goverment is to corrupt to even fix your nuclear reactors! sorry america, i'll spend my tourist money in sweden instead...
metalqueenofnothing 4 weeks ago
I like TYT, but this was a piece of bad reporting. Fukushima didn't have "a simple power outage". They had a natural catastrophe the likes of which the US has never seen. Several kilometers of shore over a stretch of roughly 200km across, gone, practically carpet-bombed. The plant could have survived a power outage if it weren't for all the destruction around it.
The points about regulation and corruption though, fully agree. We need to boot corporations out of the governing business.
totoritko 4 weeks ago
careful. looks like you may be slipping from your "nuclear is great" stance. ;)
telemetry9 4 weeks ago
@telemetry9 I never said that I think nuclear is great & unlike you, I don't need to use fallacious arguments to support my conclusions. I'm free to go wherever the evidence leads me. I don't see reactions taking place inside the nucleus of an atom as evil, much as I don't perceive chemical burning to be. It depends on what you do with it. Nuclear energy has its fair share of problems, but framing a technical question on its usability for energy production as a moral one is dishonest
totoritko 4 weeks ago
I guess that indicating the death of real people as a result of nuclear technology is a fallacious argument to you.
For a great deal of us - that is the reality of nuclear "energy".
telemetry9 4 weeks ago
@telemetry9 People die because of people. Malice, spitefulness, negligence and, yes, evil, are all human qualities. Technology is the conduit, not the source. How many people die every day from cutting or stabbing with sharp tools, yet we don't think of the act of cutting something as evil. In London alone in 2007 there were ~12500 knife-related crimes. Just like everything else, it depends on what you do with it. Btw: appeal to emotion is a dishonest debate tactic.
totoritko 4 weeks ago
@iownall12able, yea its a clean form of energy except from the nuclear waste that will stay hear for thousands of years
hydrokush1994 1 month ago
75 ppl are american
flynnsharp 2 months ago
@flynnsharp Yeah, definitely... Dumb ass.
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nuclearform55 3 months ago
... Well Japan is on a very fragile tectonic plate and is KNOWN to be prone to Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
Don't totally outrule nuclear power. It is a great potential, clean and efficient energy source. You just need to build it in appropriate places. The further Inland and away from tectonic plates the better.
iownall12able 4 months ago
... Well Japan is on a very fragile tectonic plate and is KNOWN to be prone to Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
Don't totally outrule nuclear power. It is a great potential, clean and efficient energy source. You just need to build it in appropriate places. The further Inland and away from tectonic plates the better.
iownall12able 4 months ago
@playgrrrr You do know that because of that one mistake the entire area around the Fukushima plant will require decades if not centuries to clean up right? And that's just cleaning to government standards. For the radioactive isotopes to totally disperse from the environment will take millenia. There's a reason nuclear fission is powerful enough to power the sun for billions of years. When it comes to using something that powerful, there is zero margin for error. Otherwise, you get Chernobyl.
danielcontoro 5 months ago
@danielcontoro =There's a reason nuclear fission is powerful enough to power the sun for billions of years.= Fission doesn't power the sun.
=Chernobyl.= Chernobyl was so badly designed that it was basically made to fail. You realize that the Fukushima mistake happened @ 44yo plant + had nothing to do with nuclear power, but with avoiding flooding, right? You also realize that modern (integral fast/non light water) reactors don't overheat bc of different cooling systems+negative void coefficient?
playgrrrr 5 months ago
@danielcontoro The sun is powered by fusion, not fission. The Earth is powered by fission.
"Dispersion" (decay, actually) depends on the isotopes emitted. I131: ~80 days. Cs137: ~300 years <- that's ugly one. AFAIK there were no other emissions.
I agree the way we do nuclear today is flawed -the reactors were never designed to run past the 80s. Research was underway on cleaner, safer alternatives. Unfortunately, corruption+green nuts in the 70s stopped it entirely 30 years ago.
totoritko 4 weeks ago
SHUT UP. No nuclear reacture is safe!
punkgurlshalina 5 months ago
Well America is fucked with this nuclear shit and Bachman
SuperSpermbank 5 months ago
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YoungDreezee 5 months ago
Lazy, pathetic, under researched journalism. Disgrace.
That woman talks Bollocks!
And many Thanks to Captain Hindsight!
Tossers
bibbyandal 5 months ago
Lol wind turbines have killed more people in the USA than nuclear energy has.
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fucking stupid, its really too bad people like this can thrive from peoples fears of things they don't quite understand, and its too bad people know so little about nuclear power.
agrass1992 5 months ago
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agrass1992 5 months ago
@kazekage321414 I'm not feeling sorry for myself, cunt. In fact, like George Carlin once said, I take a kind of disconnected amusement from our own self destruction. But the more human part of me is feeling sorry for the species. And you are delusional about the safety of nuclear reactors. Look at Chernobyl, it's killed millions accumulatively. Governments lie, Japan is lying. They simply raise the 'safety levels'. Cancer didn't exist 100 years ago.We're killing ourselves. Accept it.
AllWalksofLife 6 months ago
@AllWalksofLife "Cancer didn't exist 100 years ago."
wat
CrawlingChaos 5 months ago 9
@CrawlingChaos Yes it did its in your genes check wikipedia
DeadlyRenji 2 weeks ago
Cooling towers don't leak radiation
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Stevie68000 6 months ago
Funny that the Chernobyle area is practically a natural reserve nowaday.
Fridaey13txhOktober 6 months ago
Why has it taken so long for u to get this out???? Please where is it safe to go in this country or this planet???
bleaupearls 6 months ago
@Hammerhead547 The known number of deaths directly attributable to Chernobyl are in the 30s. Neutral organisations such as WHO put the increased incidents of cancer attributable to Chernobyl in the hundreds. Also improvements in nuclear plants’ safety have been made since Chernobyl.
PJ665 6 months ago
@595o Indeed, not a desirable outcome, but also not the catastrophe many people make radiation exposure out to be. Furthermore, when measured against the benefits of nuclear energy and the fact that every industry has accidents we see how blown out of proportion public / media reaction to the Fukushima incident has been.
PJ665 6 months ago
@PJ665
Spot on, you look at how many people die every year from traditional power generating sources such as coal, gas, and oil and yet you hear no one complaining about the cost of life for those forms of power. Its amazing, you go to France and the average person there understands more about nuclear energy than anyone average person here in the US. France should be the example. Instead, we have ignorant people complain about a system and process that their very complaints created.
bayouboyy 6 months ago
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mstrephoenix1 6 months ago
They still are not fixing the Fukushima problem properly, there are going to be hundreds of thousands to millions of people dead from the radiation as time goes by. This is because the total amount of radiation is comparable to Chernobyl, and the Japanese population is of high density. But the way it seems now, probably allot of people in the region which includes Japan and the surrounding area will be affected.
choobie12 6 months ago
Fallout 3?
RyunSharp 6 months ago
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@patthespark
"It will change where those causing all the problems live."
"I am not a fear monger."
Yes you are. You trying to say living near a reactor will cause problems for you. When you lie about things that cause fear, you are a fear monger.
mecher3k 6 months ago
@patthespark
That will change nothing, you are just a retarded fear monger.
mecher3k 6 months ago
Wouldn't want any government to evacuate because we can't trust anything they do!
Look at New Orleans fiasco!
Nice way for population control. People, we live in a great world ... keep making babies! Bring more beautiful babies into your living hell. Nice.
haraldschl 6 months ago
Remind me of The Simpsons XP
1dark1dragon1knight1 6 months ago
companies are cheap and will run to failure any part that co$ts money. The problem is that major components that need service take the plant off line, and so its a double whammy.
automan1223 6 months ago
hmmm ! old old news . and still no one cares . and thats how THEY know how far to push
suened 6 months ago
Cold fusion.
neko9 6 months ago
typical mainstream fear mongering for the NWO. 'stop using nuclear power. stop developing 4th generation clean nuclear technology and solve the energy needs for 6 billiob people. there are too many people. we nee to get rid of the people.'
fuck this.
seanncali 6 months ago
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reveleoc 6 months ago
@seanncali You idiot. If anything the NWO (utter bullshit, to say the least) would be in favor of nuclear energy to make themselves look like the people worried about the environment when in reality nuclear energy in it's current form (no regulation, remember?) poses a great threat to both the population AND the environment. Nuclear energy is anything but clean when it produces waste that takes hundreds of years to become benign. Anything else, conspiracy theorist?
eagles980 6 months ago
@eagles980
you're an idiot. look up 4th generation nuclear power generation.
seanncali 6 months ago
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@seanncali Generation IV reactors (Gen IV) are a set of theoretical nuclear reactor designs currently being researched. Most of these designs are generally not expected to be available for commercial construction before 2030...
Did I miss something or are you just dense. Try responding to the issues at hand before asking me to do research for you. Lazy is a much kinder word than what I had in mind to describe what you are.
eagles980 6 months ago
@eagles980
Thorium reactors.
Sean is right, you are an idiot.
mecher3k 6 months ago
@mecher3k Nuclear meltdown, radioactive waste, 60 year old power plants, corporate greed. I can come up with unexplained words and phrases too, buddy.
Try making a response containing more than a sentence or two (if one can even call what you write proper sentences) before you call me an idiot, you dunce.
eagles980 6 months ago
@eagles980
Though I do agree on sean that you're an idiot when it comes to nuclear power, Sean is a major idiot when it comes to reality with his NWO bs.
mecher3k 6 months ago
@mecher3k Seriously, what's the point of calling me an idiot in my understanding of nuclear energy when you can't even make a rebuttal to at least present your argument. It's just baseless name calling at that point so don't waste my time. Either try and prove the point you don't seem very eager to make or grit your teeth and move on.
eagles980 6 months ago
@eagles980
You have no point beyond showing how clueless you greenfags are.
mecher3k 6 months ago
@mecher3k If worrying about potential meltdowns due to greed and gross negligence makes me a "greenfag", then a "greenfag" I am. Take your childish insults elsewhere. You obviously have no rational argument to present.
eagles980 6 months ago
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Subsequentdownfall 6 months ago
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Subsequentdownfall 6 months ago
I'm certain these same propagandists have all solutions to the world's economic problems...
Why do propagandists think they know everything? How much schooling could they have had if they end up being alarmists on a YouTube broadcast.
Tell them to go back to trying to pop corn with celphones...
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vastell 6 months ago
if we know now that our so called nice leaders are psycopatic scum ..it is a reason to worry ow ...maybe we have to spend energy to do something .... again again ......................it is like a cd that repeat and over with fear .... again again
dennisjo88 6 months ago
using nuclear power to make steam to run the turbines is idiocy.
xtiml 6 months ago
@xtiml Burning coal or oil to do the same thing is not?
The only thing nuclear fission does is create steam more efficiently and "cleanly".
The process may seem stupid, but this stupidity has been going on for a long time. Mostly because it's the most profitable source of creating energy.
painet1776 6 months ago
If your job is to regulate a certain industry then it should be illeagle for you to EVER work in the industy your regulating. Just dirty pool otherwise.
Bamthejust 6 months ago
An inability to evacuate people adequately is a design failure of economy and public mass-transit.
playerx 6 months ago
combine young turks with Armenia genocide on a g search...and you might want to stop listening to these fake "progressives"
oh btw...I want to dismantle the nuclear industrial complex
MegaBuckjohnson 6 months ago
This system is designed not to regulate = fascism.
Original intent as prescribed by the constitutions of the 13 colonies was designed to allow the sovereign citizen to regulate through the common law courts. Once we allowed the "legal profession" to take over, the people were barred from seeking relief.
If you want to see things change go to your local sheriff and tell him that he had better re-open the courts of common law. They were all closed by the judicial system we now suffer under.
AnalyzeIt 6 months ago
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Stevie68000 6 months ago
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ankhaton 6 months ago
@ankhaton FUCK YOUR IMAGINARY JESUS.
TheTruthisBackNow 6 months ago
Regulations are selectively enforced. Big corporations get away with literal murder or at least manslaughter. Small businessman and farmers get crucified by regulators all the time. But, the MIC, Wall St etc. have no oversight at all. Not to mention all the corporate welfare. Regulation means nothing without enforcement.
Aridzonan13 6 months ago
Its part of global depopulation plans. Its going to be like a newer pearl harbor.Flase flag nukes might get called a false flag,but a meltdown will make you obedient to their sick Dalmeresque agenda. TSA is still Xraying sheeple and smart meters and cell phones are messing you up.They never mention that,only what they want you worried about. If it comes from the MSM dissect it as lies.Get your news off the internet from several sources.You got bigger problems actually happening.Never trust MSM.
THX1146 6 months ago
@THX1146
"Its part of global depopulation plans"
Lol you idiots have been saying that for DECADES and yet the population is growing faster then ever.
Talk about the biggest epic fail of all time.
mecher3k 6 months ago
@mecher3k Yeah thats definately far fetched.
YoshimitsuBloodPedal 6 months ago
What are Young Turks? Are they Turkish people in America?
MrHerbicat 6 months ago
Notice they mention 17 Million, they mean the Long Island/NY metro area, for evacuation. When it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, smells like a dcuk, its a duck. They are talking about the Long Island/NY metro area. Its not going to be Nuclear its going to Biological, 1000%.
RobertBienenfeld 6 months ago
why do TYT keep saying evacuate 17 million? Fukushima should result in the evacuation of all of Tohoku AND Tokyo AND other regions as becomes necessary. We're talking tens of millions. Tohoku (northern Honshu) and Tokyo metro combined is more on the order of SIXTY million people. The West Coast of the U.S., not that it's limited to that, is 40 million easily.
Pallas89juno 6 months ago
@Pallas89juno
But it won't ever become necessary.
mecher3k 6 months ago
The government CAN do anything that is necessary WHEN the government is the CITIZENS. When the government is nuclear power profiteers and their shills and lackeys enmeshed in the U.S. government, military/covert orgs, they simply don't want to do what is necessary to protect people. Protecting people, rather than exploiting off of them and then poisoning them (as is happening NOW), would have made far less billionaires and would require a system that is FAIR to workers. Gee fair treatment?
Pallas89juno 6 months ago
prypiat anyone?
jackthayer 6 months ago
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Stevie68000 6 months ago
Jesus...When I drive to and from my home, I go over a bridge and from that bridge, off in the distance down the river, I see the towers of a nuclear power plant.
I lived here through the twin hurricanes of 2004 but I never seriously considered moving to a different state until now.
Piriathy 6 months ago
I love your videos but this is a piece of crap. I worked with the NRC and the folks at the top are some of the most respected experts in the world. They worked in the nuclear industry? Sure, how the hell else would they become experts on nuclear energy and plant operation. On a more pragmatic point of view, these reactors are very freaking expensive, nobody wants to lose them. If you were the most heartless bastard you´d still want to avoid dealing with the consequences.
EconosPhylos 6 months ago
@EconosPhylos how much where you paid to say that?
hard2findu 6 months ago
@hard2findu unfortunately nothing. But I would gladly get paid to do it! In fact if anyone in the nuclear industry is reading this, ask me for my resume. hard2findu, I´m sorry at your puerile comment. It would be good to have a mature debate about nuclear energy, how it should be made safe, and what that would mean for the environment. But I guess you can keep insulting me. No one cares really.
EconosPhylos 6 months ago 2
@EconosPhylos
There is no mature debate, Nuclear energy, is deadly, unlike so many other forms of energy we have no safe way of disposal, once it is in the system it can do damage for centuries. It will be the pit bull that tears the human race apart. maybe if humans where smart enough to use it that would be another story, but I guess it will take 3mile island, Chernobyl or Fukushima event to show you in glow in the dark terms that it is an unsafe energy source, said the bunny with no ears.
hard2findu 6 months ago
@hard2findu You must know a lot about nuclear energy to make those statements, or maybe you are a charlatan. Suggestion: if you are interested in less use of nuclear energy use 20% less electricity. That means reducing all your consumption by 20%: public transportation, consumer products, computer, etc. Carbon emissions will be reduced in proportion to what you reduce in addition. Unless you are not interested in reducing emissions. Nuclear energy is safe when people are informed. Fear won´t do.
EconosPhylos 6 months ago
@EconosPhylos
AS A MATTER FACT, YES, I KNOW QUITE A GREAT DEAL ABOUT IT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I would give you decay rates of several radioactive particulates, how ever that would be a waste on you, of that I am sure.
Emissions can be reduced by the use of Natural gas instead of coal. Wind, wave and solar all need to be further explored for the creation of Electricity, bio fuels need more use. What does not need to be explored is the deadly effect of radiation poising, been there done that.
hard2findu 6 months ago
@hard2findu Haha, "you would give me the rate of decay of several radioactive particulates". First I know you don´t know anything in general cause you wrote "where" instead of "were" earlier. 2nd, I know you don´t know anything about nuclear energy because you say rate of decay. The term people who know use is half-life. 3rd it´s called a particle. But thank you. You did make me laugh.
EconosPhylos 6 months ago
@EconosPhylos Oh I will admit you have me quite upset and in doing so, I type way to fast for what I am thinking. I will slow down a bit, so you can get the full effect of what I am trying to say. You are a smooth lying ASSHOLE, to focus on syntax shows just that, so from the bottom of my heart you FUCKING SHIT STAIN, I hope you die a slow death while you skin sloughs off and you live to scream for help that will not come. May the souls of those in Japan find your dreams. to make you scream
hard2findu 6 months ago
@hard2findu I feel truly sorry for you. I too have a hope for you, that one day you become fully intellectually developed. That day after you apologize you will be allowed at the grown ups table.
EconosPhylos 6 months ago
@EconosPhylos
You can call it safe all you want, that is a LIE and YOU know it, if it is so good please do me a favor and head to japan and when you get to the reactors please stay long enough so that what you pass for a brain MELTS OUT OF YOUR NOSE.
hard2findu 6 months ago
@EconosPhylos "I may not like what you say, but I would fight to the death for your right to day it." When did people just outright stop respecting other people's opinions?
YoshimitsuBloodPedal 6 months ago
@YoshimitsuBloodPedal Actually the real question is when did people start respecting, or at least tolerating each other´s opinion. The treaty of Westphalia? And that just meant that they´d stop slaughtering each other.
EconosPhylos 6 months ago
@YoshimitsuBloodPedal
when the opinions of some are known lies to others, I have no need, will or want to respect a known lie. You may thats on you.
hard2findu 6 months ago
@hard2findu ^And what did econos lie about in those comments?? That no one can have a mature debate on nuclear energy? You are proof of that statement, as respect is something that MATURE people have for each other and their opinions... Dumb fucks just go around acting like "how much were you paid to say that" is a real rebuttle to a comment.
YoshimitsuBloodPedal 6 months ago
Unless these US reactors are hit by an 8+ earthquake followed immediately by a huge tsunami, they won't have a 'Fukushima type' nuclear meltdown. That isn't to say that they won't melt down if they're abused too hard for too long, but Fukushima did get a rather unique double whammy.
Tigranis 6 months ago 2
"Here's the thing, we have a whole regulatory commission.. but here's the thing, everything is deregulated, because when push comes to shove, all you need is a little bit of funds, and the commission that is supposed to regulate doesn't do its job".
with all do respect, that's not "deregulation"... that IS regulation.
JAROSLAVAGINA 6 months ago
"Governments Lie All The Time..." Finally, Cenk shows some kind of common sense...
JAROSLAVAGINA 6 months ago
LOL it is not as if all the reactors will explode at the same time!
unknownshadow1993 6 months ago
The fact there are 40-50 year old reactors in the US, not replaced by newer, safer and more modern designs, is due to the victory the anti-nuclear movement won after 3 Mile Island. Counter intuitively, safety has not improved.
New reactors in France, China and Scandinavian countries are built with Core Catchers ... in the event of a core meltdown, Corium (melted core) is dealt with and stored in a specially built bunker under the reactor. It can't escape.
See: Core Catcher - Cooling Structures
Diamonddavej 6 months ago
15 children died due to Thyroid cancer because of Chernobyl, up to 2005.
In: SOURCES AND EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION UNSCEAR 2008
Diamonddavej 6 months ago
Jew & Federal Reserve - December 23, 1913
Jew founders :
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2. Paul M Warburg ( Banker )
3. Nelson D Aldrich ( Politician - daughter Abby marries John D Rockefeller Jr )
Stevie68000 6 months ago
i worry more about terrorists getting access to a nuclear plant than i am the safety issue...i saw a documentary once on how easy the security is to breach...that's what scares me...
Pauly69s 6 months ago
I'm disappointed with TYT here…I thought you were all reasonable, logical people that didn't scare easily!! The risk of nuclear power comes from the people running it, not from the fuel rods that do nothing more that HEAT WATER to power steam engines! Please, stop this nuclear power fear mongering!
MrAlexbradley 6 months ago
I did a paper on Nuclear Reactors in America for school. I learned I live near two of the top three most likely reactors to have meltdowns in the U.S.... I really need to move 0.o
sodawitch 6 months ago
@sodawitch holy shit RUN
Piriathy 6 months ago
Capitalism doesn't dictate quality.
Indigo1m 6 months ago
I did a research paper on nuclear energy a few semesters ago. I came to the conclusion that nuclear is an acceptable alternative to fossil fuels under some conditions. If they are completely non profit, government run agencies and you don't build them on a fault line, then they can be safe and while not cost effective, they can at least satisfy energy needs without adding greenhouse gasses. Not exactly practical in the USA. France has some okay nuclear energy though.
Phoboskomboa 6 months ago
@Phoboskomboa
BS BS BS one volcano puts out more green house gas than humans do in twenty years, how much where you paid to say that ?
hard2findu 6 months ago
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@hard2findu
"BS BS BS one volcano puts out more green house gas than humans do in twenty years, how much where you paid to say that ?"
LOL figures you would say such actual bullshit.
mecher3k 6 months ago
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@hard2findu "one volcano puts out more green house gas than humans do in twenty years, how much where you paid to say that ?"
Unfortunately, You're a moron because you don't understand the total scope of the problem.
technatezin 6 months ago
@hard2findu Hey genius, I just said that nuclear power generates energy without adding greenhouse gasses. I did not get into any argument for or against greenhouse gasses. Whether or not greenhouse gas emission was a laudable concern was outside the scope of my paper. But, while I have not researched it myself, every scientist not being paid oil or coal companies agrees that human-caused greenhouse gas emission is a bad thing.
Phoboskomboa 6 months ago
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
KRUSTYskates 6 months ago 26
@KRUSTYskates that's the best kind, too!
shittyfagg 6 months ago
17 million /= 10% of US population, about 6%. Still we can't evacuate 1 million in time.
jahs389 6 months ago
Nuclear was sold to us as cheap, clean energy. It's anything but. Aside from plants costing many times what's been estimated, tax dollars subsidizing the industry and paying cleanup costs after a disaster, and the costs of mining radioactive ore, there's nothing cheap or clean about storing nuclear waste. Nuclear energy is neither cheap nor clean, and Three Mile Island, Chernobl, and now Fukushima prove that it's not safe, either.
YY4Me133 6 months ago
why does everyone say the japanese reactor's name wrong lol?
ShogaNinja 6 months ago
@ShogaNinja Because it's the only pronunciation most people hear. Besides, it's normal, no matter your language, to pronounce foreign words using your own language's rules. When the Japanese adopt English words, they add a Japanese "flavor." I used to watch Japanese TV, and one game show gave the female contestant's measurements: busto, waisto, hipzu. Handbag became handubagu. Helicopter became hericopiter. I didn't get bent out of shape. I thought it was cute.
YY4Me133 6 months ago
@YY4Me133
It's pronounced Foo-KOOSH-ma da-EECH. And as for the other things you said: Japanese has limited letters and already many of their words are like Hawaiian in the sense that they have like 14 syllables! So instead of further polluting their (limited/inferior(sorry it's true)) language with new japanese words they add engrish words. They aren't adding "flavor", their 2 letter system is stringent and they need to say them that way in order for them to work in their language. konpyuta!
ShogaNinja 6 months ago
@ShogaNinja Interesting. I wanted to learn Japanese, back when I watched so much Japanese TV, but I never did. Now I'm into Korean shows, so there's another language I'd like to learn but never will. Oh well. I envy people who learn languages easily.
YY4Me133 6 months ago
@YY4Me133
Well don't start with Japanese lol. Language has always come natural to me. Japanese however not so much lol.
ShogaNinja 6 months ago
@ShogaNinja Well, then I don't feel so bad. :o)
YY4Me133 6 months ago
Who cares about the leaking radiation? I mean we'll probably all get super powers from it and Imagine how good that will be for the economy
ncurran1987 6 months ago
@ncurran1987 Imagine millions of people with radiation sickness needing medical treatment costing billions and how that treatment will boost the economy. Given the perverse incentives of for-profit healthcare, dirty-bombing the population with stochastic poison dumps is indeed a coup of brilliance.
cheekieweekie 6 months ago
@cheekieweekie What I was doing was called sarcasm smarty pants
ncurran1987 6 months ago
New York could be another Chernobyl.
MrBigfan007 6 months ago
No problem. I am sure Homer Simpson is on top of it.
stewart0312 6 months ago 73
@stewart0312 sector 7 g lol
afshin021 6 months ago
@stewart0312 shit!
MrMatthewUnger 6 months ago
@stewart0312
time for a change, wind/solar generator to every village in US?
general team watching over the balance between villages and people are mostly paying for the generator maintenance only?
ziilike666 6 months ago
Isn't 17 million people like, 6.5-7% of the population of the USA?
10% would be ~31 million. That's 14 million more, almost twice as much.
That's only headspace maths, so I might be off.
GraeHall 6 months ago
We need to upgrade our nuclear power plants and build many newer safer ones.
hawkermustang 6 months ago
Holy Sh!t... how are the people of the US still alive? unsafe energy, government screwing you over, unemployment.... wow...
2gq4u69 6 months ago
SIMPSONS ! don't WORRY !! HOMER IS WORKING ON IT !! ;-)
itsallaboutfeeling 6 months ago
This is insulting! My father used to work quite high up in NRC and he was gone for days at a time surveying plants all over the country.
TheMCBADGER 6 months ago
not only are they 50year old, they are very old technology in a field that made huge leaps in safety and efficiency.
few generations of nuclear reactors were developed...
logoth80 6 months ago
Well, this story is frightening.
RestInPieces777 6 months ago
We aren't allowed to make new reactors, and only 1-3 in is the west.
These were made in the 1960's.
Think if we could put like 7 more in the west, with TODAYS technology. Much safer, more efficient, cheaper energy... They are afraid it will be hurtful. If we opperate 30 or so in that condition, what if we make new ones? With new technology? You really think that would be bad?
Austin101123 6 months ago
It all comes back to money. A system that doesn't use money should be invented.
Zooni2 6 months ago
we humans have a perpetual habit of once we turn something on, then we never turn it off.
Kingdom007Hearts 6 months ago
New Zealand is Nuclear free - THANK GOD!
hemek 6 months ago
@hemek
true but you are down wind of several :(
hard2findu 6 months ago
I don't know about anyone else, but if I live within a 50 mile radius of a nuclear power plant and said power plant has had a problem that has escalated to a point where the media knows about it, I'm getting the hell out of there. I don't need the government telling me whether it's safe or not.
saveroftheday 6 months ago
We need more nuclear power plants. Put the fucking waste in Yucca mountain.
Fuck Harry Reid!
thrummer1953 6 months ago
@brone5420 how exactly
Oldcartoons571 6 months ago
you guys are turning into the internets fox news
bronze5420 6 months ago
fail to prepare...surley preparing to fail
herbilize 6 months ago
Those nuclear plants have adequate safety precautions in place, as proven by the 3 mile island "incident". Fukushima was hit by a massive earthquake, and any emergency response was extremely limited thanks to tsunami destructioni. If it did happen in the U.S. our resources available and response time would be superior to a shocked, weakened Japanese response. It's no fault of the Japanese, large parts of their country were practically in ruins. Usually I agree with YT, but not here.
DonFuego1 6 months ago
Ive read it 30000 times since march 11th i learned about it the same day and say it on CNN and such.
Brandan09997 6 months ago
..........Holy shit....
Razzics 6 months ago
Good show, with the money invested in these reactors we could have developed and covered the southwest with insanely huge solar panels. Imagine the progress we would have seen in solar technology.
doit420sdf 6 months ago
@doit420sdf
"Imagine the progress we would have seen in solar technology."
Not much at all.
mecher3k 6 months ago
@mecher3k - Really? If we put hundreds of trillions of dollars into it, instead of nuke plants, we wouldn't have progressed that much? I disagree.
doit420sdf 6 months ago
@doit420sdf
We would have fusion power then, much better then solar.
mecher3k 6 months ago
@mecher3k - The sun is a free fusion reactor. Why do we need to reproduce it earth? There is no reason except to keep people dependant on the energy giants and their murderous wars.
doit420sdf 6 months ago
@mecher3k - On second thought.. its true. Someday the power to fuse atoms in any manner will be an incredible tool. As for now though, we have free energy, we simply choose to disregard it for the aforementioned reasons.
doit420sdf 6 months ago