60 Minutes: Vive Les Nukes (Part One)

[etbadaboum]

"French, being French, decided the wrong way" ahah made me laugh :)

[NWguy83]

We let France get way ahead of us in nuclear power and high speed trains. WTF

[MrBillcale]

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[MrBillcale]

its so annoying when the french do something right. whats even more annoying is how often they often are so.

[gipcambero]

French Healthcare, French nuclear Power. France is model for America

[ChrisPCrunchy]

I would debate any pro nuclear lobbyest provided they stand in the burnt out reactor core of Chernobyl and debate me on a video phone.

[yushis1]

I will have that debate with you if you understand that what you're really fighting for is the status quo, and you'll agree to stand in a collapsing coal mine while we debate.

[NuclearGreen]

Some of the people aren't stupid, but you obviously are. You make your silly comments protected by your computer screen. You wouldn't dare personally approach someone knowledgeable on this subject. He or she would tear you apart intellectually.

As I said earlier, get a life.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

Yes and a life for my children and their children as well. I see our responsibility to all future generations as a major priority and leaving a radioactive mess that nobody at present can deal with is a sin far worse than mass murder. It appears that your contempt for future generations and lack of conscience allows you to treat the planet the way you would a disposable diaper. Crap in it and throw it away!

[NuclearGreen]

Dear ChrisPCrunchy,

You are truly a basket case ! ! But there is great unintended laughter emanating from your multiple diatribes. Unfortunately you have no idea what you're talking about and I have yet to lose a debate with intelligent opponents.

Nuclear Green.

[zoomfoom]

I know that ChrisPCrunchy......lol..he think that we should stick with coal and oil .. lol...his arguments

[CopiersOfficeEquip]

Yes I would say that you have had a lot of experience in debating. Even with massive numbers of people, because it is quite clear to all that you are a mass-debater.

[annagarner81]

@NuclearGreen so long that its built in a safe area and under all the strict rules and regulation's

[Nuker1337]

the nuclear waste disposal is already proven and all the mechanisms are sound. The nuclear waste is molded together with concrete, producing no hazards to the environment. This waste is then stored in safe locations, where no volcanic activity has existed or will exist in millions of years at the minimum.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

There is no way, nor will there ever be a "safe way" of disposing or storing nuclear waste for the tens of thousands or millions of years that it is deadly for. It WILL escape into the environment eventually someone WILL pay the price for this cheap energy. The French have a long history of taking the cowards way out. Solving their energy problems cheaply and leaving deadly waste for future generations to pay the price is just a continuation on the same theme.

[Nuker1337]

Wow, I don't even know where to start, your ignorance is frightening. I want to see your theory of how this disposal is to escape if it has been molded into concrete, and then placed in very thikc steel containers, which are then placed far underground. If they ever would get destroyed, gravity would only pull them further down into the mountain. What's bad energy is the coal and oil, which really pollute the environment to great extents.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

There are hundreds of way, it can & will escape into the environment. From leaching into the ground water to volcanic activity. Do you not think that this material would be a target for terrorists wishing to make a dirty bomb. How do you think the mountain got there in the first place, it was the result of volcanic activity or a shift in a tectonic plate causing the earth to be thrust upward. Even the most stable of ground can & will change over the thousands of years this stuff is deadly for.

[Nuker1337]

The mountain probably got there through a mantle plume hundreds or thousands of ma ago. What you're proposing is that a mountain thousands of kilometres from the nearest plate border would suddenly go volcanic. Wait, go study som geology & volcanology before you come here with such crazy arguments. Yeah, and terrorists can penetrate kilometres of solic rock... not. Whatever happens in such place, it will be contained.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

When will this be happening? Who will be paying and where will the waste be deposited. In the US the Yucca Mountain facility( in far from stable ground) is many years overdue & already way to small to contain all the waste. There are continual cost blow outs, legal challenges & the US is nearly bankrupt from the financial crisis. What about smaller countries, without stable land for a repository or those who go bankrupt, who takes their waste? How many tons have been dumped in rivers or at sea?

[Ackbar60]

ok very simply please explain to me in detail one of the hundreds of ways that it can escape.

Also please explain what it is that can escape.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

If NuclearGreen was really interested in clean power he would familiarise himself with some of the technology we are testing here in Australia. Currently we have a pilot plant for disposal of greenhouse gasses into empty gas wells and impervious seams in rock layers. We have a functioning plant with Hot Rock technology for geothermal limitless zero emmission energy, Geothermal in Austrailia is probably more difficult than anywhere else in the wolld as we are in the middle of a techtonic plate.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

Why dont you post the 60 minutes story on Chernoble to add a bit of ballance to this make believe dream turned nightmare story you are pushing. Its going to take more than some climate change fairytale to scare people into accepting the irradiation of much of the earth and the genetic mutation of much of its population. Nuclear waste will eventually leach out. There will be accidents, cost cutting, short cuts, terrorist attacks and this technology is just too dangerous in an unstable world.

[NuclearGreen]

Please don't bother to comment to me about nuclear power. You know absolutely NOTHING about the subject. You are simply a victim of the lies, exaggerations and scare tactics of organizations like The Sierra Club and GreenPeace. I am a member of both, but I'm doing my best to turn them around.

Put your efforts against oil and coal instead of the one source of power that can clean this planet.

NUCLEAR GREEN, INC.

Ralph Andrews,

President

[ChrisPCrunchy]

White anting green organisations. What a snake of a person you are. I will comment on what I want, it is a free world for the moment,something white ant snakes like you would be trying to turn around as well I suspect.

[NuclearGreen]

You are really pathetic. Get a life!

[ChrisPCrunchy]

Got one and I dont glow in the dark either.

[Ackbar60]

Interesting. Hey how does it compare to other forms of power?

I mean how many people have died because of Hydroelectric plants or solar?

[hulk2001]

yeah but the mining is not good its like moving the problem

[NuclearGreen]

Only when we've decided to get ALL of our energy from nuclear. There are now 441 nuclear power plants in the world....without a single injury or fatality. What we need, at the minimum., is 2,000 new plants with the ultimate goal of 5,000 plants. Then we can drive our internal combustion cars with hydrogen at a cost that would be about the same as if we were paying 50 cents a gallon for gasoline.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

Only when we see future generations as a disposable items and are willing to cut the grandkids up for body parts. Wait exposure to nuclear waste is far less humaine. You make me sick, as sick as you will make the planet. If you are outlineing the path to future human extinction for your own lifestyle and convenience now I would agree with everything you say.

[erikinhawaii]

When will America get off this oil addiction ? Makes me sick !!!!

[NuclearGreen]

Only when we've decided to get ALL of our energy from nuclear. There are now 441 nuclear power plants in the world....without a single injury or fatality. What we need, at the minimum., is 2,000 new plants with the ultimate goal of 5,000 plants. Then we can drive our internal combustion cars with hydrogen at a cost that would be about the same as if we were paying 50 cents a gallon for gasoline.

[NuclearGreen]

Only when we've decided to get ALL of our energy from nuclear. There are now 441 nuclear power plants in the world....without a single injury or fatality. What we need, at the minimum., is 2,000 new plants with the ultimate goal of 5,000 plants. Then we can drive our internal combustion cars with hydrogen at a cost that would be about the same as if we were paying 50 cents a gallon for gasoline.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

Without a single injury HA. Cancers can take 30 years to surface, then there is no way to tell where they originated from. Cancer rates are up in all nuclear countries. Radioactive decay will keep the the waste products deadly for ten thousand years. What you say is like sky diving with out a parrachute and advising others on the way down to take off their parrachutes because the fall hasnt harmed you yet. Well some of us arent that stupid. I think you are just a stooge for the Nuclear lobby.