Keith Olbermann And Dylan Ratigan Give Perspectives On Nuclear Power - What Do You Think?

16 February, 2010 MSNBC

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[markotark]

Why is everyone only bringing up Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and don't mention at the same time that these are the only major accidents to have occurred in more than 12,700 cumulative reactor-years of commercial operation in 32 countries.

And closer to home, The US Navy has accumulated over 5500 reactor years of accident-free experience.

Only mentioning those two accidents without the framework to compare them to is biased reporting.

And i do know the danger, i just don't exaggerate it.

[FixedNewsChannel]

Exactly and Chernobyl was down to the Soviet Union beating the shit out of that plant to see what results they could get out of it.

[thunderwoman]

LOL! I think this was the best intro you've made so far Fixed.

[FixedNewsChannel]

Hehe, I'm glad you like it.  Thanks.

[IAMtheNewWorldOrder]

Lol, when Dylan Ratigan uses props to teach people stuff, it's like at a high school, or college level.

When Glenn Beck uses props, it's at a 3rd-5th grade level.

That's the difference between MSNBC viewers & Fox News viewers

[Nejitheultimate]

rotflmao, baseball cards. Keith can really think on his feet, huh?

[abram730]

@olof790217 It will last longer the the sun if we do it right. Right being using all of a fuel outputting lead or iron as waste.

[abram730]

@Craigipedia If waste is radioactive then it is fuel.

[MrMoodang]

Nuke Baby Nuke! Oh wait we can't use that one anymore.

[jimalbi]

Yes, it is much less harmfull for environment than coal.

New generation can eliminate our old nuclear waste and use the fissil matter more efficiently (actually, present reactors only transform a tenth of the nucleus. It can be improve now much more).

New reactors default state is ON instead of the new ones which are OFF.

All the controls and sensors are redondant. And we have learned à lot since 50 years...

[nicknonsense303]

can't say i feel that the navy, the pentagon or the us govt would be very forthcoming if they ever did have a nuclear accident aboard a nuclear powered vessel. they'd never be allowed to moor in an ally's port again.

[DiceWarwick]

so lets just make this clear, the two main problems with nuclear energy is that when an accident happens it's something that just docent go away, and if everything stays good then the wast it produces is something that just doesn't go away.

[00Alderamin]

The use of nuclear power is not clean. It is merely trading one problem for another that can be far worse. the waist stays radio active and toxic for hundreds if not thousands of years. I would rather utilize a coal power plant and sequester the greenhouse gases then to sequester the nuclear waist. of course though if the government invested about a tenth of the money that was used in the bail outs to build renewable energy resources, geothermal, solar, wind, hydro we wouldn't have a problem.