Re: Stop The Nuclear Bailout - NukeFree.org

A point-by-point rebuttal to Stop The Nuclear Bailout by NukeFree.org, where I try to dispel some common misconceptions about nuclear power.

Before anybody makes any "industry-funded shill" accusations, I am not affiliated in any way with the nuclear power industry. I am a computer science grad student who is not getting paid one red cent to produce this video. I probably should have included that in the video, but I didn't think of it until just now.

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[chuckeieio]

Nuclear energy is clean, cheap, and has high yeilds of power. Those who think otherwise are uninformed.

[pixman83]

A generator is FAR harder to fix than a tower. A tower is relatively simple and easy to do since it isn't much more than rebar and concrete. A generator will need to be tested, the fault found, a repair attempted, and then potentially replaced. Every step requires slow, careful, work done by a variety of experts.

A high-rise building is incredibly complex compared to a cooling tower. A tower just needs to be stable and provide a draft with access at the base, not the case on a building.

[Toadphillips]

damn hippies...

[Rosyheart1]

Blahb you are brainwa$hed, we don't expect you to understand-Insanity has a convenient way of masking itself as intelligent, then making excuses for what goes wrong when it always does; the consequences are not for you to deal with; that's convenient/$tupid Science-- we're all Japan now...even a 5- year- old knows this...you nuke physicists/ scientist$ have sub-spec brains, engineers too!

[Blahb27]

@wolfgang8u Mate, where do you get your information. Wherever it is, they don't know much.

A single or few particles inside you do not kill. You wouldn't even notice it. You need a massive amount of exposure before it becomes lethal. And there were no meltdowns in Japan. And even if they had, the reactor vat is designed so that the core would fall into a specially designed basin, disperse and cool down by itself.

[wolfgang8u]

@Blahb27 In reality who is keeping the death tool? And under what cercumstances do they rule out what counts as caused by radioactive exposure in comparison not natural lukemia deaths (as only one example of death) THe particles from Chernoble where carried all around the world once it enterd the jet streams now who is counting that who is tracking every single particle and where it lands. Or even who injests or inhales it. Now japan with three confirmed melt downs. Oh no radioactive ocean water

[Blahb27]

@wolfgang8u In reality there are only a few hundred confirmed victims of nuclear power. The building of the Hoover Dam alone claimed more lives.

And you really should discount everyone from the Tjernobyl disaster, as that plant was sub-spec, even for the first generation of nuclear generators. And still they had to disable the safety mechanism and make a lot of mistakes before an accident could happen.

[Blahb27]

@Rosyheart1 Actually, as long as you don't swim in the coolant fluid, you'll be fine. Fukushima is an excellent example of how safe nuclear power is. A devestating earhquake, in top 5 ever hardest earthquakes, followed by an equally devastating tsunami of 15 metres high, failed to damage the plant.

If they had housed their backup generator indoors, nothing would've happened.

[Rosyheart1]

take a trip one way to Fuckushima Casino & hotel Resort...insanity...insanity

[wolfgang8u]

dude millions of people are running around poisoned and dieing because of nuclear accidents. they are saying no to all nuclear energy. dude who pays you

[AussiePolitics]

@gkyy3c there's a joke amongst scientists that nuclear fusion will always be 20 or so years away because thats whats been said for decades. the difficulty with fusion is it takes so much energy to get the heat required for this reaction they've only ever been able to make it cost effective once for a couple of seconds (ie. there was more energy coming out then being put in). the difficulty comes from containing and finding away to exploit energy thats basically like a little sun

[gkyy3c]

but we can't use Uranium or other metals, those metals produce very much waste, we need to use Hydrogen isotopes, to make nuclear fusion ! It's more clean, more safe, more efficient !

but it continue to be the most efficient than fossiles

sorry for the bad english, i'm from brazil XD