Direct Response to : "Nuclear Power, a danger to our children."

Until 1:25, I give an introduction to myself and why I made the video. If you'd like to skip immediately to discussion of the issues, start it at 1:25. Thank you for watching.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nuclear
• nuclear power
• alternative energy
• energy
• economics
• environment

[badthoughs]

For the price, you can check on eia doe gov site. Cost included all maintenance and fuels costs which is the cheapest form of electricity, on it's build (of course). Waste disposal and mining does not cost alot and does not emit either greenhouse gas. You can check on the website wise-uranium org for greenhouse gas data.

[Ezratal]

i can't find cost comparisons on the site you mentioned, but that number certainly does not include the cost of building the nuclear facility. When the IEA estimated the kw/h cost ONLY considering construction costs they came up with about 5.5 cents per kw/h. The idea that nuclear energy is 'clean' is erroneous as well, the Nuclear Information and Resource Center estimates that the fossil fuel intensive mining tasks produce 73 and 230 grams of CO2 per kwh of electricity that will be generated.

[Ezratal]

produce between 73 and 230 grams*

[Darkwizzrobe]

Only 57 people died at Chernobyl and the estimate of cancer and other illness is around 2000-4000 people over decades this figure is still far less than the deaths cause by coal and other fossil fuels in a year.

[Ezratal]

I don't know how many people are killed by fossil fuels in a year, and the numbers you have for the Chernobyl disaster are the official UN evaluation numbers, but they say it's difficult to prove the link. 25,000 of the clean up crew have already died, though, and the incidence of cancer and birth defects in effected areas has risen tremendously. But I stress that the only alternatives are not fossil fuels and nuclear power.

[22ness0hayden]

I agree with you. Good video. The Lib video is propaganda

[ballersack]

The effect of low doses of radiation is widely disputed among scientists, which is why you hear so many ranging deaths figures for Chernobyl.

Regardless, it was a terrible disaster that could never happen in the U.S. where our reactors have negative void coefficients and containment buildings (most reactors have these things).

If you want to really improve the safety of reactors, we ought to build newer and safer models.

[MakroTeh]

@SulliverVittles

It have been 9 months so I don't remember all the links and I don't have the time right now to search for them so just go look on wikipedia etc. I'm not sure what you're referring too, but probably the death count. So for your information the only confirmed death toll is 56 and the higher numbers are "predictions" and everyone can make them.

[SulliverVittles]

@MakroTeh If they are based on statistics, then give the site with statistics. Numerous sources would show you are terribly wrong.

[Gt5OOkr]

that libertarianist is really stubborn, and assumes/makes up allot of things

[rebelgunnut]

WRONG they is a hydrogen producing design. so u can use nuclear for elecric and hydrogen cars. thyroid cancer can be treated and provindted in a exposer they have pill for that

[MakroTeh]

Also type in Wikipedia "carbon footprint". Wow what a suprise they data say that nuclear power is cleaner than wind and solar! You know greenpiss sites aren't good source of information and aren't going to convince anyone. Srsly in like 10s I found more reliable source than you.

[MakroTeh]

If the uranium mining would be this fossil intensive than it price would be much higher than todays 45$/lb. I also looked at the topic of carbon emissions per kwh and all of them estimated the carbon emission as much lower than 100g/CO2. Sorry I don't store the links, but I see you do some very selective search and select only the data that supports your thesis. The fact is that the free market economy loves the nuclear plant and they know what's cheap and what's not.

[MakroTeh]

Chernobyl caused no increase in cancer deaths at all. No birth deformations too. There was only a tiny increase in thyroid gland cancer that was related to better and more often used detection methods and a change in classification so that everything that looked like thyroid gland cancer was threated as such. But because it's almost 100% curable only 56 deaths could be linked to Chernobyl till now. These are facts based on statistics.