Mega Disasters - "Glow Train" Part 1/4

History Channel's Mega Disaster series exposes the truth behind radioactive/nuclear waste rail transport to Nevada's Yucca mountain for permanent storage. This is part one of a broken down (To fit YouTube standards) of more to come.

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[inkyguy]

I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe that "each there are 3,000 accidents or derailments in the United States." That is almost 10 a day! I think the general population would notice 10 accidents or derailments a day. That must be an error in the narration. I would appreciate if anyone could correct or clarify this statistic.

[SantaFebuff]

@inkyguy Yes, there are about 10 a day. Just most of them are so minor, they are probably just a locomotive or car just popped off the rails that cane be place back on with a portable jack. It's hard to find massive wrecks.

[dancortese1987]

do you have the rest of teh episode???

[SantaFebuff]

Yes, I do. I haven't been on since yesterday, so I haven't had time to put it one there. Remember, I'm only doing 10:00 minute intervals because I don't want to overload the up-loader. Don't you worry. I'm working on it right now.

[geonerd]

Rail transport of nuke waste is not to be taken lightly, but this show is just so much BS fear-mongering.

[rwerk66]

@atomicnortherner

Yes they do, most of the facts in this documentary are valid though.

Seems most Americans only watch melodrama, so that's what the program makers use.

This makes the facts and the possibilities no more or less true than the 'Air Crash Investigation' documentaries are when they over-dramatise.

If someone had made a dramatised doco about the possibility of Fukushima what would the bloggers have said?

[rwerk66]

@thefinalfrontier1701

Solar is great because I can stop paying for electricity.

Nuclear would mean the people would have to pay billions for something they can get for free.

You want to fatten the power companies with Taxpayer funds? that's what you are supporting!!!

[rwerk66]

@atomicnortherner

No, the informed will say you are wrong!!!

The US sits on fault lines, most of which were not even known when the reactors were built over them.

Just because a earthquake has not happened in your lifetime does not mean it is not going to happen tomorrow.

What is daft is that the US invented a whole statistical method to pretend that these things will not happen, when in fact they do.

Your last sentence shows where your allegiances lie.

[betatalk357]

@betatalk357 By the time that happens, the politicians who allow the use of nuclear power and waste storage will be dead so the government won't have to take the blame. But people will still have to deal with radioactive contamination.

[betatalk357]

@betatalk357 Forget nuclear transport; do you really want to make a material that can contaminate the world for many years to come, for the sake of energy demand? After we expend all this energy, what are we supposed to do with a radioactive Earth? And Yucca Mountain Storage is bullshit. Those caskets will rot, leaking the radioactive material into the ground, water tables, or be evaporated into the air.

[betatalk357]

Everyone is missing the bigger picture. Chernobyl happened back in '86... it's now 2011, going on 2012. The entire area is still toxic, forests have warning signs telling people not to eat the fruit, berries, or mushrooms. In the Ukraine, many towns are abandonded and many people have cancer, died from cancer, and children are having higher rates of thyroid, liver, and reproductive cancers due to Chernobyl.

[atomicnortherner]

@thefinalfrontier1701 I agree, take Japan, one of the most earthquake prone places in the world and they build a nuclear powerstations on it, then everyone says "see told you nuclear was dangerous" if they built a coal powered powerstation right ontop of a deep excavation coal mine it would all cave in and everyone would say it was daft to build it there, its the same thing. The media, governments and power suppliers dont want nuclear as they will lose billions. The brainwashed will say im wrong

[thefinalfrontier1701]

@atomicnortherner It's called propaganda. The lefties here want to entice the public into thinking nuclear energy is a bad thing and we need to use solar power. It's just an excuse to make us pay more for electricity and taxes... which means fatter wallets for the government.

[atilla3547]

(BS fear mongering??) I doubt you would be more aware of the situation than what has been researchd in this documntary for the awareness of the GLOBAL public. More educational than paranoid over-dramatisation what would yous' know about Nuclear energy waste disposal and how safe/dependable it is, as if disaster wouldn't be possible.Too many self confident,ignorant weirdos. I commend the History Channel and SantaFebuff for an attempt to keep people informed with the facts so many choose to ignore

[nikosjk1]

@EmperorMarcusNovius: BS, your totally off base, car dependency doesn't have anything to do with it, US trains carry freight for the most part, investment is made by the freight railroads, if the train is traveling on major routes the track will be in as good of shape as any European line.