Greenpeace blocks Pickering Nuclear Station - Global - 031209

GlobalTV coverage of a Greenpeace protest at the Pickering Nuclear Station. From the Greenpeace website: http://tinyurl.com/d9rhwg "Greenpeace activists blocked road access at the Pickering nuclear reactor this morning to demand that Nuclear Energy Minister George Smitherman replace the reactors with green energy.

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[macgyver2210]

That's so like Greenpeace (meaning it's fucking stupid)! Let's totally protest the safest, cheapest, and most stable source of energy currently available, instead of the horrendous polluters like Coal and Gas plants! Whee! We're a bunch of stoner idealist hippies! Whee!

[TheGazoo31]

@HWGuyEG Well i say enough trying to get you to get yourself educated. Just keep those zirconium tubes and dump them minuscule amounts of waste in your basement then, oh or make a swing set for you and your family to enjoy...!

[HWGuyEG]

@TheGazoo31

Why do I have a feeling you don't even know what nuclear waste is... it's used up fuel bundles... zirconium tubes containing ceramic(uranium) pellets, once they cool down they're soo dangerous I can hold a fuel bundle with my bare hands and make a fort... fun fact: $90 of fuel pellets can power a house for a year. A bundle costs $5000.

[TheGazoo31]

@HWGuyEG Well i don't think it takes a very large amount to create a Large disaster does it? lol And the point again was that we leave that behind, There are many waste sites in disarray. ( As for the range of destruction from a oil slick or a nuclear spill, they are much the same except the waste lasts for about 10 000 years longer... Oh and if you think the Canadian government actually is competent enough to manage anything, you are mistaken or have no knowledge of history and reality.

[HWGuyEG]

@TheGazoo31

"I'll just call this statement false,ridden with assumptions" Oh the irony.

Nuclear "waste" is incredibly easy to store once it's cooled down and takes up a minuscule amount of space(so little that 30 years worth is stored on site) compared to the square kilometres fossil fuel ruins.

All nuclear reactors in Canada are controlled by the government, the many private groups which take part don't have much control.

Selling power to the US... ugh no, nuclear is our baseload.

[TheGazoo31]

@HWGuyEG "Nuclear power is the only practical solution to our energy demands" I'll just call this statement false,ridden with assumptions Now, WTF is perfectly safe about nuclear reactors? Who,what,where is the waste product going to? We had an incident in Canada just a few days after Fukushima.Quite the legacy to leave behind if you ask me.The current gambles can profoundly effect those to follow after you. Sounds like greed to me. How much hydro do we sell? and who owns these plants..U.S?

[HWGuyEG]

@TheGazoo31

Nuclear power is the only practical solution to our energy demands, it can be perfectly safe as it is in Canada and France, but the US and Russia are corrupt, you can't trust them not making mess of things.

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear is an American BWR made by GE, even though it's newer than our oldest reactors in operation, it's inferior. CANDU has proven to be the safest in the world... also the most expensive... they weren't designed with cost in mind; the newer ones are cheaper.

[TheGazoo31]

@HWGuyEG Well idk what your issue is with hippies and i don't really care to label if i can avoid it :) But anywho back to the comment. I was greatly surprised that so much nuclear energy was being produced in Canada. I went and researched and the madness of it around the world is astounding. I see this current technology as ridiculous and i also believe that coal/oil/gas is an incredible abuse. I just don't see how this is a responsible legacy to propagate. The waste the environmental disasters

[HWGuyEG]

Blocking the road to a CANDU plant is pretty futile, it only needs the road every 30 years.

[HWGuyEG]

@TheGazoo31

Ontario is 50-70% depending on the time of day, the rest is much, lower.

Also, why do hippies seem to hate on nuclear more than coal/oil/gas...