Myth: Nuclear Energy is Dangerous

104 Nuclear Reactors operate safely in the United States without a single loss of life. Contrary to belief, only 56 people have died from the Chernobyl accident and no one from Three Mile Island.

Going Nuclear - A Green Makes the Case (Patrick Moore, Ph.D. - Greenpeace Co-Founder)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR20060414012...

Love Uranium (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1127/122.html

Former 'No Nukes' Protester: Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power (Wired)
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/12/nuclear_qa?currentPage=1

Let's Have Some Love for Nuclear Power (The Wall Street Journal)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121659839296769061.html

Chernobyl Incident Had Fewer Long-Term Health Impacts Than Expected (Natural Environment Research Council)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070407172204.htm

Danger from radiation is exaggerated, say scientists (The Times, UK)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article685386.ece

The Truth About Chernobyl Is Told (Zbigniew Jaworowski, Central Laboratory for Radilogical Protection)
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/chernobyl.html

UN Report says 56 killed so far due to Chernobyl nuclear accident (CBC News)
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2005/09/05/UN_Chernobyl20050905.html

No Apparent Increase In Cancer Deaths Among Three Mile Island Residents, Report University Of Pittsburgh Researchers (University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000531071558.htm

No Significant Rise In Cancer Deaths In 3-Mile Island Residents Over 20 Years, According To Study (University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/11/021101065838.htm

Uranium resources sufficient to meet projected nuclear energy requirements long into the future (Nuclear Energy Administration)
http://www.nea.fr/html/general/press/2008/2008-02.html

World has 200 Years of Uranium Reserves - Germany (Reuters)
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35026/newsDate/10-Feb-2006...

Recycling Nuclear Fuel: The French Do It, Why Cant Oui? (FOX News)
http://tinyurl.com/24qlau

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• Uranium
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• Three Mile Island

[dan020350]

The question is how are we going to store the bi-products ( plutonium ) if we use nuclear energy?

[populartechnology]

95% if it can be recycled,

Google: "Recycling Nuclear Fuel: The French Do It, Why Cant Oui?"

[jhtrico1850]

@populartechnology What about the other 5%?

[populartechnology]

@jhtrico1850 Recycling produces much lower volumes of highly radioactive waste, and the French deal with it effectively - placing some waste in short-term, interim storage or preparing the rest for long-term storage.

[studolf]

@populartechnology You put it in a rocket and send it to the sun.

[ubuntuibex]

@Myrtone absolutely! Elements such as Uranium are naturally occurring and are mined as rocks known as PitchBlende. Potassium-40, a beta-emitting radioactive element is most common in bananas and other fruits. Carbon-14 is a naturally occurring radioactive isotope that exists in your body. In fact every second over 4000 atoms radioactively decay in your body.

[Myrtone]

Does such radiation occur naturally?

[gamble180]

@dan020350 Fission it and make more power.

[darthvader5300]

The Russian Brest reactor simultaneously produces new nuclear fuel as it start consuming it's initial start up nuclear fuel and it's own nuclear wastes. The Brest reactor recycles nuclear fuel indefinitely. The MSR reactor can literally burn all kinds of nuclear fuels and radioactive wastes. Both reactors were designed and built to be passively self-cooling by natural convection and conduction to use the heat and dissipate waste heat. Makes you wonder why no news of them in the mass media?

[bbphnix]

@populartechnology you can recycle nucealr waste? thanks dude! this will be interesting

[v12tommy]

@jhtrico1850 We can bury it deep underground. We already do that with old nuclear weapons. We could also use the radioactive parts of old weapons and turn them into fuel rods as well, taking an already waste product and using it for energy before turning it into even less waste.

[sownzgr8]

Makes sense, if you are loaded with live toxins, and radiation kills it, you WILL feel better, coz you will BE better. That's maybe why getting out in the sun helps toxic people.

[kyleg5359]

@jhtrico1850 the other 5%? The other 5%? it goes to chuck Norris to sprinkle over his cerial...

[puncheex]

@neemguy81: The trouble is that all of our information about radioactive effects on humans were essentially culled from Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims. There is a curious hole in our knowledge about low doses, as it seems there were none in Japan - actually, there were, but it apparently wasn't harmful, and those cases never come to the authorities for help. Experts are still trying to fill that hole, but data is elusive. Without proof, many health experts simply linearly interpolate known data.