Chernobyl
It’s been 20 years since the Chernobyl incident. Even with all the information I know about nuclear power, I can’t fathom something like this. It’s just unbelievable.
Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.
April 26th, 2006 at 7:04 am
It is of course the paradox of nuclear power. With great potential comes great responsibility.
Unfortunately, humans don’t seem all that good at learning this lesson.
April 26th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Yes, the Spider-Man rule does apply in this case.
However, (and I realize that I am biased), I still believe nuclear power is the best way to go for the future. The nuclear plants here in the States are set up differently than the one in Chernobyl, so something like this happening here is extremely unlikely.
I read the bullshit over at the Greenpeace web site today. It’s too bad that so much of my job is classified. If it wasn’t illegal, I’d take the time to correct Greenpeace in all their errors of Nuclear Power. So much of their propaganda is incorrect it’s scary.
April 26th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Leakin classified info is all th rage these days!
Jus dont leak no radioactive material.
April 26th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Nukes such as JMF leaks radioactive material every time they get back from a port visit in Southwest Asia. Antibiotics usually clear it up.
April 26th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
There is propaganda and misinformation on both sides of this story. I am not wholly against nuclear power - I think it is a good idea in principle. Unfortunately I have near zero faith in human beings to handle such things - Chernobyl being a case in point.
I think my main objection to the adoption of widespread nuke power though is just one of sensibility. It’s just buying into an old paradigm. Sure, it’s much more efficient than coal or oil, but you are still digging up a finite resource and creating a waste product. There is simply no need for this anymore. The waste energy from the sun that pours down on us is not only adequate for human consumption needs, but over-abundant. It’s like going across town to get your milk when there’s a perfectly good grocery shop next door.
The major probem with resources like wind/sun/tide is that there’s a whole group of people who get cut out of the equation, and a whole sector of the financial market that rides on mining profit. Unfortunately this creates a real problem for the world economy.
Like so much of our modern world, the imperative of the capitalist market economy straightjackets the potential of the sensible alternative.