Castor, Radioactivity, Green Energy, Kraftwerk

[Peter Korsten]

Op 9-11-2010 19:03, K9 Kai Niggemann schreef:

> yes, considering that nuclear waste is a deadly pollution that will remain with us until near the end of times, it's worth looking into the scale of harm of the side effects of other forms of energy generation, though.

Nuclear power has come to a standstill, first because of the Three Miles 
Island incident (in which probably an insignificant amount of 
radioactive material was released into the environment) and particularly 
after the Chernobyl incident (in which, um, a rather considerable amount 
of radioactivity was released.

For TMI, it was mostly a rather poorly designed UI that was to blame; 
for Chernobyl, a poorly designed reactor (no containment building, for 
one thing) and gross disregard of procedures. It was actually an 
experiment to try to improve safety...

Now that public opinion is no longer so strongly opposed to nuclear as 
it was 20 or even 10 years ago, you see that the anti-nuclear lobby is 
pointing at the storage problem.

Yes, it is indeed a problem, but one that can be contained - literally. 
We cannot control the emissions coming from burning fossil fuels, least 
of all contain them.

- Peter