Nuclear Power

[The real Apache]

Can anyone explain the stigma of nuclear power to me? am trying to discuss future power options with someone in the office and they just wont even consider it, flat, no going there, zip



ooops, duly amended

Edited by The real Apache on Wednesday 17th November 15:33

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Nuclear powered stigmata, there’s a strange image.

[Blue Meanie]

[The Wookie]

Get them to explain it. If they can't/wont, then you've won.

[Lefty]

People are scared of nuclear power. That's it. Chernobyl, Windscale, Kystym, Idaho.

[The real Apache]

explain it? won't even discuss it

[V8mate]

The real Apache said:

Can anyone explain the stigma of nuclear power to me?

Tends to muddy the gene pool when it goes bang.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

It's Radioactive, people don't understand radiation, they just think of nuclear bomb, Chernobyl, deformed children, death.

The same could be thought of a knife, but because they understand how a knife works they are happy to use it everyday to cut their dinner up with.



Might want to point out to them that 17.9% of their power already comes from the 19 Nuclear Power Stations we have in the UK!

[The Wookie]

The real Apache said:

explain it? won't even discuss it

What's that old meme about not arguing with idiots?

[Fume troll]

Natural or man-made disasters
Security threats
Toxic waste
Global proliferation of nuclear materials

I'd still build them though.

Cheers,

FT.

[V88Dicky]

The real Apache said:

Can anyone explain the stigma of nuclear power to me? am trying to discuss future power options with someone in the office and they just wont even consider it, flat, no going there, zip



ooops, duly amended

Edited by The real Apache on Wednesday 17th November 15:33

I think your friend has discovered that Nuclear Power Stations produce large amounts of steam. As water vapour is the most abundent and deadliest greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, he's right not to consider it!

[mackie1]

Thorium reactors will hopefully be the future. Harder to get working but safer and the fuel is much more abundant than Uranium (so I've read).

[jonno990]

Ask him how many did chernobyl kill.I'll bet he doesn't come close!

http://radthoughts.com/2007/06/14/how-many-did-che...

Is he Australian by any chance?

Edited by jonno990 on Wednesday 17th November 15:46

[mackie1]

The Wookie said:

The real Apache said:

explain it? won't even discuss it

What's that old meme about not arguing with idiots?

It shouldn't, but it really fking winds me up when people won't even entertain ideas out of blind stubbornness and ignorance.

[The real Apache]

I'm tempted to mention that coal is a radioactive material

[mackie1]

Does that mean it *gasp* release *radioactive* CO2 into the atmosphere?! Think of the 5 legged polar bears!

[GuinnessMK]

I think the fundamental problem with nuclear power is that you get power now, and waste that no-one wants for the next 10,000 to 1 million years.

That's a hell of a legacy for your childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, children.......

[V8mate]

GuinnessMK said:

I think the fundamental problem with nuclear power is that you get power now, and waste that no-one wants for the next 10,000 to 1 million years.

That's a hell of a legacy for your childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, children.......

58 missed apostrophes. Must be some kind of record for a single post

[Petrolhead_Rich]

V8mate said:

GuinnessMK said:

I think the fundamental problem with nuclear power is that you get power now, and waste that no-one wants for the next 10,000 to 1 million years.

That's a hell of a legacy for your childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, childrens, children.......

58 missed apostrophes. Must be some kind of record for a single post

[Engineer1]

And almost completely irrelevant Nuclear is our only real choice for power, the greenies want wind but refuse to have turbines built anywhere, coal is out, as is gas, as is solar, etc. so Nuclear is the remaining possible fuel for the UK power requirements unless we go back to candles and coal fires at home etc.