Royal Oak Protest Against Plans to Build Fermi 3 Nuclear Power Plant

[JBMcB]

The greatest threat to our economy is the cost of health care. People are getting sick at an alarming rate. It's coming from somewhere and I'll guarantee it isn't from wind turbines or solar panels.

And yet people are living longer than ever before. Not sure where you are getting your statistics from.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/ex...%20life%20span

Do you love, or feel comfortable with uranium?

I don't love inanimate objects, but I have a lump of uranium in my rock collection. U238 releases alpha radiation, which doesn't penetrate the skin.

Benzine in the air is a comforting thought.

You're right, which is why we should replace oil with nuclear power, since most environmental benzene comes from oil.

I like healthy kids and hate the thought of being tied to the greediest generation to inhabit this planet.
The technology is being developed to clean things up and possibly allow for future generations to live normal lives and if it costs a few bucks and we have to make a few sacrifices and work hard to do it, than so be it.

Exactly. Miniature meltdown-proof nuclear reactors for all.

[Det_ard]

The science is on the side of nuclear power. Funny that many of the same people who are all about the science of climate change seem to argue from an emotional perspective about nuclear power and ignore the science.

[Hypestyles]

Not trying to be a smart-aleck here, but regarding waste disposal, have any proposals come up involving:

Putting waste on an unmanned space vessel, then via remote control send it on a one-way trip to the sun [[or another planet, where it would burn upon reentry?)
Sealing waste in lead-lined steel containers and disposing them in a deep-sea trench?

[jbd441]

Not trying to be a smart-aleck here, but regarding waste disposal, have any proposals come up involving:

Putting waste on an unmanned space vessel, then via remote control send it on a one-way trip to the sun [[or another planet, where it would burn upon reentry?)
Sealing waste in lead-lined steel containers and disposing them in a deep-sea trench?

IMO your answers are not smart-aleck, but these two ways of disposal have been discussed in the past. The first suggestion is not cost effective, too much money to build space vessel strong enough to hold the waste on it's way to where ever. Also if there were any malfunctions in the space vessel before it broke out of earth's gravity/orbit it would put the planet at risk.
Your second suggestion would be a good one in the short term, however given the time for radioactive material to become harmless [[thousands of years) the containers would corrode and leak before then.

[aj3647]

So a massive quake in Lake Erie couldn't send a tsunami across the lake?

No.

What is your scientific basis for thinking that this could happen? Fukushima lines off of a tectonic plate fault line that is thousands of miles long. Lake Erie is in the middle of the North American continent, far away from the tectonic plates that separate the world's continental land masses. Whatever fault lines exist under Lake Erie are tiny in comparison to what exist off the coast of Japan. You would need a fault line hundreds if not THOUSANDS of miles long to generate the energy of a >9.0 quake on the Richter scale. Lake Erie is less than 250 miles long, so even if you had a fault line running the total length of the lake, you wouldn't see a Tsunami like we saw in Japan.


http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/experts-do...lants-1.620819

The only way we'd ever see a giant Tsunami in any Great Lake would be if a GIANT meteor crashed into one of the Lakes.

You, Lowell, are more likely to win the Mega Millions jackpot than of a Lake Erie giant tsunami occurring. We shouldn't plan policy because you are irrationally afraid of something that has a one in a hundred million chance of happening.

[JBMcB]

We shouldn't plan policy because you are irrationally afraid of something that has a one in a hundred million chance of happening.

Not to mention that the Fermi 3 design is passively cooled, so even if power were cut from a tsunami or some other disaster, which is what caused the problems at Fukushima, it wouldn't cause a meltdown.

[Det_ard]

Oh, now you guys are bringing all that sciencey stuff in. Not fair.