Recent content by Andsetinn

Chernobyl accident. "The accident started during a safety test" "an unexpected 10-hour delay meant that an unprepared operating shift was on duty" "A test procedure had been written, but the authors were not aware of the unusual RBMK-1000 reactor behaviour under the planned operating conditions"...

Are we wiser? Judging by what? We're more technologically advanced, but wiser. I don't see evidence of that. As for civilized society degenerating to living in mud huts if nuclear power is not harvested. Nahh, there are other and better options available. The most easily achievable is using...

What mostly scares me about Nuclear is that 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents happened because of human error, in spite of the best safeguards, and best training, available money could buy. Also check Windscale and Kyshtym. Us humans are not more intelligent now than we were back then.

But it's not in refined state in the coal mine. The amount of habitat destroyed, methane emissions and endangerment of fishes is depends highly on localized conditions. There are many hydro power plants set up in locations where there is no habitat to be destroyed, or fishes to be killed...

Interesting how many are pro nuclear all of a sudden, especially with Chernobyl in the news lately. The Chernobyl reactor had/has few thousand times more of the stuff that goes boom than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. I don't trust nuclear, it's not likely to go off but if it does it...