Comments on: California nuclear power plants remain confident despite crisis in Japan

By: Margaret Rausin

Margaret Rausin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:50:39 +0000

It is for first time I see this, but I really hope this will be much more popular in next few years, because it could have great ecological impact.

By: BeNICE

BeNICE — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:21:00 +0000

So the plants are several hundred miles from the Bay area, and that keeps all Californians safe? We are but 40 miles from one of them. And the phrase, “It can’t happen here…” gives me so much peace, I can’t tell you. It’s like, “… that part on a Toyota NEVER fails!”

By: Nuclear power is a huge tax burden

Nuclear power is a huge tax burden — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:09:31 +0000

Health standards will not change if you listen to the regulators (Nuclear Regulatory Comission) and the plant operators. The most effective way to make nuclear energy plants safer is to do what they did in Vermont with Act 160.

http://vtcitizen.org/act160.shtml

Nuclear electricity is the most expensive electricity in the world. Entitlements and tax-payer bailouts for the industry keep it afloat. The cost of managing the radioactive waste will cost taxpayers for the next 20,000 years. Would you buy a hamburger for $10,000? Nuclear electricity is the kind of electricity you use once and pay for every year until the cancer causing radiation disapates. How would you like to make house payments for the next 20,000 years. If so, just keep going along with your governments energy policies. Just do nothing.

By: GG

GG — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:34:21 +0000

I think anyone who saw those videos from Japan can see by looking at the picture above that the plant would be completely submerged by an event like that one. The water massed and travelled up and over such walls, as it did at Fukushima. If it weren’t so serious, it would be funny that they expect us to be reassured.

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Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:13:48 +0000

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THE NUCLEAR OPTION | Bloggers Town — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:34:48 +0000

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By: Lucymarie Ruth

Lucymarie Ruth — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:22:20 +0000

Building and operation of nuclear power plants is a crime against humanity mainly because the intensely harmful radioactive wastes produced by these plants are our legacy to the Earth and the persons who survive us for tens of thousands of years. The facts about radioactivity and the duration of radioactive toxicity are available in any basic book on physics and any basic book on math that includes a formula for the calculation of half-life of radioactive materials. The sins of the fathers are being extended to more generations than ever before. If you are not deeply ashamed of leaving this legacy, you ought to be.

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Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:52:59 +0000

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By: California nuclear power plants remain confident despite crisis in Japan : Local: In The Peninsula | Disaster: Mankind

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:30:19 +0000

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By: Gerard J. Cerchio

Gerard J. Cerchio — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:01:00 +0000

Richter claims that California residents should not be concerned about nuclear power are false. Leaving aside the real costs issue of nuclear power, nuclear power plants and their spent fuel are safety risks that will be around longer than any human nation has existed.

Consider the very slight possibility of 2 ton meteor impact on a nuclear power plant vs a conventional power plant. As absurdly small of a probability as this is, examine the risk differential. A conventional plant will have clean up, probably taking less than a year. The area around the nuclear power plant impact will be uninhabitable for decades.

Leaving behind absurdly small risks consider the certainty of STUX-warfare. Now that the US and Israel have built the template of the first computer munition and destroyed a significant portion of an Iranian nuclear facility, all facilities are open game without the need to declare war. The average civilian utility plant is far less secure than the secret Iranian facility, yet the operators were unaware of the destruction being wrought due to the sophistication of STUX.

Again, when a STUX style munition strikes a conventional power plant, we face a year of cleanup. A STUX nuclear attack may even be worse than Fukushima Daiichi.