Expert: Nuclear Power Is On Its Deathbed

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Always be skeptical of unnamed experts. The new nuclear plant designs have passive safety features, fewer systems and better designed. Industrial safety analysis is based on statistical probability, your odds on having an event and that event happening concurrent with another event. But people have one the lottery more than once. Yes new safety analysis need to be conducted, but nuclear is a good base to any utilities power mix.
Solar dude, do you know how much water is used to wash solar cells at commercial facilities, hope you don't need to drink

demetri petrenko of FL 10:07AM September 19, 2012

Did not the investigating commission that was appointed by the Japanese Parliament just concluded, That It was very sadly a Profoundly Man-made Disaster that Could and Should have Been Foreseen and at all cost been Prevented.” This commission dose hold the Japan Government, Regulators and its Nuclear Owners and Operators Responsible for the Meltdown that occurred at Fukushima, after a Powerful Earthquake that generated a Large Tsunami that struck the country’s northeast coast in March of the year 2011.
This Plant was built by "GE" or know as "General Electric" A American Company and there are 23 of them in America just like the one they built at Fukushim Japan. At least one in the state of Illinois. Thank GOD Illinois dose not have a lot of Earthquakes. Yet ? and are the 23 power plants that are built just like the Fukushima one Safe of the 100+ Nuclear Power Plants in the United States of America??? Or are they a Disaster looking to come?
There is enough Energy coming from our SUN in a day to power all our needs on Earth for for a long time.
Solar Energy is Safe and Clean and Can Power All Are Needs and much more.
There is enough Energy coming from our SUN in a day to power all our needs on Earth for for a long time.
This was Told by two men 100 years ago and 2,242 years ago.
Told by most all Scientist that these two men were of the World s most smartest men to ever live on Earth they were Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Scientist and Inventors of many things "Archimedes and Albert Einstein".
The smartest to ever to walk on Earth was are Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lord's Little Helper
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Paul Felix Schott of HI 2:31PM July 07, 2012

It is not nuclear power plants (such as cars) which are dangerous, have accidents. However, the accident of March 11, 2011 has the weakness of the unprotected external pipes! If water could continue to come to the reactors, they would not explode. All nuclear power plants in the world are armoured but not the pipes and external electrical supplies! This is what the press refuses to speak.

huemaurice7 of TX 11:19AM April 22, 2012

Why is it that nuclear power companies are so heavily subsidized by taxpayers. They walk away from accidents, they walk away from the toxic waste that stays toxic forever. Let all the anti-big gov. folks push for a level playing field for nuclear. Make nuclear companies responsible for the waste they produce starting NOW and you will see why John Rowe, who retired at Exelon CEO and Chair in March 2012, said in March 2012 Forbes 'there is no future for nuclear power in the U.S." Let's throw some of those subsidies into truly green and SAFE technologies and we how far we get. Right now the nuclear subsidies are choking off true innovation.

LRW of NY 8:57AM April 17, 2012

The Vermont Law School has no association with the University of Vermont, despite the headline here.
Nuclear energy is a smart emission-free electric source that will help us meet a 25% need for more electricity by 2035 if we are wise enough to build the plants. With nuclear energy powering 20% of the US, it is a power source many nuclear protesters use to post and email their messages to others, also.

Energy Guy of NC 6:02PM April 06, 2012

Great, another crackpot from a Law School and from Vermont, the one of the epicenters of stupidity in the United States. When I read, "Vermont Law School Institute for Energy and the Environment" I didn't even need to read the article. I read it anyway and it confirmed what I suspected. We need Nuclear Energy and we cannot survive without it. It would be madness not to continue without Nuclear Power. We didn't give up on aviation after the first air crash and we should stick with Nuclear power and improve it.

Juscurious of CA 10:46PM April 05, 2012

Nuclear power is being reborn as a carbon free, non-toxic, low cost energy source. The new nuclear power is called Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR). It uses ordinary nickel and minute quantities of hydrogen gas as nuclear fuel.
See THE FUSION REVOLUTION at: http://renewable.50webs.com/fusion.html

Christopher Calder of OR 2:38PM April 05, 2012

Thorium is not the answer; it's just more of the same problem.
Thorium is radioactive and creates radioactive waste.
For example, a forest preserve in West Chicago is still polluted with thorium contamination, and the company that was supposed to clean it up has gone bankrupt.
Now the cost falls to federal trusts to clean it up!
We don't need any more land and water contaminated with radioactive waste.
We must move away from the dangerous nuclear model and cross the bridge to truly clean and green energy sources.
Look at the Huge strides that have been made in renewable energies:
SOLAR:
New breakthrough cuts the cost of solar in half:
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/ion-beam-manufacturing-halves-production-cost-of-pv-panels.ars
SOLAR:
24/7 BASELOAD Solar:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyseba/2011/06/21/the-worlds-first-baseload-247-solar-power-plant/
WIND:
"Japanese Breakthrough Will Make Wind Power Cheaper Than Nuclear"
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/japanese-breakthrough-will-make-wind-power-cheaper-than-nuclea
And these are just a few!

Just the Facts of DE 10:40PM April 03, 2012

Please include the cost of nuclear waste in computations. Also water is not a renewable resource and is now being polluted at Yankee Power in Vermont.

Judy Asbury of NM 6:11PM April 01, 2012

Any post that starts off with "Nukees" is immediately suspect in my mind, warranting no further consideration. If you want your points to be taken seriously, stop using derogatory language.

McSkeptic of VA 5:53PM April 01, 2012