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Oceans losing oxygen

Deuce said:
The primary active material in a nuclear plant is U-235 with a half-life of hundreds of millions of years. It's more dangerous as a heavy metal than it is as a radiation source when scattered about by an airstrike.

The U-238 is even longer, a half-life of billions of years. If it weren't toxic, you could probably eat it and be fine.
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And I'm very happy that you are fine with that ?

I suspect most of the rest of us won't be
 
Deuce said:
The next "big war" of that scale will do that already.

Avoiding nuclear power plants doesn't make nuclear war turn out any better.
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Yes it does. Nuclear power plants raided for nasty crap to spread around the place makes it much worse.
 
Deuce said:
The primary active material in a nuclear plant is U-235 with a half-life of hundreds of millions of years. It's more dangerous as a heavy metal than it is as a radiation source when scattered about by an airstrike.

The U-238 is even longer, a half-life of billions of years. If it weren't toxic, you could probably eat it and be fine.
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Yes. But that is my point. Nuclear power plants are full of toxic crap that will make the next war that goes over them very bad for all of us. Can we please stop making more of these horrors in waiting?
 
Tim the plumber said:
Yes. But that is my point. Nuclear power plants are full of toxic crap that will make the next war that goes over them very bad for all of us. Can we please stop making more of these horrors in waiting?
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This also applies to coal power plants, though. Rupturing the slurry storage ponds would be horrifying.

So, I guess we're all-in on natural gas and renewables?
 
flogger said:
And I'm very happy that you are fine with that ?

I suspect most of the rest of us won't be
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People who don't understand radiation are often more scared of it than they should be, yes.
 
Originally Posted by Tim the plumber View Post
Yes. But that is my point. Nuclear power plants are full of toxic crap that will make the next war that goes over them very bad for all of us. Can we please stop making more of these horrors in waiting?
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Deuce said:
This also applies to coal power plants, though. Rupturing the slurry storage ponds would be horrifying.

So, I guess we're all-in on natural gas and renewables?
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Are you taking the piss??

If the worst of a war is rthe occaisional little flood of slurry going down a hill or two I don't care. I would not even call it a war. More slight nussiance.

Only nuclear power has the capacity to render most of the world much less habitable in the course of one relitively contained war.
 
Tim the plumber said:
Are you taking the piss??

If the worst of a war is rthe occaisional little flood of slurry going down a hill or two I don't care. I would not even call it a war. More slight nussiance.
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Tell that to the folks in Kingston!

Only nuclear power has the capacity to render most of the world much less habitable in the course of one relitively contained war.
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Laughably false. Like I said, people who don't understand radiation are more afraid of it than they should be. One "relitively (sic) contained war" absolutely could not "render most of the world much less habitable. That is ludicrous. Set off as big a (conventional) bomb you like at a hundred nuclear power plants, you wont get that result.

The worst energy disaster in history isn't nuclear.
 
Deuce said:
People who don't understand radiation are often more scared of it than they should be, yes.
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I wonder if they know that bananas are radioactive?
 
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