San Onofre nuclear plant permanntly shut down

This guy's flailing around for the cause and comes close, but no cigar:

During a two-week heat wave that roasted four states last summer, the CDC report noted the loss of 32 lives to heat-related illnesses. Twenty of the documented victims died in homes without air conditioning.

A lack of air conditioning — or an inability to afford turning on a unit due to high energy costs ...

The heavy use of air conditioning can be a double-edged sword, as it pumps heat out onto the streets and stresses the grid, added White-Newsome, and that potentially forces more, often dirtier power plants to come online and emit yet more greenhouse gases and toxic pollution.

Coal-fired power plants, as The Huffington Post has reported, are disproportionately located in environmental justice communities.
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http://www.actforclimatejustice.org...reases-prove-more-deadly-for-poor-minorities/
 
Nuclear power is the best, cleanest, cheapest, most efficent source of power in the known world. And therefore, it must be opposed at all costs apparently.
 
Kane said:
Nuclear power is the best, cleanest, cheapest, most efficent source of power in the known world. And therefore, it must be opposed at all costs apparently.
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There is one fly in the ointment though, a shortage of uranium is about to occur when the Russian "Megatons to Megawatts" agreement ends. That and the fact of there being precious little 'waste' recycling going on in the US.

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http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/americas-addiction-to-foreign-uranium
 
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Kane said:
Nuclear power is the best, cleanest, cheapest, most efficent source of power in the known world. And therefore, it must be opposed at all costs apparently.
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And what do you propose to do with the waste? And what is your answer to Chernobyl?

To be honest, I am not against all nuclear power. But until we solve the waste problem; and until we solve the safety issues; I can't advocate for it.
 
tekkychick said:
And what do you propose to do with the waste? And what is your answer to Chernobyl?

To be honest, I am not against all nuclear power. But until we solve the waste problem; and until we solve the safety issues; I can't advocate for it.
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To the waste, we should recycle it. To the "Chernobyl".... ummm how about telling the workers before you turn off a series of safety systems? Pretty simple. Of course if by some act of god the same thing happened I'd say kill all the cows in the area, because that's the only harm is a slightly increased risk of thyroid cancer from drinking contaminated milk.
 
tekkychick said:
Oh my you are cracking me up!!!

besides the fact that neither of those articles are from summer (the subject under discussion) - the first one is from 2001; I believe the second one is as well.

San Onofre was probably online then.

Really? you quote 12 year old blackout articles? Oh, thank you for that laugh!
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My bad. Since there was no year I assumed it was the current year.
 
Kane said:
To the waste, we should recycle it. To the "Chernobyl".... ummm how about telling the workers before you turn off a series of safety systems? Pretty simple. Of course if by some act of god the same thing happened I'd say kill all the cows in the area, because that's the only harm is a slightly increased risk of thyroid cancer from drinking contaminated milk.
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See, that's the thing - people are fallible, and when it's a nuclear plant, the consequences are pretty major.

Chernobyl region is still not habitable.
 
tekkychick said:
See, that's the thing - people are fallible, and when it's a nuclear plant, the consequences are pretty major.

Chernobyl region is still not habitable.
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You'd have to tell the people living there that....and the UN commission .....and the nuclear regulatory committee....

What were the consequences? Please high light them for me.
 
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