>You have to ask yourself, what would you rather have: a coal fired
>generator spewing out smoke, a nuclear reactor pumping out
>contaminated water or a bunch of wind turbines?
Actually there is no contaminated water coming from nuclear plants. The fuss
is that the plants take in cold water and discharge warmer water into the
river, or whatever water body. A nuclear plant is just a giant tea pot that
heats water to steam to drive turbines. The environmental whackos that hate
them fuss about the hundred or so feet from the discharge pipe where the water
is somewhat warmer that the general river temperature. This allows the growth
of some algae. Nothing that cannot be controlled, but enough that they want to
deprive us of the benefits of this clean power source.
As much as I hate to admit it, this is one area where the French are ahead of
the US. My last contract position was supporting several nuclear plants and I
worked onsite occassionally. I felt safer there than downtown Richmond VA,
particularly with machine gun toting guards wandering around. The biggest
danger there was a bursting steam pipe that would cook you alive in half a
second.
Oh yeah, I know a few people who fish in the James River (where this water is
released) and no one has pulled in any fish with two heads or two tails.
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Larry Miller
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