Obama announces loan guarantees for two nuclear reactors

[sltungle]

[QUOTE=Swebonny;20252483]Three Mile Island?

Edit:
Accidents happens. Does not work to blame on "cheap designs".[/QUOTE]

Even though it's been cleared up that meltdowns nowadays are more or less impossible, I'd like to point out that non-nuclear industrial accidents have proved to be JUST AS DEADLY in the past as nuclear accidents.

Example:

[quote="Wikipedia: the source of all knowledge"]December 3, 1984: The Bhopal disaster in India is the largest industrial disaster on record. A faulty tank containing poisonous methyl isocyanate leaked at a Union Carbide plant and left nearly 4,000 people dead on the first night of the gas leak and at least 15,000 later from related illnesses.[1] The disaster caused the region's human and animal populations severe health problems to the present.[/quote]

Nuclear reactors nowadays go under such immense scrutiny to ensure they're completely safe that they're designed and built with EVERY possible scenario in mind. Nobody ever really expects an industrial accident to be THAT dangerous so they're not really built with safety concerns of the same magnitude in mind.

[Used Car Salesm]

You'd have to work pretty hard to get a modern nuke plant to meltdown. They're all designed with negative temperature coefficients, which means they get less and less reactive as they get hotter, so barring any major failure in the system it's impossible to have a meltdown.

And, really, there are far more dangerous things in our daily lives than nuclear power.

[PvtCupcakes]

Cool, but $8.3 billion sounds like a bit much to put a plant in a state 1000 miles from me.

[Quickoatz]

[QUOTE=evilking1;20252355]Agreed, I don't get it why people are against nuclear power as coal mining is a huge health/enviroment-hazard and it pollutes fucking much.

Wind/Solar is cool, but sadly very depending on the conditions of weather. And it costs a lot.[/QUOTE]
Because people hear "nuclear" and they freak out.

[Deathbyfire]

[QUOTE=Quickoatz;20267796]Because people hear "nuclear" and they freak out.[/QUOTE]

Nuclear, it must be like that place in russia, and russia is bad cos its communist! :saddowns:

[redonkulous]

Finally, I was hoping someone would get out of the pussy pot and make some new power plants.

[David29]

[QUOTE=Deathbyfire;20268655]Nuclear, it must be like that place in russia, and russia is bad cos its communist! :saddowns:[/QUOTE]

Ukraine.

Chernobyl is in Ukraine.

[evilking1]

[QUOTE=David29;20268914]Ukraine.

Chernobyl is in Ukraine.[/QUOTE]

Man, if it weren't for those heroes who correct sarcastic posts, I don't know where we would be.