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| The coming nuclear renaissance |
| 2009-03-30 |
| Thirty years ago this month, an accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania inflamed public opposition to nuclear power. The mishap - a loss of coolant that caused the reactor core to overheat - caused no known deaths or diseases, and it exposed area residents to only a negligible amount of radiation. But it fueled an antinuclear frenzy that soon brought the expansion of the industry to a halt. Dozens of planned reactors were canceled. In the years since Three Mile Island, not a single nuclear plant has been ordered and built in the United States. Yet far from being washed up, atomic power seems poised for a renaissance. Consider: |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 I'll bet more people have died minimg coal than mining uranium than in nuclear accidents. Way more when you look at it on a deaths per 100,000 kwh basis. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-03-30 14:35 |
| #3 Chemist, American or foreign accidents? The American total is zero. The Russians have an "Inshallah" attitude toward job safety -and a casualty list to match. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2009-03-30 14:02 |
| #2 Anyone have any idea how many people have died from nuclear accidents? How does this compare to those from mining coal and drilling for oil? Seems to me that every other week there is a coal mining accident somewhere. A couple weeks ago 17 people died in a helicopter flight from an oil rig off Newfoundland. I suspect that 100's of times more have died collecting fossil fuels than from nuclear accidents.... |
| Posted by: Chemist 2009-03-30 13:13 |
| #1 The NIMBYs and the trial lawyers are still in position to block any such renaissance. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-03-30 11:46 |