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Originally Posted by freddie
I've heard chilling tales of radioactive elemets - supposedly stored in safe facilities underground - leaking into waters bellow and eventually into drinking water and water used for irrigation of crop.
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Well, that's of course unacceptable. And obviously not following the safety regulations. I dislike that, of course, and it's a pity that some sloppy people will put the whole opportunity we have with nuclear power "in shame".
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Originally Posted by freddie
Not to mention as emerging markets grow and our energy consumption needs become ridiculously high we'll need a lot more nuclear powerplants to keep the demand happy.
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Heh, perhaps, but first you have to come up with an alternative that is just as powerful as nuclear power, with less risks and no pollution. That's hard.. The only thing that can meet our growing energy consumption are nuclear power plants.
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Originally Posted by Rachel
Of course they are not gonna bury nuclear waste where there is a risk of an earthquake, but the world is constantly changing, therefore somewhere that could be totally safe now may be incredibly dangerous in the futur
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I can't talk for other than "myself" and my country (as I don't have that much knowledge about geography in other countries) and there are no danger of such disasters to happen in Norway. Yes, the world is constantly changing, but we have no problem with meeting these extremely slow changes. + We're actually storing such waste and have a couple of inactive reactors in Norway today. They're all safe and sound. No problem at all. We have all that takes to build a couple of nuclear power plants, but the political leaders are sceptical... Yet we have extremely expensive electricity prices. "Go Norway and water power!"
