How Nuclear Power Excels Renewables: Not one person in the United States has ever died due to nuclear power generation or from an accident in a nuclear power plant? Three Mile Island...

Anvil

Not one person in the United States has ever died due to nuclear power generation or from an accident in a nuclear power plant? Three Mile Island caused no fatalities.

In Chernobyl, when a Soviet reactor built on the cheap and lacking any built-in safety features melted down, just over fifty fatalities occurred. The Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan caused a single fatality as a result of Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS), which would be the demonstratable casualty indicator in such a situation. On the other hand, the burning of coal causes 13,000 deaths a year in the United States and approximately 3,000,000 worldwide due to its particulate pollution, according to various health experts.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/how_nuclear_power_excels_renewables.html

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Anvil wrote:

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Been there done that. 17 years as a shift superintendent in a twin 510 megawatt plant. Three trips from power. All three from loss of a vital instrument channel. Just capacitors in a power supply. Calculate the megawatts generated in those 17 years. 10440 megawatts times 24 hrs a day for 17 years with only time out for refuelings. And the plant is still going strong.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Agreed. There are also some newer and very safe designs now such as the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) that I remember reading about back in 2015. The new designs preclude the risk of a nuclear meltdown in the event of a power failure. Nuclear works 24/7, and you don't have to worry about wind not blowing or multiple days without the sun shining.

Anvil

ACP45 wrote:

Agreed. There are also some newer and very safe designs now such as the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) that I remember reading about back in 2015. The new designs preclude the risk of a nuclear meltdown in the event of a power failure. Nuclear works 24/7, and you don't have to worry about wind not blowing or multiple days without the sun shining.

I recall I read somewhere that there are groups working on 'recycling' the waste as well.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Anvil wrote:

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Complacency and arrogance can turn anything into a mega disaster. As soon as one states "that can't happen here", the wheels begin turning to ensure that it does.

I am in favor of the newer, smaller, plants, similar to those used on Submarines.

Anvil

lpnmajor wrote:

Complacency and arrogance can turn anything into a mega disaster. As soon as one states "that can't happen here", the wheels begin turning to ensure that it does.

I am in favor of the newer, smaller, plants, similar to those used on Submarines.

And where in the article did it state 'that can't happen here'?

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Anvil wrote:

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About a year after Three Mile Island I was introduced to a man from that area. I asked him about it and he told me that the release was the best thing that had ever happened as far as he was concerned as the fishing in the river improved greatly.

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

ACP45 wrote:

Agreed. There are also some newer and very safe designs now such as the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) that I remember reading about back in 2015. The new designs preclude the risk of a nuclear meltdown in the event of a power failure. Nuclear works 24/7, and you don't have to worry about wind not blowing or multiple days without the sun shining.

Well the people who want solar can always do a a neighbor did many years ago. I used a generator to have electricity in the field if I needed to repair fences or gates. This neighbor was one of the early ones who thought that solar was the way to beat the power company. After a week of cloudy weather he came begging me to loan him my generator so he could recharge all his batteries and have electric power in his house. I don't recall if he was appreciative enough to return the generator with a full tank but probably not as those people are takers, never givers.