[TheForge] nuke plants and other thoughts OT: POL:

[Bruce Freeman]

Also no kids here.

You suppose all the radiation let loose when the nukes all get trashed
by earthquakes and tsunamis might accelerate human evolution and give
rise to an intelligent life form?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:52 PM, peter fels <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> Terry;
> We have no kids and therefore my interest in the future of mankind is kinda abstract...but.
>
> While regular accidents can easily kill us as individuals;
> Nuke accidents can continue kill folks for the foreseeable future!
> That's a very different proposition.
>
> If you only care about yourself...it doesn't much matter.
> If the future of mankind matters to you at all;
> Then you gotta take nukes much more seriously!
>
> Nuke plants tend to get sited where people will want to live
> long after anyone remembers the contamination is there.
>
> The reality is that no one will clean those sites up.
>
> On Mar 20, 2011, at 7:05 PM, terry l. ridder wrote:
>
>> hello;
>>
>> there are more than commercial power generation reactors out there is
>> the wild. the university of illinois has a small reactor used for
>> experiements and testing. the university of chicago also has a small
>> reactor. lawerance livermore laboratory has several reactors. argonne
>> national laboratory has several reactors. then there are the
>> decommissioned reactors in the bottom of several undergraound complexes
>> out west.
>>
>> illinois, appears to have the most nuclear plants used for power
>> generation. close to dekalb, illinois is the byron plant and the dresden
>> plant. the quad cities is further away. dresden is the same type of
>> reactor as the japanese nuclear plants.
>>
>> when the new madrid faults lets loose again, we will see just how well
>> those plants are constructed. also even though they are in the middle of
>> the midwest , the last time the new madrid fault let loose it changed
>> the course of the mississippi river and there is evidence of large waves
>> occurring on the great lakes, particularly lake michigan. never
>> underestimate the waves on the great lakes. if the lake bed were to move
>> in a similar fashion as the ocean floor the waves would be just like a
>> tsunami.
>>
>> zion nuclear power plant is in standdown/decommissioned is rather close
>> to lake michigan. it current stores many spent fuel cells in a 3 million
>> gallon swimming pool.
>>
>> the moral is that there is danger and risks around us everyday and
>> everywhere. just driving a car is high risk. be involved in a
>> head-on-collision and you will see what i mean. your life changes
>> forever in a split second and there is not anything you can do about it.
>>
>> stuff happens are generally it is the bad nasty stuff that happens.
>> such is life.
>>
>> we are born, we suffer and plod through life, then we die. some die
>> sooner. some die later. we all die eventually.
>>
>> --
>> terry l. ridder ><>
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