Chernobyl

That was awful, did you see that persons legs? Years after the actual bomb was dropped and it's still that radioactive and causing all that suffering, nuclear weapons shouldn't be used at all
 
The reactor was cooled using liquid sodium... the sodium somehow found a leak and reacted with the atmosphere. (Ever seen your chemistry teacher drop a small piece of sodium into water? BOOM!)

It blew the roof off the place including the core etc... The russians built a big fucking concrete enclosure over it to seal it up but of course since they're Russian that thing has been falling apart for the past 20 years.

A very dangerous site to be near.
 
yeah the enclosure that they built could fall down any day sending up a radioactive dust clowd that could cover europe
 
Actually, I know about the Chernobyl accident. Nuclear weapons have the same effects as a reactor meltdown. For some reason, they both send radioactive elements in the atmosphere...
 
reactor meltons have a much worse affect locally, since the explosion isnt nearly as intense and powerful, the radiation stays more confined for a longer period of timne. With nuclear weapons, the extreme force created by the explosion sends the particals miles upon miles up into the sky in much more dense number than with a meltdown. With nukes the radiation scatters much faster so the concentration of radiation is less.
 
yea, get rid of the nuclear everything man....its a real reality check on what can happen when things go wrong and shows us that we shouldn't risk it, really sad
 
fuck getting rid of nuclear power! It is going to be our saviour when the oil runs out.

Just because a bankrupt countries old hat reactor shit itself, doesnt mean that our new and efficient reactors (CANDU) will do the same thing.

Honestly...you fucking hippies...get your collective heads out of your asses.
 
actually right b4 the accident chernobly was one of the safest and most efficnet reators in the world. But you are very right about that when oil runs out we are gonna turn to nuclear enery again. 2.2lbs of plutonium is the same a 50 train cars full of coal!
 
LOOK AT THIS SHIT

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why did they conduct this experiment again?
 
isnt that the thing in russia, when the nuclear reactor blew and gave everyone liver cancer? especially the daycare that was near by?

those things are so sad to hear about
 
Read the article I posted earlier, it explains how they were testing how long the reactors could continue going if like power was taken away or something, and they shut off the safety measures and shit. They made some really dumb mistakes. I am convinced nuclear power is safe in trained hands.
 
It's very debatable. Nuclear matter is safe in the right hands, but we are human. even if they were highly trained, one tiny misake could cause suffering and mutations for 24,000 years. thats over 200 generations.

very sad when this shit happens.
 
I guess I am trying to say that at Chernobyl there were a lot of stupid things done. These weren't little mistakes, they were just flat out stupid. It would be like intending to go drag racing in a car and not wearing your seatbelts in addition to disabling the airbags. Even "big" problems like the one at Three Mile Island were not that big (relatively speaking), as the reactors were flooded very quickly and the reactions quickly stopped.
 
Chernobyl is sad, but completely irrelevant to the question of using nuclear power. The reactor was built without one of the most essential safety components, a protective core chamber. Had the russians not skimped on construction, the meltdown would have had no real consequences, other than the financial cost of building a new reactor. There have been other meltdowns, but they were in plants that were built with even a minimal regard for safety. Look at three mile island in pennsylvania. Scary that there was a meltdown? yes. At all dangerous? no, because the proper safety precautions were taken during construction.
 
Definitely, and we should be switching as soon as possible, regardless of how soon the oil runs out. Considering that even the US department of defense issued a report in 2002 stating that global warming was the most serious threat to America, well above nuclear war or terrorism, it seems pretty essential to switch to a power source, that if used correctly is very clean and has no CO2 emissions.

Don't make a blanket statement about liberals though, I am extremely liberal, and an environmentalist, but i realize the necessity and potential of nuclear energy. It seems as if many others are seeing the light as well, I heard an interview today with one of the founders of Greenpeace, who has split with the group over the issue, and founded a new group whose sole purpouse is pushing for nuclear energy.
 
that's sad. i did a project on that in physics last year, we had just learned about it, and there were some things that were just so astonishing.. like the things they did to jeporadize people's lives and not tell them. bullshit.
 
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