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Halon
01-31-2006, 08:08 PM
Nuclear Power Plants are going to be springing up quite a bit here soon. My company has the most contracts then ever before. And not just US, but all over the world They are doing somethings to help lower our dependancy on natural gas and oil products, and changing to nuclear power is one of them!
Matt D.
01-31-2006, 09:28 PM
They also said gas would exceed $3 a gallon by winter and remain that way...
Black97civic
01-31-2006, 09:50 PM
Nuclear Power Plants are going to be springing up quite a bit here soon. My company has the most contracts then ever before. And not just US, but all over the world They are doing somethings to help lower our dependancy on natural gas and oil products, and changing to nuclear power is one of them!

Honestly, people really need to get past the stigma that nuclear power is so terrible.

Chernobyl and Three mile island were both caused by people being idiots and not safely running the power plants. Nobody was killed because of three mile island, and the death toll from chernobyl is so disputed that we will probably never know how many people actually died. But think about how many people have gotten sick from pollution from regular power plants.

I would prefer the very small risk of a meltdown, which would be greatly reduced from even 20 years ago when Chernobyl happened, than deal with pollution from coal plants, and increased reliance of fossil fuels for power generation.

If we had more nuclear power, that would oil prices down because we wouldn't need nearly as much of it.
Halon
01-31-2006, 09:58 PM
I agree, and I was in no way saying it was terrible. I work on Nuclear Plants, and I think it is by far the best way we currently have of producing power. Polution free, safe, reliable. Anti-Nuclear protests have gone down in incredible numbers. I think people are realising it as a positive alternative to other petroleum powered plants. Plus hey, it means more job security for me as well!! Bush just announced also in the speech that he will be moving towards having even more Nuclear Plants constructed, I think it's a great thing personally!