Nuclear Iran?

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I love that place name

Glad you are so easily amused.

As for nuclear waste, even though the environmentalists won't listen to this, with regards to waste and storage and carbon footprints, modern (not the Sellafield kind) nuclear power plants are the most environmentally friendly method of generating power on demand.

I can't understand how environmentalists are anti environmental. It is just nonsensical.

Environmentalists hear "nuclear", and interpret that as "Hiroshima". And of course Chernobyl was a public relations nightmare, but the fact is that the reactor of Chernobyl was a type of reactor no western country would use or even be allowed to build. RBMK reactors produce more energy as they get hotter and that combined with turning the Emergence Core Cooling System (ECCS) off, the amount of energy surged to a core meltdown and steam explosion. Western plants produce less energy as the core heats up, because if the coolant contains steam bubbles, fewer neutrons are slowed down. Faster neutrons are less likely to split uranium atoms, so the reactor produces less power.


When I mentioned some months back that I hated PETA and Greenpeace, I meant it. They are so blinded by their preconceptions on what is right or wrong that they will perform actions that are endangering human lives. I was at the power plant in Geertruidenberg when our cooling system went critical and pressure started to rise so high that pipes and valves could blow and people could get burned, wounded, or even killed. As it turns out Greenpeace activists sealed off the exhaust of the cooling system. Even in an emergency stop it takes days for a boiler the size of a 14 floor high building (110 meters high) to cool down, that is when your cooling system is working. Idiots like that don't think these things trough, and are a danger to others.