Kichi, you pretty much did sum the green movement entirely there. For years I've been hearing "nuclear power is bad mm-kay?" without any concrete example of why exactly it's so bad. Then an accident happens and a reactor gets breached and people start shrieking "SHUT THEM ALL DOWN, WE TOLD YOU THEY'RE TERRIBLE!"
Uh. No. Actually. There's a much easier, less costly, and more efficient way of fixing this problem that does NOT include shutting down plants that otherwise do not produce any pollution [save for toxic waste which we can dispose of rather easily if they would just let us open some damn lead-lined storage facilities in the middle of the uninhabited desert]. Wanna keep 'em from experiencing accidents? Stop protesting the construction and development of nuclear plants, and instead SUPPORT IT. I know that sounds weird but get this, with higher support, more resources will be allocated to nuclear power. Coal and oil have hit their peak; they're never going to be much more efficient and definitely not going to be any cleaner at this point. But with more resources, and less of a taboo mark on it, nuclear power can be made to be pretty much fool-proof. In fact most of the most advanced designs out there are pretty much riddled with so many failsafes and stopgaps and foolproofing that even if you WANTED to make the reactor melt down it'd take you a ton of time and could be stopped mid-process without any problems save for having to replace the fuel rods. Fukushima didn't melt down because it was a faulty design, it melted down because it was hit by a giant fucking tidal wave, was over 30 years old, and safety protocols were being neglected because they were being underfunded.
Simple fix to a problem and meanwhile we can keep poking around trying to figure out how to get hydrogen and cold fusion to work for us.
Uh. No. Actually. There's a much easier, less costly, and more efficient way of fixing this problem that does NOT include shutting down plants that otherwise do not produce any pollution [save for toxic waste which we can dispose of rather easily if they would just let us open some damn lead-lined storage facilities in the middle of the uninhabited desert]. Wanna keep 'em from experiencing accidents? Stop protesting the construction and development of nuclear plants, and instead SUPPORT IT. I know that sounds weird but get this, with higher support, more resources will be allocated to nuclear power. Coal and oil have hit their peak; they're never going to be much more efficient and definitely not going to be any cleaner at this point. But with more resources, and less of a taboo mark on it, nuclear power can be made to be pretty much fool-proof. In fact most of the most advanced designs out there are pretty much riddled with so many failsafes and stopgaps and foolproofing that even if you WANTED to make the reactor melt down it'd take you a ton of time and could be stopped mid-process without any problems save for having to replace the fuel rods. Fukushima didn't melt down because it was a faulty design, it melted down because it was hit by a giant fucking tidal wave, was over 30 years old, and safety protocols were being neglected because they were being underfunded.
Simple fix to a problem and meanwhile we can keep poking around trying to figure out how to get hydrogen and cold fusion to work for us.
