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At this point would you allow for a nuclear power plant in your back yard?

Would you be pro nuclear if you had to live near the plant?

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Lots of people these days backing nuclear power as a way to get us off coal and other fossil fuels for electrical power, but how many of us want one built in our back yard?

I'm just trying to gage how the general public view it. I feel that most thinking people know it's the only real bridge for us to get off coal or gas fired electrical plants, I just don't think the reality of the situation sets in until someone tries to build one near where you live, and I don't think the reality of our carbon situation as set in on Washington DC.
 
and before you answer, watch "Meltdown: Three Mile Island" on Netflix.
 
CaughtInThe said:
and before you answer, watch "Meltdown: Three Mile Island" on Netflix.
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I'm in the process of watching it, haven't really learned anything I didn't already know about it, but I read up on such things over the years, and I remember it when it happened.
 
WillyPete said:
No one wants to be next to a big industrial site of any sort, but certainly I'd take a new nuclear plant over a new coal plant.
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That is what I was thinking, I have lived down the road from a coal plant, and it is a mess.
Start with the roughly 100 rail cars of coal a day, and in the 80's there was a lot of dust in the air also.
 
nvflash said:
I'm in the process of watching it, haven't really learned anything I didn't already know about it, but I read up on such things over the years, and I remember it when it happened.
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do you know about the polar crane?
 
nvflash said:
Lots of people these days backing nuclear power as a way to get us off coal and other fossil fuels for electrical power, but how many of us want one built in our back yard?

I'm just trying to gage how the general public view it. I feel that most thinking people know it's the only real bridge for us to get off coal or gas fired electrical plants, I just don't think the reality of the situation sets in until someone tries to build one near where you live, and I don't think the reality of our carbon situation as set in on Washington DC.
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A nuclear power plant in the back yard is far safer than a coal plant.
 
They've been trying to build one twenty miles from me for years. Gov regulatory stuff has kept it from making any real progress so far.

I'm okay with it. Not jumping for joy, but okay. We need the power; wind and such aren't going to suffice and nuclear is cleaner than coal.
 
nvflash said:
Lots of people these days backing nuclear power as a way to get us off coal and other fossil fuels for electrical power, but how many of us want one built in our back yard?

I'm just trying to gage how the general public view it. I feel that most thinking people know it's the only real bridge for us to get off coal or gas fired electrical plants, I just don't think the reality of the situation sets in until someone tries to build one near where you live, and I don't think the reality of our carbon situation as set in on Washington DC.
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My yard is too small for one.
 
nvflash said:
Lots of people these days backing nuclear power as a way to get us off coal and other fossil fuels for electrical power, but how many of us want one built in our back yard?

I'm just trying to gage how the general public view it. I feel that most thinking people know it's the only real bridge for us to get off coal or gas fired electrical plants, I just don't think the reality of the situation sets in until someone tries to build one near where you live, and I don't think the reality of our carbon situation as set in on Washington DC.
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I moved next to one in South Carolina, no big deal.
 
CaughtInThe said:
and before you answer, watch "Meltdown: Three Mile Island" on Netflix.
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That was so long ago with inferior technology. Granted, always can have cost cutting and human error to lead to issues but new plants are pretty safe with the new technologies
 
Yes, although southern NM isn't geologically nor hydrologically adequate for conventional nuclear power. The reactors being worked on & designed - pebble flow (?) could be OK, they sound reasonable, @ least, in theory. If the designs prove out, yes. We'll need some kind of energy bridge as we struggle to get off fossil fuels & onto cleaner, better energy, that isn't subject to international transportation nor political upheavals. If the reactors under design/study now work out well enough, we may not have to get all the way to fusion.
 
Lloyd Christmas said:
That was so long ago with inferior technology. Granted, always can have cost cutting and human error to lead to issues but new plants are pretty safe with the new technologies
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it's not about the technology.

pay attention to the for profit part of it.
 
I think I'd be pro:

Thorium reactors

Older types not so much, it's not that I don't view them as safe to operate, it's just the long term issues with their waste.
 
HBO's "Chernobyl" is still too fresh in my mind.
 
I just checked the distance to my nearest nuclear plant. 12 miles. I thought it was closer.

A nuclear plant in my literal backyard? I don't think that would be allowed. But I'm okay living within whatever perimeter is permitted.
 
Lloyd Christmas said:
That was so long ago with inferior technology. Granted, always can have cost cutting and human error to lead to issues but new plants are pretty safe with the new technologies
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Having not watched the movie, but having spent 10 years in the Nuclear Navy (submarines), TMI was actually a success story. It showed how all the safety features worked when something went wrong. And as you noted the technology is even better now, even to the point where there is less nuclear waste generated.

I personally have no issue with it in my area. I might feel differently if I was on the west coast.
 
Lycanthrope said:
HBO's "Chernobyl" is still too fresh in my mind.
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The problem with Chernobyl was that it was both graphite cooled and designed as a positive reactivity core. US designs are negative reactivity (resulting in faster and easier stabilization) and water cooled. Also, as a bot of information to separate out reality from the movies/fiction, a reactor going critical means it has reached a steady state condition. So an operation plant has the reactor going critical several times a day as it adjusts to demand increases and decreases.
 
maquiscat said:
The problem with Chernobyl was that it was both graphite cooled and designed as a positive reactivity core. US designs are negative reactivity (resulting in faster and easier stabilization) and water cooled. Also, as a bot of information to separate out reality from the movies/fiction, a reactor going critical means it has reached a steady state condition. So an operation plant has the reactor going critical several times a day as it adjusts to demand increases and decreases.
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Oh I understand the differences in technical and safety protocols between 1980s Chernobyl and modern day American plants. It's just the visceral impact of that show affecting my reaction. ;)
 
nvflash said:
Lots of people these days backing nuclear power as a way to get us off coal and other fossil fuels for electrical power, but how many of us want one built in our back yard?

I'm just trying to gage how the general public view it. I feel that most thinking people know it's the only real bridge for us to get off coal or gas fired electrical plants, I just don't think the reality of the situation sets in until someone tries to build one near where you live, and I don't think the reality of our carbon situation as set in on Washington DC.
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I had to say No, only because my back yard isn't large enough.

In the metropolitan area, no problem.
 
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