jo4hn writes:
Jay Chan wrote:
[snip]
Glad to hear that people is open to the idea of using nuclear power. I
was wondering if someone might jump in and lecture me about the
"evils" of using nuclear power.

Jay Chan

1. A terrorist will crash a plane into it and we will all go ka-boom-boom.

Not possible. Worst that can happen from this is an unintentional
release of radioactivity at a scale much closer to TMI than Chernobel.
Certainly won't explode.

2. A diddly-dip will accidentally crash his car/boat/plane into it and
we will all go ka-boom-boom.

Not possible (the ka-boom-boom part).

3. There is no where to store the leftover waste (NIMBY!) so it will be
left in piles along side the road and we will all glow in the dark and
die of bippy cancer.

Reprocess the waste into more fuel. Known and available technology
(although the US shutdown its reprocessing facilities in the 70's, other
countries still reprocess their spent fuel rods).

Reprocessing creates useful fuel from the waste. The waste from
reprocessing is fairly low-level (half life in the 100 year range
rather than 100,000 year range) and occupies little volume.

http://www.anlw.anl.gov/htdocs/anlw_history/reactors/ifr.html

4. There is no where to store the leftover waste (NIMBY!) so it will be
used by terrorists to make dirty bombs and we will all glow in the dark
and die of bippy cancer.

A dirty bomb is much overrated. The contamination produced by the
explosion of a typical dirty bomb (medical isotopes or old fuel rods)
will provide a radiation dose pretty close to background (its within
the noise) outide of the immediate proximity (100's feet) of the
explosion. [See the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists for details].
Anyone close enough to the explosion to be affected by any exposure
to radiation is probably dead from the blast effects anyway. Granted
decontam will need to be done, but on a fairly small (a block ortwo)
scale.

Sure it sucks, but it ain't the end of the world, or even a singificant
problem (excepting the inevitable irrational mass panic from the uneducated
masses).

Note that the core of a dirty bomb is still conventional explosive and
even a ton of TNT going off is relatively minor on the scale of a city.

5. There will be an accidental melt-down all the way to China which will
**** them off enough to launch missles and we will all go ka-boom-boom.

watching those stupid fonda flix again are you? SNL had it right with
the Pepsi Syndrome.

scott