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Originally Posted by Prof_Sai
I just put something in your water, but trust me when I say it's harmless. It's not going to be just one reactor - more and more will keep failing until we stop using them.
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First off, while admittedly not making light of the fact radiation spilling into any environment is bad, I don't ever partake in drinking ocean water to begin with, so yeah "putting something in your water" in this instance is just kinda coming off as a scare tactic and not really serving your point and I have to start this off with how many other things would we of had to write off if they failed? Planes, Cars, Telephones, the internet, modern medicine, people, etc.
I'll come back to this in a second.
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Originally Posted by Prof_Sai
No, but you do see environmentalists opposing coal.
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Okay, is your argument here that environmentalists AREN'T opposing Nuclear energy? Like, they all got together and went "Yeah, we're cool with that."? I have to assume I'm misunderstanding your sentiment here, because people have been treating Nuclear energy as the worst idea ever for decades.
Sure, I love idea of all natural energy production, and its what we should be striving for, but to just write off nuclear technology because sometimes it gets broken seems like such a short sighted view point. It'd be like writing off cars because they can blow up and spread shrapnel everywhere. Sure there's danger, but I hardly think ignoring the possibilities is worth it.
We've just got to figure out how to do it without, you know, not asking for help when its actually needed. That's what I take away from the story here, 2 years went by and they couldn't own up to the fact they couldn't actually contain it. What if in the first week they had asked for help, I'm willing to bet the incident would of been handled far better.
If we're going to use this kind of dangerous technology we have to be willing to work together, but as long as we're not that's when crap is going to go down.