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Originally Posted by submariner409   ..............especially if the tsunami in the Delaware River had sunk your boat..........
(The worry about Salem Power Plant just points out how ingrained our unjustified fear of nuclear power really is. The country would be far better off, energy-wise and dependency-wise, if we would build another 300 of the things. Over 90% of France is lit by inexpensive nuclear power - at our present rate of non-construction it will take us 500 years to catch up. My whole-body radiation dosage during an 80 day ballistic missile nuclear submarine deterrent patrol was less than any resident of Denver receives in two weeks.) |
I agree - we were talking about it a work and I said I'd rather live three blocks from any US nuclear plant than 30 miles from a coal mine. A couple of people seemed incredulous when I stated that there was no way in hell a nuclear station could "explode" without someone placing a bomb in it, and that the security around them is tighter than a penguin's rectum..