Comments on: Lift of nuclear power ban passes Senate committee

By: R Hobbs

R Hobbs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:58:12 +0000

There are safer alternatives to Uranium.

Check out these links:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes

http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/

Have a good one…

By: H Thomas

H Thomas — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:44:54 +0000

Totally agree with every comment in here and hope that those who are endorsing Nuclear Power are ready to start a petition to have it placed in their city.

I don’t see too many running to have house their houses below the sludge pond.

By: zed

zed — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:26:36 +0000

The dumbest thing that the environmental movement ever did was to cause the end to the nuclear power industry in the United States. Fear not fact has driven the opposition to nuclear and it is still a field in which commonly held beliefs are no different than believing in the tooth fairy. If the same standards of potential liability vs. actual harm were applied to cars, we would be riding in buggies drawn by horses.

By: Jim Hopf

Jim Hopf — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:38:43 +0000

continued…

Estimates of total eventual deaths from Chernobyl range from 100 to 10,000. The maximum consequences of any concievable event at a US plant would be far smaller. Thus, even a worst-case accident at a nuclear plant (unlikely to ever happen) would pale in comparison to the ANNUAL impacts of coal plants, which KY residents are suffering right now.

No possible event at a Western nuclear power plant would result in any significant land area having radiation levels outside the range of natural background.

By: Jim Hopf

Jim Hopf — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:32:44 +0000

Many of the comments above are absurd, given that Kentucky is getting almost all of its electricity from coal. There is universal scientific concensus that the health risks and environmental impacts from nuclear are tiny compared to coal, with every scientific study on the matter concluding that coal is at least 10 times as bad.

Coal plants cause 25,000 deaths every single year in the US alone, whereas US nuclear power plants have never had any measurable impact on public health, over their entire 40+ year history. Coal plants are the largest single source of global warming in the US (33% of total emissions) whereas nuclear has negligible impact.

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:04:33 +0000

Ted Kennedy killed more people in American than nuclear power has.

By: bob fork

bob fork — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:54:19 +0000

if you think nuclear energy is cleaner than coal you’d better think again an accident with nuclear power will take 100′s of 1000′s of year to clean up. if that happen all slurry pond impoundment breaks and spills that have happened in this country will only seem like a turned waste basket sitting by you pc.think about that before slobber to much over nuclear power.

By: special delivery

special delivery — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:24:34 +0000

Nuclear Power is safe and efficent. Of couse they need to be built near either the Ohio or Mississippi River. Tennessee has several as do other neighboring states.

By: Fancy Farmer

Fancy Farmer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:14:19 +0000

Cappy, DOH!

By: DoctorJ

DoctorJ — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:30:40 +0000

I suggest that we start building nuclear power plants in Kentucky and store the waste underneath the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

If we lose a few members of the House and Senate (who’ve not yet agreed upon nuclear waste storage facilities which the country desperately needs), well, you can’t win them all!