Comments on: San Onofre decommissioning: $4.4 billion wasted

By: Donkey

Donkey — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:12:59 +0000

In reply to Bill Gore. Never sad it was "inherently safe" Billy Goat, it's very safe and doable, but the planning and money is not being done in an efficient manner of disposal. The NRC has never done its job to the fullest. :)

By: T Mind of Ted Your God

T Mind of Ted Your God — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:36:30 +0000

In reply to Bill Gore.

Well said Bill— Nukes are expensive, dirty and not healthy. Proven over and over again sadly……. Duncey spent his Navy time underwater! LMAO—– yes he did— probably in the galley underr dishwater before is psych discharge!

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:38:55 +0000

Swiss TV story on the robots used to clean up Fukushima.

http://www.srf.ch/player/tv/einstein/video/roboter-fuer-fukushima?id=fd4e68c5-c0b7-49f3-b17b-f82d50bc4538

Even if you don’t understand a word of swiss german you can learn a lot about the Fukushima situation by watching this video. Notice not a word about Oprah, Beyonce or Jay Z….How odd!

And sorry, Donkeyhotey, but nuclear power is not inherently safe and doable. We all need to wake from our techno trance before it is too late…

By: Donkey

Donkey — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:38:23 +0000

In reply to Bill Gore. As with most thoughts there is some truth to what you write. My Navy time was spent underwater, nuclear power is very safe ad doable, the main problem is that preparations and money have never approached what was needed for safe containment of the waste. Russia has over a 1000 square miles of radioactive land and water where waste was dumped while trying to create their first A-bomb. The US needs to clean-up their nukes, as of now little is being done and like pensions it is being left to the kids to handle. :)

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:44:09 +0000

If you listen to ‘Le Show’ on the radio (popular in Oregon and Northern Cal) you know that nuclear power was marketed as ‘clean, safe, too cheap to meter’…It is none of those things. Nuclear power IS an engineer’s raging hyper-complex wet dream come true, especially the type of engineers who served on nuclear subs in the US Navy. Engineering culture has long reeked of a smug, secretive kind of arrogance, as if the ability to run differential equations in your sleep somehow places you above the rest of humanity. It doesn’t. San Onofre and especially Fukushima stand as glowing hot monuments to american engineering hubris. Oh, and let’s not forget the ongoing nightmare fiasco at the WIPP in New Mexico…..