Oops.... Never mind!

[grahamhgreen]

Obviously nuclear power can never generate enough electricity cheaply enough to offset the cost of a Fukishima here in our country.

Especially when you consider that Wind, Biomass, Hydro, and Geothermal are ALREADY dollar for dollar cheaper - before you factor in the costs of waste storage and leakage over the next 30,000 years and the next inevitable nuclear disaster. Not to mention the plummeting costs of solar.








NO NUKES!

[Ian David]

1. I don't see the tornado. n/t

[trumad]

2. Hint...

Look at the homes next to it.

[Ian David]

3. Oh, my. They look kind of flat. n/t

[FourScore]

10. I kept looking for the tornado, too. n/t

[Esse Quam Videri]

4. While I am all for getting off of nuclear and know that Fuku is

a disaster that will continue for decades, are you sure that is a nuke plant? Looks like coal conveyors at the middle right side of the pic. Also would explain the giant smoke stack belching mercury down on those poor people.

[grahamhgreen]

24. Oops, my mistake!

[Scuba]

5. Wind, solar, etc, will be "viable" as soon as they figure out how to make us pay for it.

[RC]

6. The William H. Zimmer Power Station, located near Moscow, Ohio, is a coal-fired power plant.

The William H. Zimmer Power Station, located near Moscow, Ohio, is a coal-fired power plant. It was originally intended to be a boiling water reactor type of nuclear power plant. Although once estimated to be 97% complete, poor construction and quality assurance (QA) led to the plant being converted to coal-fired generation. Today, the plant generates 1400 gross MWe and 1300 net MWe. Zimmer Power Station is the largest single-unit power facility in the United States and is majority-owned by Duke Energy. During the construction of the plant, the Little Indian Creek was routed through the plant to protect fish populations. The plant now has several unique Environmental Protection features to keep the creek at its natural state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Zimmer_Power_Station

Check out the IPTC information in the picture you posted.

[SidDithers]

8. Ooops...

perhaps the OP should edit their post.

Facts are good.

Sid

[ProdigalJunkMail]

13. too much time watching SyFy's Atomic Twister n/t

[FourScore]

16. Oh, I get it. So that means it could never, ever possibly happen that a tornado

could hit a nuclear power plant. Wow... I feel so much better about this now.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

19. it's not my fault you fell for this blatantly wrong OP

and then proceeded to support even after proven that it was wrong...

a tornado could hit anything...the breathless concern about it is comical.

sP

[grahamhgreen]

23. Oops!

[Union Scribe]

7. Nevermind, RC just answered my question. nt

[snooper2]

9. Our plants can take a direct hit..and we shouldn't be storing the waste..

Anything that can't be used from the waste materials should be launched into the sun...No more problem


I highly recommend we start dropping hundreds of billions of dollars in fusion power myself...

[FourScore]

11. Great post! Thanks, grahamhgreen! n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

12. yeah...'great' if you don't mind that OP is horribly wrong or misleading... n/t

[FourScore]

14. Good job saying that without backing it up whatsoever. n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

15. nevermind that just a few posts up

it is proven that the pic is NOT a nuclear plant...

sP

[FourScore]

17. And your point is...???

[ProdigalJunkMail]

18. apparently my point is

that you believe the OP is about a nuclear power plant being 'near-missed' by a tornado when the plant in question is not a nuclear power plant...or that you believe you can just post whatever shit you want and not get called on it...or that I could post a picture of a beanie baby next to skid marks on the highway and claim that an endangered species was almost single-handed wiped out by a drag racing school bus...it is all the same to you.

sP

[FourScore]

20. Granted, grahamhgreen thought the plant built to be a nuke plant, WAS a nuke plant.

Honest enough mistake, I'd say. Unfortunately, the construction was too shabby though, so now it's coal fired. It's fine, even good, to point out such a honest mistake. But to diminish the point of the entire OP goes too far. The OP is still correct on all other accounts.

[RC]

21. Yeah, it was not good enough to bring on line as a nuclear power plant, so they converted it to

a conventional coal fired power plant. I feel safer already.

I wonder how much mercury and radioactive material it has released into the atmosphere so far? To say nothing of the CO₂.

[grahamhgreen]

25. Oops, sorry about that! But the truth is all the nuke plants are ticking time bombs as

long as they are operational.

[Esse Quam Videri]

26. Honest mistake (prob due to the cooling tower)

However, I would be interested in knowing if there has been any inordinately high cancer clusters in those surrounding neighborhoods.

[SidDithers]

22. ROFL...nt

Sid