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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts) Mon Mar 5, 2012, 11:11 AM Mar 2012

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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!

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Oops.... Never mind! [View all] grahamhgreen Mar 2012 OP

I don't see the tornado. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #1

Hint... trumad Mar 2012 #2

Oh, my. They look kind of flat. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #3

I kept looking for the tornado, too. n/t FourScore Mar 2012 #10

While I am all for getting off of nuclear and know that Fuku is Esse Quam Videri Mar 2012 #4

Oops, my mistake! grahamhgreen Mar 2012 #24

Wind, solar, etc, will be "viable" as soon as they figure out how to make us pay for it. Scuba Mar 2012 #5

The William H. Zimmer Power Station, located near Moscow, Ohio, is a coal-fired power plant. RC Mar 2012 #6

Ooops... SidDithers Mar 2012 #8

too much time watching SyFy's Atomic Twister n/t ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #13

Oh, I get it. So that means it could never, ever possibly happen that a tornado FourScore Mar 2012 #16

it's not my fault you fell for this blatantly wrong OP ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #19

Oops! grahamhgreen Mar 2012 #23

Nevermind, RC just answered my question. nt Union Scribe Mar 2012 #7

Our plants can take a direct hit..and we shouldn't be storing the waste.. snooper2 Mar 2012 #9

Great post! Thanks, grahamhgreen! n/t FourScore Mar 2012 #11

yeah...'great' if you don't mind that OP is horribly wrong or misleading... n/t ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #12

Good job saying that without backing it up whatsoever. n/t FourScore Mar 2012 #14

nevermind that just a few posts up ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #15

And your point is...??? FourScore Mar 2012 #17

apparently my point is ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2012 #18

Granted, grahamhgreen thought the plant built to be a nuke plant, WAS a nuke plant. FourScore Mar 2012 #20

Yeah, it was not good enough to bring on line as a nuclear power plant, so they converted it to RC Mar 2012 #21

Oops, sorry about that! But the truth is all the nuke plants are ticking time bombs as grahamhgreen Mar 2012 #25

Honest mistake (prob due to the cooling tower) Esse Quam Videri Mar 2012 #26

ROFL...nt SidDithers Mar 2012 #22