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wtmusic

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9. "Always safe"?

Reply to One_Life_To_Give (Reply #8)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 01:48 PM

Jul 2013

Nuclear is already orders of magnitude safer than any existing baseload energy. Wind is not always safe, nor is solar, and neither are too cheap to meter. So demanding unattainable absolutes is pointless.

Beyond pointless, it's dangerous. Without a practical, proven zero-carbon energy solution an environmental crisis of unimaginable scope is guaranteed.

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TIME: Nuclear Energy Is Largely Safe. But Can It Be Cheap? [View all] wtmusic Jul 2013 OP

Nuclear energy "safe" darkangel218 Jul 2013 #1

My thoughts exactly davidpdx Jul 2013 #3

BP Statistical Review of World Energy? davidpdx Jul 2013 #2

Ooh scary picture. wtmusic Jul 2013 #7

The author seemed to go out of his way to point out the lack of deaths davidpdx Jul 2013 #14

Some people will die of cancer; probably very few. wtmusic Jul 2013 #15

2,000 employees at high risk for thyroid cancer davidpdx Jul 2013 #18

Thyroid cancer is 95% curable wtmusic Jul 2013 #20

Safe until it isn't, and then wildly unsafe. Not cheap, so lets get rid of back up systems and Warren Stupidity Jul 2013 #4

No, to make this stuff up requires... kristopher Jul 2013 #5

Typical antinuke kneejerk. wtmusic Jul 2013 #6

yes I understand your agenda. Warren Stupidity Jul 2013 #11

Cost, Safety and Development Time One_Life_To_Give Jul 2013 #8

"Always safe"? wtmusic Jul 2013 #9

We have a practical, proven 0 carbon energy solution and it isn't nuclear kristopher Jul 2013 #10

If it was practical and proven... there wouldn't be a problem. FBaggins Jul 2013 #12

Renewables are both practical and proven kristopher Jul 2013 #13

Because it makes SENSE PamW Jul 2013 #16

It only makes sense to phissionophiles kristopher Jul 2013 #17

Are you saying that Utilities won't or can't deal with the varibility of solar or wind? Finishline42 Jul 2013 #19