Comments on: Four Reasons Why Nuclear Power Is Stupid http://theothersideofeverything.com/flip/2008/01/four-reasons-why-nuclear-power-is-stupid/ making all our lives easier, more fulfilling, lovelier journeys Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: greennukes http://theothersideofeverything.com/flip/2008/01/four-reasons-why-nuclear-power-is-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-2179 greennukes Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:35:27 +0000 http://theothersideofeverything.com/flip/2008/01/four-reasons-why-nuclear-power-is-stupid/#comment-2179 Indigobusiness --I live near the "Hanford reactor". I grew up here and I raise my children here. First of all, you are clumping "Hanford", which is the government site from 1943 that made the plutonium that was dropped on Hiroshima in with the Columbia Generating Station, which is a nuclear power plant that began operating in 1984. The Hanford site has isssues. Columbia Generating station does not. The government site left over from the 40s was not a nuclear reactor. There was no nuclear power generation happening there. They were enriching unranium for making a bomb (yes, it makes me ill as well to think about it) and yes, its a mess. The technology from the 40s was not well defined. Again, please realise that the mess at that site is not from commercial nuclear power, or any type of nuclear power used for electricity generation. It is from making a bomb. You do not need a nuclear reactor to make a bomb. Its not even preferable. <br> <br>I really have to laugh at the idea that you have friends that work at the "Hanford reactor" who are suffering from health problems. Please, have one of your friends who worked at Columbia Generating Station fill us in on their occupational related illness. If they have some sort of issue from being at HANFORD, I could take that a little more seriously, but from working at the nuclear plant? You are just being silly.Commercial nuclear power has a stellar safety record. Please instead, have one of your disease ridden coal worker friend fill you in on their job. Or have one of your friends who helped clean up the oil spill write in and tell us about their experiences. maybe you can have the widow of one of the workers who have been killed on any nymber of oil rig explosions write in and tell us how safe those energy sources are. I understand that all things NUCLEAR scares many people but re it's like being afraid of fire. Fire is pretty dangerous stuff, as is water.More people are killed each year from fire and water than they are from anything even remotely nuclear related. <br> <br>Could you please let me know if you are opposed to nuclear medicine as well? Indigobusiness –I live near the “Hanford reactor”. I grew up here and I raise my children here. First of all, you are clumping “Hanford”, which is the government site from 1943 that made the plutonium that was dropped on Hiroshima in with the Columbia Generating Station, which is a nuclear power plant that began operating in 1984. The Hanford site has isssues. Columbia Generating station does not. The government site left over from the 40s was not a nuclear reactor. There was no nuclear power generation happening there. They were enriching unranium for making a bomb (yes, it makes me ill as well to think about it) and yes, its a mess. The technology from the 40s was not well defined. Again, please realise that the mess at that site is not from commercial nuclear power, or any type of nuclear power used for electricity generation. It is from making a bomb. You do not need a nuclear reactor to make a bomb. Its not even preferable.

I really have to laugh at the idea that you have friends that work at the “Hanford reactor” who are suffering from health problems. Please, have one of your friends who worked at Columbia Generating Station fill us in on their occupational related illness. If they have some sort of issue from being at HANFORD, I could take that a little more seriously, but from working at the nuclear plant? You are just being silly.Commercial nuclear power has a stellar safety record. Please instead, have one of your disease ridden coal worker friend fill you in on their job. Or have one of your friends who helped clean up the oil spill write in and tell us about their experiences. maybe you can have the widow of one of the workers who have been killed on any nymber of oil rig explosions write in and tell us how safe those energy sources are. I understand that all things NUCLEAR scares many people but re it's like being afraid of fire. Fire is pretty dangerous stuff, as is water.More people are killed each year from fire and water than they are from anything even remotely nuclear related.

Could you please let me know if you are opposed to nuclear medicine as well?

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