Sylvester3
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How do you distill "very very bad" from this illustrative? composite image? Major nuclear accidents are very rare. Chernobyl is old technology, they managed to blow it up by abandoning pretty much all safety procedures. Albeit the most serious nuclear fubar in history it only killed around 20 people and it continued in operation with the last reactor being shut down a year or so ago. I don't think Chernobyl is a credible argument against Nuclear.
More than 1,000 workers on the site were heavily exposed on the first day. About 200,000 emergency and recovery workers were exposed in the next year, and of these, 2,200 could die prematurely.
An estimated 5 million people live in areas contaminated by the fire and about 100,000 still live in regions classified as areas of "strict control". There were 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents, and at least nine children died.
The report found no evidence of decreased fertility among the affected population, nor an increase in congenital malformations.
But the sarcophagus built to contain the damaged reactor was at risk of collapse, the report warned. And the mental health of people in the region poses the biggest problem.
Sure, but if we (the world population) want to live the lifestyle the west is currently enjoying, then we are going to have to deal with issues like this. Nothing else currently has the energy density of nuclearNuclear Fission reactors leave nasty stuff behind, we all know this. Not much is needed to cause a catastrophic effect on a population, should it get into the wrong place/hands.
I can't see many countries accept a situation where their energy supply is shipped through many other countries. Too much risk there. It can be part of a solution but not the main part.A proposed solution is that of concentrated solar power (CSP) with a large field of it in the Sahara which can easily supply electricity to meet the demands for Europe, The Middle East and North Africa.
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I can't see many countries accept a situation where their energy supply is shipped through many other countries. Too much risk there. It can be part of a solution but not the main part.
Oil and gas I am guessing?Really ? And what do the huge oil and gas pipelines carry ?
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