Get ready for the Nuke lobby to start their propaganda........

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:25 PM
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Get ready for the Nuke lobby to start their propaganda........

This will be coming soon....

1. Nukes are really safe
2. Japan had outdated technology
3. This was a rare earthquake
4. Coal is more dangerous
5. (insert your own crap here)

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:28 PM
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1. The anti-nuke people have already started theirs.

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originalpckelly

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:35 PM
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7. It's like a trial, and the pro-nuke folks are the prosecutors.

The anti-nukers are the defendants lawyers. They are raising reasonable doubt, and the pro-nukers must prove that their case better.

At stake is not the life of one person, but an entire region around these plants, and maybe even the whole nation.

Why shouldn't we have that high of standards?

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:30 PM
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2. Please be more specific. All I have seen people saying is that.....

Nukes are dangerous when involved in earthquakes. Please provide your proof they are not.

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:30 PM
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3. *yawn*

Wake me up in a week after this whole thing has blown over and the nuclear reactors are fully shut down with no serious release of radiation or risk to anyone near or far.

What will the sensationalist news story of the day be then? Probably back to Justin Bieber's latest movie, or hair-style, or whatever.

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:33 PM
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5. The difference in Nukes is.....

A bad accident can kill a lot of people. And impact a whole area. Not so much with Wind or Solar.

And the waste is a long term issue.

You have to plan for the worse case event. That is why Nukes are different.

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:37 PM
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10. That's true.

But a lot has changed since Chernobyl. Even in a worse case event (full reactor melt-down) they have contingencies in place to contain the disaster, just like with Three Mile Island.

I'd be more concerned about nuclear waste disposal than a modern plant actually leaking significant amounts of radiation.

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:45 PM
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13. I will admit, they just worry me. Downside is huge.

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Sat Mar-12-11 10:12 PM
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19. As opposed to coal, which kills 40,000 people a year in the US during normal operation.

But nobody apparently gives a shit about those people.

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Sat Mar-12-11 10:42 PM
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20. Hard to prove. And under your logic we should ban cars.

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Mon Mar-14-11 01:40 PM
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22. Cars can be made clean enough to be reasonably safe. Coal cannot be, ever.

When people say "clean coal" what they really mean is minimizing the damage from coal. And no, it's not hard to prove at all. But look at the other logic for a moment: nuclear power MIGHT kill some people, at some undefined point in the future, therefore it is evil and can never be used. But coal is killing people today, right now--every 13 minutes and 20 seconds, someone dies from coal-based energy. But that's okay, because coal isn't evil.

The PR execs who the coal industry paid to feed and build up the anti-nuclear movement did a fucking brilliant job of it.

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jpak

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:36 PM
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8. Wake me up when they finally clean this multi-billion dollar mess up

It will be a long time

yup

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:30 PM
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4. "But, um, Republicons luvs us a lot. Whine." - Nuclear Dealers of Death

Edited on Sat Mar-12-11 08:33 PM by SpiralHawk

"As everyone knows, what's good for republicon billionaires is good for republicon billionaires."

- Nuclear Dealers of Death

"Tough shit for you little people. Smirk."

- Rush Nuclear DraftDodger Limbaugh (R - Nuke Booster)

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jpak

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:34 PM
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6. It's already started

((((((((spin)))))))))

yup

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:36 PM
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9. Seriously. I mean earthquakes of this size are common, right?

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originalpckelly

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:41 PM
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12. TMI wasn't because of an earthquake.

People are fallible, and we're playing around with something that has the potential to be incredibly dangerous if we fuck up. It is not an individual danger, but a collective danger. We did not choose to live in a nation with nuclear power, we were forced to live like this.

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:50 PM
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16. I know and I agree. It was just in response to a non-point of the O.

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:37 PM
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11. Coming soon? It is already here

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Democrats_win

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:45 PM
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14. This proves that nuclear plants ARE safe. The damage wasn't that bad.

It's easy to figure out the Nuke lobby's response. They probably said the same thing after Chernobyl. Face it, they have no empathy. They don't care just as long as they get their money.

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:49 PM
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15. You have no way of knowing how bad the damage will be. We aren't

out of woods yet.

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Sat Mar-12-11 08:50 PM
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17. "Nuke! Baby! Nuke!"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x628145

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grahamhgreen

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Sat Mar-12-11 09:04 PM
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18. They will be out in force. Ready to kill to make a buck.

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Sun Mar-13-11 10:17 AM
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21. Do you have your cave picked out for when we run out of oil?

At the rate we are going, when we run out of oil, energy production will all but come to a halt.

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