Originally Posted by barry12345

The more I have read the more convincing it seems. There are massive issues with the continued existence of nuclear power stations.

Bernie has said that if elected he would not renew their operating licences as they came due. Hillary wants to build a lot more and let the old ones still function. Almost sociopathic if she understands the current state of that industry. The large lobby element perhaps the largest in Washington is the nuclear industry today.

America may have the reputation at certain levels of being the nuclear waste dumping ground of a lot of countries or for the free world. There are private companies in the United states making a fortune from accepting other countries nuclear waste.

The American government must be involved with this insanity as the country is getting into difficulty with even the amount it produces. The companies making a fortune from taking it will also never bear the true costs of dealing with it. There is no known usable long term solution so far anyways. The nuclear industry has lied so much over time it should be reason enough for it's demise.

I could go on and on but what is the point. Even Canada has woken up a little. The reactors on the fringe of Toronto where scheduled for a rebuild. It was decided to buy the power elsewhere. The risk of an issue was not high but they have become aware there is still a small but palatable risk over time.

When they were built I remember talking with the wife about what a serious event could do. I suggested it might take out all of central Canada and some northern states.

She mentioned they were foolproof according to the industry. I told her anything that man constructs is not. Even close to foolproof with this product is not acceptable. American perhaps have no ideal of how fortunate they were that three mile island got stopped.

A look at the video of the control room when the issue was going on spells it out. I am only suprised that video was not suppressed by the industry. Their instruments where failing and not considered valid as the radiation was damaging the probes. They where actually doing the wrong things when an outside source suggestion to try something else came in. If that call had not reached them and the callers had been trying for some time to reach them. It would have been really bad.

The overall problem Is man wants to deal with the nucleous of the atom. I do not believe it was intended for man to do so