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Nuclear energy has not had the proper "image management" by its proponents ..... sadly.
Other future energy choice will be geothermal.
There are vast heats under the crust. Positive research and experiments are going on in my country.
True, but Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukishima and numerous other smaller scale accidents (like at our own Windscale reactor fire) have pandered to the fears of an anti nuclear lobby which has exploited such incidents to the full.
A bigger problem is that nuclear power is expensive, not just in terms of building and running the reactors, which are not major costs, but in storing waste and ultimately de-commissioning obsolete reactors. The cost is a bullet yet to be bitten.
Cheers
Steve
Other future energy choice will be geothermal.
There are vast heats under the crust. Positive research and developments are going on in my country.
Fortunately, today's technology means for safer operation of nuclear plants.
In Southern California, the San Onofre nuclear plant operated for the duration of it's planned life without incident and then shut down when it reached the end of it's useful life. They then considered the idea of putting it back into service because of increasing demands for energy in the Southland and after long and careful inspections they came to the conclusion that it was so well built, that they decided to put it back on line after a refit.
The problem with Nuclear is it isnt allowed to make a mistake. Windscale still has radioactive contamination, Chernobyl and Fukushima show that you cannot make a mistake from start to finish you must know all possibilities that are possible and some possiblities that seem impossible. Also it costs about 10 times more to de commission a plant than to build it and no one knows how to "cost" storing the waste for as long as "homo sapiens" have ever lived.
BACK TO TOPIC
I think it's time for NATO observers .... deploying along the east-west dividing line (that the elected Gov't is going to have to secede to the Russian mob) ... to identify who these un-uniformed activists are that are over-throwing local governments. And to say to Europe and the world ... we're boots-on-th-ground, Vlad.
We (NATO) must escalate this .... rationally
Just saw on the news where a Russian jet was buzzing a U.S. destroyer off the coast of Romania. The destroyer went on alert and warned the jet to back off, which it ignored and continued buzzing it. Fortunately, the destroyer identified it as unarmed and didn't splash it.
Not a very intelligent thing to be doing, considering the tensions in the area at the moment.
Pentagon says Russian jet buzzed U.S. warship
Standard Russian practice in the past, they did it for years encroaching UK airspace. Dont know if this is a one off or routine and is just being reported to up the ante.Did someone at the Russian air base not get the word? If intentional, this kind of 'minor' provocative event with potentially incendiary consequences suggests to me that those who characterize Putin as a coldly calculating KGB operative are off the mark; while those that see him as a classic unrepentant bully are spot on. If he is both, so much the worse for the Ukraine and others but bullies too often miscalculate.
Standard Russian practice in the past, they did it for years encroaching UK airspace. Dont know if this is a one off or routine and is just being reported to up the ante.
They've been buzzing and ramming for decades now,its a bit of a dangerous game but hopefully cool heads prevale.