Do you think nuclear power is a good, or bad, thing?

[Narkro555]

The unfortunate thing is, that so many forms of media have, at one time or another, claimed nuclear waste is dangerous. EG the toxic radioactive monster coming from the nuclear plant, workers "mutating", nuclear explosions... It's all stupid, but a person who believes this tripe is born every second.

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[Saber15]

/facepalm

new zealand has a relatively tiny population (about half of new york city's population) and it's not an industrial superpower. they don't need the stuffton of power that other countries need for production. new zealand also has enough mountains and stuff for hydroelectric dams. some countries have basically no places for dams or can't do it without destroying whole ecosystems. southeast usa has (afaik) no places at all that can support a dam.


nuclear power is safe if:
-you don't get the ruskies to build it
-you don't build it on a loving FAULT LINE
-you actually maintain the reactor

[Jacob/Lee]

The unfortunate thing is, that so many forms of media have, at one time or another, claimed nuclear waste is dangerous. EG the toxic radioactive monster coming from the nuclear plant, workers "mutating", nuclear explosions... It's all stupid, but a person who believes this tripe is born every second.

I believe the word you are looking for is "trope." This is tripe.

Anyway, solar power would be much more effective in space or on planets with no atmosphere, since the sun's rays wouldn't be mostly stopped by an atmosphere. That makes it a much more viable option on space stations or a moon base. Fun fact, satellites use solar power.

[TheArmyGuy]

It provides a stuff ton of power, without polluting the environment, and is perfectly safe. We need more of them, but that isn't going to happen because the media just has a loving orgy when one goes "worst possible case scenario" and smears the image of the entire industry. Chernobyl was a case of irresponsibility and failure to follow protocol, Three Mile Island was an outdated and under maintained plant, and Japan's most recent one was hit by a loving earthquake (protip: Don't build these things on loving FAULT LINES).

Japan had crappy ass 1960 US General Electric plants. The US has those too, but THEY UPGRADE THE stuff after some years. Japan however had the same plants but never did a stuff to safety.
Now they are handicapped and leaking radiation, so every stupid idiot that thinks it is polluting has an argument.
Gah.

I believe the word you are looking for is "trope." This is tripe.

Anyway, solar power would be much more effective in space or on planets with no atmosphere, since the sun's rays wouldn't be mostly stopped by an atmosphere. That makes it a much more viable option on space stations or a moon base. Fun fact, satellites use solar power.

Solar power = nuclear power
Sun = huge nuclear fusion reactor

[Rainbow]

Yeah, clean apart from the hideous bi-product it creates.

Glad I live in a nuclear free country. The only radioactive thing we have are X-Rays. Hydroelectric power is the way to go.

You could bury it on the moon or something
or mars

or drop it into jupiter out of a space shuttle

[Riot]

 Why don't we just pull energy from space itself?  
 Oh wait, we aren't there yet.

[Jacob/Lee]

Solar power = nuclear power
Sun = huge nuclear fusion reactor

Solar power =/= nuclear power
Nuclear power is formed by fission generating heat, which boils away water to produce steam which drives turbines. Solar power is light being collected and turned into electricity. Your second point is correct however.

[Rainbow]

Why don't we just pull energy from space itself? 

[TheArmyGuy]

Why don't we just drill 20 miles deep and build a steam powered generator, and simply pump seawater down there? And we could also go drilling to the core and extract iron, but then we would explode and die and death.

[TheArmyGuy]

Solar power =/= nuclear power
Nuclear power is formed by fission generating heat, which boils away water to produce steam which drives turbines. Solar power is light being collected and turned into electricity. Your second point is correct however.

We harvest the nuclear energy in another way, we basically convert the radiation directly into power.
You could see UV rays as a form of radiation.
Edit: Double post hnnnnnnng

[Rainbow]

Why don't we just drill 20 miles deep and build a steam powered generator, and simply pump seawater down there? And we could also go drilling to the core and extract iron, but then we would explode and die and death.

somewhere in russia they dug down 7 miles and their drill melted.

[TheArmyGuy]

somewhere in russia they dug down 7 miles and their drill melted.

Then they must use better drills made out of diamonds.
And other stuff.
Right.

[Riot]

 No what I had in mind.

 More like extract energy from nothing.

Then they must use better drills made out of diamonds.
And other stuff.
Right.

 Diamond drills aren't fully made of diamond you know.
At least until we can grow diamond drill parts.

[HellHound]

-snippity-
Doesn't look clean or safe.
:o

That's water vapor, and it's just venting the incredible amounts of water that the nuclear [size=0pt]birdfood[/size]pellets are making boil.

[Rainbow]

[size=0pt]birdfood[/size]

nice