Myth # 1: Americans get most of their yearly radiation dose from nuclear power plants. Truth: We are surrounded by naturally occurring radiation. Only 0.005% of the average American’s yearly radiation dose comes from nuclear power; 100 times less than we get from coal [1], 200 times less than a cross-country flight, and about the same as eating 1 banana per year [2]. Myth # 2: A nuclear reactor can explode like a nuclear bomb. Truth: It is impossible for a reactor to explode like a nuclear weapon; these weapons contain very special materials in very particular configurations, neither of… Read more »
As a former Navy Nuke, I agree with ian356094. Most of our issues with nuclear power is political. We use Uranium because it is easier to mask our military use of U235. We don’t use breeder reactors because it is too easy for our enemies to create weapons from the tailings. We don’t recycle waste (and concentrate the nasty stuff, like the French), because it make plutonium easily available. We never went to the the Thorium cycle because it cannot be made (easily) into a weapon. Fukishima was a total fuck up because it should have been shut down and… Read more »
yeah gook boy, chernobyl did damage a lot of people. i lived in the former USSR when it happened and many years past that. you americans are fucking morons and know shit about anything that’s beyond the borders of your local shithole state.
welcome to obamacare
Yeah, 3 years ago there was absolutely no pollution. And you and you mom were only smoking 3 bags of crack a day.
Myth # 1: Americans get most of their yearly radiation dose from nuclear power plants. Truth: We are surrounded by naturally occurring radiation. Only 0.005% of the average American’s yearly radiation dose comes from nuclear power; 100 times less than we get from coal [1], 200 times less than a cross-country flight, and about the same as eating 1 banana per year [2]. Myth # 2: A nuclear reactor can explode like a nuclear bomb. Truth: It is impossible for a reactor to explode like a nuclear weapon; these weapons contain very special materials in very particular configurations, neither of… Read more »
Myth #11: asians do are good at school
Truth: they are fucking nerds
some asians do are good at school because their parent’s make them do are good.
i was never do are good at school.
I believe you, you look Asian.
Myth #12: This FAQ is interesting.
Truth: It’s not. tl;dr
It’s totally safe, because everyone knows 3 Mile Island was caused by Deadpool and Wolverine fighting.
As a former Navy Nuke, I agree with ian356094. Most of our issues with nuclear power is political. We use Uranium because it is easier to mask our military use of U235. We don’t use breeder reactors because it is too easy for our enemies to create weapons from the tailings. We don’t recycle waste (and concentrate the nasty stuff, like the French), because it make plutonium easily available. We never went to the the Thorium cycle because it cannot be made (easily) into a weapon. Fukishima was a total fuck up because it should have been shut down and… Read more »
That’s not smoke, that’s steam. What’s ‘left for us” based on that image is rain, and I could go for some of that right about now.
>implying that nuclear power creates smoke.
WELL ITS UP TO US TO FIX IT think about it
I am pretty sure that is a coal power plant, which sometimes uses cooling towers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A
cheap energy forever!!!!!
i find it bullshit about the part that the Chernobyl accident didn’t physically damage a lot of people.
Is this a damned All State commercial??? WTF.
yeah gook boy, chernobyl did damage a lot of people. i lived in the former USSR when it happened and many years past that. you americans are fucking morons and know shit about anything that’s beyond the borders of your local shithole state.