Enacting the Nuclear Solution

[Covenant]

People are afraid of criticality in a way they are not afraid of anything else. The idea that nuclear power is like a nuclear weapon reaction has been so heavily hammered into people's heads from both sides--the idiot-brain members of the left who think nukes are evil and the money-sucking corporate hogs who want to continue to do stuff the cheap, short-term and drill-a-riffic way we do now.

Furthermore, they're terrified of nuclear waste products. Nuclear waste products are nearly a myth. They think it can infect the water supply like a disease, and they also think it's sludge. They think reactors, somehow, make radioactive green good that can seep into the water and give you cancer. There is radioactive sluge created, sure but it doesn't leak--for fuck's sake. They blend it up and turn it into CONCRETE. How's that for safe? A giant concrete slab sure won't be leaking anywhere.

It's just retarded. I get why they're worried, but it's still just absurd. The time for nuclear power was really in the past though, by now there's lots of other good technologies too. Still, making nukes would help bridge us to the next level of power, and I suppose there's something to be said for that.

[Patrick Degan]

The time for nuclear power was really in the past though, by now there's lots of other good technologies too. Still, making nukes would help bridge us to the next level of power, and I suppose there's something to be said for that.

Nuclear power is the future. Those "other good technologies" will have their place in the energy equation, but none of them offer the same power generation in a compact footprint that a nuclear power station does —based on fuel the supply of which can be extended for hundreds of millenia and which puts out far less toxins into the general environment than conventional powerplants do on a daily basis.

[ray245]

Looking at a particular course offered by my polytechnic sums up my idea that the fight for nuclear energy in singapore is going to be hard. A course on clean energy did not even mention nuclear energy. http://www-eng.tp.edu.sg/eng_home/eng_c ... ucture.htm

Hopefully, the debate at the national university of singapore will change people's mind. I hope.

http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/seminars/07No ... uclear.pdf

Which makes me wonder, should I go there and listen to the debate? What can a pre-university student even do to make an impact?