From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FREEMAIL_REPLY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-19 22:31:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada) Date: 19 Nov 2003 22:31:33 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> <49cbf610.0311191248.7eb48a43@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1069309893 32185 127.0.0.1 (20 Nov 2003 06:31:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2710 Date: 2003-11-19T22:31:33-08:00 List-Id: dmytrylavrov@fsmail.net (Dmytry Lavrov) wrote in message news:<49cbf610.0311191248.7eb48a43@posting.google.com>... > How you will "prove" that "nuclear plants is more harmless than solar > power"? Go to http://RussP.org/nucpower.htm and click on the article called "The Hazards of Nuclear Power" by Bernard L. Cohen. Cohen is one of the top experts in the world on this topic and was awarded the Health Physics Society Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award. The article is excellent and well worth reading, but if you don't have time to read it, scroll down to Table 1: Deaths per 1,000 MW plant per year of operation due to wastes. There you will see figures showing that solar power is nowhere as safe or as clean as nuclear power. And I'm talking about a difference of several orders of magnitude. You probably think that's absurd, but that's only because you are badly misinformed, hence you haven't really had the opportunity to think things through. Don't feel too bad -- it's very common these days. You see, solar power requires more than sunlight hitting the earth. It requires truly massive amounts of materials to collect it and convert it to electric power on a large scale. We're talking about tens of square miles of collector surface to equal the power output of a large nuclear power plant. So much energy goes into producing the solar materials that you don't break even on the energy balance for quite a while. (I can't remember the figures off hand, but I think it's years in non-desert climates.) Once you know the basic facts, it is easy to understand why nuclear power is orders of magnitude safer that solar power could ever be. But don't hold your breath waiting for the mass media to suddenly start informing the public about it.