To not pollute other threads, here is my reply to these threads where nuclear plants invited themselves. I will not talk any more about that subject later.
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Originally Posted by ATaylorRacing
I wish I still had the article (or where I even read it) but all of the US nuclear waste produced to date would only fill up a HS Gym.  |
In your HS Gym, how many times can you put the wastes that were released by the Chernobyl's reactor ?
For Hiroshima and Nagasaki there were less than 100kg of Uranium in each bomb (I know they are "not the same Uranium", but they are the same consequences !!!). If you look at people who survived the first days, 30% have irradiation sequels.
In France and Germany, around 50kms (30 miles) of each nuclear plant the rate of leukemias is 5 times more important than anywhere else in these countries. This is thousand of children.
Each military bomb encloses a "little" quantity of material in big bombs that are inspected very very very frequently. Civil programs will never have such a paranoia level.
Denis.