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Post by Buttler on Feb 9, 2016 14:55:24 GMT
I felt a shiver run down my spine...
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Post by BSJ on Feb 9, 2016 18:49:14 GMT
Shiver is right! Fermi 2 is the name of the power plant 25 miles from my city, Toledo. It’s on Lake Erie, in Michigan (one of the Great Lakes). Cancer rates around Erie are higher than our national average. Is it the radioactive waste?
Because Erie provides us water, and as far as New York, all cities on Erie would be affected by a nuclear accident. Never mind what the contamination will do to the farmland and anything that lives.
We’ve experience massive algae blooms the last few summers from the high temperatures of wastewater that cools the reactor. We were told not to drink the water, (don't anyway) boiling the water makes it worse, and even told not to stay too long in the shower!
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Post by Helmut83 on Feb 14, 2016 4:05:30 GMT
Man, that's gloomy. Seriously depressing. Ghost town.
BSJ, stay safe. The US were a hair away from a similar catastrophe at Three Mile Island, PA.
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Post by BSJ on Feb 14, 2016 5:06:24 GMT
Three Mile Island
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Post by unomusette on Feb 14, 2016 20:03:22 GMT
Scary stuff I don't suppose you ever get used to it We live across the water from an old-ish nuclear power plant and they're planning an even bigger one that the Chinese are being allowed to build. Doesn't fill a person with huge joy I must say. But apparently nuclear power is the most environmental method, yeah right until it goes just a tiny bit wrong.....
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Post by Helmut83 on Feb 15, 2016 18:06:16 GMT
It seems like you all live near some nuclear power plant!
I'm no expert in energy (despite having worked for an energy company time ago) but one thing I know is that burning petroleum derivatives is not the most environmental method of providing energy.
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Post by Horacewimp on Feb 15, 2016 18:44:09 GMT
It seems like you all live near some nuclear power plant!. Nothing near us here in the Midlands I guess they need to be the sea or a lake for water cooling, there was plenty of old coal fired power stations but they are now closing down. It does however sometimes get a little radioactive here after a night out on the beer and curry
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Post by BSJ on Feb 15, 2016 18:45:33 GMT
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Post by Helmut83 on Feb 15, 2016 19:40:16 GMT
It seems like you all live near some nuclear power plant!. Nothing near us here in the Midlands I guess they need to be the sea or a lake for water cooling, there was plenty of old coal fired power stations but they are now closing down. It does however sometimes get a little radioactive here after a night out on the beer and curry I'm expecting to get a small taste of that "radioactivity" in a couple of months...
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