01-19-2014, 07:31 PM
Bullwinkle,
"Never mind the dream and sales pitch of cheap safe nuclear energy is becoming a nightmare for those adjacent to "their" ocean as they continue to dump - going on year 4 of an expected 40........"
Just so you understand where I'm coming from - I'm not a big fan of energy derived from nuclear fission, it's great technology but comes with some risk, although when designed well and done the right way that risk is enormously small. The Fukushima disaster is just that, a massive disaster not helped by a clearly unhelpful and uncommunicative energy company, and you couldn't pay me enough money to visit the area or eat seafood that comes from there.
The effects of radiation released into the ocean are utterly minute when it comes to Hawaii or the US mainland though. You'll likely get a bigger dose sitting in front of a TV, at least one of the old-style ones, for a few minutes. I just found it amusing, however, that you finally seemed to be accepting the radiation problem was likely insignificant here but had to find some other thing that could affect Hawaii, which was car prices.
That, my friend, is something I know little about, so will leave it there!
"Never mind the dream and sales pitch of cheap safe nuclear energy is becoming a nightmare for those adjacent to "their" ocean as they continue to dump - going on year 4 of an expected 40........"
Just so you understand where I'm coming from - I'm not a big fan of energy derived from nuclear fission, it's great technology but comes with some risk, although when designed well and done the right way that risk is enormously small. The Fukushima disaster is just that, a massive disaster not helped by a clearly unhelpful and uncommunicative energy company, and you couldn't pay me enough money to visit the area or eat seafood that comes from there.
The effects of radiation released into the ocean are utterly minute when it comes to Hawaii or the US mainland though. You'll likely get a bigger dose sitting in front of a TV, at least one of the old-style ones, for a few minutes. I just found it amusing, however, that you finally seemed to be accepting the radiation problem was likely insignificant here but had to find some other thing that could affect Hawaii, which was car prices.
That, my friend, is something I know little about, so will leave it there!