We Are Really Gambling By Keeping Nuclear Power Plants in Operation

[RobertEarl]

We've, so far, managed to live through Fukushima and Chernobyl. Well most of us have. Many have been made to die and been made sick.

We know that exploding nuke plants happen.

We know when they do explode, and even when they just burp, releases of deadly radiation are injected into our air and water.

We know there are a number of ways nuke plants can be caused to explode. But did you know the Sun could cause a nuke plant to toss it's cookies? Yep.

At this link is the story of what the regulators are thinking about doing to protect the Sun from turning a regular day into the beginning of the end.

NRC to consider solar flare petition by Foundation for Resilient Societies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112732094

Mind you, they are just now getting around to thinking about this, and maybe do something to keep the Sun from throwing a great big curve ball at us.

We are living in one hell of a casino. A nuke casino. The house is the nuke plant just down the road from you. And you know: the house always wins.

Aren't you glad to know they are thinking about the problem? Doesn't that make you all warm and fuzzy?

[Mnemosyne]

1. Chilling info about the potential damage to plants from solar flares. Thanks Robert. nt

[intaglio]

2. Then there's Hanford nuclear reservation

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112743286

The Kyshtym disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

Windscale (aka Sellafield and Seascale) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7030536.stm

Idaho Falls

Lucens reactor, Switzerland

Sosnovyi Bor reactor, Leningrad 1975

Threemile Island, of course

Sosnovyi Bor 1992

Tokaimura, Japan.

Now add in the US and Soviet submarine accidents that have put nuclear reactors and warheads on the ocean floor.