kootchman
Since 1954 you can cite 99 accidents with a threshold of 50K …. and not one loss of life in the USA? Pretty efficient. And those are GLOBAL incidents AND include military reactors.. also includes not just the actual costs… but the costs of .. litigations, fines, evacuations.etc… your case is exaggerated. Yea, you can use Chernobyl … but see, we don’t use carbon stack (graphite) reactors. only the ones in Oak Ridge for nuclear weapons development.. too dangerous. Yep.. the nuclear industry pays into a national insurance fund… I sure hope it is on hand and is not like the Social Security trust fund… spent with IOU’s… ya think? If the Postal Service can make money doing it miws…. let er’ rip. BP is still writing checks for their Gulf Coast clean-up… all the more reason to tap ole’ terra firma sources… deep water drilling risks are higher. Athens AL (Browns Ferry) had no nuclear leaks… there were two shutdowns… one for tornado damage to the transmission lines and the back up generators worked as planned and pulled the core rods .. and a fire started when an inspector started an insulation fire. 1.8 billion was spend to upgrade the plant … fix fire damage… not a drop of nuclear contaminant.. so much for that fairy tale. BTW… every commercial building in the country got the same upgrade… and every public school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browns_Ferry_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Pilgrim Plant? Not a drop of nuclear contaminants. Not one “accident” .. shutdowns as per routines and protocols for pressure vessel variances… why redblack.. your union brothers and sisters even say it is safe to operate… no union would allow their workers to work in an unsafe work environment would they?
“We have finally emerged with an agreement that has important protections for the hardworking men and women who safely operate this 40-year-old nuclear power plant on a daily basis,” Local 369 President Dan Hurley said in a statement released this morning
I guess that leaves Three Mile Island… the of your crown jewels.. not one fatality.
Within hours of the accident the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began daily sampling of the environment at the three stations closest to the plant. By April 1, continuous monitoring at 11 stations was established and was expanded to 31 stations two days later. An inter-agency analysis concluded that the accident did not raise radioactivity far enough above background levels to cause even one additional cancer death among the people in the area. The EPA found no contamination in water, soil, sediment or plant samples
It was a serious operator error, not a question. But .. no damage or ill health ever attributed. Safest source of electric power we have. Now… do the smart thing.. get rid of all that fissionable waste… the thousands of tons, and run them through FBR…