Who would want a nuclear reactor to be built near them?

Question

They are quite welcome to build one here by me-----would mean plentiful electricty to fuel electric cars---besides it would be easier to kill flies and mosquitos if they glowed in the dark.

Answer 1

actually the military has used nuclear powered ships for years and they have better safety record than diesel powered ships.  Just say the word nuclear to some people and they freeze like a deer in headlights.

Answer 2

Not in my back yard.

I totally agree with you.  I'd like one built near you too!

Answer 3

hello,

the main thing is that us as humans of the last century we evolved around the OIL and electricity.

Electricity has been always expensive for motion purposes, so has been preferred the oil with combustion engines etc.

Electricity has been used for all the other applications where it was not possible to use the oil, for example freezers, with the invention of the electrodomestics and with the electronic age.

Now at this point, the question is: with the cost of the oil products is it still convenient to use it for transportation and traction? The answer is NO..nowadays its more convenient and efficient to develop electric projects.

But we have another problem: how and where to produce such a lot of electric energy? here the choices are only 2:

- a lot of production concentrated in a small place

- a little production but in a lot of production centres.

At this point you can see that or we build nuclear powerplants to concentrate in one site al lot of production or we have to install a loooooot of small generators here and there, covering huge areas.

At this point, the society has to choose wich is more convenient..personally as engineer I consider more reliable and safe to concentrate in one site all the production, because in that way you can control way better the process and so it is more safe, more controlled and you can create a good net of interconnection. Instead if you have a lot of generators here and there it is more difficult to keep the efficient, more difficult to control and preserve from damages, it is more expensive to connect all these spared parts together and especially it is not reliable because if the solar panels does not procuce energy anymore? or if there is no enough wind or movement of the waves? We risk to end up with an high demand and a low production, so there are blackouts.

Now, for the moment we have only Nuclear to produce a lot in one site, but I am confident that in future we will be able (and we have to) to find other sources of energy, more clean if possible.

As for me, I feel safe having a nuclear plant near me..obviously better if the institutions will place the plants on a periferical area or in well studied sites.

best regards

Dr. C.

Answer 4

first, there will be no glowing bugs.  Second, they don't build in backyards.  What happens is the plant is built in a remote area, and then people build homes in the plants backyard.

Answer 5

Sure, I would.  Maybe we could get rid of a few of the coal fired power plants that supply my house with electricity!

Answer 6

I live about 10 miles from one...I knew it was there...has been there all my life and never had a problem with it...

Answer 7

Chernobyl again NO THANKS!!

Answer 8

We make the best nuclear power plants in the world, we build them for Japan, France, etc.  When other countries "think" they can build one, they get Chernobyl incidents.

When the Three Mile Island Reactor had that incident, it did exactly as it was designed, but people believed science fiction movies rather than the facts.  Today, the designs are vastly improved.  We even have a design where it makes it impossible to have a "China Syndrome".

The Montour Wildlife Preserve is right next door to a nuclear power plant and all of the frogs and other game are fine and healthy.

Answer 9

I already live near one now, and another one wouldn't bother me one wit.

Well, except at a slight distance from it, at an angle, while driving down the 15 freeway it looks like two b*****s, but I guess that doesn't matter, as long as there is enough energy in them.

I am a bit jealous, though, they're perkier than my b***s, and the (lights) lets call them, on the top of them are a bit more ready than mine.

Answer 10

That would be awesome. If I had nuke plant near me, then that means I live by a fairly large lake. Unfortunately I live no where near a lake big enough to support a plant.

Answer 11

I think that there are much better options than glow in the dark people, all it takes is one little accident.

Answer 12

I would very much prefer to have a nuclear plant in my neighborhood than the thousands of wind turbines covering 50 or a hundred square miles that it would take to produce the same power.

I like to see the sky  when I go for a ride in the country, not 300 foot windmills all the way to every horizon.

not to mention what the turbines would do to my electric bills. I live in tornado alley, it takes a double trailer semi to haul each one of those turbine blades. I would hate to see the death & destruction they would cause if they were flying around loose in a twister.

Answer 13

Actually, i would not mind, good idea, when can they start??