100+ Free 10 Minute Videos

Here is a one stop, no search page that is organized by subject of all the best nuclear videos online! (currently over 100)

http://www.energy-net.org/VIDS/VIDEOS.HTM

Carl Sagan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruvq7uUeOp8

Please be aware that thepage is 188K, so if you have a slower dialup connection it will take abit of time to load..

Cell phones are NOT safe!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gb_KUwM-C4
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"Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water," Albert Einstein once said.

Good post, TRP. Especially liked the cell phone story. Who knows?

A.B.

Dyin' ainted much of a livin', Son! : From the film "The Outlaw: Josie Wales.

http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
NEI Nuclear Notes
News and commentary on the commercial nuclear energy industry.

Friday, November 30, 2007
Congressman Ron Paul on Nuclear Energy
Outside, Grist and Salon are continuing their interviews with Presidential candidates on environmental issues, and today they ran a piece on Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tx.):

What's your take on nuclear?

I think nuclear is great. I think it's the safest form of energy we have.
Click here for a previous post on Paul.
Posted by Eric McErlain at 3:10 PM 0 comments

Labels: electricity, energy, environment, Nuclear Energy, nuclear power, Rep. Ron Paul, technology

Comment

The aim of nuclear power is spent fuel rods (nuclear waste) from
which weapons are made. Atom bombs, easier are dirty bombs,
so-called depleted uranium ordinance, not electricity, That is why
40 sovereign countries have nuclear power.

Dr. John Gofman says there is no safe dose of man-made ionizing
radiation. We should not add to it with new nuclear power plants.
Nuclear power is the most dangerous form of electricity. It is the
heat which makes steam that powers electric generators. Albert
Einstein once said, "Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil
water".

Liability is paid by the tax payer under the Price/Anderson Act.
Electric rate payers subsidize nuclear power and waste disposal.
There is big money and political power in nuclear waste, in killing
people, in a toxic regime. Nuclear power pollutes the environment
and will not stop global warming according to studies.

http://members.cox.net/theroyprocess
http://nuclearwaste-theroyprocess.blogspot.com/

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"Radiation is like God -- you can't hide from it, and if you don't respect it,
you'll be called to pay for your sins." -- former Nuclear Fuel Services
employee quoted in "A big job for a little town", The Progressive, April 1981.

well, how about you compare nuclear pollution up to date with pollution from other energy providers - like, oil, gas, oil shale, wood...

distasters: compare nuclear disasters with chemical disasters (contact india, china), oil spills (see your latest cleaned seagull and add iraq low-intensity warfare casualties)...

etc

what is the price of erosion? cut down a forest, burn it, lose the soil and smog the air and shade the sun and melt the pole...

some perspective, please!

we're humans and WE WILL HAVE ENERGY!

how about a less biased information helping to choose between options?

is the half-life the worst of what's coming?

gabriellemy,
Comparing reasons for death is not an excuse for polluting
the earth with man-made radiation, forevermore.

YUP Be sure to plant the waste in an earthquake region---NEVADA.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/22/nevada.quake/index.html

Really smart solution to toxic waste.

Three Mile Island 29 Years Later: Nuclear Safety Problems Still Unresolved

Adding New Plants to Aging Fleet Will Increase Risk Without Safety Reform,
Science Group Says

March 27, 2008 Union of Concerned Scientists
Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions
http://www.ucsusa.org

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/t...s-lat-0104.html

WASHINGTON (March 27, 2008) — The partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island
nuclear power plant began on March 28, 1979. Since the accident, not a
single new nuclear power plant has been ordered in the United States.
Indeed, 74 plants under construction at the time of the accident were
cancelled. But in just the past year, the nuclear industry has stepped up
its efforts to secure government funding for a new fleet of nuclear power
plants. Unfortunately, over the last three decades, neither plant owners nor
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have adequately addressed the basic
flaws in U.S. nuclear safety that led to the Three Mile Island accident,
according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

"Three Mile Island was almost 30 years ago so perhaps the industry and the
NRC have forgotten about it," said Dave Lochbaum, the director of UCS's
Nuclear Safety Project. "But you can bet that even the people who welcome
new plants in their communities will want to know if what happened at Three
Mile Island could happen to them. As of right now, the industry and the NRC
haven't done enough to ensure them it won't."

The Three Mile Island accident was triggered by a loss of reactor cooling
water. Before the accident, the plant's cooling system valves had broken
down 10 times over the preceding year. Instead of replacing the faulty
valves, workers opened them manually to keep the plant operating. When other
equipment problems occurred during the eleventh valve failure in March 1979,
control room operators were overwhelmed and the plant suffered a partial
meltdown.

Since then, the NRC and plant owners have focused more on keeping nuclear
plants running over the short-term than ensuring their safety, Lochbaum
said. That strategy has allowed a number of safety problems at plants to
build up over time. When the accumulated problems cause enough interruptions
to harm a plant's profitability, owners shut them down for extensive safety
overhauls. Since Three Mile Island, utilities have had to shut down 41
plants for a year or more, a total of 51 times.

Nuclear accidents are most likely to occur at the beginning or end of a
plant's operating lifetime, Lochbaum pointed out. When a plant first goes on
line, workers have to acclimate to new equipment that has not been tested in
real-world situations. Meanwhile, at the end of a plant's life, workers have
to compensate for increasingly degraded hardware. Three Mile Island and
other major nuclear accidents, including ones at Chernobyl, Browns Ferry in
Alabama and Fermi near Detroit, occurred shortly after the plants started
operating. Now most of the 104 currently operating U.S. nuclear power plants
are entering the high-risk period at the end of their originally intended
40-year lifespans.

If the nuclear industry constructs a new fleet of power plants, Lochbaum
said, there will be at a higher risk for a nuclear accident because nearly
all of the plants in the United States will be either very new or very old.

"If the industry wants to build a new generation of nuclear plants, it first
should prove that it can safely operate the ones currently in operation," he
said. "And before the NRC approves any new plants, the agency should make
sure the industry isn't as careless with its new plants as it was with its
old ones."

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