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Originally Posted by soopaman2
(long obnoxious laughter)
Sounds like you guys had more of a chance. 
I hope one day we can look back at how we act today in response to percieved threats, and laugh at it like we laugh at the cold war percieved threats.
All jokes aside, nuclear is the future, as long as corners are not cut.
Which requires energy being nationalized. So it is driven by the needs of the country, and not the shareholder, who seek profits at all costs, despite safe operation, and paying for maintainance. Most of these places (3 mile Island) would rather pay to make it (regulators) go away, than actually fix things. Then you get shutdowns, and leaks.
I am within nuking distance of Oyster Creek Nuclear plant, and they run that place like a Bodega.
I advocate nuclear, but not ran by private industry, I am sorry, profits and stock prices have always been over safety
It is no wonder the treehuggers hate it.
Or we can make it so energy companies are banned from stock exchanges. That would make them serve the customer, and not the select few shareholders.
My ideas may suck, but I am at least offering solutions. |
In all seriousness I think most of the stuff would have been done at the outbreak of hostilities with the Pact...and before the nukes flew...but judging by the Pacts original plans, the nukes would fly on day one, which wouldn't give you much time to redecorate the house before it turned into a pile of rubble!
Furthermore, there's bugger all in the P&S leaflets about dealing with chemical and biological weapons which would have fallen on us before the nukes did in a traditional escalatory war.
Still, at the end of the day it'd all be immaterial, just like the question of 'who fired first'
I hope one day we can look back and laugh too, but there's so much hatred around these days...one wonders.
Anyway, getting back to nuclear power, I'm fully in agreement with you, NPPs should not be run for profit, nor should they be made to operate on a shoestring budget, but alas...try getting any government to leave the funding of something alone...they'll always try to cut things back here and there, just like the private sector, only they're not quite as obvious about it as they do it in smaller amounts. It's just the society we're in, to live we need money, we need to live to get money, it's a vicious circle we're all trapped in.
Of course, a lot of it depends on what you define as living, but that's a discussion for Skybirds other thread about the American dream I think.