More Here (conservative newspaper):

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2578489.ece

and Here (more liberal):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1776499,00.html

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Gold Star invocations (viral) cannot be executed by pipp3355 because pipp3355 is not a Gold Star member - sorry.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Greenpeace have totally lost their minds.

Why is it so hard to understand that the entire populace won't suddenly change their energy consumption habits overnight and that nuclear power is a good buffer between that time.

Nothing like preying upon the fear of the populace to get what they want. Clearly they've taken a page from the books of many governments. Kind of depressing, as it makes them no better than the lie-mongers they are supposedly "fighting".

disgusting shameless fearmongering. plane crashes into containment domes have been tested numerous times and all show no risk of breach.

Those tests are only based on computer modeling, aren't they? Nobody's actually crashed a plane into a containment dome to see what the real risk is, right?

i think this viral is designed to get the attention of people who know very little about the real risks of nuclear power. the terrorist attack is one of the least likely, but the most sensationalist and memorable risks of nuclear power. as my topic indicates, i think they're trying to 're-ignite'(!) the debate with controversy and scaremongering. if they did a boring video about how nuclear power is an economically unstable venture (which is actually a much more realistic argument against it), that just wouldn't grab people as much. i'm not condoning their scaremongering tactics, just explaining them.

p.s. thanks for the speedy upvotes everyone - this definitely would have been discarded if it wasn't for you guys. humanitarian collective forever!

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Upvote for the melt-down of a discussion this will spark, but yeah pretty cheap pandering by Greenpeace.

I shall now scowl at them, when they come up to me with their clipboards on the street.

This is cheap irrational fear-mongering.

1. France has used mostly nuclear power successfully for decades.

2. Containment structures are designed to be extremely resistant to external explosions or concussions. A 747 is like a soda can compared to 30 solid feet of steel-reinforced concrete.

3. A primary reason why nuclear power is expensive is paranoia about safety.

4. Carl Sagan was right to worry that our nuclear policy is being determined by a population among whom almost no one knows much about science and technology.

They HAVE actually crashed planes into test walls in adittion to computer modeling to validate the models. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96phB4fIk7E

Why would you downvote, Glu? If this vid gets published, you have a better chance of showing more people your knowledge about the truth concerning nuclear power.

seems a little self serving.

if that's the best greenpeace can do then...

Fools

And it would be greenpeace hijacking and crashing the planes just to make their point.

Since it's unlikely that energy consumption will curtail, Americans have to make some serious decisions to support those technologies that will free us from reliance on things like muzzie oil and give us total independence. It's been about twenty years since any nuclear plants have gone online until recently. Power companies are upgrading their old plants because it is cost effective and the equipment today far surpases whet was used twenty years ago. If we can build a fleet of nuclear ships, why can't we build and secure power plants?

I welcome this technology for the many benifits it will bring us.

Why don't they just build nuclear power plants underground. That would make a terrorist attack on them much more difficult and less effective. Well in my humble and uninformed opinion it seems that way at least. (except the cooling towers obviously)

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