http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/climate/?p=20 The science behind a global issue Fri, 17 May 2013 18:20:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/climate/?p=20&cpage=1#comment-4030 Adam Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:36:18 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/?p=20#comment-4030 You do bring up a good point that we are a very wasteful society when it comes to energy.
You also bring up Nuclear energy. I actually work in that field and of the 2 dozen or so reactors in the U.S., only a handful are running and of that handful only about 2-6 will be running at the same time. Did you know that in the state of Arizona there are currently 3 reactors that are operational that could power the entire west coast if running simultaneously. However thier state legislature, due to public opinion, has passed laws to restrict only one to run at a time and at lowest levels possible. We really need to educate people about how the old horrors of nuclear energy where first off RUSSIAN reactors, second have been removed by safe guards set in place by the government. I lived in Nevada when they voted to stop the Yucca mountain disposal site. People are so uneducated about nuclear energy some thought if there was nuclear waste there it could explode on its own. Others were afraid of the radiation exposure as the waste was trucked to the site through rural towns. Have they seen those trucks? Made of the same components as a planes black box and internally shielded with a layer of lead. I work with the stuff and I know that being a NUCLEAR TECHNICIAN i will recieve less radiation from the uranium and waste than a construction worker will from the sun or an X-ray technician from just doing their job. Currently France actually gets all its electrical power from breeder reactors that use plutonium and sells the excess power to its neighbors, and it has yet to have any incidents. I could really go on all day about this but im starting to ramble. All i want people to do is get fully educated about the process, the waste disposal, the safeguards against the hazards, and that currently it is the most efficient source of energy. Anyone who knows the facts will support it. Oh and since the french use breeder reactors, they not only get lunch for free but they get two sandwiches for every one they eat.

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