Comments on: Chernobyl Heart

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:41:00 +0000

I agree with you…

Nuclear power has killed less than 5,000 people… total… since the beginning of nuclear power.

4,-000 of those people are attributed to Chernobyl…where the Russians used a tin roof as a “containment facility”.

Burning coal kills 10,000 people EVERY YEAR.

Nuclear power supplies about 30% of our power in the U.S. In France it’s 70%. That’s SIGNIFICANT.

There is no safer, cleaner major form of energy available to us. It’s just SCARY when things go really bad…so people fear it. Meanwhile they continue to live in smog-ridden cities.

We aren’t the smartest animals in the universe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:40:00 +0000

I agree with you…

Nuclear power has killed less than 5,000 people… total… since the beginning of nuclear power.

4,-000 of those people are attributed to Chernobyl…where the Russians used a tin roof as a “containment facility”.

Burning coal kills 10,000 people EVERY YEAR.

Nuclear power supplies about 30% of our power in the U.S. In France it’s 70%. That’s SIGNIFICANT.

There is no safer, cleaner major form of energy available to us. It’s just SCARY when things go really bad…so people fear it. Meanwhile they continue to live in smog-ridden cities.

We aren’t the smartest animals in the universe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:29:00 +0000

The U.N. has said that only 4,000 deaths can be contributed to the Chernobyl disaster… and less than 5,000 total deaths from nuclear power since the very beginning of nuclear power. Compare that to the 10,000 that die every year from air pollution alone from burning coal, for example. Nuclear power, statistically, is still the SAFEST and CLEANEST form of energy available. The Chernobyl disaster didn’t have to happen. The Soviets safety standards were non-existent. Their idea of a containment facility was a tin roof.

Google: Thorium pebble bed reactor. It cannot melt down. Impossible. Inherently safe.

Nuclear power is also excellent as a renewable energy source because breeder reactors can breed more fuel.

We haven’t found a safer, more renewable SIGNIFICANT energy source than nuclear power. Sure, it can be dangerous if you operate like the soviets…but it doesn’t have to be.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:04:00 +0000

just a few notes…
fossil fuels are not the answer and are extremely bad for the environment and ppl ..

next we have come a far way in our nuclear advancements and i mean far japan problem was really a big problem because they were using plutonium when they shouldnt have been the only reason chernobyl was so devastating was the graphite spread the material and contaminates over a greater area not that it wasnt bad to begin with.. it was a full melt down.. but we sould really be more careful where they are built.. and we should be using this time to be looking for other means like cold fusion.. fission is way to dangerous given the variables of outside interference

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:53:00 +0000

part 2
if you really want we can break this down statistically and scientifically but im not sure even i know the grasp of whats to come..all i know is that those ppl need to move and now!!!!.. like i said this is nothing their government may be building a safety net of money so they have a health care in the future.. like i said do the math break it down numbers are climbing their food and environment is contaminated with the worst of them all Caesium iodine.. it itself will decay rapidly for at least 30 years but because of the graphite it ploomed up high and contaminated a greater area.. but their soil will be contaminated for 100′s if years right now the atoms are decaying releasing mainly beta particles that are responsible for the same radiation we use in x rays called gamma rays.. the decay process is the particles in the nucleolus trying to balance themselves as nature normally does its what happens when it has a dense mass that is unbalanced..(not all the time but yes in this case) so we are just getting started and we wont know the true effects of what happened for 100′s of years nm the fact that 9 million already died from radiated related illnesses.. so my point what about the millions more to follow.. its not just as easy to say ok im to blame ill take up the fees surgeries for everyone.. they dont have the staff nor even a millionth of the money to do it even if they didnt care about the future of their nation.. so its nice to think just do the right thing but in that case it would do more damage then good… in my closing i will say… some of our greatest heros and greatest men have made some of the controversial decisions about many things and often doing the right thing is the very thing that makes you hated by those who are un educated.. and no its not a jab at you.. look at my punctuation lol im dyslexic tho so dont dismiss the relevancy of fact just on that alone :D.. i do this for education purposes..

i have a project for you… in small scale dump a liter of marbles on the floor then pick them up with bbq tongs and rationalize a bigger scall to the power of a billion.. and that is still a small scale of how hard it is to make the bad go back right..

hope this helped you a lil take care and have a family filled christmas :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:15:00 +0000

well yes the 1st part is greed but i dont think its that much greed anymore i do understand what you mean but imagine the bills for all those that are infected that the gov foots out just to have doctors see them or be available.. the homes intensive care units.. their health care is crushing their economy and you cant squeeze money out of a rock.. im not cold harted ether im am a very caring person..
but you can only do so much.. with those numbers they are lucky they can even see a doctor..its a juggling act of trying to stabilize the economy keep jobs up attract growth so that they dont plummet and they can even afford what they are giving and the numbers are only going up.. so i do like your drive and passion but there comes a point when you also have to be realistic.. ether stabilize your economy so you can afford to take care of what you are doing or everyone gets everything and you have no country over night.. reality is a sad sad fact sometimes and what is even more dismal is they are still alive.. im not sure i could follow a hippocratic oath there.. some of them are close to brain dead i know i couldnt want to live like that its not right.. but lets be realistic most of their problems are not reversible and if you flooded the health care system the ppl who are healthy and stimulating your economy (working force) if they cant have be taken care of then you have a domino effect and then your working force or ppl that you need for the future start to die off and your nation has no future.. the gov might or maybe could do a lil more but come on we both know besides defense budgets health care is the breaker in ever country..these ppl are dying because money cant all be tied up in one sector if you want to have a country or a future for your nation.. its a sad fact …and it is a fact… money dont grow on trees.. there lucky im not in charge there.. i would not treat them like dogs but i would not let some of them suffer like that i would put in place a compassionate act to keep them from suffering .. in smaller numbers its manageable but in crazy statistical numbers like that a decision has to be made for the ppl and the future so more money can be freed up for the ones that can recover for surgery.. my last sad fact is it may take 600-900 years before the radioactive iodine particles decay and atoms start becoming more stable and neutralize… so this is only the beginning and you havnt seen NOTHING YET!!!!

By: Angela Velazquez

Angela Velazquez — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:18:00 +0000

the only thing i saw here was GREED. these poor people who have nothing but each other have a nuclear reactor parked in their country so soviets could make money from the people who wanted to build the plant. Now that is gone nova, these people are left holding the bag. The operations arent performed because of MONEY. Children die because of MONEY.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:20:00 +0000

I am not a scholar regarding nuclear energy but it seems to me that as long as mother nature can tear apart the landscape like it did in Japan we really should rethink an energy source that can be as devastating as nuclear energy is. It isn’t worth the risk of millions of lives. Scientist keep saying it is only a matter of time before we have some major catastrophe…can’t we learn now and change the way things are? I think this should be a wake up call to find efficent and safe energy sources and put to rest these sources that pollute the environment. I don’t want to see what this documentary predicted that this reactor will have a second failure….isn’t this enough of a tragedy to stop all this craziness.

By: Michael Danger Gee

Michael Danger Gee — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:54:00 +0000

such a shame, i was born in 1986, and im eternally thankful i was not living in that part of the USSR. The debate will continue about nuclear energy, but it has greatly evolved over the last 30 years. nuclear fusion will hopefully one day replace the high waste producing nuclear fission energy process that we currently have.

By: Ben Rowland

Ben Rowland — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:19:00 +0000

Robbo, let’s try think outside the box a little… Nuclear is just another power source that chews up resources, it doesn’t make any long term economic sense to build expensive power plants that will be made redundant as soon as uranium is used up.
Do you know how much is spent on mining alone? Blow your freaking mind.

sure its fantastic at creating copious amounts of electricity, but who wants to deal with the radioactive waste, its dangerous, hazardous for health and potentially a target for terrorist attacks.

Bah, just byte the bullet invest the money in renewable energy i say, sure Short term cost is also expensive, however the gains are far superior in the lang run.

By: Courtney Alexandra Craig

Courtney Alexandra Craig — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:07:00 +0000

@Robbo Walker, Seriously? Tell me. Was a natural disaster a contribute to the horrifying contamination of Chernobyl, Belarus, Pripyat? You call the people who may make power in your house available, effing stupid? For one, “dumbest” is not a word, and if you really want to take this all seriously, I suggest that you should use some capital letters, maybe some proper punctuation, and words that are actually words. Please give me atleast 3 reasons why Nuclear Power should be the “only” power.

By: Robbo Walker

Robbo Walker — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:03:00 +0000

@Sherri99516 are you f*****g kidding me…
nuclear power is one of the cleanest power sources in the world. People being f*****g stupid is what causes things like this or natural disasters cause things like whats going on in japan. banning nuclear power would be the dumbest mistake of mankind. if anything nuclear should be the only power

By: Sherri

Sherri — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:35:00 +0000

Why can’t all non government/corporate citizens get together and ban all nuclear reactors in the world? First one that we know of anyway is the accident induced partial meltdown at Chernobyl and now Japan’s disaster plus tons of other reactor sites in the world are now leaking radiation from their plants or on the verge of a major radiation releases like Japan’s three full nuclear meltdowns. What’s it going to take to stop our governments/global corportation from destroying us all?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:53:00 +0000

i was trying to get to Nucleur Nightmares. :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:42:00 +0000

It’s disheartening to receive comments such as those of Talecia Danskin (‘poop’) and mostly tygarr1009 (‘you’re a dumbass…’) in response to my link which provides academically-proven & scientifically elaborated evidence of the extent of the Chenobyl disaster. If this is the educational level of those interested in this major radioactive tragedy, possibly radiactive contamination is possibly not that bad. Human stupidity possibly is worse, and has already conquered those of the general public.