Much of the reaction to the nuclear power crisis in Japan is "overblown," but the U.S. seems unlikely now to build another nuclear power plant, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Tuesday night.
"My guess is, when the dust settles, it won’t be nearly as bad as some of the scare tactics we have been reading about in the past couple of days," Paul, an advocate of nuclear power, told Fox Business Network. "Nuclear power is very dangerous, but it is also the safest form of energy we have.”
And what is his guess worth?
"My guess is, when the dust settles, it won’t be nearly as bad as some of the scare tactics we have been reading about in the past couple of days,"
Oh yeah, it's much safer than other forms of energy, now name one Paul.
"Nuclear power is very dangerous, but it is also the safest form of energy we have.”
Well lets compare, do you think the Deepwater Disaster was worse than the Chernobyl Meltdown? Does a gas leak/explosion case damage to life over huge areas? And how is it the safest? What about wind and water fueled generators? Solar panels? Or if the world wasn't so god damn broken we might have a machine capable of harvesting zero point energy. We would at least have something better than the obsolete crap we have today.
He named more than one. Drilling for oil, coal mines, gas explosions.
Deaths can happen without there needing to be a disaster. I'm sure the number of workers that have died from radiation poisoning due to working in nuclear plants is also quite high. Mining is always dangerous, coal or not. Coal and oil are crap, as is nuclear energy. It's all very dangerous.
How many nuclear disasters have we had? 3 including japan? Total death toll is nowhere near how many people have died from coal and oil.
I completely agree, but a large area of Japan will be affected in the event of a meltdown. This has lead to the evacuation of an entire area. Is that really safe? I am far from some ignorant fool who thinks nuclear energy is the "boogey man", I have studied nuclear physics in school. I just realize how dangerous it is.
But I know nuclear power is the scary boogey man so run and buy your iodine pills that wont do anything in this situation and read about the radiation in the US, even though it's nowhere near enough to be dangerous. You are exposed to radiation every second of every day, it's the amount that's the problem. And the amount in the US from Japan is not enough to be a problem.
