Something I noticed
posted by The Vidiot @ 7:50 AM Permalink We watched both versions of the “Life After People” shows, the one on the History channel and the one on National Geographic. Both were interesting. However, one thing we noticed: The History channel’s version didn’t say anything bad about nuclear power plants. Basically, they only mentioned that safety mechanisms would kick in and safely shut down the plants as the juice when off. The National Geographic one said that after the juice runs out, that means that the cooling baths would shut down, which would lead to a runaway overheating of the spent cores, causing a nuclear disaster in every single nuclear plant in the world and additionally, wherever spent rods were stored, creating dead zones around the area and spreading radiation all around the planet. High energy particles would spread first, causing an immediate die-off of the smaller animals and then long term particles would remain, causing problems for generations to come. Much more informative than the History channel’s version, no?I always knew that the History channel was really the propaganda channel. I just never really knew how bad it was.
Now I know.
And so do you.
Labels: nuclear power, propaganda
2 Comments:
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE WANTS YOU TO BE SCARED.DO YOU REALLY THINK THER ARE NO SAFETY MEASURES IN PLACE.DONT BUY IT JUSTB BECAUSE THEY ARE SELLING IT.
OK.
A) DON'T YELL AT ME
and
B) I wasn't buying it, I was just pointing out the difference between the coverage of a politically touchy subject.
FYI from a cousin in California:
I used to know what the emergency shutdown procedures were when I worked for Westinghouse, but don't remember them clearly now. I do believe that in the event of a catastrophic power failure of the cooling pumps, there is a tank of chemically treated water that floods the reactor "poisoning" the radioactive elements so that particles are not emitted. I'm in favor of nuclear power. The French, of all people, have a bunch of plants, all the same design, that have been operational for quite some time with no reported incidents. One of the problems in this country, with a free market economy, is that all the nuclear plants are different designs, depending upon the designer and manufacturer, so that personnel have to be trained on each specific plant. The Navy, having a one-design concept, has not had any incidents in 50 years.
In California, of course, we site the plants over active fault zones inviting disaster. I'm not a fan of nuclear power in California (though I live less than 40 miles from one).
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