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Originally Posted by xelasnave
... and those folk who say...I would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than a coal power plant ..all I can say is...put your money where your mouth is and move your family next to a nuclear power plant and enjoy the health advantages.
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I did grow up next to many nuclear plants and under high voltage power lines. Apart from a third eye I'm perfectly healthy.
Seriously this is a greenie stereotype. Nuclear power properly managed is very clean. For example there are countless water parks and spa therapy centers for the oldies back home that are build right next to power plants because the hot water coming from the cooling circuits is reused and free. In Dieppe one is cooled with sea water to the delight of all fisheries who have mussels because of the warm water coming out.
If we got some built in Oz we'd be good to shut down all those coal plants yesterday. And they're so tiny, if they built one in a residential area next to you, you wouldn't even know it's there. Apart from all the people protesting.
Funny story about those mussels. They grew so quickly that some were starting to block the water intake. So they installed a system that would release a little chlorine to kill the excess based on a timer. It worked for a while. Then the mussels came back in bigger numbers. They adapted and closed their shells at the same time every day. They had to link a computer and inject chlorine at random intervals. Amazing how quickly life adapts.