Reply #5: Um, has a US nuclear power plant ever required an evacuation like Katrina? [View All]

[NNadir]

Obviously people who express this "terrorist nonsense" have no understanding of and are indifferent to global climate change. Without this plant evacuations and mass destruction will become more likely not less likely.

How about when FEMA couldn't be disturbed for dinner? Doesn't this mean that we should shut down all of the power plants that contributed to global climate change, since we can't disturb the FEMA director's dinner?

Come on. Tell us. Do you support the shutting of coal plants? Very clearly from the dead bodies floating in New Orleans, we can't evacuate the cities that actually are being destroyed (as opposed to theoretically being destroyed) by them? How many coal plant licenses have the ladies of Hingham opposed?

How many people have been killed by operations at Pilgrim? Can you name one? Any white ladies driving their SUV's to anti-nuclear meetings? Has Hilliary McCarthy - no doubt a scientific illiterate -had so much as a headache from nuclear operations?

How many people were killed by global climate change in North America by global climatic instability this summer and fall? And yes, you must count the thousands of people killed by Hurricane Stan. Even though they are brown and poor, and clearly are not paranoid members of the Hingham League of Women Voters' still obsessing over junk and nonsense from 23 years ago, the people killed by Hurricane Stan are still human beings.

Will the ladies of Hingham be paying for the housing of the poor citizens of New Orleans since they insist on dumping more global climate change creating toxic climate destabilizing filth into the atmosphere to replace Pilgrim?

Or are the ladies going to move into caves themselves, and desist from using electricity? After all, when their power plant is replaced they will find themselves finding a much higher risk of dying of air pollution.

Or is the contention of the ladies league the same as the contention of the morons at Greenpeace, that energy can be provided by magic?

In 2003 the Pilgrim nuclear station ran at full capacity loading and produced 5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/states/statesma.html

In that year alone, the plant prevented the dumping of the dangerous waste, carbon dioxide, which is actually killing huge numbers of people on the planet right now, of more than 5 million tons of carbon dioxide, not to mention nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. Do the ladies of Hingham give a shit about who exactly will have to breath this stuff because they don't understand science?

All energy involves risk. The only difference between Pilgrim and the other energy risks is the Pilgrim is risk minimized. So have the ladies log on and tell us. What are the alternatives to Pilgrim? Who will have to die to prevent Hilliary's headache?