Support for Construction of Nuclear Plants in the U.S. Drops Following Japan Crisis

Wow, as i read these comments, how foolish to say that Nukes are safe. Do we not have any feeling for human life. All the benefits of nuclear power don't outweigh the disaster that can happen if there is a melt down. Mind you whether its a earthquake or some human error at a plant. Its flat out disaster. How can we feel safe when we learn that these plant operators lie on their inspection reports. We learn that in Cali an earthquake response plan is not required. Are you people mad for even goin for this bull crap?

On a serious note: The nuclear plants in Japan did indeed shut down as expected with the 9.0 earthquake. The problem was that the tsunami took out all the back-up generators which would have kept the cooling pumps running. Now, if the plants had not shut down, they would have continued to generate their own power, running the pumps. But if they had not shut down, we would be hearing people scream about that. When Apollo 13 had its terrible time in space, it was said that NASA learned more about space travel from what went wrong than from all of the flights that went right. Point- every reactor from now on will be better and safer than ever because of this incident.

I lived the better part of thirty years within the 10 mile "strike zone" of a SAC airforce base where in every phone book there was the "nuclear incident evacuation" map. I guess I have just become accustomed to accepting the basic safety of nukes, for weapons or power. I guess though if people are going to get their panties in a bunch, we could always replace our nuclear plants with coal-fired plants. Then the neighbors would only have to wash the coal dust off their cars every morning. Nothing invisible or mysterious about coal pollution. LOL

WHAAAAAAAAAAA We have become a nation of ignorant cowards. We do not even have the final results as to what will happen in Japan with the Nuclear plants and opportunists for the apparant cave man dwellers assosciation are crying, 'the sky is falling!" We are regulatied to extinction. FEAR seems to be the product under promotion. And ingorance responds. Shame on us all.

I never approved of these power plants in the beginning. Their are a lot of other alternatives . Not 2 miles from my home we have a generation station that runs on coal and I have never had a problem with that. The coal also supports a large industry in this country. I only live about 100 miles from three mile island. and the Salem power plant in New Jersey is only 40 miles from me. These plants could at any time pose a problem.

They keep assuring us a meltdown could never happen here.

They were saying the same thing in Japan just a week ago!