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adultdaycare81 t1_iyel2qz wrote

Reply to comment by Jaymez82 in CT had the second-highest average monthly electric bill in 2021 by GinnyMonk1

We have it. Remember Millstone?

It’s more expensive than Natural Gas and even some of the green energy.

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Jaymez82 t1_iyel8cb wrote

Isn't Millstone closed?

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adultdaycare81 t1_iyelzse wrote

You are the one that said we need it but don’t know if we have it or not?

Close Reddit and open google

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Jaymez82 t1_iyemad3 wrote

How about this, we need more nuclear plants. One in every county at a minimum. Two in mine.

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adultdaycare81 t1_iyenql7 wrote

Clearly your advice is well researched and well founded.

I don’t even disagree with you. I just really need people like you to be smarter so it can actually happen. Do better

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phunky_1 t1_iyepnfj wrote

Fuck that...

I would rather pay more for electricity than live anywhere near a nuclear power plant.

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Thermite1985 t1_iyeuky4 wrote

Nuclear is the safest and least polluting of any of the non renewable power sources. Not to mention the depleted uranium and be recycled to be used again at something like 75% yield.

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phunky_1 t1_iyeuzew wrote

... until it isn't safe then it kills or gives cancer to everything in the surrounding area.

For example the Fukushima plant that is still spewing radiation into the Pacific Ocean 11 years later and probably will continue to do so thorought our kids and grandkids lifetimes.

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Thermite1985 t1_iyeved6 wrote

Fukushima was a tsunami that devastated the entire area. The levels of radiation being leaked in the ocean are still well within the limits of regulation. Chernobyl was Russian engineering at it's worst. US has had 0 nuclear accidents from power plants. You're just fear mongering.

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NLCmanure t1_iyexns7 wrote

just a slight correction. a nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island in PA back in 1979 but fortunately the safety system worked and was contained by the containment system. I grew up in Waterford near Millstone and work for the USN on nuke subs and support nuke power 100%.

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Thermite1985 t1_iyexs5x wrote

So that isn't an accident. That's the system running as designed.

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NLCmanure t1_iyf0imo wrote

technically it was an accident (partial meltdown) because of a system failure related to system operation and human error and subsequently coolant loss but a back up system prevented a catastrophe so yes the system worked. I would agree with you that our nuke systems are some of the safest in the world.

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Jaymez82 t1_iyey6tz wrote

Building a nuclear plant in a heavily seismically active zone wasn’t the brightest idea. However, that’s Japan. We don’t have that level of activity here. While no locale is immune to the threat of a meltdown, if it were to happen, Geologically, we’re a whole hell of a lot safer of a location.

I’d be more worried about another asteroid taking us out than I would be of a nuclear plant meltdown happening here.

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