Comments on: Entergy files suit over Vermont nuclear plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/04/18/entergy-files-suit-over-vermont-nuclear-plant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=entergy-files-suit-over-vermont-nuclear-plant Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 18:29:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: R.W. Wolf http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/04/18/entergy-files-suit-over-vermont-nuclear-plant/#comment-114762 R.W. Wolf Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:23:05 +0000 http://msbusiness.com/?p=40031#comment-114762 No More Nuclear Power Plants!
Japan’s nuclear disaster and resulting fallout is just one incident of nuclear reactors in trouble at a single location. The U.S. has over 100 nuclear reactors some similar to Japans earthquake damaged reactors. If Japan’s damaged nuclear reactors continue to leak radiation into the air and oceans, many exporting industries may be damaged by radiation contamination. If Japan’s damaged nuclear reactors continue leak radiation into the air, could over a period of time that cause dangerous levels of radiation to be absorbed by U.S. farm crops and cattle, making U.S. farm products unmarketable; cause U.S. food shortages and high prices. How far will millions of gallons of radioactive water travel dumped from damaged Japanese reactors? Will Radioactive Fish migrate to other nation’s waters affecting other country food chains? Will grocery store and seafood restaurant customers need to check purchased seafood, fruits, meat and milk with a Geiger counter. Could several of Japan’s industrial products become too radioactive to export? So much for clean nuclear energy.

In the U.S. most nuclear reactors have to be subsidized by taxpayers. When nuclear reactors leak as shown in Japan, it can be hugely expensive when damaged reactors melt down spreading radiation. In the U.S. too many nuclear reactors are close to large U.S. populations; 1000 miles may be too close to communities downwind. In addition to catastrophic health costs, a leaking reactor can contaminate for decades, 100’s or several thousand years large geographic areas, destroying real estate values of entire cities, shutdown industries. The potential risks of operating or building more nuclear reactors in the U.S. can’t be justified considering the catastrophic downside. The U.S. has approximately 104 nuclear reactors. From a military standpoint, U.S. enemies would only need target U.S. nuclear reactors to spread deadly radiation to large cities crippling America. Nuclear reactors are a losing bet.

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