[arctichomesteader]

Your buddy must not use much power to start with since one small solar panel will produce little power, especially in gray, cloudy, Vermont, in the Winter...

Spamming?

[PhotoJenic1]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

The power companies will be making more money if we don't have our nuclear plant here...and it'll be going to Canada.

The media fear mongers. So far, the radiation leak hasn't been dangerous. Modern plants are far safer than the older ones (like Three Mile Island). Vermont doesn't get massive earthquakes and tsunamis, either...

You never know when an earthquake can hit though. Yes we're not on a fault line or anything but I've felt a few here that shook the house pretty good. Besides, there doesn't need to be an earthquake, tsunami etc. for something to go wrong. Things can just happen randomly or from a mistake/carelessness.

It just seems that every time we turn around though Vermont Yankee is reporting another leak. I'd hate to see people lose their jobs because I know the job situation here is tough but I do not like how many leaks they've had.

I wish we'd give in already and give wind power a try. Everyone is so worried about the green mountains yet if something happened to Vermont Yankee they can kiss their lives and the green mountains goodbye.

[arctichomesteader]

We get tiny shakers, we do not get the massive earthquakes some other places get. The Appalachian Range is old and not very active.

Nothing that has happened at VT Yankee is dangerous in any way, the media sensationalizes everything.

Wind and solar work on a small home scale, not a large scale.

Our mountains are full of uranium anyways.

[ex-springfielder]

Wind and solar power does work but what is the cost in eneregy to produce a solar panel or a wind mill and what is the return. They're good for customer relations but are very inefficient and take up acres of space.

[PhotoJenic1]

No, we haven't had an earthquake like Japan but I did state that anything can happen whether it's something random, a mistake or carelessness. I would think what's happening in Japan would make people start to think about nuclear power differently and all the risks that can come with it, and yes I know there's risks with anything.

I for one am not for nuclear power. Every time you turn around Vermont Yankee is having to shut down for repairs and another leak. That in my opinion is not safe. I just don't trust it.

We also have plenty of room here for wind power. Put one in my backyard I really don't care haha. There's three smaller turbines near me and it's rare to not see them spinning away.

[PAblackbear]

Historic Earthquakes

Powerful earthquakes have occurred in New Hampshire.

[PAblackbear]

In Vermont too,

An earthquake centered in western Vermont on April 10, 1962, caused MM V effects over a large area. The total felt region covered about 52,000 square kilometers of Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. A beam supporting the Vermont State House at Montpelier was dislodged and the brace dropped about 127 millimeters, two beams under the dome were weakened, and 20 window panes cracked. Cracked plaster was reported. At Barre, several pieces of tile fell from the ceiling of a bank, and two cracks appeared in walls. The shock was also felt strongly at a number of places in nearby New Hampshire and New York. Less than 3 months later (June 20, 1962), a large portion of Vermont experienced MM V effects from a shock in southern Quebec Province, Canada. A chimney was cracked at North Montpelier. Slight damage occurred at Springfield, Vermont, from a June 20, 1964, earthquake centered at Warner, New Hampshire, about 55 kilometers away. MM V effects were also noted at White River Junction. Lesser intensities were observed in several other Vermont towns.

[arctichomesteader]

We don't get 9.0's. The quakes Vermont has experienced are miniscule shakes compared to what Japan, California, Alaska, etc., get, and frequently. And Essex County, BTW, is the safest part of VT for earthquakes (an interesting tidbit that should influence location of a nuclear plant if a new one is ever built).

That the Japanese plant hasn't melted down yet after a 9.0 and a tsunami wiping out the backup generators, should show how safe nuclear power can be in Vermont.

[exit82]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

The power companies will be making more money if we don't have our nuclear plant here...and it'll be going to Canada.

The media fear mongers. So far, the radiation leak hasn't been dangerous. Modern plants are far safer than the older ones (like Three Mile Island). Vermont doesn't get massive earthquakes and tsunamis, either...

That's not a true statement- TMI-2 was a state of the art PWR reactor and had only operated for 3 months prior to the accident-there are no "Modern plants" in operation in the US

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by exit82

That's not a true statement- TMI-2 was a state of the art PWR reactor and had only operated for 3 months prior to the accident-there are no "Modern plants" in operation in the US

Nuclear plants have a come a long way since then...

Of course there's no modern nuclear reactors, the environmentalists have blocked them.