And this is why I don't feed the trolls...

As long as you compare ALL life-cycle costs of EACH type of power plant, I could give a shit less how you stack them up. But coal, oil and natural gas, just don't magically show up at conventional power plants. They arrive there by the grace of OTHER FUCKING CARBON GENERATING PROCESSES, JUST LIKE NUCLEAR FUEL.

Normally I wouldn't feed the trolls, but OP is RIGHT. Nuclear plants themselves emit NO gases (unless there's a serious problem.)
Your link stacks up all the carbon emissions produced to mine, process, refine, enrich, clad (and the emissions from mining, processing, smelting, casting and welding the cladding), assemble, ship and swap a nuclear plants fuel source.
Fair enough, just let me in on the fossil fuels refill fairy and your secret's safe with me!

Ha! That's funny. So what, a few dozen machines at most? Try 500+ REGISTER systems, that had no outside comms with ANYTHING but a back office PC used for accounting, which already HAD AV on it. Now try updating those 500+ systems daily over a satellite link.

Sorry, ignore my last sentence, as apparently it is only the preview that is broken...

And just because I shouldn't do something, doesn't make it illegal to do so!!

On this, we are in total agreement. But let us not forget that individuals are not the only ones with culpability. When our own president essentially says the "rule of law" doesn't apply to him or his staff, why should individuals be held to a higher standard. (yes, I know, straw-man, but still illustrative of the kind of brain dead thinking that allows these arguments to arise)

As long as I'm abiding the law, I should be able to carry wherever I damn well please, as the 2nd amendment guarantees me that right. There is no law that says I can't be holding a loaded weapon within a specified distance of the president. Do I think you're example points out a situation in which it pays to err on the side of caution? Sure. However, by no means am I aware of any law that was broken.

Another point we agree on. But you should have left out the 'court oversight' bit as there is never court oversight of vigilantism, and there are already laws on the books to deal with such crimes.

oh yeah, and quoting sanely appears to be hopelessly broken, even using paragraph or hard break tags, /code still munges my replies to the quote blocks...

You're missing the point. The difference between a half hour after shutdown and 10 YEARS after shutdown will be so minimal as to NOT WARRANT a difference in protective gear! The real nastiness in radcon at a nuke plant comes from opening up primary systems, which you'll always do with some type of containment in place anyhow. Also, for the record, there is almost no "personal protective equipment against radiation" aside from lead blankets laid over hotstpots to minimize background. Most personal protective gear in a situation like this is Anti-Contamination (i.e. we can't stop the radiation, so let's stop the radioactive sources from getting inside our body) only.

If it's activated material you're worried about, you'll be waiting a VERY long time for tear down. In most PWR (more common than BWR in the states) reactors, an hour is sufficient time to allow radiation levels to approach background. Obviously the longer the particular plant has been in operation, the higher the background will be, but you'll get more radiation from living in Denver, CO (or taking a lot of high altitude flights) for a year than you will in your time doing decommissioning on a nuclear plant.

Who says parent supported Bush? It's possible he/she's not a sheep for either of the big 2 you know?

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