Poll for My Public Speaking Class about Nuclear Power Plants?
Michael_B_C asked:
Rispondeste appreciate it if these questions so I have some attitudes of public opinion for my class to speak publicly. Thank you 1. Are you for or against using nuclear power? Answers like: Yes, no, Don 't know, need info, etc.. 2. What comes to mind (what you think) when someone says nuclear energy? What explosions, etc.. 3. General thoughts on nuclear energy? 4. If so I can get a feel for the public, please give your condition if in the USA, whether international or country. Thank you
Bert
Rispondeste appreciate it if these questions so I have some attitudes of public opinion for my class to speak publicly. Thank you 1. Are you for or against using nuclear power? Answers like: Yes, no, Don 't know, need info, etc.. 2. What comes to mind (what you think) when someone says nuclear energy? What explosions, etc.. 3. General thoughts on nuclear energy? 4. If so I can get a feel for the public, please give your condition if in the USA, whether international or country. Thank you
Bert
March 19th, 2008 at 7:30 am
1. Need more information. For example, placing a nuclear power plant near an earthquake fault line, much less on one, is not a very good idea.
2. Clean power is provided. Efficient. The concern about explosions is dependent on the design and what country it is built. Nations such as the USA and Japan, and most of Western Europe have stringent design and safety standards. Their nuclear power plants are designed to contain nuclear waste in the event of a disaster.
3. Now that I stated clean power in the previous question, the most serious problem is the disposal of nuclear waste byproducts. The half-life of most of the radioactive waste is in the thousands of years. The most current and largest waste site in Nevada cannot hold all of the nuclear waste that our country has produced (Yucca Mountain). Obviously this becomes a major problem for other countries (example: nations such as Japan and Indonesia that are island nations, reside in very active earthquake regions, and need to import all of its energy supplies). By the same token, CA has several large nuclear facilities close enough to major fault lines.
4. State: HI. Engineer, teacher, adjunct college instructor, and management consultant. MS, MBA. International work experience.