it all depends on the recipient . my parents get a card and post it to the power company after going and reading their own meter . my neighbour has a electronic meter which sends the reading to the company itself . and my meter is the old style and every couple of months a lady drives up , gets out , and copies the reading onto a handheld thingy which she obviously uploads to her bosses .

well that lasted one day , the perthnow website put up a thread to let us discuss riotinto's boss telling us all we needed nuclear power and again the audience bias against radioactive power dropped it out of sight quicker than a politician avoiding the interviewers question

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the local paper heres website has completely stopped letting people comment on this issue . probably because it lacks any new stuff for debate , but probably also because the issue has shown people are generally very distrustful of nuclear energy .

the problem with the safety versus cost issue , is that i just dont trust companies to protect the public when their shareholders profits are at stake . to make a safe enough reactor to satisfy the doubters of which i am one , is so incredibly expensive , that you might as well spend that same amount on the similarly expensive large scale green power sources . not to mention research into high volume energy storage is needed .

if i was designing a reactor to be failsafe . i would turn the "drop the fuel rods into the reaction area" upside down . i would instead have the fuel rods raised into the reaction area on hydraulic rams with 3 or more ways of letting them down into the moderator area . with the automatic shutdown or no power design to mean that when there is some power failure the rods obviously automatically drop back into their "safe" position .

its meant to be a twisted comparison , as often the people i argue with suggest solar power creates more carbon , to generate its power than nuclear , so i like to play with their heads . but even if it was 1 in 500 , would you fly on that plane ? with your kids ? the reality is that if things go wrong , badly , the fallout from the incident with the radiation can last a very long time , if solar panels suffer a catastrophic failure , the worst result is having to pick all the bits up .

one of my latest fun comparisons about it , is to ask them , "seeing as 1 in 150 nuclear reactors have failed , its not safe is it ? , after all , if you got told when you booked your airplane ticket , that the plane you will be flying on is safe , only 1 in 150 falls out of the sky , you would have absolute confidence in that plane wouldnt you ..."

theyve stopped putting stories about it up for discussion on one of our local newspaper websites , they get half a dozen fervent uranium worshippers posting on each comment thread , and dozens of people who worry about the risks posting to debate about it .

the thing a lot of the career mad physicists forget , is that most of the rest of us want kids , or in my case more kids ( as in with the new wife ) , and i dont care how likely or unlikely it is that low doses would affect your balls and whats in them , i dont want no two headed babies .

so that chart is trying to say that the radiation entering the environment from the fukushima plant poses no increased risk to individuals who would normally live nearby ? given that this chart seems to have been made by someone in the industry , my first reaction is , it doesnt convince me that the leaked radiation is safe , and if someone like the person making this chart says it is , i invite them to go swimming at the beach next to the plant . when they do , i will believe them .

i think i need to check that link

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this will be the longest thread eventually

i can to keep posting to get the bonus

ok cancell it all , my dumb fault , had not checked news . i didnt think someone could have grabbed me in the minute or so i had suddenly come out of protection to start running my turns but they had .

i had been doing my startup for the last couple of days , and went to 99 turns used before starting today with 120 plus stored turns , i ran some turns , clicked on a new bonus thing in the game and now i only have 93 acres ? this is strange , someone needs to check if there is a serious code glitch in the new bonus points thingy in case its wiped something . plus someone needs to fix my country .

oh and my country is in alliance server .