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Originally Posted by MikeG22
I live very close to Indian Point nuclear power plant which supplies energy to NYC. The Kennedys and their riverkeeper group have been trying to shut this plant down as long as I've lived here. These morons built multimillion dollar mansions right near the existing plant and are now crying it's there. The only reason it still exists is there is no viable option to replace the amount of energy it creates very cleanly and efficiently. Best part is it sits on an inactive fault line.
Hopefully someday these alternative sources will be as clean and efficient. For now though using something intended to kill off human existence to power our homes sounds good to me. The by products are much less dangerous then the fuel BTW. Still extremely dangerous and will be for a long time but not mushroom cloud dangerous.
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Look, this a stupid question, but I'm no expert in nuclear plants.
I heard an "expert" on the radio claim that the old rods were more radioactive than the new rods.
Is this true? If it is, why are they?