Author Topic: U.S. the Stupid is Starting WWIII  (Read 2281 times)

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Offline sneakypete

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Re: U.S. the Stupid is Starting WWIII
« Reply #25 on: October 17, 2016, 05:43:51 pm »
Allowing sovereign nations to make their own choices on defense and membership in NATO is wrong, we should allow Russia to threaten and control them.

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Anyone who makes us the bad guy in that is insane and a traitor.

You mean "as opposed to us bribing them to be our friends"?
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Re: U.S. the Stupid is Starting WWIII
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2016, 06:08:31 pm »
There are 60 commercially operating nuclear power plants with 100 nuclear reactors in 30 states in the United States.

Imagine each reactor melting down and turning into a Fukushima. That is what will happen if the US suffers a catastrophic infrastructure failure. Very few would survive in a USA covered in radioactive waste.

I worked in a nuclear power plant for years.  You know in the US and Europe any little glitch (and I do mean glitch) and the reactors shut down automatically.  In fact, the most difficult thing about running a nuclear power plant is keeping the reactor online because they've built so many fail safes into the systems.  I guess I could come up with some reactor melting scenarios, but they are so extreme, the probabilities are vanishingly slim.  Not quite zero but so close you couldn't see the difference under a microscope.

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Re: U.S. the Stupid is Starting WWIII
« Reply #27 on: October 17, 2016, 06:13:43 pm »
I worked in a nuclear power plant for years.  You know in the US and Europe any little glitch (and I do mean glitch) and the reactors shut down automatically.  In fact, the most difficult thing about running a nuclear power plant is keeping the reactor online because they've built so many fail safes into the systems.  I guess I could come up with some reactor melting scenarios, but they are so extreme, the probabilities are vanishingly slim.  Not quite zero but so close you couldn't see the difference under a microscope.

See, now you went and ruined another perfectly good sky is falling scare tactic. I imagine now Chicken little will question your credentials and come up with 15 reasons his playthrough of Fallout 4 is more in line with reality than you actually being in the Nuke business.